Sports Illustrated article written by former Houston Chronicle Aggie homer John Lopez comparing Johnson to the mythical Sidd Finch. Johnson sounds like a really good kid from a good family, and I am sure he is a great athlete, but his numbers are definitely inflated since the Aggies haven't played anyone halfway decent yet. Arkansas has a terrible defense too, so he will probably put up good numbers again this weekend. I seem to remember Reggie "The Real Deal" McNeal having similar hype at one point for the Aggies. Let's hold off on the coronation until he plays against a defense with a pulse. Maybe Johnson's success is mythical also. link
There is no homer bigger than Lopez. I don't have the stomach to click through the link, but typically he declares each minor victory to be a "new era in Aggie football." I don't know how the guy manages to make a living in journalism.
Isn't he the douchebag who wrote that incredibly lame "article" for Texags recently about how recruits are choosing Texas over A&M because A&M doesn't offer any attractive majors for athletes?
i'm definitely biased as an aggie, but the article focuses more on jj's background, than his skills as a QB. reggie was a bit of a headcase. jj has a pretty good backstory is an a great young man. worth the read. we need more kids in college football like jj, mccoy, and tebow.
I think JJ is actually really good and far better than reggie ever was. Oddly enough he seems to be getting almost no hype or love from aggy fans.
He is the Sidd Finch of college football, a player so talented and productive it's almost impossible to believe he's real. But Texas A&M junior quarterback Jerrod Johnson is very real. And despite carrying a team with less talent and more freshmen than all the hyped-up Heisman-watch names, Johnson is making a stronger early-season case for the stiff-arm statue than anyone. His story -- how he's become one of the most mature and grounded athletes in big-time sports -- is equally inspiring. You wouldn't know it, however, unless you took the time to drive to College Station to catch a glimpse of this kid who has run like Terrelle Pryor, led like Colt McCoy, thrown like Sam Bradford. Teammates and coaches respect his tough-mindedness and character as much as so many fans admire Tim Tebow's. __________________________________________________ Look, JJ is a great QB, I thought he played welll last year. I might even respect the article if it had not been written like a college newspaper artcile. Lopez is such a tool and so biased that i really couldnt stand reading more than the first 4 paragraphs above.
The sad thing is that Saturday two teams between OU, Miami, animal husbandry majors, arky win. This weekend just needs to have Notre Dame playing Wofford to round out the line-up.
Its actually a great article (though Lopez probably should have mentioned that A&M has played 3 of the worst defenses in CFB, and that JJ can't really be compared to Colt or Tebow until A&M starts winning conference games again). Johnson is truly a remarkable kid, and his father is revered in Humble. I wish him a lot of success (excpet on Thanksgiving). I saw him play a few times in High School, and he really did remind me a lot of VY (they are about the same size and build, and JJ is also a long strider and a fluid runner).
The part about his family is a great story. Too bad it's buried by paragraph after paragraph calling Johnson "Sidd-like in every way" and comparing him to Colt, Tebow, Bradford, Vince, and Jamarcus Russell. I'm sure Johnson is a great guy. But on the football field, he has not accomplished **** and doesn't belong anywhere near the same breath as the players mentioned above. Tebow and Vince have national championships. Tebow and Bradford have Heisman trophies. Colt shattered the NCAA record for completion percentage and could become the NCAA's all-time winningest QB this year. Jerrod Johnson ... has won a couple of games against the worst defenses in college football. The comparisons do not compute, and if Lopez could ditch his aggy-ness for two seconds, he could have written a decent human interest story. But he didn't. He front-loaded that article with so much nonsense that few people will even make it to the worthwhile part of the story.
I think Johnson is getting plenty of "love" from Aggie fans, at least as much as he deserves. Of course their fan base will always be divided among those who are overly effusive and premature with their praise and those who are never happy with anything. I don't think there is such a thing as an A&M fan who can accurately and objectively assess their team or individual players. But I agree, Stephen McGee was more popular among them because he was the prototypical Aggie, and Jerrod Johnson is not, if for no other reason than the fact that he is black. Since none of A&M's games have been televised, I don't really know if Johnson acts like a giant douchebag on the field the way McGee did. A&M fans always seemed to eat that up.
He still has to prove it on the field, but if Archie Manning really did say "You have it all", I think that is probably an indication that Jerrod has the "tools" to be a pretty good quarterback.
this article isn't written by "John Lopez, Aggie Homer" but by "John Lopez-Jerrod Johnson Homer" When he spouts off the AAU basketball achievments in the article, I'm surprised that he didn't mention who else was coaching in that program and how close he was to Jerrod and Larry Johnson (hint his name is John Lopez).
I think Johnson is probably the 4th best QB in the conference behind Colt, Bradford, and Zac Robinson. I also think he's just as good as Robert Griffin was. Griffin got lots of national pub, though, and Johnson has gotten none... probably because A&M is never on TV.