80sBEAR said:
Chanceux said:
D. C. Bear said:
His name is Aaron Jones.
He couldn't help who his father is, but he was never good.
His best year was his freshman year and we were 73rd nationally.
He got worse after that and there were always a hundred or more teams that kicked field goals better.
I wonder if his spot on the team was a function of that something he couldn't help.
Is this is a joke?
Just so everyone is clear it wasn't Aaron Jones.
I think D.C. was confused and referring to a kicker whose father was on the Baylor Board of Regents. I would really rather not mention the name. The son certainly had no control over who his father was.
I'll provide the answer to the mystery, but first the background on how I learned of it.
Remember 5-6-7 years ago when the athletic dept had a sale on game-worn jerseys from 2009 and maybe 2010? I think it was $50 a pop, but you couldn't get #10 (RG3), #1 (Kendall W), etc., but just about any other number was available. They took the player's name off the back, but otherwise it was legit. They had green, white, and the infamous gold-out jerseys from the 2009 HC loss to OkSt.
Without looking at the roster, I decided to order #84 since that was my graduation year. First mistake. Figured it would be a WR or TE about my size (6'2", 200) or bigger, and probably a L or XL. Second mistake.
Jersey #84 arrived, and it was a MEDIUM. I hadn't worn a medium since I was a skinny 9th or 10th grader. And since I'm still smaller than most football players, I wondered who in the heck would be so scrawny to have actually worn such a jersey.
So I looked it up in the football archives. Turned out to be a kicker. Here's the link:
http://www.baylorbears.com/auto_pdf/p_hotos/s_chools/bay/sports/m-footbl/auto_pdf/2009-football-roster#main-content-wrapLet he who is without sin cast the first......aw, heck, you know the rest.