Cussing out your position coach and storming out leading to you being dismissed ain't much different than quitting, my friend. It was also mentioned that after he lost his cool, they still tried to arrange a meeting to get back on the same page which lead to him bailing again. You want to play semantics and not call that "quitting", ok, you do you. Do I think the staff took back a guy who was a quitter? Yeah, that's exactly what happened, almost identical to how his high school team took him back after quitting there as well.
The way you spin everything related to JT4 to make it never his fault is absurd. So Dugans just randomly decides to dismiss a guy who many think is his most talented skill player, huh? Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. And in 2017 he wasn't actually thinking about "quitting", he was just homesick. How about when he walked out on his teammates in HS, that one not his fault either? Coaches failed him then too? Or maybe it's excusable that he quit back then because he came from a rough neighborhood. How about his suspension this year? The staff failed him there again, right? It was their fault they didn't mentor him better, make him a better man and get him to make better decisions. ****, what they should have done is hire a 24hr security detail to make sure he never gets in trouble, as it's not fair to make him accountable for his own actions, the kid is from East St. Louis for heaven's sake! Total failure by the staff there.
Look, man, I'm being snarky for a reason. Part of going from a boy to a man is taking responsibility for your own actions, regardless of outside factors. And there becomes a point in life where the constant pointing at outside factors goes from serving as an explanation to becoming an excuse. In my opinion, Jeff Thomas is well past that point.
