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West Virginia/JUCO/C.W. Post/Kean RB Jason Gwaltney (official thread)

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Gwaltney makes his return - at CW Post!GREGG SARRA | [email protected]
September 7, 2008

You could picture him wearing the red and silver of the Ohio State Buckeyes. You could picture him wearing the maroon helmet with the Trojan logo at USC. And, of course, you saw him in the blue and gold uniform he wore as a West Virginia freshman.

But nobody, not a single person on Long Island or anywhere else, could have pictured him wearing the green and gold of C.W. Post. Yet there was Jason Gwaltney, four years removed from a fabulous high school career at North Babylon, where he scored a Long Island record 135 touchdowns, wearing No. 18 for the Pioneers yesterday.

How did it happen? Why is Gwaltney, Long Island's all-time leading rusher , playing at a Division II school, his last chance to prove himself as a college player?

It's all about blown opportunities. Call it the high school superstar syndrome, in which a player isn't held responsible for his actions and goes to the next level to fail. Gwaltney was so good, so dominating while at North Babylon, he was enabled by the very people who should have made him attend classes and ultimately set him up to self-destruct in college.

But make no mistake, Gwaltney bears most of the responsibility. He was told countless times in high school and college to go to class and chose not to. "I didn't go to class," he said. "I never had the discipline in school that I had on the field. I never valued school."
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Gwaltney makes his return - at CW Post! -- Newsday.com
 
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19 carries for 83 yards in a 41-0 loss against 16th ranked Indiana (PA).

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CFL has strong interest in LI's Gwaltney -- Newsday.com
CFL has strong interest in LI's Gwaltney

BY STEVEN MARCUS |[email protected]:33 PM EDT, June 18, 2009
Five seasons removed from his glory years of high school football, Jason Gwaltney still finds himself with options. Failure, he promises, is not one of those.
Long Island's best running back since Jim Brown finds himself something of a hot commodity again. He has enrolled at Division III Kean University (N.J.), where the former North Babylon High School star could spend the next two years. Kean beat out Mount Union (Ohio) for Gwaltney's services. But the pros may intercede. The Canadian Football League has a strong interest in him.

"Jason has ideal skills,'' said John Murphy, director of player personnel for the Winnipeg Blue Bombers of the CFL. Murphy grew up in Merrick and attended Holy Trinity High School.

"He can run, he can catch, a big guy like that would be able to block in the system we have up here," Murphy added. "He can have a very successful career.''
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Murphy, who suggests Gwaltney can be a bigger version of CFL standout Ian Smart, also from North Babylon, expects Gwaltney to remain in school at least one more year. That is also Gwaltney's inclination. "I want to leave some kind of footprint on NCAA football,'' he said. "I can't really look at the past. I can only look at the future and worry about what I can become.''
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Gwaltney, 22, has played in just 12 college games. He rushed for 186 yards in six games in 2005 as a true freshman at West Virginia. He surfaced at C.W. Post last season and led the team in rushing with 709 yards in six games. He later asked for his release.

"I didn't want to transfer schools again,'' said Gwaltney, mindful of the perception that he never seems to finish what he starts. "But I didn't go to school and fail out. That shows growth, that shows a difference. I don't feel like a letdown. I just feel a lot of times my reputation precedes me. I will be a success in life.''
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Took my youngest out for dinner last night... He's at Kean University in northern Jersey... we talked about their football team... their star RB is none other than JASON GWALTNEY... THE Jason Gwaltney...

Such a wild one... I remember when we thought we had Beanie and Gwaltney both in 2005.. then Gwaltney shocked everyone and went to WV.. only to become a head case when Slaton beat him out...
 
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Wednesday January 26, 2011
Humbled Gwaltney looks back on collegiate career
by The Associated Press
By Chuck McGill
Charleston Daily Mail, W.Va.

(MCT)

Jan. 26--HUNTINGTON, W.Va. -- He was once an unabashedly confident 17-year-old boy who stared into a camera on ESPNews and told the college football world on National Signing Day in 2005 he was going to take his talents to West Virginia University and become a 2,000-yard rusher as a true freshman.

Months later, shortly after his 18th birthday, he sauntered down a street in Morgantown and stopped to stare through a campus bookstore window, where a WVU football jersey was draped over a mannequin in the storefront.

The uniform had 14 screened on the front -- the number then-West Virginia Coach Rich Rodriguez promised him if he would shun Southern California and Ohio State.

Jason Gwaltney, a five-star, blue-chip running back who had navigated life with great aplomb, suddenly felt the burden of Old Gold and Blue expectations before playing a down for the Mountaineers.

"It was way too much way too fast," Gwaltney told the Daily Mail last week.

Gwaltney, a native of Wyandanch, N.Y., on Long Island, made 45 carries in his one injury-shortened season at WVU.

Since then, the now 23-year-old has been working toward his dream of playing professional football, a quest that prompted him to follow the country roads back here to West Virginia.

He is preparing at the H.I.T. (High Intensity Training) Center in Huntington for Pro Day, the scouting combine and April's NFL Draft.

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http://www.dailymail.com/ap/ApTopStories/201101260346
 
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Former Football Star Arrested in Burglary

Jason Gwaltney, Long Island all-time rushing leader from North Babylon, nabbed by police Tuesday in Huntington burglary.

By Jason Molinet
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January 22, 2013

One of the greatest high school athletes in Long Island sports history continued his dramatic fall from grace Tuesday after he was arrested in connection with a Huntington burglary.

Jason Gwaltney, 25, a North Babylon graduate and former West Virginia University running back, was charged along with four others with first-degree burglary, third-degree criminal possession of a weapon and second-degree criminal possession of a weapon, Suffolk County Police said.

The highly-recruited Gwaltney turned down USC for the Mountaineers and played just six games due to injuries, character issues and eligibility concerns. He transferred to Nassau Community College, then Division II C.W. Post before finally landing at D-III Kean.

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