FCIAC Football Blog

The biggest high school football recruiting story of 2008 got a little more interesting: Former Greenwich star Jonathan Meyers, who turned down University of Florida for the Ivy Leagues, no longer plays football for Princeton University.

The last we’ve heard of Meyers as a football player was this press release from Princeton’s sports information office. The question was whether Meyers would stay on offense for the Tigers or move to defense (he carried once for two yards in Princeton’s season opener last year, then missed the rest of the season with a broken foot).

Kudos to New Haven Register’s Jim Fuller and to TigerBlog, as they both make mention to it this month. It seems as if Princeton itself didn’t want to make national headlines with the story. Meyers is still playing lacrosse, and he saw significant time as a freshman playing defense for the Tigers, and chances are he will be a starter for the 2010 Princeton team.

There are so many questions you can ask regarding this development – like did all of us in the media overlook the fact Meyers was an All-American in lacrosse, and was it because we all were hoping to see a Fairfield County kid get a chance to play D-I football?

(Not like Greenwich players haven’t shined on the NCAA gridiron and play in the pros before, see Steve Young, John Sullivan and Ken Bell, to name a few)

Or is Meyers going to continue to do what’s best for his own personal development, even if it means giving up a sport he excelled in. For that matter, did he really want to play college football in the first place, or did everyone push him toward the college gridiron?

Until Meyers tells his story, we won’t know. But it’s his life, and Meyers has to do what’s best for him.