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Georgia Tech’s 1st commitment for 2012 gets his scholarship offer pulled</font></h1>
<p class="byline"><span class="time">11:00 pm</span> <span class="date">January 21, 2012, </span> by <span class="author">Michael Carvell</span></p>
Georgia Tech’s first commitment for its 2012 recruiting class won’t
be signing the Yellow Jackets next week, according to his coach.</p>
Junior Gnonkonde, a 6-foot-5, 225-pound defensive
end from Lanier County High School, had his scholarship offer withdrawn
by Georgia Tech on Friday. He had been committed to the Yellow Jackets
since last February.</p>
“We got a call from
Paul Johnson saying they were
withdrawing the scholarship offer because his test scores were too low,”
said Lanier County athletics director
John White, who is also Gnonkonde’s legal guardian.</p>
“Coach Johnson was very nice about it. He said he didn’t want to
leave Junior hanging in any way. He said he would call Central Florida
on Junior’s behalf, which he did and we appreciated … but this whole
thing doesn’t make any sense.</p>