It's a good story and a good sentiment, but let's be fair.
Jordon didn't ride the bench much in high school or in her travel ball days. She was a scholarship athlete at her dream school, playing for a championship coach in acorrupt, evil program(sorry, my inner Gator slipped out there) championship program. That doesn't happen unless you're a stud. Maybe there are bigger studs, but she wasn't being a good teammate for the years leading up to her enrollment at Alabama. She was playing enough to impress recruiters and coaches, and given theunfortunateamount of success Alabama has had over the years, she probably was considered one of the best players in her class. Once arriving on campus, she wasn't the best one there, but the key point is she arrived on campus. She accomplished the goal. There wasn't trying to advance her softball career any further because (besides Gainesville) there isn't anywhere further to go.
That's a different situation than the vast majority of TB girls will run into.
Maybe but let's also be fair and say there was no travel team she could have jumped too like many kids do. Some have so many different jerseys its embarrassing. Either bad decision making or being impatient. Not everyone and I get it every situation is different but many jump and see that the grass isn't greener and parents rob them of an opportunity to go to "the desert". Just my point of view.
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