{"id":2062,"date":"2013-04-26T18:40:04","date_gmt":"2013-04-26T18:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/jsuflash\/?p=2062"},"modified":"2013-04-26T18:40:04","modified_gmt":"2013-04-26T18:40:04","slug":"watch-jsu-tvs-path-to-pro-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/2013\/04\/26\/watch-jsu-tvs-path-to-pro-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch JSU-TV\u2019s \u2018Path to Pro Day\u2019 right here!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2013\/04\/0.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2064\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash2025\/files\/2013\/04\/0.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"226\" height=\"151\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"JSUTV Presents: Path To Pro Day\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/39Smp_4BLlM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In the long and storied history of Jackson State University athletics, 86 former Tigers have had the distinguished honor of being selected in the National Football League Draft . Now, a new group of former JSU athletes are on a mission to join this elite fraternity.<\/p>\n<p>The highly anticipated documentary profiles four JSU athletes \u2013 wide receiver Rico Richardson, defensive end Joseph LeBeau, defensive tackle Johnathan Billups and left\u00a0 tackle Zion Pyatt \u2013 as<br \/>\nthey compete for gridiron glory in front of NFL scouts during the annual Pro Day workout. The documentary also features JSU head football coach Rick Comegy and his entire coaching staff.<\/p>\n<p>Antonio Smith, producer of the documentary with JSUTV, said: \u201cA lot of players don\u2019t get this type of exposure, so I think it\u2019s important that people see another side of our athletes, not only on<br \/>\nthe field but their personal lives.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They interviewed coaches, assistant coaches, coordinators and players.<\/p>\n<p>He added:\u00a0 \u201cIt was a team effort. Ashanti\u00a0 (Ishakarah) made a lot of the phone calls and got the coaches on board.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ashanti Ishakarah,\u00a0 programming coordinator for JSUTV, stated that \u2018Path to Pro Day\u2019 started as a regular news story and evolved into a documentary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a team effort. We were just looking up campus events and stories we could cover and Pro Day came up so I figured this is really cool. Ultimately, we came back and saw the footage and said this is too much of a master piece, we have to go out of the box.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Taylor Bembery contributed to this story<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; In the long and storied history of Jackson State University athletics, 86 former Tigers have had the distinguished honor of being selected in the National Football League Draft . Now, a new group of former JSU athletes are on a mission to join this elite fraternity. The highly anticipated documentary profiles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2062","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.jsums.edu\/theflash\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}