A little story:
Previous HC, whose son was the QB, bought GST's so we had some here when I took over.
Because they are expensive, I went to the local sporting goods store and bought a J5V.
I didn't check to see exactly what kind of J5V it was, hey I'm a guy I'm not supposed to look at the fine print.
Anyway, it was about half the price, we tired it out, QB loved it, used it in the Spring game 2 years ago.
I let the QB take it home to see if he wanted more of them.
True story-his dog ate it. Really.
Went back to the store and order 6 more for the summer until I could get my order for the Fall.
The balls came in and I STILL didn't look at the fine print.
Just noticed that they were a little slick feeling, which I thought would go away.
It didn't.
Turns out that they were a J5V Composite football.
Slick as snot. We even tried to sand them- no luck.
My QB got some type of cabinet glue from his dad (without me knowing it) and put on one of them. Just made a slick ball with glue on it.
Crappy crappy football.
I tried to take them back (before we worked on them) and the guy wouldn't take them back. He acted like he didn't even know what kind of ball they were, or where he got them.
He told me to just use them for practice or something.
I thought of a number of things that I could have said at that moment, but held my tongue.
NO, we don't do business with him anymore either.
Had to go back to buying those golden GST footballs.
Everybody else in the Florida has gone to the J5V Advanced, as it is the state sanctioned football.
Good ball as far as I can tell, might go with that one this year.
I use my six J5V composites for drills and kicking only.
They are still slick after 2 years.
OJW