Venditti in his first run on GL when he made Hal the leader made him out to be a bit clueless (not a good leader, and definitely clueless about women) Maybe more a "dude" than a "jock" per se, but it helped feed into that mentality - specifically that Hal's "act first, think second" later attitude was seen as a detriment or that he lived his entire life that way, as opposed to that just being how he operates as a man of action during life-and-death situations.