and four-star Herbert Scroggins III

It is time to raid Miami.

Former Sandy Creek LB and priority GT target Marcellius Pulliam has entered the transfer portal this morning.

Was previously at Miami.

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@Russell Johnson are you saying that he was any priority out of high school or a current priority?

Sticking with Miami, now that former Miami S Savion Riley is officially in the portal, consider this my JOL Projection for him to head home to Atlanta to play for Cory Peoples, Brent Key, and GT.

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I’m always curious to see which colleges are the “popular” choices these days. My daughter is a freshman at Marist and we were counting (loosely) where the members of the senior class are attending school. A few surprises:

We only saw 1 person going to Clemson. That used to be a very popular choice locally.

26 uga
13 or 14 gt
17 auburn
Next highest tier was bama, fsu, Kentucky and I think ole miss. Ole miss seems to be gaining favor locally. If were a teenage boy, I don’t really blame them with that choice.

Last year the flavor of the month was the Vols.

When I was in school (large public school in metro area) the five top choices were auburn fsu Clemson uga and gt (we actually had 40+ go to tech).

What is everyone else saying and sorry to distract from the butker commencement speech!

Great actor and star of a real sleeper of an action comedy from back in the day “Short Time”

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Also a former serviceman.

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech student-athletes posted a 3.25 mean grade point average – the highest in Tech athletics history – to highlight an outstanding academic semester on The Flats.



The 3.25 mean GPA compiled by Tech’s 412 student-athletes for the recently completed Spring 2024 semester surpassed the 3.23 GPA that student-athletes posted during the Covid-19-interrupted Spring 2020 term. The record GPA comes on the heels of the Yellow Jackets compiling a 3.14 GPA during the Fall 2023 semester, which was the second-highest GPA on record for Tech student-athletes at the time.



Four Tech teams set program records for their team GPA during the spring semester – football (3.02), women’s basketball (3.07), softball (3.44) and women’s cross country/track and field (3.47).



Additionally, Tech set all-time records for highest percentage of student-athletes earning a 3.0 GPA or higher (68%), highest GPA for first-year student-athletes (3.27) and highest GPA for men’s sports student-athletes (3.16). Fifty-eight percent of Tech’s student-athletes earned Dean’s List or Faculty Honors designations.



“Congratulations to our student-athletes for their record-breaking performance in the classroom this semester,” director of athletics J Batt said. “Their academic success is a great point of pride for our athletics department and the entire Tech community, so I thank them for their hard work and dedication. I also thank our coaches and our outstanding academic staff for all that they do to help our student-athletes achieve in the classroom.”



Women’s tennis, which advanced to the second round of the NCAA Tournament earlier this month, led all Georgia Tech teams with a 3.61 team GPA. Golf, which advanced to the NCAA Men’s Golf Championship with a fourth-place showing in its NCAA regional tournament earlier this week, had the highest men’s GPA and second-highest overall at 3.57. Twelve of Tech’s 13 programs had a 3.0 team GPA or higher.



Making the Yellow Jackets’ academic success especially impressive is the fact that nearly 82% of Tech’s student-athletes major in business, engineering, sciences or computing.



In the latest data, Georgia Tech athletics set a new all-time record for the third-straight year by posting a 92% NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR). Prior to 2021, Georgia Tech had never achieved a GSR above 90% and prior to 2016, Tech never had a GSR above 85%. Georgia Tech’s 92% GSR is also higher than the national average of 90%, while 10 of the Yellow Jackets’ 13 teams – women’s basketball, men’s cross country/track & field, women’s cross country/track & field, football, golf, softball, men’s swimming & diving, women’s swimming & diving, men’s tennis and volleyball – have individual team GSRs that are at or above the national average in their respective sports. Leading the way are women’s basketball, golf, softball, men’s tennis and volleyball, which all have perfect 100% GSRs.

THE FLATS – Ryan Mutombo, a 7-2 center from Atlanta who played the last three seasons at Georgetown, has signed a grant-in-aid to join the Georgia Tech men’s basketball program, head coach Damon Stoudamire announced. He will have one season of eligibility with the Yellow Jackets.

Mutombo attended The Lovett School in Atlanta before signing with the Hoyas, and is the son of former Georgetown and Atlanta Hawks great Dikembe Mutombo. The younger Mutombo played 54 games at Georgetown, making one start, and averaged 8.1 minutes, 3.3 points and 2.3 rebounds over his three seasons there. He also connected in 51.8 percent of his shots from the floor.

“We’re excited about bringing Ryan into our program,” said Stoudamire, now in his second year at the helm of the Yellow Jackets. “He gives us size and shot blocking ability as well as added depth in our front court. A lot like Javian and Luke, his experience will help us well.”

Highly recruited out of Lovett, Mutombo was a rated a four-star prospect and ranked No. 112 in the nation by 247Sports in the class of 2021. He made the all-state first team selected by the Atlanta Journal-Constitution and scored more than 1,500 points in his high school career. His best season at Georgetown came as a freshman, when he played in 27 games and averaged 5.1 points and 3.0 rebounds while blocking 23 shots, second on the team.

Mutombo is the third transfer to commit to the Yellow Jackets, joining 6-2 guard Javian McCollum from Oklahoma and 6-8 wing Luke O’Brien from Colorado. Tech also has put together a recruiting class that has been rated the 14th-best in the nation with high school prospects Cole Kirouac, a 6-11 center from Cumming, Ga., who attended Brewster Academy in Wolfeboro, N.H., his senior year,Jaeden Mustaf of Bowie, Md., a 6-4 guard who also attended Overtime Elite, Doryan Onwuchekwa, a 6-11 center from DeSoto, Texas who attended Faith Family Academy of Oak Cliff, and Darrion Sutton, a 6-8 forward from St. Louis, Mo., who attends Overtime Elite in Atlanta.

At LB. Former Austin Peay LB Sam Howard.

Had 105 tackles and 12 TFL last season.

Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame

THE FLATS – Head football coach Paul Johnson, inducted last year into the College Football Hall of Fame, and All-America women’s basketball player Tyaunna Marshall headline a group of eight former Yellow Jackets who have been elected to the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame as part of its Class of 2024.

The 2024 class also includes ACC champion golfer Paul Haley II, All-America diver Hannah Krimm, All-America long and triple jumper James Lemons, All-America baseball slugger Daniel Palka, All-America football guard Omoregie Uzzi and All-ACC tight end Ken Whisenhunt.

"We're very proud to announce the newest elected members of the Georgia Tech Sports Hall of Fame,” said director of athletics J Batt. “Georgia Tech's athletic history and tradition makes being a Tech Hall of Famer one of the most prestigious distinctions in all of college sports. These eight individuals certainly fit the bill, not only due to their achievements as Yellow Jackets, but also what they have accomplished beyond athletics and their time on The Flats. Congratulations to these well-deserving honorees!"

Georgia Tech will officially induct the Classes of 2024 and 2025 during the fall of 2025 on a Friday night prior to a home football game, date to be announced next year.

Following is a look at each member of the 2024 Hall of Fame class:

DALLAS – Freshman phenom Drew Burress (Houston County, Ga./Houston County) continues to add to his campaign for nation’s top freshman, being named a semifinalist for the 2024 Dick Howser Trophy, the National Collegiate Baseball Writers of America announced Thursday.



Burress joins the prestigious 68-member list as its only freshman and one of 14 members from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The award is given in memory of former Florida State all-American shortstop, major leaguer and manager who died of brain cancer in 1987. The trophy is regarded as baseball’s most prestigious award. Criteria for consideration of the trophy include performance on the field, leadership, moral character and courage – all qualities that were exemplified by Dick Howser’s life.



Burress arrived on the scene and was immediately one of the nation’s top freshman, hitting a team-best .376 with 14 doubles, two triples and 21 home runs for 59 RBI. With an OPS of 1.316, he’s slugging .812 with an on-base percentage of .504, having drawn more walks (47) than strikeouts (33). He also has seven stolen bases and has seven assists from center field.



Burress currently leads all Division I freshmen in six statistical categories (home runs, home runs per game, slugging, total bases, walks, and walks per game), while ranking Top 3 nationally in 11 categories. Then at the conference level, he leads ACC freshmen in nine categories (runs batted in per game, runs and on-base percentage) while also ranking second in RBI and batting average.



Leading Georgia Tech in average, home runs and RBI, the Houston County native has a chance at becoming the 12th Yellow Jacket to win Georgia Tech’s triple crown. Burress would be the first to accomplish the feat since Matt Gonzalez in 2016 and would join a list that includes Mark Teixeira (1999), Mark Fischer (1997), Jay Payton (1994), Jason Varitek (1992, 1993), and Andy Bruce (1991) in the annals.



Burress joins an illustrious group of Dick Howser Trophy semifinalists at Georgia Tech, including Varitek and Teixeira, who won the award in 1994 and 2000, respectively. He also joins Zane Evans and Daniel Palka (2013), Joey Bart (2018), Kyle McCann (2019) and Kevin Parada (2022).



Finalists will be announced on Thursday, June 8 with the award being presented during the College World Series on June 13.



Buress and the Yellow Jackets will travel to finish the 2024 regular season at Florida State on May 16-18 in Tallahassee. First pitch on Thursday is slated for 7 p.m. and will be broadcast live on ACC Network Extra.

I thought this was pretty cool when I saw Wes's post about this the other day.

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from our friends at our FSU site

Brent Key at #54 out of 68 P4 coaches.

Baseball America- 3 seed, No. 10 Athens regional (UGA, Bryant, Southern Miss)

I’ll keep this updated as more come in today

GOLFSTAT LINK TO FOLLOW STANDINGS

Chapel Hill Regional​

Hosted by North Carolina | Finley Golf Club

Teams (seeded in the following order) [conference champions in brackets]:
1. North Carolina [Atlantic Coast Conference]
2. Alabama
3. Georgia Tech
4. East Tennessee State [Southern Conference]
5. Northwestern [Big Ten Conference]
6. Baylor
7. VCU [Atlantic 10 Conference]
8. LMU
9. Long Beach State [Big West Conference]
10. Clemson
11. Michigan State
12. Ball State [Mid-American Conference]
13. Howard [Northeast Conference]

How the championship works​

Six 54-hole regional tournaments will be conducted to determine the 30 qualifying teams and six individuals (not on those qualifying teams) who will compete in the finals. Thirteen teams and 10 individuals (not on those teams) will compete at each of three regionals while the other three regionals will have 14 teams and five individuals (not on those teams). The low five teams and the low individual not on those teams will advance to the finals.

All 30 teams and six individuals will complete 54 holes of stroke play. Following 54 holes of competition, the top 15 teams along with the top nine individuals not on an advancing team will advance for one additional day of stroke play to determine the top eight teams for match-play competition and the 72-hole stroke-play individual champion. The top eight teams after 72 holes of play will be placed into a bracket thereafter.

The 2024 national championships will be hosted by the University of Texas at Austin and held at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa.

In team match-play competition, a total of five points will be available with one point being awarded for each individual match. Winning teams will advance to the semifinals and subsequently, the finals. The first team to win three points within the team match will advance, or in the case of the final match, be declared the national champion.

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He will visit June 8

Tech Schedule and Results | NCAA Golf Website | NCAA Scoreboard Rankings | Pairings and Live Leaderboard (Golfstat)

THE FLATS - Georgia Tech’s No. 17-ranked golf team begins its quest to advance to the NCAA Men’s Division I Golf Championship for the 34th time Monday when the Yellow Jackets compete in the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, which begins Monday at Finley Golf Club in Chapel Hill, N.C.

A total of 81 teams and 45 individuals are competing the next three days at six different regional sites for spots in the NCAA Championship. The top five teams from each regional, as well as the top individual not on one of those teams, will advance to the finals, which will be conducted May 24-29 at the Omni LaCosta Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.

As the No. 3 seed, Tech will be paired with No. 1 North Carolina and No. 2 Alabama for Monday’s first round, starting from the No. 1 tee at 7:30 a.m. Pairings for the second and third rounds (Tuesday and Wednesday) are determined by cumulative team score, but the top three teams on the leaderboard will tee off at 7:30 a.m. each day.

Tech has made it through the NCAA regional round each of the last four years (the NCAA Championship and regionals were not conducted in 2020 due to COVID-19), and 27 times since the NCAA went to the regional qualifying format in 1989. Tech shared the regional title in 2022 in Columbus, Ohio and won the 2023 regional in Salem, S.C., by eight strokes. The Yellow Jackets are playing in an NCAA regional for the 26th straight year and for the 33rd time in the 35 years the NCAA has used a regional qualifying format for its championship.

The 13-team field includes nine teams that are listed among the top 50 teams in the Scoreboard NCAA Golf rankings. In order of seed, the field also includes East Tennessee State, Northwestern, Baylor, VCU, Loyola Marymount, Long Beach State, Clemson, Michigan State, Ball State and Howard. Ten individuals also are in the field.

The other five regional tournaments are being held at Austin, Texas (The University of Texas Golf Club), Baton Rouge, La. (University Club), Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. (The Farms Golf Club). Stanford, Calif. (Stanford Golf Course) and West Lafayette, Ind. (BirckBoilermaker Golf Course).

TEAM UPDATE – Tech has been ranked as high as No. 10 in the Scoreboard NCAA Rankings, at the start of the spring season, and currently sits No. 17 after finishing third at the Atlantic Coast Conference Championship last month in Charlotte, N.C. Tech also has posted a runner-up finish at the Watersound Invitational, fourth-place finishes at the RE Lamkin Invitational, Linger Longer Invitational and the Calusa Cup, a fifth-place at The Goodwin and sixth-place at the Amer Ari Intercollegiate this spring.

Three of the five starters who teed it up for Tech in last year’s NCAA Championship are back for this edition, including ACC Player of the Year Christo Lamprecht (George, South Africa), fifth-year senior Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Ga.) and sophomoreHiroshi Tai (Singapore). Only Forrester has played in all 11 stroke-play events for the Yellow Jackets this year. Lamprecht missed the Calusa Cup to play in the Masters, and Tai didn’t compete in the fall opener at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational. Head coach Bruce Heppler, who has coached Tech to 19 NCAA Championship appearances in his 29 years on The Flats, has started freshmen Kale Fontenot (Lafayatte, La.) andCarson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) in six of the Jackets’ seven spring tournaments.

Lamprecht, twice a tournament winner in 2023-24, is ranked No. 6 in the Scoreboard NCAA Golf Ranking, is No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking and No. 2 in the PGA Tour University Ranking. The senior has won the Byron Nelson Award and is one of three finalists for the Ben Hogan Award as collegiate player of the year. He finished tied for third at the ACC Championship last month, while Forrester tied for eighth and Tai tied for 12th.

Forrester has three top-10 finishes this year, while Tai has two and Fontenot has one.

Lamprecht has a pair of top-10 finishes in three NCAA regional appearance in his career. In last year’s Salem (S.C.) Regional, Lamprecht tied for third place, Forrester tied for 14thand Tai tied for 18th.

THE FLATS – As Florida State continues to ready its stadium and field in the aftermath of last week’s tornadoes, first pitch of Georgia Tech baseball’s Game 1 on Thursday, May 16 has been moved to 7 p.m., FSU announced Wednesday.



The rest of the series remains unaltered with Friday’s Game 2 starting at 6 p.m. and Saturday’s series finale beginning at 2 p.m.



Further schedule updates will be available online at ramblinwreck.comand @GTBaseball on X.

Not sure why GT is posting this now, but hopefully it's a sign of more things to come from the GTAA Media Department.

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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech football’s 2024 season opener versus Florida State in the Aer Lingus College Football Classic at Aviva Stadium in Dublin, Ireland will kick off at noon ET (5 p.m. IT) on Saturday, Aug. 24 and be televised nationally on ESPN, the Walt Disney Co. announced during its ad sales up front presentation on Tuesday.



The first game of the 2024 college football season will air on ESPN immediately following the conclusion of ESPN Gameday, which will also broadcast live from Dublin.



The highly anticipated season opener pits Georgia Tech, which finished 7-6 overall, 5-3 in Atlantic Coast Conference play in 2023 (good for a tie for fourth place in the 14-team ACC) returns 16 starters in ’24 – including all-ACC honorees DL Zeek Biggers, OL Joe Fusile, RB Jamal Haynes, QB Haynes King, WR Eric Singleton, Jr. and OL Jordan Williams – against defending ACC champion Florida State, which finished 13-1 a season ago.



A limited number of tickets remain available through the Georgia Tech athletics ticket office at ramblinwreck.com and official Georgia Tech travel packages are available at gt2ireland.com.



Kickoff times for the Jackets’ next three games of the 2024 season – Aug. 31 vs. Georgia State, Sept. 7 at Syracuse and Sept. 14 vs. VMI – are expected to be announced by the ACC and its television partners in the coming weeks.