Greetings from the Watsco Center where there is plenty of room to stretch out and have your own row.

Deebo Coleman warming up seriously today. Hopefully, he returns.

To be HC at UCLA.

The job that WR coach Josh Crawford has done since arriving at Georgia Tech is starting to insert his name into the mix for other jobs.

Specifically, Crawford's name has come up in the search in Athens for the Bulldogs' next wide receiver coach.

It is unclear whether that interest is mutual, but wanted to pass along that he is among a group of three likely candidates at this time for the job, joining Jimmy Smith (Arkansas RB coach) and James Coley (South Carolina WR coach) in the mix.

POINT GUARD

COMBO GUARD
Javian McCollum (Oklahoma transfer- Fort Myers FL) *** GT COMMITMENT 4/14/24
Jaeden Mustaf (Overtime Elite- Bowie, MD) OV USED 6/30 **SIGNED*

SHOOTING GUARD


WING / SMALL FORWARD


FORWARD / POWER FORWARD
Darrion Sutton (Overtime Elite- O'Fallon, MO) ***GT COMMIT 12/22/23

CENTER/POST
Ryan Mutombo (Georgetown transfer- Atlanta, GA
Doryan Onwuchekwa (Faith Family Academy- Dallas, TX) ***GT COMMIT 3/19/24

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We're 4 weeks away from the 2024 event in Sandy Springs, and hope some JOL'ers can drop by! (hit me up for details/info!) Sat 3/23 Thos. O'Reilly's Public House 12:00-4:00!​

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Year 17 for me as a St. Baldrick's "shavee" → click HERE​

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OFFENSIVE OFFERS:

QBs (0/1):
Top Tier:
Luke Nickel (Milton, Ga) MIAMI COMMIT
Kelden Ryan (Desoto, TX) VATECH SOFT COMMIT
Grayson Wilson (Central Arkansas Christian- North Little Rock, AR) ARKANSAS COMMIT

2nd Tier:
Carson Boyd (Cardinal Ritter- St. Louis, MO) ILLINOIS COMMIT
Luke Carney (Dallas Christian- Mesquite, TX)
Antwann Hill (Houston County- Warner Robins, GA)
Quentin Murphy (Parkview- Little Rock, AR)


RBs (0/2):
Justin Baker (Buford, GA) TENN COMMIT
R.J. Boyd (Ware County- Waycross, GA)
Tomir Bransford (Westlake- Atlanta, GA)
DeAndre Desinor (American Heritage- Coconut Creek, FL)
Lucas Farrington (Woodward Academy- Atlanta, GA)
Alvin Henderson (Elba, AL)
Zion Johnson (Newton- Covington, GA) CINCY COMMIT
Daune Morris (Oakland- Murfreesboro, TN)
Greg Peacock (Glynn Academy- Brunswick, GA)
JP Powell (Miller County- Colquitt, GA)
Girard Pringle (Armwood- Seffner, FL)
Antwan Raymond (Clearwater Academy Intl- Clearwater, FL)
Nate Sheppard (Mandeville, LA)
Bo Walker (Cedar Grove- Ellenwood, GA) UGA COMMIT

WRs (0/3)
Josiah Abdullah (Woodward Academy- Atlanta, GA) FLORIDA COMMIT
Jerome Bettis Jr. (Woodward Academy- Atlanta, GA)
Jamauri Brice (Cartersville, GA)
Gabe Daniels (GAC- Atlanta)
Maurice Gleaton (Langston Hughes- Fairburn, GA)
Evan Haynes (Fellowship Christian School- Roswell, GA)
James "JJ" Johnson (Douglas County- Douglasville, GA)
Gerritt Kemp (Hebron Christian Academy- Dacula, GA) also plays safety
Alexander Sanchez (Grayson- Loganville, GA)
Travis Smith Jr. (Westlake- Atlanta, GA)
Clarenece Taylor (Pleasant Grove, AL)
Daylyn Upshaw (Central- Phenix, AL)
CJ Wiley (Milton- Alpharetta, GA)
Taz Williams Jr. (Red Oak, TX)
Phillip Wright III (Destrehan, LA)

TEs (0/2):
Hayden Bradley (Buford, GA)
Hollis Davidson (McIntosh- Peachtree City, GA) AUBURN COMMIT
Ryan Ghea (Milton- Alpharetta, GA) AUBURN COMMIT
Aaron Mattingly (Green Hill- Mount Juliet, TN)
Marshall Pritchett (Rabun Gap Nacoochee- Rabun Gap, GA)
Cayman Reynolds (Sonoraville- Calhoun, GA)
Gus Ritchey (Northwood- Pittsboro, NC) NC STATE COMMIT
Gordy Sulfsted (St. Xavier- Cincinnati, OH) also plays DE
Miles Uter (Bayside Academy- Daphne, AL)

OLs C/OT (0/2-3):
Damola Ajidahun (Duluth, GA)
Ben Beymer (Lakeland, FL)
Tavaris Dice (Langston Hughes- Fairburn, GA)
Justin Hasenhuetl (Rabun Gap Nacoochee- Rabun Gap, GA)
Tucker Kattus (St. Xavier- Cincinnati, OH)
Mario Nash Jr. (Kemper COunty- De Kalb, MS)
Alex Payne (Gainesville, GA)
Josh Petty (Fellowship Christian School- Roswell, GA)
Carde Smith (Williamson- Mobile, AL)

OLs OG (0/2):
Gavin Bowlin (Leeds, AL)
Jake Cook (Westerville North- Westerville, OH) LOUISVILLE COMMIT
Kevin Peay (Lancaster, SC)
Shedrick Sarratt (Gaffney, SC)
Cortez Smith (Parkview- Lilburn, GA)
Gabe Smith (Cambridge- MIlton, GA)
Andrew Stargel (Roswell, GA)

Damon Stoudamire switched things up today and the team had a very light practice and a longer film session. Ebenezer is still out with the foot injury, but Deebo Coleman is closer to 100%. He has been available the last two games, we may finally see him again this weekend.

I asked Stoudamire what he is looking for in these final games and he said they have four plus one at least left and he wants to see them play hard and breathe effort and fight. He said the main thing he gets disappointed about is a lack of effort and energy from his guys. That is what got him frustrated at the end of the game the other night. He said when effort wavers that is a problem. He said he has three children himself and another 13 kids on the team so he has 16 kids and that is a lot of kids and a lot of different personalities. Each kid has a different way of being motivated and there are going to be ups and down. He has never wavered on them. He loves being around them and they've gone to war together and won some big ones and lost some they'd like to have back this year, but he wants to see the fight and the guys fight the right way.

In film today he focused on how close they are as crazy as that sounds to having success. He said he thinks they still have a couple of breakthrough performances left in the tank, but their mindset will be the key. You've got to get stronger mentally and physically this time of year to carry you through. On paper it doesn't look like they are playing for anything, but they are playing for everything right and you have to have pride.

I asked about facing Miami who has lost 5 in a row but have been playing without Matthew Cleveland and Nigel pack who combine for about 28 ppg for them. Stoudamire said that he expects Miami to be pretty desperate and it will be a battle of desperate teams on Saturday in Miami. He is trying to focus on GT and be more concerned about energy and effort than who plays for Miami and who doesn't. This will be their first time seeing them and they had a Final Four team a year ago and a winning pedigree there, but he said his team has to have the right mindset to play for 40 minutes in their arena.

On Ibrahim Souare, Stoudamire said that Souare has done a great job of maximizing practices and has gotten better as a player and he is excited about seeing him next season.

On Lance Terry, he would love to have had Lance this year and he is an older player who has mental toughness and can do a lot of things on the court. He has been working a lot of point guard in practice working on handling the ball to prepare for next year and he expressed to Stoudamire he wanted to handle the ball more next year and he is working a lot on that.

Randy Waters asked him about how he dealt with adversity as a player at Arizona and he said that Sean Rooks who tragically passed away at 46 was a great role model and he picked him up every day at Arizona and he will never forget that or him. He was a Virgo like him and they had a connection and when he was a young player at Zona Rooks helped him get through those rough patches. He said they have a lot of young players on this team now and they are in some rough patches and he said that is why the final four games are so important, you want guys to compete and play hard and he can live with the results if they do that.

On Lance as a leader, Stoudamire said Terry is quiet by nature and that is not really his role especially because he is not on the court right now, but his experience helps and it would help if he could lead by example.

Full preview of the weekend to come..

Friday- Cam Hill
Saturday- Aeden Finateri
Sunday- Mason Patel

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Thought this deserved its own thread. Maybe these clowns will understand eventually…

Released his top eight last night. Georgia Tech made the cut.
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Greetings from McCamish and another night of crap traffic coming over here.

Northwestern's Garnett Hollis Jr., a Nashville native, was offered this afternoon.

Finished this past season with 49 tackles, 1 INT, 1 FR, and 3.5 TFL.

Believe due to COVID he has 2 years to play 2.

Tech Schedule and Results | Pairings and Leaderboard (Golfstat) | Complete Results (PDF)

Panama City Beach, Fla. – Led by Hiroshi Tai’s 6-under-par 66 and a 68 from Bartley Forrester, Georgia Tech posted the best team score in Wednesday’s final round (a 12-under-par 276) and tied for second place at the Watersound Invitational.

Christo Lamprecht, whose second-round 65 vaulted him into the 36-hole lead, shot 1-under-par 71 Wednesday and finished second by one stroke to Florida State’s Gray Albright, finishing as the runner-up here for the second consecutive year. The senior from George, South Africa was unable to capture his fourth career tournament victory and third this year, but did log his 15th career top-5 finish.

Against a field in which seven of the 12 teams are ranked in the top 25 of the current Scoreboard NCAA Golf Ranking, and eight are listed among the top 50, Georgia Tech posted its second runner-up finish of the 2032-24 academic year. The Yellow Jackets return to action March 4-5 with the Lamkin Invitational in Chula Vista, Calif.

TECH LINEUP – Three Yellow Jackets finished among the top 13 individuals. Lamprecht took solo second place with a 9-under-par total of 207, while Tai (6-under-par 210) tied for seventh place for his best finish this year and fifth top-10 of his career, and freshman Kale Fontenot (4-under-par 212) tied for 14th despite not counting for Tech Wednesday after carding a 1-over-par 73.

Tai’s 66 matched the low round of the day. The sophomore from Singapore had just one bogey and recorded five birdies and an eagle to post his second top-10 finish in two tries at the Shark’s Tooth Golf Club. Lamprecht gave up his lead after playing the front nine 1-over-par, rallied on the back nine with three birdies but came up one stroke short of winning.

Bartley Forrester rebounded from a 79 Tuesday to post his best round of the tournament. After a bogey-free front nine with two birdies, the senior from Gainesville, Ga., strung together four birdies in a five-hole stretch on the back side. He tied for 37th place with a 2-over-par 218.

Freshman Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) delivered a 1-under-par 71 for Tech’s fourth counting score Wednesday and tied for 56th place.

Sophomore Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.), competing as an individual, shot 70 Wednesday and tied for 37th place.

TEAM LEADERBOARD – Vanderbilt, with four players in the top 13 individually, shot 8-under-par 280 Wednesday and cruised to a wire-to-wire nine-stroke victory over Tech and Florida State. The third-ranked Commodores won this event for the second straight year with a score of 835 (-29), while the No. 12 Yellow Jackets and No. 13 Seminoles tied at 20-under-par 844.

No. 10 Virginia slid to fourth place at 15-under-par 849, followed by Oklahoma State at 10-under-par 854. Clemson, which had challenged Vanderbilt through the first two rounds, shot 6-over-par and tumbled to a sixth-place finish.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD –Florida State’s Gray Albright, competing as an individual, scored the one-stroke win posting a 68 Wednesday and a 10-under-par 206 for the tournament. Vandy’s Gordon Sargent and Tech’s Christo Lamprecht, who are ranked No. 1-2 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking, tied for second place at 207 (-9).

Alabama’s Thomas Ponder took solo fourth place at 208 (-8), followed by Cole Sherwood of Vanderbilt and Cole Anderson of Florida State at 209 (-7). Tech’s Hiroshi Tai and four others tied for seventh place at 210 (-6).

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – Georgia Tech competed in the Watersound Invitational for the fourth straight year, having finished one stroke behind Vanderbilt last February after winning the 2022 tournament by five strokes over Alabama. Christo Lamprecht tied for second place in last year’s event, with Ross Steelman and Hiroshi Tai also finishing in the top-10.

The tournament follows the traditional collegiate 54-hole, 5-count-4, stroke-play format, with 18 holes each Sunday, Monday and Tuesday. The event is contested at Shark’s Tooth Golf Course, a venue measuring 7,246 yards (par 72) that served as the host for the ACC Championship in 2022.

The 12-team field includes six Atlantic Coast Conference teams in Clemson, No. 13 Florida State, No. 12 Georgia Tech, Notre Dame, NC State and No. 10 Virginia, as well as No. 11 Alabama, No. 3 Vanderbilt, No. 18 Mississippi State, No. 27 Ohio State, Oklahoma State and Penn.

I just logged a G-Tech FutureCast for Brandon Stores Jr. The four-star is set to announce on Monday and sources say Tech should feel pretty confident here. Things could obviously change at the 11th hour, but I'd feel good if I were you guys.