That’s all. lol

I don’t even know where to start. I told someone this morning that today needed to be a game we show we turned the corner. Then I saw the team come out with zero energy during warmups and it continued until the 3rd qtr. We were not ready to play.

The Good:
The crowd and atmosphere
Harvey’s interception
Haynes King running

The Bad:
everything not listed above or below

The Ugly:
Coaching- worst clock management I’ve ever seen
Haynes King passing
WR dropping passes
D couldn’t line up a lot
Team is soft and quit as soon as we got down in 4th
Energy- None - team was not prepared.
It comes from the top. Key talks a big game but his in game decisions are soft and scared. We seriously called a timeout to punt.

FSU now toying with Wake Forest after a close first quarter.

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Former GaTech head coach and CFB HOF inductee Paul Johnson will be honored at the UNC game (10/28) this year as part of the NFF Hall of Fame On-Campus Salutes. He will also do one at Navy (10/21) and Georgia Southern (10/26) as well.

the improbability machine worked overdrive tonight.

Thursday Night ACC Ball!

Syracuse (+3) vs. VT
Syracuse- Kelly, Sed, Alex
VT- Bronston, Russell

Florida State (-20.5) vs. Wake Forest
FSU- Alex, Bronston, Kelly, Sed
Wake- Russell


UConn (+14) vs. BC
BC- Alex, Bronston, Kelly, Sed, Russell


Clemson (-10) vs. NC State
NC State- Sed, Alex
Clemson- Kelly, Bronston, Russell


Pitt (+20.5) vs. Notre Dame
Pitt- Alex
ND- Kelly, Sed, Bronston, Russell

Duke (+4) vs. Louisville
Duke- Russell, Bronston, Alex
Louisville- Sed, Kelly

Virginia (+19) vs. Miami
Virginia- Bronston, Alex
Miami- Kelly, Sed, Russell

PICK THE SCORE: Georgia Tech (+11.5) vs. North Carolina

Kelly: UNC 38 GT 24
Bronston: UNC 41 GT 21
Alex: UNC 30 GT 21
Sed: GT 31 UNC 28
Russell: UNC 27 GT 21

Final media session pre-game, Thursday media is canceled due to scheduling issues with a Friday game.

Dontae Smith

Chase Lane

Paul Moala

If anyone has seen Nate McCollum please contact your local authorities. He was last seen in Chapel Hill taking money from an old man but dropped a football while doing so. If you have any info, please reach out!!!

Tonight was definitely awesome. Homecoming, honoring Paul Johnson, picking up another win against a ranked team. But kind of like what Key said on the post game show, they have a game next week. Virginia seems to be definitely improved, but it's time Tech starts stacking wins up and I definitely believe they can do that. They gotta stop gaining a little momentum just to have it taken away from them the next game. Take it one game at a time and see what good things come of it.

It will be interesting to see the mindsets of each team as it sounds like the Heels are in the dumper after the UVA loss. GT who the hell knows?

The most GT thing ever.

Lose to BG

Beat Miami

Lose to BC

Beat UNC

Greetings from BDS

Derrik Allen being third string as a grad-transfer is not what I was expecting to see given the amount of chances/reps he was given at GT.

A lot of other familiar names on this list, particularly if you follow recruiting closely.

UNC is fully invested in recruiting the state of Georgia, so look for that trend to continue in the upcoming years.

JAMES J. PHILLIPS: Welcome to day two of this year's ACC tip-off. Before I get started, I wanted to say something about the passing of Tasha Butts. Some of you may know Tasha. Some of you may not. Tasha Butts most recently was an assistant and then associate head coach at Georgia Tech. Was a great player at Tennessee.

I had a chance my first assistant AD job, had a chance to meet Tasha. She was a student-athlete there. Had a great playing career at Tennessee, played professionally, and then became an assistant coach, and her dream was to be a head coach.

She got that dream last March when Georgetown hired her, and she passed away on Monday after a long battle with breast cancer.

I had not seen Tasha in nearly two decades after I saw her on the campus at Tennessee, and she was just so full of life and just such a special woman and a special person, and oh, too young.

I had a chance to talk with the women's coaches yesterday and said the same thing, so I appreciate you letting me start today. But I think it's a reminder of the frailties of life, but just how powerful people are, and I know Tasha leaves an unbelievable legacy, so our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Butts family.

Thank you for allowing me to say those words.

Listen, yesterday was a terrific first day of ACC tip-off, showcasing our 15 amazing women's basketball teams. During the summer, I think a lot of you know, Jackie Carson joined our team as a senior associate commissioner for women's basketball, and she's done a tremendous job in her first three months.

We also hired Barbara Davis from the Big East as our director of women's basketball, and we know their additions will be extremely beneficial to the ACC and its membership.

Yesterday we also welcomed Tory Verdi, who was named Pitt women's basketball coach last spring, and the day was a chance to celebrate what makes ACC basketball so special. Our student-athletes, coaches and programs.

We're extremely proud to head into the season with the nation's best seven teams ranked in the USA Today coaches' poll. The collective strength of ACC women's basketball has been well-established. Consider our postseason success.

First, we led all conferences in 2023 with eight NCAA Tournament teams. Last year marked the fifth consecutive NCAA Tournament in which eight teams were selected, also the most of any conference in that span.

ACC teams have made five trips to the Final Four in the last five NCAA tournaments with Virginia Tech representing us last year.

Nine different institutions have represented the ACC in the women's Final Four. The ACC is the only conference to have at least three teams in the Sweet 16 in each of the last nine NCAA tournaments.

Finally, the ACC also owns the most NCAA Tournament wins, 119, of any conference in the last decade of competition.

Pretty remarkable.

After spending a full day with our student-athletes and coaches yesterday, I assure you there's incredible excitement, and it's going to be a season for all of us to remember.

Today we turn our focus to ACC men's basketball, and we know there's never a shortage of anticipation for our teams and our conference. This year, we welcome three new coaches to the ACC sidelines: Georgia Tech's Damon Stoudemire, Notre Dame's Micah Shrewsberry and Syracuse's Adrian Autry.

Our men's basketball teams continue to excel. The ACC has captured three of the last eight NCAA championships with 99 NCAA Tournament wins in that span. Current ACC schools have won eight NCAA titles in the last 22 tournaments and own 17 National Championships overall.

Our schools have combined for 67 men's Final Four appearances and a nation's best 664 NCAA Tournament wins, and the league owns the highest all-time NCAA tournament-winning percentage of any league, 618.

All 15 ACC league members own a staggering 1,000 or more all-time wins, including eight schools with 1,500 victories or more.

Finally, four of the top eight and six of the top 30 winningest programs in the NCAA Division I basketball history reside right here in our conference, the ACC.

We understand the bar is always set high for the ACC, including in men's basketball, and I'm incredibly confident our teams will once again rise to that occasion.

A lot has happened since we were together this summer at ACC kickoff. It's always terrific to see so many of you during my travels to our campuses and to our other events. The ACC and its membership continue to be national leaders.

Academically the ACC once again leads all FBS conferences in this year's U.S. News and World Report Rankings. Athletically no Power Five conference offers more than 28 sponsored sports, and our 15 women's offerings lead all.

Our programs have won more NCAA National Championships than any other conference in each of the last two years. Currently, six programs this fall are ranked either No. 1 or No. 2 in their respective sports, the most of all conferences.

The ACC has won seven National Championships in football, men's basketball, women's basketball and baseball since 2015, and is the only conference to win each of those four titles over that stretch.

The ACC and its membership have so much to be proud of and the last two months have been monumental.

Our new conference office headquarters are just a few blocks away, and although we knew being a part of the Charlotte community would be incredible, it has exceeded our expectations.

I invite you to come and see our operation at Bank of America Tower on the 12th floor, see our state-of-the-art facilities.

As a league we launched the ACC's new brand campaign: Accomplish greatness. Amy Accola did an amazing job, and you're starting to see that pop up on our network and you'll see that throughout the year.

It's been embraced by our schools, and in the next week we will roll out our television spots and initiatives surrounding ACC basketball.

As all of you know, on September 1st, we welcomed three world-class institutions and athletic programs to the ACC family: Cal, SMU and Stanford joining us next summer.

The decision by the ACC board of directors strengthens the ACC both now and in the future, and it benefits each of our current institutions.

Throughout the entire process of exploring potential expansion, the priorities were to enrich and strengthen the ACC athletically, academically, and financially, while also enhancing the overall league stability and the board's ultimate decision achieves all of those priorities.

There's much more I could say with you this morning, but let me just tell you again, I appreciate all of you being here. I'll stop at this point and be happy to take any of your questions.

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech head baseball coach Danny Hall has been named an Honorary Georgia Tech Alumnus by the Georgia Tech Alumni Association, it was announced on Thursday.



Hall, in his 31st season heading the Tech program, will officially receive that honor on Feb. 15 as part of the Alumni Association’s 2024 Gold & White Honors Gala. Hall joins an elite list of honorary alumni from Georgia Tech athletics, including Bruce Heppler, Bobby Cremins, Homer Rice and Bobby Dodd.



“Words cannot describe how thrilled I am to be named an honorary alumnus at Georgia Tech,” Hall said. “My wife, Kara, and I have thoroughly enjoyed our time here and can safely call Georgia Tech and Atlanta home. My sons, Carter and Colin, have earned degrees for the Scheller College of Business and we are so proud to say that our sons are graduates and alumni. I have used the value of the Tech degree to lure some of the finest student-athletes in the country to The Flats. I’m humbled and proud to join this prestigious community.”



The ABCA Hall of Famer has compiled a career record of 1,378-749-1 (.648) in 36 seasons as a head coach, including an 1,170-632-1 (.649) record in 30 seasons at Georgia Tech (1994-present). Hall’s 1,170 wins are the most in Tech history and the most among any active NCAA coach in the country. His .649 winning percentage on The Flats ranks second among Tech coaches with more than 700 games coached, behind only Morris (.674). Under Hall, the Yellow Jackets have compiled 15 40-win seasons and four 50-win seasons, including the school record 52-win campaign in 2002.



“Congratulations to Coach Hall on this great, well-deserved honor,” Georgia Tech director of athletics J Batt said. “His 1,100-plus wins and the incredible number of All-Americans and Major Leaguers that he has produced at Georgia Tech speak for themselves. But what makes this honor so appropriate for Coach Hall is how he has represented the Institute and its ideals on and off the field during his tenure. I’m very happy for Georgia Tech athletics’ newest Tech alumnus, Danny Hall.”



He has led the Jackets to its only three College World Series appearances (1994, 2002, 2006), 23 NCAA Regional appearances, and six NCAA Super Regional appearances. He’s been named ACC Coach of the Year four times, winning seven ACC regular season/divisional championships and five ACC Tournament championships. He was also named the Sporting News’ National Coach of the Year in 1997.



Hall’s student-athletes have achieved tremendous success, having 139 Yellow Jackets drafted, including 15 first-round picks, and 32 of them playing in the Big Leagues. His players have earned 120 all-America honors, 140 all-ACC selections, and 28 freshman all-America awards. Not limited to just success on the playing field, Hall’s Jackets have also earned 19 academic all-American honors with more than 200 student-athletes named to the ACC academic honor roll.

@Kelly Quinlan what’s the promotion you’re running (unless I missed it already) to give access to a guest till the UGA game? Have a few friends interested in trials before hopefully signing up.

Did a thread instead of DM so if others also did it might help get the word out. If you’d prefer handle via pm I’m happy to just DM and delete the thread.

CHESTNUT HILL, MA – No. 11 Georgia Tech volleyball (18-3, 9-2 ACC) went the distance with Boston College (14-11, 3-8 ACC), defeating the Eagles in five sets (20-25, 25-19, 25-18, 18-25, 15-9) on Friday night inside Power Gym. Tamara Otene recorded her 1,000th career kill as the Jackets delivered their ninth road win of the season.



QUICK HITS

• This is Georgia Tech’s fourth win in a row over Boston College dating back to the 2019 season.
• Tech improves to 9-1 on the road this season, tied for the seventh most road victories in program history.
• Senior outside hitter Tamara Otene recorded her 1,000th career kill in the third set, becoming the 9th Jacket in the 1,000-kill club in the modern scoring era (since 2008) and the 5th in the Coach Collier era (since 2014).
• She set a new season high with 24 kills tonight, bringing her career total to 1,009.
• Otene also managed 10 digs, her team-leading 12th double-double of the year, bringing her season total to 257, the most by any hitter in the Power 5.
• Junior outside hitter Bianca Bertolino delivered her 8th double-double of the year, making 19 kills and 14 digs on .341 hitting.
• She has now hit 39 kills on .395 hitting in her last two matches.
• Senior libero Paola Pimentel secured a team-best 16 digs. She has made at least 10 digs in 20 of her 21 matches this year.
• Freshman setter Heloise Soares led the team with 35 assists with senior setter Bella D’Amico adding 21 of her own.
• Sophomore middle blocker Anna Boezi posted six blocks tonight (two solo, four assisted). She improves her average to 1.17 blocks/set over her eight career starts since taking over at middle blocker.
• Freshman opposite Larissa Mendes made 12 kills on .321 hitting, she has hit over .300 in four of her 10 ACC matches.
• Senior defensive specialist Liz Patterson made a pair of digs to go along with a pair of aces, as a serving sub. She has recorded digs in seven consecutive matches, the longest streak of her career.
• Patterson has now made at least one service ace in three straight matches. She has served five aces with just one error over that span.
• Tech has now played in four consecutive five set road matches, holding a 3-1 record in those matches.
• The White and Gold are 4-1 in fifth sets this season, the most five-set wins since 2018.
  

Set By Set



Set 1 (BC, 25-20): Boston College came out swinging on Alumnae day, taking advantage of a slow start defensively for GT and taking the opening set. The Eagles made a 4-0 run to go in front, 16-12, and managed to hold off the Jackets for the rest of the set. Bertolino made five kills and four digs to lead the team. But the defense wasn’t up to standard as Tech found itself a set down, on the road.



Set 2 (GT, 25-19): The Jackets responded right away in the second as kills from Boezi and Otene gave GT a 3-0 lead. BC managed to tie the match, 4-4, only for Boezi to deliver two more blocks, thanks to some great serving from Patterson, to send the Jackets on a 4-0 run, re-establishing the cushion at 9-5. Coach Collier subbed in Soares as the Eagles looked to be getting back into the set, 16-14, and she led the offense on 4-1 run, putting Tech back up by five, 20-15. Otene ended the set with her team-leading seventh kill, ending a bounce-back set for the Kiwi who shouldered much of the offense (7 kills, 17 attacks). The Jackets made five blocks in the set, led by the three by Boezi. DeAndra Peirce recorded two blocks in the set, including a crucial solo block to spur the late, 4-1 scoring run.



Set 3 (GT, 25-18): Boston College seamed poised to take momentum right back to start the third, going in front, 7-4. But the Jackets weathered the storm, tying things back up at 10-10, before going on a long, 11-3 scoring run to rip the set out of the Eagles’ talons. Otene and Soares handled the bulk of the serving duties throughout the run as Bertolino rattled off six late kills, including four in a row from 19-17 to 23-17, to secure the set. Tech’s offense was humming, making 18 kills on .516 hitting in the third. Soares made 17 assists in the set, distributing the ball to Otene (seven kills on .500 hitting), Bertolino (six kills on .600 hitting) and Mendes (four kills on .667 hitting) with tremendous success throughout. Pimentel led the back row with four digs as Boezi, once again, led the effort at the net, adding in two more blocks.



Set 4 (BC, 25-18): The Jackets couldn’t find an answer for the early BC rally in the fourth, falling behind 9-3, and never getting back within four. The GT passing was substandard as the Eagles forced a fifth set by seven points. Otene made six kills on .308 hitting but it wouldn’t be enough.



Set 5 (GT, 15-9): Pimentel’s second ace of the night tied the fifth at 5-5 after BC got out to a 5-3 lead. Both sides traded points until the Jackets delivered an 8-1 scoring run off the serves of Patterson and Soares to silence the crowd and send Georgia Tech into the win column once again. Tech stood its ground defensively, making seven digs, led by three from Pimentel, while siding out at an impressive 80 percent clip in the deciding set. The final point of the night was won via a block from Boezi and Mendes and the Jackets escaped with their ninth road win of the season.



UP NEXT
Georgia Tech will be fighting for its 10th road victory of the season on Sunday afternoon at Syracuse (2-18, 0-10 ACC). The match will begin at 1 p.m., inside the Women’s Building, and will be streamed on ACC Network Extra.

Just one coach on the road tonight..

RB coach Norv McKenzie is at North Cobb HS.

Home of four-star RB David Eziomume, currently committed to Clemson.
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Section 108. PM me if you want them. Tech fans only, no Heels.

Go jackets!

This weekend it is a great honor that Coach Johnson is coming back and we can honor him for his HOF induction and I’m appreciative of everything he did here as the head football coach and his pride in being here. It’s fortunate to have him back here and it is a credit to what he did here and the players he developed and the success he had. His first year as a coach and his guys have graduated and they are becoming very successful in their own right. It is great to see your former players and what they are up to.

Good game this Saturday and excited to play a challenging opponent and a great opponent and two teams that are QB-driven in what they do. Drake is a heck of a QB. It is a different play caller on offense and it is a little different, but it all goes through the QB.

Defensively they’ve made a lot of improvements with a lot of the same players back and they play together under the same coordinator.

Coaches and players make sure they are all on top of things. I'm excited to play on Saturday night and it will be a big atmosphere and a good one surrounding the game.

ON UNC’s Receivers, we want to stop them and stop what they do and stop what they do and some of the bigger plays they do. One of the bigger things is we want to stop them and they’ve got several good receivers and two good running backs. We want to limit explosive plays and limit things on the field.

I think personnel driven the passing game will be better getting guys healthy and playing full speed and help the timing in the pass game and helping things all around. I think I said it on Tuesday, we have to get an efficient running game going and there have been some big yardage numbers but a lot of that has been on QB runs and scrambles. We need to alleviate that. Help out in the run game.

Key said that he made some interjections into the run game better and you don’t want to remake the whole game plan at halftime, you want to practice things and there are other ways to do things with a different shift or motion and take what they are doing and how does that compliment what we are doing as well. Those are things we worked on as well to implement going forward.

On Avery Boyd, You will see a lot of Avery regardless of who is healthy, he will be on the field a lot regardless of who else can play.

On Kyle Efford, he has to continue to improve, but what he brings on that side of the ball is he brings some leadership and it is two-way leadership and doing what you are supposed to do and the respect he has and the way he carries himself and not arrogance. When he speaks up people listen because he has backed it up on the field. His knowledge of the game has improved from playing this year and he is quicker to the ball and quicker in coverage. He didn’t get quicker, it is his true knowledge

Key said they addressed being locked in, people chose not to hear them as much after you win a game, they think you are focusing on the negative. You show them the things that are right and wrong, but they get magnified on your block or your fit on the run game. The same thing took place and someone didn’t get caught in the point of attack. It is about identifying those things in practice. It is not about a loaf in practice, you have to correct it. We have pursuit and takeoff drills and perfect plays. That is the beauty of playing with tempo offensively. It doesn’t allow you to stop and think. That tempo allows you to stay fast and it forces guys to do that. We call them out and peers call them out, if they continue to happen you replace those guys and they don’t play. You don’t have one player playing too much at a position where we need to sub, you don’t want them playing too many snaps as well. We need to do a better job of rotating guys at the right spots and not playing guys too much that we will need in the 4th quarter. That is on coaching, the players and even recruiting because we need to build depth. We have to work to improve on to keep those things from happening.

Key said they are healthier this week as well.

THE FLATS – Caleb Currier has been appointed to the role of assistant coach for the women’s basketball team, head coach Nell Fortner announced. Currier will also retain his duties as director of recruiting operations.

“Caleb has been such a great addition to us as our director of recruiting operations,” said Fortner. “He’s an incredibly hard worker, a grinder and is very detailed and organized. He deserved this opportunity to transition to the coaching world. We’re looking forward to seeing how he elevates us this year.”

Currier begins his second season on Fortner’s staff in 2023-24 after arriving on The Flats as director of recruiting operations last season. He brings a wealth of basketball knowledge, having worked with elite programs before joining the Yellow Jackets. From 2019-21, Currier served as a graduate assistant at the University of Tennessee. In that role, he implemented and maintained recruiting strategies, while supporting the coaching staff in all recruiting operations. Additionally, Currier assisted with the daily operations of the program.

A 2019 graduate from the University of Tennessee, Currier also served as a student manager from 2016-19. He immediately arrived at Georgia Tech from the University of North Carolina where he worked in ticket operations.

Earlier this year, the NCAA Division I Council changed its rules for coaching limits, adding two additional assistant coaches to men’s and women’s basketball.

Georgia Tech women’s basketball opens the season with an exhibition against Georgia College on Nov. 2 and officially tips-off the campaign on Nov. 6, welcoming Coastal Carolina to McCamish Pavilion. Season tickets for the 2023-24 season are currently on sale. To purchase season tickets, please click here or call the Georgia Tech Ticket Office at 888.TECH.TIX.

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Ellis “Buck” Shamburger passed yesterday. Buck played at Tech in the 50’s under Coach Dodd and was a founder of a club called “Dodd’s Boys.” He won a National Championship under Dodd as a backup QB. I met him at a 4th of July celebration at Newtown Park. I had on a Tech t-shirt, thankfully, and he inquired if I went to Tech. We struck up a conversation, traded phone numbers and became great friends. He attended my son’s high school lacrosse games, invited me to the Dodd’s Boys events and I visited him in his box at the BG game. His son Ellis “Bucky” Shamburger is also a Tech legend, playing football at Tech in the mid-70’s. A very sad day for the Tech family. Prayers up!