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THE FLATS – Looking for its first victory of the fall season and its third the history of its annual home event, Georgia Tech’s golf team returns to action this weekend, hosting the 17th Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate Invitational Friday through Sunday at the Golf Club of Georgia in Alpharetta.

Tech comes into its third fall event ranked No. 3 in the Bushnell/Golfweek Coaches Poll and No. 12 in the current Golfweek/Sagarin ratings after finishing third at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational and eighth at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational in its first two events.

Six teams in the 14-team field played in last year’s NCAA Championship, with three (Tech, Pepperdine and Virginia) advancing to match play. Like last fall, all 10 Georgia Tech players are competing in two teams at the Golf Club of Georgia this weekend, with the primary team composed of the top five players, and a B team composed of the rest. The B team also will compete for a team score.

After guiding the Yellow Jackets to the program’s 19th Atlantic Coast Conference championship and a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championship, head coach Bruce Heppler has three starters back for his 29th season on The Flats, including seniors Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Ga.) and Christo Lamprecht (George, South Africa) and sophomore Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), each of whom are ranked among the world’s top 100 amateur players. All three are in the Jackets’ “A” lineup this weekend as Tai looks to defend his individual title from 2022, and Lamprecht looks to build on a fall in which he has a victory and a runner-up finish.

The tournament will utilize a split-tee format each day, with competition beginning at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday, 8:30 a.m. for the final round Sunday. Tech’s A team is paired with Tennessee and UCLA for Friday’s opening round, and with Clemson and Pepperdine for Saturday’s second round, beginning each round from the first tee at 9:55 a.m. Pairings for the Sunday’s final round will be set based on the leaderboard through the conclusion of 36 holes.

ROSTER OUTLOOK – Lamprecht, a first-team All-American in 2023, won The Amateur Championship and was low amateur at The Open Championship over the summer and has risen to No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking following his victory at Olympia Fields. Forrester, an All-ACC performer in 2022 with two collegiate victories, is No. 41 in the WAGR, and Tai, who won two tournaments as a freshman, is No. 68.

Competition for spots in the lineup comes from five other returnees in seniors Adam Bratton (Newburgh, Ind.), Aidan Kramer (Oviedo, Fla.) and Andy Mao (Johns Creek, Ga.), as well as junior Benjamin Reuter (Naarden, The Netherlands) and sophomore Aidan Tran (Fresno, Calif.). They have combined to compete in 39 collegiate events in their careers, while Kramer and Mao both have summer amateur victories under the belts.

Heppler added a pair of freshmen to the mix in Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) and Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.), both of whom ranked among the top 15 junior golfers in the class of 2023 and made the lineup for Tech’s fall opener at Olympia Fields.

TECH LINEUP – All three of Tech’s returning starters – Lamprecht, Forrester and Tai – are in the lineup for the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate along with Kramer and Tran.

Lamprecht set a 36-hole record score of 131 (-9) in winning the individual title at the Olympia Fields/Fighting Illini Invitational by a stroke, and narrowly missed a second title at the Ben Hogan Collegiate, losing medalist honors in a playoff. The 6-foot-8 senior also had three runner-up finishes and a third-place showing last year, and is challenging the Tech career stroke average mark at 70.16 over 104 collegiate stroke-play rounds.

Forrester, a fifth-year senior who won the 2022 Calusa Cup and the 2020 Puerto Rico Classic, has 105 stroke play rounds under his belt and a 71.77 stroke average for his career. Tai defending his 2022 title at the Golf Club of Georgia, one of two victories in a stellar freshman campaign in which he also was the ACC Championship runner-up.

Kramer is competing in his second event of the fall, 10th of his career, while Tran also is making his second start of the fall after competing in five events as a freshman.

Tech’s “B” team consists of seniors Bratton and Mao, sophomore Rackley, making his collegiate debut, and freshmen Fontenot and Kim.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – The Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate, formerly called the United States Collegiate Championship, is contested at the Yellow Jackets’ home club. The tournament will be played exclusively on the 7,092-yard, par 72 Lakeside Course, 18 holes each day Friday through Sunday. Competition begins at 9 a.m. Friday and Saturday, and at 8:30 a.m. Sunday. Admission is free all three days.

Twelve of the 14 teams competing at the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate played in NCAA regionals last spring, six advancing to the NCAA Championship, and three (Tech, Pepperdine, Virginia) reaching match play. Six teams are currently ranked among the top 25 in the Golfweek/Sagarin rankings.

The full field with Golfweek/Sagarin ranking in parentheses) - Charlotte, Clemson, Duke (26), East Tennessee State (11), Georgia Tech (12), Northwestern (41), Pepperdine, Southern California, Tennessee (5), Texas A&M (21), UCLA (32), Virginia (25), Wake Forest (39), Washington (7).

TECH’S GOLF CLUB OF GEORGIA COLLEGIATE HISTORY – Georgia Tech has won the Golf Club of Georgia Collegiate twice in the event’s 16-year history, in 2010 and 2012. James White, who set tournament records for 18-hole score (62) and 54-hole score (204, broken in 2014), won medalist honors in 2010, while Ollie Schniederjans won it in 2013 for Tech’s only individual titles.

Clemson, Oklahoma State, Southern California and Texas also have won twice. The Tigers captured the inaugural title in 2006 and again in 2009, the Longhorns won in 2014 and shared the title with Virginia in 2016, the Cowboys won in 2013 and 2017, and the Trojans in 2008 and 2019. The tournament was not played in the fall of 2020 due to COVID-19, and Pepperdine and Stanford have captured the last two titles.

The Yellow Jackets finished runner-up last fall in this event, and have finished in the top five 12 times in 16 years.

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No clue what the source of this poll is but GT jumped 34 spots

Listen, I will pay extra to make this go away. So annoying. It's like whack a mole. And then I try to x out and end up clicking on it or some other link. KQ, you have a direct line line to the powers that be to make this insanity stop?

Without a game this week, Wednesday's player media avail focused on players who made impact plays in the Miami game but were not featured in the postgame media session at Hard Rock Stadium. The group consisted of cornerback Ahmari Harvey, defensive end Kyle Kennard and receiver Malik Rutherford.

On his pick, Harvey said that they have been working really hard on film study and that play was something they saw on tape and they got one of his teammates with it earlier in the game with the same concept so he played it right in the game. He said Van Dyke tried to force the ball and he just made a play on it.

Harvey said the big key for the defense moving forward is consistency and playing more like the team in the WF or Miami games on that side of the ball. They need to have a good mentality week in and week out.

I asked him about his increased role and being in the rotation finally. He said it feels good because he worked really hard for this in the offseason and gained a couple of pounds, matured on and off the field and worked on his academics a lot. He worked on a lot of stuff off the field as well and it is paying off on the field now.

Harvey said the bye week is at the perfect time now in the middle of the season. Everyone has nicks and bruises and they needed the break.

I asked about the tackling improvement and he said that they've made it a major emphasis for the whole defense and after the first couple of games they really needed to improve and be very detailed with it.

Harvey said with Kevin Sherrer now in charge of the defense the changes are not that big difference for the players. The buy-in is there from the players and he really likes Andrew Thacker and Thacker helped bring him to GT.

Kyle Kennard said he has enjoyed all the reactions to his fumble recovery and getting in the refs face to try to convenience him. He said he was so focused on that he didn't notice that the ref was actually signaling it was GT's ball until they announced it. He said seeing some memes of his face in that moment has been very funny as well.

Kennard said the defense hasn't changed much as well, he said not to discredit either coach, but it is more of a change of seating. They are doing the same stuff and they have the same goals as a whole unit as a defense. It has not been a hard adjustment at all.

Kennard said they've been trying different combinations on the DL week to week and some of that is game planning against the type of offense they are playing that week and their OL and the different strengths and weaknesses of that line vs GT's DL. They've been trying to find the best fits each week.

Kennard said the D has been working hard on not being complacent and not thinking a win means anything more than a win. They didn't get any hardware from beating Miami so they need to focus on beating BC this week just like they beat Miami last week with consistent D.

Kennard said there have been more than one or two guys being vocal now on defense.

Kennard said he will spend his bye weekend with his son and working on his podcast.

Malik Rutherford said on his catch on the final drive he thought the DB was going to pick it off and then he missed the ball and he was focused on just catching it and he ended up bobbling it a little and then tried to get out of bounds, but he couldn't.

Rutherford said he has a lot of pride after a tough night against a very good Miami defense to make one of the two final big plays on the game winning drive. They were aggressive on D and as fast a D as they will see all year. He said going in he expected a gritty type game and he was just focused on making a play when had his number called.

Rutherford said it was great finally beating Miami after losing to them his first two times playing them.

Rutherford said there was a little trash talk between him and his friend Brashard Smith before the game, but afterward the Miami players were in such a state of shock over how the game ended they were very quiet.

Rutherford said that Haynes King did a great job of keeping them settled down on the final drive and he looked everyone in their eyes in the huddle and he looked in his eyes and knew he was going to make a clutch throw to win the game.

Rutherford said he made the touchdown signal when he saw Christian Leary's move on the Miami DBs and King getting ready to throw the ball even before he threw it knowing it was a touchdown.

Rutherford said the win really comes back to something Coach Key preaches to them every week. Play the full 60 minutes and they talked about it all week leading up to the game. The defense really grinded it out in that game and got the ball back and they could've easily given up in that moment on that final run by Miami. "We played hard for 60 minutes and things like that will eventually happen and I feel like it paid off."

PGA Tour University Ranking

Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla. – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht, who has a victory and a runner-up finish in two fall events for the Yellow Jackets, has moved up to No. 1 among seniors eligible for the PGA Tour University ranking ahead of the 2023-24 academic year.

Lamprecht began the fall at No. 2 behind Stanford’s Michael Thorbjornsen, but moved ahead of him after winning the Olympia Fields/fighting Illini Invitational and finishing second in a playoff at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational. Vanderbilt’s William Moll, North Florida’s Nick Gabrelcik and Ohio State’s Maxwell Moldovan round out the pre-season top 5 five.

The senior from George, South Africa, also sits No. 1 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking after winning The Amateur Championship this summer and earning the Silver Medal as low amateur at The Open Championship, He was named a first-team All-American and a finalist for the Fred Haskins Award after the 2022-23 year in which he won one tournament and finished second in three others.

In partnership with the World Amateur Golf Ranking® (WAGR®), PGA TOUR University ranks players based on the last two years of their collegiate careers. Eligible Tournaments include NCAA Division-I men’s team competitions, official PGA TOUR tournaments and select DP World Tour events. The Ranking Period for the Class of 2024 began Week 23/2022 and concludes May 27, 2024, following the final round of stroke play at the NCAA D-I Men’s National Championship.

The No. 1 player in the final PGA TOUR University Ranking next May will earn PGA TOUR membership, while players Nos. 1-5 (fully exempt) and Nos. 6-10 (conditional) will earn Korn Ferry Tour membership. Additionally, players Nos. 6-20 will earn fully exempt membership for the North America Swing of PGA TOUR Americas.

Two seniors on Georgia Tech’s 2022-23 golf team earned status on the Korn Ferry Tour (Ross Steelman) and PGA Tour Canada (Connor Howe) through their final ranking in PGA Tour University.

Georgia Tech 2023-24 Schedule | Purchase season tickets | Tickets for Tech-Penn State

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech men’s basketball and Penn State will meet on the hardwood at Madison Square Garden for a noon tipoff on December 16, kicking off MSG’s Holiday Festival triple-header. Tech’s game will be televised on the Big Ten Network.

Tickets for Tech-Penn State game can be purchased through the Georgia Tech ticket office by calling 888-TECH-TIX or by clicking on this link. The Yellow Jackets’ game will be followed by the St. John’s men’s team facing Fordham at 3:30 p.m. and St. John’s women taking on Villanova at 6 p.m. on that Saturday.

The Nittany Lions reached the NCAA Tournament last season, advancing to the round of 32, and finished with a 23-14 overall record and a 10-10 mark in the Big Ten Conference. Tech and Penn State will meet for the fifth time, most recently in 2016 in the ACC/Big Ten Challenge at State College. The Nittany Lions lead the series, 3-1.

Tech will play a game at Madison Square Garden for the first time since 2017 post-season National Invitation Tournament. The Yellow Jackets are 18-8 all-time in the arena.

The game completes the Yellow Jackets’ 2023-24 non-conference schedule, which also includes a road trip to Big 12 Conference member Cincinnati (Nov. 22), the ACC/SEC Challenge against Mississippi State at home (Nov. 28), the annual Tech-Georgia game in Athens (Dec. 5) and the Diamond Head Classic (Dec. 21-24) in which the Jackets will face Massachusetts in the opening round.

The non-conference slate includes five guaranteed games against teams that won 20 or more games in the 2022-23 season, including four that played in the post-season. Mississippi State (21-13), Penn State (23-14) and Howard (22-13) all played in the NCAA Tournament last season, while Cincinnati (23-13), a new member of the Big 12, reached the quarterfinals of the NIT. UMass Lowell (26-8) finished second in the America East Conference. The Yellow Jackets potentially could play two more 20-win teams in the Diamond Head Classic, with a possible game against Hawai’i (21-11) in the second round and TCU (22-13) in the final round.

Tech opens the 2023-24 season Nov. 6 against Georgia Southern at McCamish Pavilion, and opens its Atlantic Coast Conference slate Dec. 2 against Duke, also at home.

SEASON TICKETS FOR TECH BASKETBALL

Season tickets for the 2023-24 campaign for Georgia Tech men’s basketball are available to the general public. Tech’s schedule will include 10 Atlantic Coast Conference home games as well as the Yellow Jackets’ always-challenging non-conference slate. Further information on Tech’s 2023-24 schedule will be announced later this summer. Season ticket prices start at $290. Season tickets for faculty, staff and letterwinners are $280, and tickets for new alumni can be purchased for as little as $199.

Looking to return the Yellow Jackets to national prominence, first-year head coach Damon Stoudamire brings the experience of 13 years as a successful NBA player, 10 years of coaching experience on the collegiate level and four years on the NBA level. He was named the West Coast Conference Coach of the Year in 2020, his final season as the head coach at Pacific University, and went from there to be an assistant coach with the Boston Celtics, who posted the best record in the NBA’s Eastern Conference the last two years. Stoudamire has built his staff with coaches who helped build winning programs at their previous schools.

The Jackets return four starters from a team that went 15-18, 6-12 in the ACC in 2022-23, while adding a transfer class that has been ranked No. 17 in the nation by 247Sports.

What I see from my analysis
yes, they can beat us, but only if we underestimate them

Rushing averages
Yards produced
180.0
Yards allowed
162.0

slightly weak when it comes to running the ball
ok at stopping the run

passing averages
yards produced
204.20
Yards given up
210.7
very meh, not great

scoring defense not ever giving up less than 24 points which is weird, but that isn’t great
scoring offense they have put up more than 30 points once, just once, so not great despite having a really good qb, they aren’t really lighting it up. This suggests they don’t have the best supporting cast for their qb

other notes:
struggled to beat UVA which is looking like a 1-11 team

key to victor: take Thomas out of the picture or limit him and they will fold, not saying we will win but we can

This just seems even worse to me. He is too arrogant to take a knee to end games. Smh

All guys who had impact plays in the Miami game but didn't talk to us after the game

Ahmari Harvey

Kyle Kennard

Malik Rutherford

Guy that works for me just sent this pic from his neighborhood 🤣

For those of you who want to hear the moment of absolute pandemonium 😉

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Don't ever blame the refs after a loss. It looks so ridiculous.

I've been reading the Miami boards and they all think the runner was down (he may have been, but it wasn't clear on replay).
In addition, they think the refs were against them all night long. Calls were horrible......the ACC always screws them.... the fumble was icing on the cake.

It makes me realize how bad a look that is when we do the same thing.

Only part he left out was “buying players for years”

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I'm on the Miami mailing list along with some other programs because of the way they do their parking for games. So I got this one from Miami this morning and I feel a little bad for the timing of it for D-Rad who was always great to me.

Dear Kelly,

It has been an exciting start to the fall season for the Miami Hurricanes as our student-athletes continue to succeed both on and off the field.

Miami Athletics is dedicated to developing and supporting our student-athletes in their efforts to achieve personal, academic and athletic excellence. As we embark upon University of Miami Giving Day, I want to take a moment to express how grateful I am that so many of you are supporting our mission this year.

I invite you to join our alumni challenge by making a gift of any size right now. This will help unlock additional funds for our department to use for scholarships, best-in-class facility projects and resources for our student-athletes in areas such as academic support, athletic training, career development, nutrition, travel and many others.

Donations of all sizes from alumni like you help Miami Athletics create the best student-athlete experience in college athletics. Together, we can make a real difference in the lives of our student-athletes and prepare them for success on and off the field. What we do is indeed powered by you!

Please join me in giving back—click the link below to help make an impact.

Thank you for your support and Go Canes!

Dan Radakovich
Vice President/Director of Athletics

I plan to connect with him after.

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If the Tech Way somehow had ~$4 million for football, would that be enough for a top 5 ACC team or a top 30 team talent wise? Or how much would it take?

KQ- That would put them in a good spot for sure. I know Key was shooting for the ~$2 million range per year. He felt like that was going to allow them to do what they needed to do.

Same question for basketball, how much would it take for that?

KQ-I have less of a gut feeling on that. I have not talked to Damon about what he thinks the number is. Pastner said $500k last year would've been around the number that could've landed a couple of difference-makers. My gut says ~$1 million.

How massive was tonight's win for the team and Coach Key?

KQ- It was a big moment for the program, it got a lot of eyes on the team and showed the never-give-up attitude that Key has tried to instill and they've shown some signs of during his 380 days or whatever it is now at the helm.

Might be more of a question for our couch coach…but what did you see different on D in terms of scheme / player performance under our new DC?

KQ- I talked about this a little last night on the Youtube show, but I thought they were a little more conservative with the idea of keeping everything in front of you and that you don't need to create just sacks and TFLs to get off the field if that makes sense. It seemed like they pulled back quite a bit on the LB blitzing and were just playing just normal defense.

Tell us more about the previous strength and conditioning regime. Coach LC was a well-decorated S&C coach prior to coming to Tech and you floated an interesting comment in passing on a recent YouTube about GT players being sprayed with oil to look better in photos instead of actually getting stronger. Was Caralla not all that he was cracked up to be, or did he have a group of athletes that didn’t respond to his methods?

KQ- First off I really like Coach Lew, but from talking to the players and the staff who are around now they were very much about looking jacked and less about core strength. Coach Lew is like Collins, a self-promoter and that isn't a bad thing but I think it led to some strange stuff and I have no idea who was behind the oil and the spray stuff, but all the transitional players (CPJ recruited guys) or guys who came from other programs made fun of some of the stuff they did privately like the photoshoots and before and after photos. The team looked soft and weak. Lew wasn't exactly a well-decorated guy as you said. He came to GT from Buffalo and Louisiana-Lafayette before that. He bounced around jobs similar to the former HC moving around the S&C world and he was at Michigan and that connection is how he ended up at Charlotte now. If he was considered one of these great S&C coaches he would've been picked up already by a P5 school. Don't confuse hype and social media presence with performance as a S&C coach.

I'll add I wonder if his plan was based on what Collins wanted or how much he controlled what they were doing. Collins was very hands-on in literally the most minor details of the program so there is no way to know.

CKS scheming for BC and Castellanos: spy or no?

KQ- I would spy with Paul Moala.

Do you and @ibeeballin have twins that are Miami fans?

KQ- Come on man that guy weighs a hundred ****ing pounds more than I do and the other one has way too much hair for Sed.

I know this is a question on the boundaries of crossing the line but do you see Pyron leaving at the end of the year? I hope not but I don’t see much of him during the game on the sidelines and not a lot of interaction with him. I could miss it as I don’t see everything during the game but his dad’s interaction on the board has slowed down as well.

KQ- He charts the plays. Brody Rhodes is the signaler and the two Zachs chart the calls and the other charts the coverages in the game. They are busy on the sideline when the offense is on the field. From talking to everyone involved no decisions are going to be made anytime soon. Pyron is focused on getting his GT degree. That is the way I would put it.

You said people cancelled their subscription last week. Do they come back after a win?

KQ- Some did, some haven't yet. I'll be reaching out to some of the riff-raff who did this week.

Kelly wtf did we witness? I still don’t know😂

KQ- One team played until the final whistle and the other needs that ask coach function from NCAA football or Madden to understand what the hell to do in the final minute of a game.

what is the ceiling for our defense improving against the run? What risks will we have take to slow more potent rushing attack?

KQ- Miami has a pretty good rushing attack. Honestly the LB play will likely dictate how they are against the run. The DL is what it is right now and without Sylvain they are going to be mixing and matching all year. If Horace Lockett continues his development and play the way he has the last two weeks that could help make them more disruptive but they need either Kyle Efford or Tren Tatum to grow up fast right now. Efford has played pretty well, but is not as gifted as Tatum talent wise. Tatum has been the biggest issue on the D all year.

If you could add one player (non QB) from any CFB team to GT’s roster, who would it be and why?

KQ- The one that pops in my mind right now is the guy I bagged on a little today, Payton Wilson from NC State. He is a weakside backer, but brings some pop. It is not a great year for MIKE linebackers, but that is really what would move the needle IMO.

Most important game left on the schedule for GT and why?

KQ- Boston College, because it is the next one up. They need to win to continue their march to the postseason.

Rhetorical Mail Bag question

Is your weekend easier when GT wins…..

I’ll hang up and listen…..feel free to vent

KQ- LOL, I actually said a small thank you prayer after the game because I'm not sure I would've made it through this bye week if that been a loss.

Why did Antonio Martin leave? We probably could have used him this year!

KQ- Why do you think they could've used him? He is at Blinn Community College. If he had been a good RB he would've played the last two years and someone would've picked him up so he wouldn't be sitting at JUCO. Come on.

mid season grades for coaches by position?

KQ- I don't like this.

mid season grades for coaches by position taking into account the talent available to the positions

KQ- That's the rub, isn't it?

Do any NIL deals include per game incentives like a bonus for a 100yd game? My conspiracy theory on Saturday night was Chaney was trying to get to 100yds and they were more focused on that than the clock.

KQ- Like back in the old handshake days where you got an extra $100 for 100 yards? Maybe. It would be the most Miami thing ever if that is why Mario ran the ball there.

Describe the scene in the press box immediately following the fumble and after the GT Touchdown.

KQ- Lots of people screaming "Oh My God!" followed by furious typing and profanity by some of the probably radio people sitting on press row that were not frantically rewriting stories on deadline. The GT crowd was mostly chuckling and in shock at the absurdity of the situation.

Any word on DJ Moore? We may not have any first or second round talent at WR but my god we are deep. You could argue we are without 3 of our what would have been our starting 4. Leo, Lane, and DJ

KQ- I feel like he was not dressed on Saturday or I didn't see him. He has a cast on his wrist and is trying to play through that. I think he is very talented too, he just has been bit by the injury bug hard. This may end up being a wasted year for him if he can't get to 100%.

I pull for Georgia Tech and whoever is playing:

1. Dwags - Even Moscow U, Al Qaida U, Hamas U
2. Bama - except against Dwags
3. Noderdayme - except Bama or Dwags

who was fired up about the win and loves athletics. There’s still support in the academic ranks 😂