He would be a good tv guy... I think his fball coaching days are behind him, unless getting on his knees is a part of coaching

ATLANTA (Aug. 28, 2023) - Officials today announced that Amobi Okoye and Ron Rogers will serve as honorary captains for their respective alma maters at the Aflac Kickoff Game between Louisville and Georgia Tech. The honorary captains will join the team captains at midfield for the pregame coin toss prior to the 7:30 p.m. ET kickoff on Sept. 1 in Mercedes-Benz Stadium.

Representing the Louisville Cardinals as honorary captain will be former Louisville and NFL defensive tackle, Amobi Okoye. As the youngest player in the history of college football, Okoye began his collegiate career at the age of 16 and played for the Cardinals from 2003-06. During his senior year, Okoye started all 13 games registering 55 tackles, eight sacks and recovered three fumbles. Okoye later became the youngest player to ever be drafted in the first round of the NFL Draft at 19 when he was selected 10th overall by the Houston Texans. He then went on to play eight years in the NFL for the Houston Texans, Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers and Dallas Cowboys.

The honorary captain for the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets will be Georgia native and former NFL linebacker Ron Rogers. At Georgia Tech, Rogers started 32 games where he had 11 tackles for loss, four sacks and four interceptions. Rogers ranks third in school history with 435 career tackles, ninth in single-season tackles with 145 (1995 season) and third in school history with 21 single-game tackles vs. Clemson that same year. Rogers was then selected in the sixth round by the Baltimore Ravens in 1998.

In recognition of the Aflac Kickoff Game’s “Kickoff for a Cause” mission and September as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month, each honorary captain will be accompanied by a Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta patient from the Aflac Cancer and Blood Disorders Center who is a fan of the teams playing in this year’s game. Joining Ron Rogers at midfield will be Will Chastain, a freshman at Georgia Tech studying Industrial Systems and Engineering, who was diagnosed last December with an ultra-rare vascular cancer, epithelioid hemangioendothelioma. Amobi Okoye will be accompanied by Drew Lawrence, a 12-year-old Cardinals fan who has spent the last three years fighting acute lymphocytic leukemia at Children’s.

The 20th edition of the nation’s longest-running kickoff game will feature an all-ACC matchup when the Cardinals and Yellow Jackets face off to open their seasons and conference play.

Today was the final day of pre-Louisville media and we had players. Tomorrow's media with Brent Key was canceled as I sort of expected because of logistics with it being a day away from kickoff.

RB Dontae Smith was up first.

He said it is bittersweet getting ready for his final and 6th! season on the Flats.

Very excited and confident in what we are doing and if we do what we practice in spring and summer, the byproduct will be what we want to be. I’m excited about my first last game here. Some of my boys have been here a long time like Jaylon King and we are ready to go.

The intelligence level of the OL is way higher than it has been. Dontae said that Coach Wade has done extremely well in coaching them up and how detailed the OL is with him.

The RB room is still detailed and disciplined in everything and he made camp hard for us and that way the game is easy. We have to stay on those details and all those little things.

On how he prepares his body after six years, Cold/Hot tub, do more stretching, steam room and you can start to feel it after six years, my body almost feels like 2 years ago and not like my 6th college season. You work with S&C and do what you need to do on the side too.

It was a hard camp and we made it through as a group we have a good group, what the coach expects, and play up to our standard. Coach Key put on a hard camp.

On the hype about the season opener, It is very different, I try to stay off social media, but every day I’m getting tagged on a post or DM’d about the game. There is a lot of hype, but to us, it is one game at a time.

WR CHASE LANE

On how preparations have been, I came from TAMU and we did a lot of similar things to coach Key, at A&M we did more fall camp things going into game one there. We’ve taken more time to break down film and watch Louisville/Purdue tape and an array of clips ahead of the game than we did at TAMU.

On Haynes King, I met Haynes in 2020 when he came to TAMU and from day one he has been a warrior and he is the toughest guy in the room. When he came there in that January he was eager to learn. We built a chemistry and a bond, he is one of my guys. "He is one of the most personable guys I've been around on the football team so to be on this journey with him here it just makes it that much sweeter."

On how he ended up at GT, I got my degree at TAMU things didn’t pan out the way I wanted to and I hit the portal in 2022 in December, I was going to Arizona State and Haynes hit me up before I signed there. Haynes talked with Coach Faulkner, coach Key and coach Weinke and Haynes had known Coach Weinke for years and he asked me if I wanted to meet them. "From my first conversation with Coach Key, coach Weinke and Coach Faulkner, I just felt like I had known them for years and that was really the biggest thing I was looking for in a new school, just going into a family atmosphere and being able to start brand new on a team where I could have a potential role in the offense. I committed here, I didn't come here in the spring, I got here in the summer, but I've been happy with my decision ever since."

On comparing the TAMU WR room to the GT one, similar with a lot of guys who haven't seen the field much yet either due to youth or injuries. He said that people think because he played in the SEC there would be a dropoff but the room is loaded with guys like Eric Singleton, Avery Boyd, D.J. Moore, Abdul Janneh and Christian Leary. It is loaded from top to bottom and there are guys the coaches can trust to have the ball in their hands and make plays.

Lane thinks the offense will be explosive on Friday and they want to get up and down the field, he said that he thinks Georgia Tech fans will have a lot to look forward to this season.

Lane likes Faulkner's offense because it isn't focused on a player is in one box X, Y, Z or whatever, a player like him has played all of those can just get in space and make plays and Faulkner trusts them with the ball in their hands and he wants them playing loose and free.

Lane said that Haynes King has really helped him with the learning curve since he wasn't here in the spring and if he has a brain fart on a call, Haynes can even give him the TAMU version of that call. He said that Coach Weinke and Haynes really helped him with the terminology of the offense to make it easier for him.

LB PAUL MOALA

Moala was last up

On Friday's game, I’m real excited to play football again at a high level and the guys I’ve created a bond with over the last few months.

Louisville has a good group of guys and a lot of athletes and transfers and to take on that challenge, we are excited as a developing group to take that on and see how we are as a defense. We want to focus on how we look at the end of game one vs the results.

We’ve created our identity in the last couple of weeks and we’ve been flying around and been more confident in our play. Having a mix of older guys and young guys has been great.

On the GT DL, The guys upfront are bigger guys than Idaho, but being around those guys and playing at a different speed has leveled up my play and encouraged me and this style of football and where I was at last year.

Moala said his duty is to be the vocal guy in the LB room and they have some good leaders on D like LaMiles Brooks as well as Trenilyas Tatum at helping him out with certain calls or if he can't find the words for a call.

Moala said he is playing the MAC LB spot (Middle) and Trenilyas Tatum is playing MONEY LB. He said that when GT recruited him it was as a MONEY LB (weakside linebacker) when he heard from them he googled Charlie Thomas and watched all his film on youtube and how dynamic that position is. With Tren Tatum there now he has big expectations to live up to and he will probably exceed them. He is very excited to see Tren in action.

You've got questions.

I've got answers.

Let's watch some football and talk GT or whatever you want to know

Anyone know where I can buy a decent set of bags for tomorrow. Son left mine out to get wet and just found out. Gotta have the cornhole tomorrow at the tailgate lol.

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech director of athletics J Batt has been appointed to the board of directors for the Chick-fil-A College Football Hall of Fame, the Hall announced on Thursday.



Batt is one of three new members of the Hall of Fame’s 25-member board of directors. The board includes a wide array of local and national business and sports leaders.



"J Batt's appointment to the College Football Hall of Fame's board of directors is a testament to his unwavering commitment to the sport of college football, and intercollegiate athletics,” said Kimberly Beaudin, President and CEO of the College Football Hall of Fame. “His leadership at Georgia Tech has exemplified the values of hard work, integrity and perseverance that we hold dear at the Hall of Fame. We are thrilled to welcome him to our esteemed board, and I have no doubt that his passion and expertise will be instrumental in furthering our mission of preserving the rich traditions of college football for generations to come."



“I’m honored and excited to join the College Football Hall of Fame’s Board of Directors,” Batt said. “Having the Hall of Fame located less than a mile from our campus is a point of pride for Georgia Tech, and I am proud to represent Georgia Tech and our commitment to supporting the city of Atlanta as one of America’s best college sports cities and the Capital of College Football.



“I’m also looking forward to working with an incredible group of leaders to help the Hall fulfill its mission of preserving the traditions of college football, celebrating the universal values of hard work, integrity and perseverance and immortalizing the greatest players and coaches as role models to inspire future generations. I thank President & CEO Kimberly Beaudin for the opportunity and I can’t wait to get started.”



The National Football Foundation (NFF) founded the College Football Hall of Fame in 1951 and relocated it to Atlanta in 2014. Adjacent to the Georgia World Congress Center and Centennial Olympic Park in downtown Atlanta, less than a mile from Georgia Tech’s midtown campus, the Hall provided visitors with a highly immersive, interactive and engaging experience, using a blend of historic college football artifacts and state-of-the-art multimedia exhibits. The College Football Hall of Fame is a non-profit organization that provides a national platform for community outreach, education and character development initiatives, and serves as a premier special event venue.



Later this year, former head coach Paul Johnson will become Georgia Tech’s 20th College Football Hall of Fame inductee and its third in the last 10 years, joining quarterback Joe Hamilton (2014) and wide receiver Calvin Johnson (2018).

For Hiram offensive lineman Jameson Riggs to end up at Georgia Tech.

Riggs had a top three of Clemson, Auburn, and Georgia Tech. He visited all three schools in June.
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As if you needed more proof that there is literally nothing else to do in Lincoln, NE.

I wish we would have gotten the Thrash kid from Ga State in the portal rather than loserville. He’s going to be a handful Friday night for our DB’s

https://www.si.com/college/georgiat...uestions-with-louisville-reports-matt-mcgavic

Just skimmed it enough to know that it is not a good look again for the Dwags . . .

Key on his second beer already. G**** would never

per Key

LaMiles Brooks and Dylan Leonard.

Posted earlier on the Jackets Online Facebook page

on if he has taken a chance to take in the fact he would be coaching his first season opener as a head coach:
"No. I have a job to do. That's why I was hired."

My God I love this statement.

It seems like one of the longest off-seasons ever. Despite Collins being fired almost a full year ago, his cloud has hung over this program.

Dang I can’t wait to lose my voice in the Benz again. To stand up and cheer on my Jackets. To sing IARRFGT and UWTWG after TDs.

I’m ready for us to be physical again. To be a tough out against the impossible and win a few of the highly improbable.

It’s GAME WEEK, LFG!!

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Replacing Bally’s

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Just visited the Tech Barnes and Noble location. Lots of new, good looking Adidas tech gear. I loaded up for the season.

Alright lads we have missed a few weeks as I am in a grind at work.

Some notes:

This thread was hard to grade. Very hard. Low meme effort, way more snark than fun, we were getting too chippy with each other! Some of you can play WR at NCST with those attitudes! You know who you are, I am disappointed, your moms are disappointed, and at the rate some of your were going, everyone's grandmother was disappointed.

I am still disappointed in the lot of you Bobby Ross crew, as bad as the coaching wails got no one brought him up. Did you guys opt out?

All decent referees seem to have OPTED OUT for the season because the calls against the Wolfpack were BTL. Where the heck is Joe Paterno to chase a referee when you need him? Do we have an elder statesman among us who can achieve the same effect?

Here's the grades for the restaya:

@techneek was falsely accused of opting out of the season during this game, this unfortunate roster mismanagement occurred due to COVID-related budget cuts. By attending the game in person he gets an 80.

@RyanS12 LET GO OF THE ROPE!!!! In the midst of an uneven season, the tenured vet left the game before it was over. BTL! Last home game upcoming to redeem yourself.

@hiveredtech made his strongest and most consistent performance of the season, set the pace with a solid 82.

@Buddy Smiggins was absent until he was offered some Sprite Zero, it perked him right back up to his usual self. We may be able to get him to volunteer for ref chasing duty. 77. Buddy, to get into the 80s I recommend consuming a large Sprite no ice about 30 minutes prior to kickoff.

@BarrelORum was mostly absent. This late in the season the cold may be getting to him. Remember, if you're cold, he's cold, so someone let him indoors if you see him. BTL - last home game to redeem yourself tomorrow! You do get a 69 for posting the only real gif in the thread.

@BigDaddyBuzz was a solid presence and was on the refs with RELENTLESS EFFORT like NCST WRs on our DBs all night, 88.

@terrycomer kept his mind on the game and was focused, 86.5 right behind BDB

@jonfreeman03 solid 59. You were all over the boards, but less game commentary than thread commentary. A meta posting approach can be a path to a good grade, but you need memes! Your grade is more a reflection of the overall chippy thread.

@foxyg makes his first appearance in the notable performers crowd with a double play Mike Sewak in a Pandemic reference, the points from that play get you to a 71.

Solid but not spectacular efforts from @ramblin_rekt @GTDGN04 @melloace @GTcrazy @BeerBrewingJacket @Seccuro @MountainJacket , we had to go deep into our roster in that thread to replace the suspended fighters and the ones who let go of the rope and opted out. All ATL with grades in low 60s.

BTL: ALL PEOPLE INVOLVED WITH THE FIGHTING

opt out/low snap count: were you all spending time with @jonfreeman03 's wife? Jogging your routes?

A friend invited me to his suite for the game, so I'm looking to give away my 2 existing tickets.

MUST BE A TECH FAN AND AGREE NOT TO SELL THE TICKETS. DM me if interested.

I couldn't find a thread for this, but I'm using my phone in an Idalia power outage...so please merge if needed.

My favorite part of this article is the comment about "Purdue and other elite programs..." I definitely laughed out loud.

THE FLATS – Highlighted by seven contests in McCamish Pavilion, the 2023-24 Georgia Tech women’s basketball non-conference schedule was announced on Wednesday. The Yellow Jackets will travel for three road games in addition to the Cancun Challenge over the Thanksgiving holiday.

In the 12-game non-conference schedule, Georgia Tech will face six teams that competed in postseason tournaments last season and four teams that recorded 20-plus win seasons a year ago. Fans will get a preview of the 2023-24 squad when Georgia Tech hosts Georgia College in exhibition play on Nov. 2.

The non-conference slate officially tips-off on Nov. 6 when the Yellow Jackets welcome Coastal Carolina to McCamish Pavilion. Furman visits on Nov. 11 before Tech makes its first road trip of the season to Rice for a contest on Nov. 16. The Jackets return home to welcome Kennesaw State on Nov. 19 before heading to Cancun, Mexico for the Cancun Challenge.

Georgia Tech joins the 10-team field in Cancun as part of the Riviera Division, playing two games at the Hard Rock Hotel Riviera Maya. The Yellow Jackets will face Creighton and New Mexico on Nov. 23 and Nov. 24, respectively. Capping the season at 22-9 overall last year, Creighton reached the semifinals of the Big East Tournament before earning an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament. Tech will face a quick turnaround against New Mexico the following day. The Lobos are coming off a successful season with a trip to the WNIT second round after a quarterfinal appearance in the Mountain West Conference tournament.

The Yellow Jackets return from the holiday tournament to host Florida on Nov. 29 in the inaugural ACC/SEC Women’s Basketball Challenge. Tipoff is set for 5 p.m. in McCamish Pavilion and the game will be televised on an ESPN network.

The month of December features five games and opens with a trip to Nebraska on Dec. 2 for the third meeting in program history between the Yellow Jackets and Huskers. Following the trip to Lincoln, Neb., Georgia Tech hosts a two-game homestand against Mercer (Dec. 5) and Georgia State (Dec. 10).

Georgia Tech will play its final non-conference road game on Dec. 16 when it makes the short trip to in-state rival, Georgia. The non-conference schedule concludes on Dec. 20 when the Yellow Jackets host USC Upstate.

Season ticket information for the upcoming women’s basketball season will be available soon.

Guided by fifth-year head coach Nell Fortner, Georgia Tech returns seven letterwinners from last season’s squad, while welcoming six newcomers, including a pair of transfers.