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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht, a first-team All-America selection and an All-Atlantic Coast Conference choice for the Yellow Jacket golf team this past spring, is set to compete this weekend a member of the International team for Arnold Palmer Cup for the second straight year. The 27th annual competition of collegiate players representing the United States and the International team is conducted June 8-10 at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pa.

The three-day Ryder Cup-style event features competition between Team USA and Team International involving both men and women, beginning with 12 mixed four-ball matches on Thursday (12 groups of two-person teams). Friday begins with foursomes matches between the men’s and women’s teams in the morning, followed by mixed foursomes matches in the afternoon (both sessions are 12 groups of two-person teams). Competition concludes Saturday with 24 singles matches. Each team is composed of 12 men’s and 12 women’s players.

The team with the most points at the conclusion of the four rounds of play will be the Arnold Palmer Cup Champion. If the two sides are tied, the International team will retain the Cup. The International team defeated the United States last summer in Switzerland, 33-27, as Lamprecht went 3-1 in his matches. Team USA leads the all-time series, 13-12-1.

Ranked No. 6 nationally by Golfstat and No. 8 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index, Lamprecht had a victory and three runner-up finishes in 2022-23. The rising senior from George, South Africa won the Inverness Intercollegiate in the fall, and this spring has finished second at the Watersound Invitational, the Linger Longer Invitational and The Goodwin. Selected to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference team for the second straight year, Lamprecht led the Yellow Jackets to the program’s 19th ACC Championship, the title at the NCAA Salem Regional and a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championship. He was the team’s highest finisher in six of 12 stroke play events.

Lamprecht, a finalist for the Fred Haskins Award and a semifinalist for the Ben Hogan Award, is currently No. 10 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Lamprecht is the 10th different Georgia Tech golfer to compete in the annual competition and the fifth to compete in two Cups. He is the first to represent the International team. He represented his home country in the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship in Paris, the 2021 Spirit International in Trinity, Texas, as well as the 2017 and 2019 Junior Presidents Cup matches.

Passes away at age 81

Thought you guys might find it funny but on the other site He was #98 in the country when he committed on 3 May. On 4 May he was moved to #70.

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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech women’s basketball head coach Nell Fortner announced the addition of Jayda Hill to her staff on Tuesday. Hill joins the Yellow Jackets as the creative director for women’s basketball.

Hill arrives on The Flats after spending the 2022 season as the social media coordinator with the Indianapolis Colts. While in Indianapolis, Hill assisted in the development of the Colts’ social channels, while helping coordinate the organization, development, delivery and tone of all social content for the Club. She helped capture and edit content surrounding practices, gamedays, and various organizational events in accordance with the team’s brand and campaign objectives.

Prior to her stint with the Colts, Hill served as the director of recruiting and creative content with women’s basketball at the University of Houston. Covering the Cougars for the 2021-22 season, Hill was responsible for all social media content including game highlights, hype videos, in-game photography, graphics and creating a mini-series. Additionally, as the director of recruiting, Hill developed all content specific to recruiting including graphics and videos.

Hill has also held stints at Quincy Media Company as a multimedia journalist and Central Missouri athletics department, working in media relations as a graduate assistant.

A native of O’Fallon, Ill., Hill was a track and field student-athlete at the University of Central Missouri, where she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in digital media production and minor in sports communication in 2018. She earned a master of science in kinesiology and sports management from Central Missouri in 2020.

Now that Miles Kelly is staying in school (praise the Lord), is our 2023-2024 team roster now set? If so, can you share your expectations for the staters and the rotation guys?

KQ- I think they are probably set unless there is a HS kid or one other portal piece floating around they'd like to take a shot at. Really the only thing I could see would be a true center at this point though. I think Damon wants to hold some ships for next year. If there is proof of concept with a good product he should be able to upgrade over what's available now anyway.

It's hard to say what the exact rotation will look like in terms of who starts and who doesn't. I think if he is going to follow his NBA trend they will be 9-10 deep most nights. That would look like this

PG- Sturdivant or Abram, Forrest
SG- Kelly, Terry or Abram or Coleman
SF- Reeves or Coleman or Kelly, Gapare
PF- Reeves (I think they'll play small a lot) or Claude, Gapare, Ndongo
C- Claude or Dowuona

My guess is Ndongo and Gapare will take a little longer to work into the rotation both seem pretty raw. Coleman and Reeves are the two wild card guys to me that haven't lived up to their potential yet. They can play smaller with Sturdivant, Abram, Kelly, Reeves and a big as well. Reeves basically replaces Jalon Moore in this scenario and will have to defend bigger guys. Gapare is a wildcard in this too.

Dowuona will be interesting as well because I just am unsure how many minutes he can play and if he can play at the pace they are probably going to play at.

Do you think that James Ramsey has the best chance of becoming the HC at GT after Danny Hall retires?

KQ- I have no idea what J Batt's thoughts are on this topic so I'll let RJ weigh in.

Do you think that the new head coach will be able to make use of Pastner’s late season improvement (I know most of our improvement came as a result of beating up on bad teams, but still)?

KQ- The schedule was really goofy last year and that made the season more uneven. It was something I noted before the year even started as a major issue and then you had Deebo Coleman and Ja'von Franklin both nursing leg injuries limiting both of them and that didn't help.

I think the experience that Coleman, Kelly, Kyle and Terry have is something to build upon and all have shown the ability to play as major ACC contributors, it has been more of a consistency issue especially with shooting that has hurt them over time. Damon should be able to help there and they have enough guys now to roll other options in if someone is struggling and that was a problem last year because the team was very thin.

Which happens first…
Key leads us to a bowl
CDS leads us to NIT or NCAAT
They do it same season

KQ- It is probably the third option, but that may not happen until 2024 (2024-25 season for hoops). Both programs are very young at key spots and have some holes that will take time to fill. I like the 2024 FB schedule a little more than the 2023 schedule as well.

KQ - a few weeks back you had expressed concern that CDS may not be able to field enough players to hold quality practices in addition to noting he appeared to be learning some key processes on the fly (using cutting an International player and related scholly as an example). Obviously many JOL subscribers were concerned with that early CDS assessment as we respect your view on such matters. What are your current thoughts on where the basketball program sits with regard to your previous concern about a high enough quantity of quality players to field a competitive team as it appears good progress has been made since that time?

KQ- Sure, from everything I've gathered he was definitely diving into the deep end of the pool because so much changed from when he exited the college game to jumping back in especially with NIL and the transfer portal now major things. He was also trying to put together a staff and recruit and retain guys as well. I think he has put together a decent team. They didn't hit a home run at the big man spot, but they should be okay based on the way he wants to play to work around that. I think he is realizing there will need to be some proof of concept on what he is doing and some gains in NIL before he is at the footing he wants to be at. I know he is very actively trying to raise more NIL money for example.

The thing I was not concerned about was Xs and Os. I know he knows more about basketball than many other coaches around. I'm not concerned about that, I think GT isn't as cutthroat as other programs so it is a little different too and that was an area of concern. Stoudamire is like Key in that he is all about ball. Key has the added bonus of knowing GT and having those deep connections while Damon is starting from square one. He did a really good job of filling most of my areas of concern with the roster and I think they have a solid team. He probably should've kept a Jordan Meka or Cyril Martynov because they are still very thin if there is an injury at the 5 spot, but overall I'll give him an A for the roster he was able to cobble together.

Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work. Never asked a question on here before but figured I'd ask a light hearted question in if you could pick one college sport to get more attention and coverage what would it be?

KQ- Thanks for the kind words. I do enjoy volleyball and I would enjoy covering that, but it is a time/resources issue for me along with the interest isn't there for it. That would be the one I would enjoy adding.

Would you describe yours and Russell's approach to the work week (when you aren't at a camp) as more proactive vs reactive?

That is, do y'all have a daily or weekly plan as to contacts you plan to make with recruits, players, coaches, and sources, or is a lot of your time spent receiving and reacting to folks contacting you?

I'm guessing it's a combination and if so, what percentage would you assign to each?

And then there's always the out of the blue unexpected "breaking news" you have to work into your work day...

KQ- So every day I have a post-it note with what I need to work on that I write the night before. RJ has specific days he has assigned content like the Q&A/visitor lists/post-visit updates or whatever and generally we are proactive on stuff, but it is relative to kids responding or what we have in our audio archive of interviews that need to run and what is going on each week. During the season is it very regimented because we have specific days with football media or hoops media and the other days we backfill with recruiting content. I probably spend 50% of my time on the phone, texting or DMing with sources or my staff about whatever we are working on. Russell is probably more like 75-80% doing that.

Miles Kelly’s return leaves 2 spots left I think. There are still good players in the portal as I think it was around mid-June last year when Pastner secured Javon Franklin. Do you think Damon will look to fill those spots with win-now guys, younger guys who can develop, or neither and hold the spots for 2024 kids?

KQ- Really the only thing they could add right now is a big man. I'm not sure what's available there and what's within the NIL budget or worth the risk. Most of the kids left are holding out for money or have some skeletons or flaws in their game or just haven't announced where they are going yet.

You’ve shared your views on what you think might happen down the road with expansion, but I’m not sure I’ve read your take on what you believe is best for GT. Obviously for now starting to win again is what matters, but do you think it’s better for GT to have a seat at the table 10 years from now in a 40+ team D1 or to be a big fish in a smaller pond like Boise State and UCF were?

KQ- I don't think the D1 will be 40+ teams if it turns into a super conference. I think it will be USC/Bama/UGA/UF/OhioSt/Michigan/Clem types that make up what I think will be a 30-40 team league and GT doesn't fit into that. My hope is that the TV rights come crashing down and they put some blocks up on transfers and make the players parttime employees and make them have to earn NIL the way it was intended by selling jerseys or sponsorships with a car dealership instead of the money laundering system that several big schools seem to be using it as.

My hope is that GT is playing actual college sports. I have no interest in covering minor league football or basketball and if I wanted to cover pro sports I'd go cover Atlanta United or the Braves.

Canceled an OV to NC State and other trips...

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech seniors Ross Steelman and Connor Howe, key members of the Yellow Jacket team that won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and finished runner-up at the NCAA Championship in 2022-23, were named to PING All-America teams Tuesday announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Steelman was named to the second team, while Howe was named honorable mention.

They join teammate Christo Lamprecht, who was named a first-team All-American by the GCAA last week. All three players made the All-Atlantic Coast Conference team.

Steelman was the NCAA Championship individual runner-up at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and finished the spring No. 5 in the Golfstat individual ranking and No. 8 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index. The Columbia, Mo., native finished 12th or higher in his final eight events in 2022-23 and delivered the clinching points for Georgia Tech in both of its ACC championship matches and its NCAA semifinal victory over North Carolina. His 69.50 stroke average was the third-best in program history.

Howe, a staple in the Tech lineup for five years, enjoyed his best year in 2022-23, posting five top-10 finishes to come in No. 33 in the final Golfstat individual ranking and No. 38 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index. The Ogden, Utah native tied for third place at the ACC Championship and the NCAA Salem Regional, as well as 29th at the NCAA Championship, all career-best finishes for those events.

Ranked No. 7 nationally by Golfstat and No. 6 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index, Lamprecht had a victory and three runner-up finishes in 2022-23. The junior from George, South Africa won the Inverness Intercollegiate in the fall, and in the spring finished second at the Watersound Invitational, the Linger Longer Invitational and The Goodwin. He was the team’s highest finisher in six of 11 stroke play events, and his 69.44 stroke average was one-hundredth of a stroke behind the Tech record of 69.43 set by Bryce Molder in 2000-01.

Finishing up a couple other stories from yesterday, but did get confirmation on two things this morning-

Clemson is quickly losing confidence in landing OL target Jameson Riggs. I’ve talked to sources in the state of GA who currently believe GT and Auburn are in the driver’s seat. He visits Atlanta this weekend, and I expect GT to push extremely hard in an attempt to lock it down.

Four-star Grayson TE Kylan Fox has finalized his official visit for this weekend. GT has a seat at the table going into the weekend, and the family is excited still about the possibility of Kylan staying close to home. Don’t be surprised if GT offers his younger brother during the visit.

I am so proud of Harrison after listening to his speech at the Georgia Tech commencement. He is a great representative of our Alma Mater.
Go Jackets and THWG.

FSU won its 2nd WCWS game yesterday on a spectacular play from their shortstop with the inappropriate name of MUFFley. FSU was leading 3-1 behind their ace Sandercock, who ended up with over 90 pitches in the game after she had pitched their win over Oklahoma State Thursday. One out, runners on 1st and second in top of the 7th, the batter hammers a line drive 2 feet over the reach of Muffley. She somehow elevated enough to snag it and doubled the runner on 2nd, end of game.
FSU plays the winner of the Oklahoma State/Tennessee elimination game today on Monday. I think it will be on ESPN @ 7pm. 2 games may be necessary if FSU loses the first game.
Oklahoma will play the winner of today's Stanford/Washington game on Monday also. 2 games may also be necessary if Oklahoma loses first game.
Winners Monday play in best of 3 June 7-9 for championship.

The Bullfrog brass has decided to change the baseball HC

Winning really does cure a lot. Helps with exposure and popularity too....


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Odd topic I know, but I recently started streaming GameChanger for my sons travel baseball team so that my parents could watch.

I have been using my iPhone to stream via a fence mount I picked up on Amazon. Thus far, I haven’t been impressed. Just curious if anyone else here streams? If yes, what type of mount you use?

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THE FLATS – One of the most prolific pass-rushers in college football history, Georgia Tech’s Marco Coleman is one of 78 former NCAA Division I FBS student-athletes included on the ballot for induction to the College Football Hall of Fame in 2024, the National Football Foundation (NFF) announced on Monday.



Coleman was selected from a pool of hundreds of nominees to be included on the 2024 ballot. The ballot has been emailed to the more than 12,000 NFF members and current Hall of Famers, whose votes will be tabulated and submitted to the NFF's Honors Court, which will deliberate and select the class. The Honors Court, chaired by NFF Board Member and College Football Hall of Famer Archie Griffin from Ohio State, includes an elite and geographically diverse pool of athletics administrators, Hall of Famers and members of the media.



"It's an enormous honor to just be on the College Football Hall of Fame ballot when you think that more than 5.62 million people have played college football and only 1,074 players have been inducted," said NFF President & CEO Steve Hatchell. "The Hall's requirement of being a first-team all-American creates a much smaller pool of about 1,500 individuals who are even eligible. Being in today's elite group means an individual is truly among the greatest to have ever played the game, and we look forward to announcing the 2024 College Football Hall of Fame Class early next year."



Coleman, who currently serves as Georgia Tech’s defensive line coach, was a three-year starter and two-time first-team all-ACC and all-America selection as an outside linebacker at Georgia Tech from 1989-91. He was a key member of the Yellow Jackets’ 1990 national championship squad and finished his three-year collegiate career as Tech’s all-time leader with 27.5 sacks and 50 tackles for loss (he remains fourth in school history in both categories). His 50 TFL were also the most ever by an ACC player in a three-year career at the end of his time at Tech and remain the fifth-most all-time by an ACC player that played just three collegiate seasons.



He was selected by the Miami Dolphins with the 12th overall pick in the 1992 National Football League Draft and went on to record 65.5 sacks and 520 tackles over the course of a 14-year NFL career (1992-2005) that included stints with the Dolphins, San Diego Chargers, Washington Redskins, Jacksonville Jaguars, Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos.



Coleman is in his second stint as a member of Georgia Tech’s coaching staff. He returned to The Flats in January after having previously served as the Yellow Jackets’ defensive ends/outside linebackers coach from 2019-21. His coaching resume also includes serving as the defensive line coach at Michigan State in 2022, as well time in the NFL with the Eagles (coaching fellow – 2017) and Oakland Raiders (assistant defensive line coach – 2018) and a season as defensive coordinator at Mandarin H.S. in Jacksonville, Fla. (2017).



The College Football Hall of Fame Class of 2024 will be announced in early 2024 and will be inducted on Dec. 10, 2024 as part of the 66th NFF Honors Dinner in Las Vegas.



Sixteen former Georgia Tech student-athletes and three former Tech coaches are already inducted in the College Football Hall of Fame, which is located just one mile from Georgia Tech’s midtown Atlanta campus. Former head coach Paul Johnson will officially become the 20th Yellow Jacket enshrined in the College Football Hall of Fame when he is inducted during this year’s NFF Honors dinner on Dec. 5 in Las Vegas.

Smoked a butt overnight and picked up some stew from Moonies for lunch.

Typical barbecue meal for dinner - burgers and dogs with banana pudding and watermelon for dessert.

Brant Baughcum and Cody Carwile have entered the portal, per source.

Baughcum was a freshman this past season, Carwile a sophomore.

More to come.

Full preview to come tonight.

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