1984 Dante Jones INT
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1984 season highlights uGay ortion at 9:30 of video
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1985
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1989 1st half
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1989 2nd half
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Jones to Rodriguez 48-yd TD, 1990 Tech-Georgia Football, 12/1/1990
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Jones to Merchant TD Pass, 1990 Tech-Georgia Football, 12/1/1990
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Cut like a prime rib- right down the middle. Wes’ call of Chambers’ game winning FG
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Kim King’s exclamation of “Tech got the ball” on the Jasper Thanks fumble
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Luke Manget’s game winner 1999
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Larry Munson’s Wake Forest or Maryland or somebody
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Goose is loose
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Crossover story we worked with the UGA site on this week

He just scored on an onside kick recovery. 😂

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This guy is getting ratiod and roasted in the comments and all over twitter
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😎😉

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This is my first trip to the cesspool. Would love to know where people are tailgating pregame? I’m riding up with a friend late morning but they might have other tailgate plans indoors due to the weather.

THWG that is all

Here are a few gifs i decided to breakdown to give an idea of what happened on field vs. NCST. These are used to give others a different perspective on how to watch football. I don’t do this to disparage players or coaches, but to give insight to GT enthusiast on what I’ve learned as a player and avid football fan.

The Blood Pressure Jackets did it again!!! The ebb’s & flow of the game almost took some of us out but we prevailed. NCST came in with the plan to not let us beat them on the ground by run committing every play. Fortunately, we did enough in the air, thanks to Philo, to handle business.




Early missed opportunity. We have Tackle over with the TE eligible. I’m not sure what King was looking at but it definitely wasn't the TE. NCST blows the assignment. This would’ve been a walk in TD



When Tah’j is decisive and understands his assignment, he is really good!! Good job slow playing and chasing down the ball carrier for a TFL.


Tah’j again. Earlier in the year, we talked about the importance of zone drops based on your position and formation. NCST ran the new “IT” play for 2024 which is the double screen. The 4x1 screen is design the get fast pursuit to the edge which should open up the middle. Tah’j does a great job zoning off the #4 WR, not going beyond the hash, and sniffing out this play for a short gain



This is a tough one here. We have a Cover 0 blitz. Tah’j has the RB. 1) Tatum has to been stronger than this. No RB should knock a LB off his path like this. He must go thru that block. Tah’j is mirroring the back and about to blitz thru the RB since he stayed in and blocked. The RB started left and made his way back right once he saw Tatum blitz. That change of direction led to Tah’j getting caught in the wash and allowed Bailey to easily escape for the TD



Why i posted this? Bc we will see this play a lot vs. UGA Friday night.



Here we have bootleg for Haynes in the flat. A blatant hook by the NCSt LB disrupt this play from happening. Ref has to throw the flag here

We Have a mesh concept from NCST. Initially well sorted out btw Gibbs & Efford. Gibbs has understand where his help is. You can’t miss this tackle from the inside. His head needs to be on the outside shoulder or knee of the ball carrier bc a miss tackle would them spin him Efford behind the line to gain



Hands were optional to say the least. Good route and throw. He just has to come down with it to keep the drive alive



Great design and disguise on the Safety blitz, but you must come under control and make the play!




What a throw and it’s amazing the chemistry Stockton/Philo still has. It’s always cool seeing the offseason drills translate on the field. Squaring of the shoulders and getting the hips thru for a dot for the 1st down.



Maybe an even better throw. The TE running the deep post. The defender did get his hand up into Boyds vision, but you have to focus and make this catch.


Really good job here at disguising. Brooks sees the run and shoots the gap for the TFL. Good things happen when you wrap up



Sometimes it’s just as easy as giving your playmakers an opportunity to make a play. I like the love tap by Singleton to create separation. This is how you need to concentrate on catching the ball



You have our signature spot route. I initially thought Philo was late on this throw, but he waited until the LB cleared to throw it. Honestly, this pretty solid ball placement. Only other place to throw is low at the knees. Also, there is CB waiting in the flat for Stockton



We have to be better here especially for Friday. We have a defender in every gap. The LB gets displaced leaving the A gap open. The LB also gets twirled around and tackled yet no flag. Poor angle by Brooks on the tackle attempt



Similar situation here. Credit to NCSt right guard. He helps throw Zeek Biggers out of the saloon and gets to the 2nd level and pancakes the LB. Zeek needs to be stouter but This play needs to be made by the weak side DE. Robinson needs to crash down hard inside by ripping with his outside arm onto the inside shoulder of the H-back. Another poor angle by Brooks. We must fix these issues to give ourselves a chance Friday

7-4 going into this. Better than Vegas predicted and better than many of us predicted.


But it’s all in the past. What matters now is this extended hate week.

We play like we did against Miami? We may have a chance.

With the recruiting class we have now and the possibility of upgrading it, and the staff we have in place, is this the best Tech has looked in all phases since you have been covering?

KQ- This is the most I've seen the Jackets firing on all phases since probably my first year on the beat in 2009 when they had a pretty good 2010 class. This class should eclipse that one and it will be interesting to see where they land in 3-4 years, that 2010 class was the core of the 2014 team that won the Orange Bowl and should've won an ACC Championship IMO if not for DeAndre Smelter's injury and Ted Roof's D.

I would think that a big outside WR would look at our offense especially with Philo and want to come in and rock it out. Do recruits consider stuff like who the QB is?

KQ- I believe they will be looking for that in the portal. That is something that is more of a portal mindset than a true HS kid, but I agree I would say that is the missing element right now. They need a guy who can get separation and go up and get a ball in the Calvin/Bay-Bay/Stephen Hill/Smelter/Waller way.

How many starters do we absolutely lose in the trenches plus linebacker next year due to eligibility?

KQ-
Offense Line: Jordan Williams and Weston Franklin, they have the replacements on the team already in Ethan Mackenny at RT and Harrison Moore at C I believe.

Defensive Line: Sylvain Yondjouen, Joshua Robinson, Kevin Harris, Zeek Biggers, Makius Scott, and Thomas Gore. This will be trickier and where I think GT spends their money in free agency for lack of a better description. Jason Moore is now listed as a R-Jr, somehow I've had him listed as a R-Sr. in my stuff so he has another year as well.

Any news on Dalen Penson I heard he was on a visit to southern cal

KQ- Wrong week, he is scheduled to visit there for the Notre Dame game on Nov. 30th. We will see if he takes that trip or not. Last I heard it was up in the air. Lincoln Riley also on a screaming red hot seat right now.

Maybe you’ve answered this in this past. Why do you believe we don’t try more routes over the middle in the passing game? I’d love to see us try and hit Singleton on some quick slant or skinny posts. . Seems like most of our throws are screens, flag routes and go’s. Occasionally a drag

KQ- I'm not sure, I thought it was more about Haynes King, but they don't do a lot of crossing routes or mesh concepts with any of the three QBs who have played. I agree I think that is an area where you could make some hay with short passes turning into bigger plays.

Josh Petty seems to have a small drop in his national ranking each time rankings are released. Is his current ranking of ~150 where he should be?

KQ- As I've said he is going to get dinged for his weight and right now 247 has been the outlier on having him really high and everyone else much lower. He is currently built more like a TE than an OL and that is hard for some people to see including me until I met his dad and saw how big of a man he was and then I got it, Petty is trying to keep his weight under control until he is in a college S&C program I think.

I know Jamal Haynes is banged up but what is going on with him? When they brought in Alexander (also banged up) he was at least gaining 4-6 yards per carry.

KQ- He was not himself and clearly he has some issues getting vertical on a knifing 3-3-5 type defense as well. I'm not really sure what the issue was, but he kept trying to get to the edge on the outside instead of sticking his foot in the ground and going up field. Haynes King did the same thing.

Do you think Damon can turn it around? I know it is very early but just wondering.

KQ- Sure, I think it is very early to be totally out on CDS, but I get why people are worried. I think it didn't help having Rothstein get everyone wound up so much. I thought GT would be a bubble type team and they've lost to three teams I expect to be in the NCAAT as of right now. UGA has been better than I thought they would be and North Florida is a 13/14 seed team and Cincinnati is a top 5 seed team right now.

There is a channel called origin sports on Directv Stream and they show a bunch of old games highlighting specific players. Tonight they just started the “Calvin Johnson vs Virginia” game…stadium is PACKED

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If he brings this to the Flats oh my. This is a culture setter.

Anything to be concerned about?

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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech quarterback Haynes King (Longview, Texas/Longview H.S.) is one of 16 semifinalists for the 2024 Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award. The award recognizes the nation’s top college football player that played football at and graduated from a Texas high school and/or is currently playing at a Division I institution in Texas.



A Longview, Texas native, King has accounted for 2,075 yards (1,607 passing, 468 rushing) and 17 touchdowns (nine passing, eight rushing) this season, despite being limited for the past six weeks due to injury. He leads the Atlantic Coast Conference and ranks fourth nationally with a .725 completion percentage (145-of-200), is third in the ACC and 20th nationally in passing efficiency (153.8) and his 9:1 touchdown passes-to-interception ratio leads the nation.



Georgia Tech is 7-2 in games that King has played in (all starts) and 0-2 in the two contests that he has missed due to injury. Earlier this week, he was voted by his teammates as one of the Yellow Jackets’ permanent captains for the second-straight season.



The Earl Campbell Tyler Rose Award was introduced in 2012. Finalists for the 13th-annual honor will be selected on Dec. 17 and the winner will be announced on Jan. 22 in Tyler, Texas.



A fan vote for finalists will be held from Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET until Sunday, Dec. 15 at 1 p.m. ET. Fans can vote once a day at earlcampbellaward.com.



King and the Yellow Jackets close the regular season on Friday night at archrival Georgia. The 118th edition of Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate kicks off at 7:30 p.m. and will be televised nationally on ABC.

Some are reporting he is being fired while others are just saying he will not coach past the 2024 season. I guess the UNC folks told Mack whether he wants to return or not, like he's been telling people he's going to, that the decision wasn't in his hands.

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with a few quotes from Stoudamire, Lance Terry and Jaedan Mustaf. (Full audio of the pressers should be up on the site at some point if you want more.)

Anyone have any recommendations for parking? Cheapest on stubhub is still $75, but wasn’t sure if there were some things people have found in the past.

Does anyone have access to Hawks tickets that could hook up a fellow diehard GT fan? I’m trying to take my basketball obsessed eight year old son to see Steph Curry vs. the Hawks in March without paying several hundred dollars in the process. He’s never been to a pro basketball game before (we’ve been to several at McCamish) and he loves Curry and wants to see Curry vs. Trae. Can anyone help?

Give me your thoughts! Surprised they haven’t put out a video on social media yet.

ATLANTA- Georgia Tech football coach Brent Key spoke to the media on Wednesday for the final time ahead of the rivalry game with Georgia on Black Friday in Athens.

"We are excited to go play a very good football and a very challenging game in a hostile environment and it is going to take everything we have and all our players firing on all cylinders playing with the fundamental basics of football that you have to play with. You can't try to do anything extreme or over our heads," Key said of the game on Friday. "We've got to play a solid game. We know it is going to be a challenge and we've had challenges this year so we need to go out there on Friday night and play to the best of our ability."

UGA football coach Kirby Smart said earlier in the week he expects a street fight between the two old rivals on the field in Sanford Stadium and Key agreed with that sentiment.

"That is the way games are when you play them the right way," Key said of Smart's comment. "There is nothing easy about the game of football. Football is for tough guys and we've had a lot of those games and they have had a lot of those games. We've watched them on tape, we've watched them throughout the season, so yeah, we are expecting a tough, physical football game. They pride themselves on being a physical team. They pride themselves on winning the line of scrimmage and they don't just say it, they back it up. Not just recently, they've backed it up for a long period of time so it will be a big challenge for us."

Key said one of the points he is making this week to his team is to use the emotion of the rivalry to fuel strong play and not get overly consumed by that drive to beat your rival.

"The big thing is taking emotion and using it as fuel. You don't want to play emotionally in games. Emotions get you out of whack and cause you not be disciplined. When you lose control of your emotional state, now everything else is going to go behind it. It is hard to think clearly when you are in an emotional state. I want the guys to get all of their emotions out prior throughout the week and that is why we practice the way we do and do the things we do. You have to turn those emotions into fuel and use that to propel you throughout the game and play to your best ability," Key said.


Key said that UGA is a very talented team and defensively they have guys who have played a lot of football and been very opportunistic all season. That is why they are top 10 team. Offensively Carson Beck is one of the best QBs in CFB and they've had some injuries of their own this season, but he expects them to be healthy and firing on all cylinders in that area. He said that Kirby Smart has done an unbelievable job there building up the program and it is his alma mater so he knows how much it means to him every single day and how much work goes into it every day and how important the UGA players are to Kirby and they will give GT their best shot on Friday night.

I asked about Taye Seymore and Warren Burrell, Key said that Seymore is day-to-day and was an emergency guy last week due to injury. He said that Burrell was out there practicing today (it should've been a walk-through type practice today so that ain't saying much) and he has improved since Saturday and he expects to have them both ready to go on Friday.

Key talked about Will Scissum who was named one of the captains, he thinks he is working on second masters at GT and has been here as long as Key has been back on the staff. He doesn't play and has barely dressed out for games this year but was voted as a captain and it says a lot about him. He is one of their signal guys and he takes it very seriously and stands in front of a mirror and rehearses his calls and he critiques himself and that is just who he is. He came here knowing he probably wouldn't play and barely practice at times and he works hard on his stuff every day staying for 30 minutes after practice to work on pass sets or run blocking, he just wants to be the best version of himself. Key said his dad has a long history in football and Will has never asked them for anything other than a chance to compete and he has made the most of it. He said he is a big presence in the locker room for the team.

I asked him about the core of this team being the OL/DL group that he has worked with every day for four or five years and how special that is, Key said that they had 15-16 guys get double digit votes for permanent team captains and several were OL/DLs and that is unheard of and that the way he wanted to build this program from the inside out because those are the development positions and they wanted to attack the weight room and build maturity and attack that part of it first. He said it has been special knowing the families and they way they do things to see those kids mature and the ride they've been on with them and the ups and downs and the good and bad of it. He said that built a lot of character for those players and it is a true testament for the guys who stuck around and stuck it out here.

On UGA's passing offense, Key said that Beck is a really good player and is very experienced and he has all those reps starring down the barrel of guys going after him and seeing coverages and pictures. He has a unique talent and a unique skillset and gets all the credit for the way he throws the ball in the passing offense. He said as a kid, Beck in HS he was a 4.6 kid who could really run and get out of trouble.

Key said that UGA has good players on the outside that can run and make plays and they have a good group of tight ends in the middle that they can distribute the ball to and a massive offensive line that works to grind teams down as the game goes on to make the pass rush less effective because they lean on you and wear you down. It is a complete package.

I asked about the UGA D that is down statistically from typical years and he said it is still Kirby Smart's defense and they make tweaks game to game, but he doesn't care what happened in the UMass game, he expects UGA to be very formidable and they will have to work hard to establish the LOS, they've got good players and a good scheme and are well-coached.

I asked if having success against Miami or at the time a highly ranked FSU team gives them more confidence as a team going into this and Key said that confidence comes from believing not necessarily having done things, but the games this group has won and how they've played all year has built a lot of confidence in the team and the way the plan and the process they are building here. Not being affected by the scoreboard, not being affected by the environment and honing in on the small details of what has to be done so those other things don't affect you. The guys believe in each other and they want to play for each other.

And he told me Caleb had a great visit on Saturday along with his parents at Georgia Tech.

I will try to get a full update soon on Caleb and probably go see Grayson play in the next few weeks. I expect Georgia Tech to be a major player in his recruitment, especially considering his friendship with Moustapha Diop.