Here's the full recap of Damon's interview Monday on the coaches call. He is still searching for answers and consistency. I understand the frustration from everyone with the lack of success, but as he talks about in his quotes, there is still a lot of basketball to be played this season and time to figure things out.

I was afraid of this. He has starting potential but is stuck behind Fusile. I wish the coaches would encourage some of these good linemen to move over to defense where we have more needs. I don't know how any team can build dept when you can't retain good 2nd team members.

I’m excited to share that my brand, NIL FanBox is expanding. Hopefully, GT Athletics will lean in to the partnership in the coming months to deliver Yellow Jacket nation more ‘fan-centric’ NIL monetization that levels up fandoms while supporting student athletes. We share 30% of revenue back to players and Athletic departments. If done correctly, we have a revenue model that can generate $1M+ in recurring, passive NIL each season.

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If you guys are up for it. I’ll share my journey here and some cool/funny stories as we continue to build this thing. Thanks for listening!

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I can't wait for all posters that have me on "ignore" that will never get this news.

Did anybody watch it? I missed it completely. How did Jordan do?

I will do my best to update this daily

Fire away

He talked about his team being either good or bad and nothing in between right now, and he's got to find a way to get his team to play more consistent. Also still no timetable or update on Kowacie Reeves or Luke O'Brien.

He had several other answers to multiple questions as well. I've got to run a quick errand, but I will have Notes and Quotes up from his interview this afternoon.

And then I'm sure I'll see a rowdy crowd at McCamish tomorrow night for the Clemson Tigers rolling in as I will be jumping in to cover that one in Kelly's place with him having other Tuesday night obligations.

My wife and I are wanting to come down from Charlotte for a weekend to take in the hall of fame, aquarium, and possibly catch an on campus sports event for a long weekend. Would the GT hotel be central enough to walk to all of that, or is somewhere else better?

Underway on ACC Network after UNC-BC women ran over into the broadcast.

Jackets up 13-9 at the first media timeout with 3:26 left in the first quarter.

Has anyone heard if she’s out for a few weeks or not? I assume she won’t play today vs Louisville?

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He has some interesting comments on his team

As I stated yesterday for the Adamson story, the game will be at 1 p.m. and be broadcast on NBC and Peacock.

Looking forward to seeing Penson making plays for the East team and what Adamson can do at QB for the West. Should be fun.

This is one we've been thinking about since the portal opened. Had a draft written, but can't find it on the back end now so I'm getting another story together.

Cooley will have one seasons of eligibility left. Watch for NC State here since that's where his brother plays.

That didn't take long. But I've got news for The U, Carson Beck isn't Cam Ward...by a longshot.

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Good riddance to the SEC, it has one win in the entire tournament. This comes with a side effect of no Southern teams in the final for two years running now; maybe this will be a day that changes the trajectory of the SEC, but I doubt it

Greetings from Moody Coliseum

Lance Terry is battling food poisoning. Expected to go but hasn’t been able to practice the last few days.

Wacie traveled still in his boot.

Still no DO

NOAA link:
Up here in the mountains they are calling for 5-8in of snow. Seeing Roswel/Marietta/Duluth with 2-4in but the farther south you go, you get ice.If you are in the SE be prepared and put any news here. Stay warm, be safe and Go Jackets!!!

Damon Stoudamire media avail via zoom from College Station where the Jackets are holding up riding out the storm since yesterday. They will bus up to Dallas later today.

On the adjustment to being on the road for an extra 24+ hours

“We are preparing for the road and I like the road and we all had a bad taste in our mouthes after the last game. We wwant to prepare for the next game. We worked out at TAMU today and will head up to Dallas today. Practice has been hard with our bodies and we are limited to one hour and we will go up to SMU and have another workout up there today.
On the D

We implemented some things and collectively taking more pride and helping each other out more. that is what team defense is and we’ve given ourselves chances to win games. The Duke game got away from us a bit in the first half we did good and fought, the next four games after the break we’ve done a good job defensively and won three of those games. Defense travels and we will play a lot of road games and I’m proud of our guys.

On SMU’s FTs and rebounding

It is an emphasis, SMU is a good ball club, I think keeping them off the offensive glass is important and we have some challenges I’m looking forward to. I’m excited to play against these guys. It is crazy to look at it, last year at this time our record was a little bit better and we came out of the break and lost 3 of 4 and this time we’ve won 3 of 4 and I feel better abou where we are moving forward. We are going to be able to be in games, it is a matter of finishing games. SMU is a great challenge and they have a good record but caught two of the best in the league in Duke and UNC can be really good when their guards are on.
(Matt) Cross starts the game at the three instead of the four like he played at UMass and (Boopie) Miller is really good.

On the low assists number vs Syracuse

I was disappointed in general, the ball movement wasn’t there and the side to side movement since we came back. We didn’t have a slot drive corner three in the game and didn’t shoot one. A lot of things happened in that game that we haven’t been doing. We have to have the spacing and share the ball and we’ve talked about it the last couple of games. It is rare you watch film the offense didn’t play well enough, but defensively we played well enough. We can’t revert back to what we do.

On Duncan Powell returning home

Duncan is ready to go, he didn’t have the game he wanted against Syracuse, what I get disappointed about is I see more in them than they see in themselves, the disappointing thing wasn’t you didn’t score the ball the way you wanted, but was more about him helping rebounding the ball, four points and six or seven rebounds then his scoring broke out. He did a good job going small playing Eddie Lampkin going small, he has a lot to give. I want him to play well and not just score, but he brings toughness and swagger we need.

On injury updates and missing guys

No updates, the biggest thing is, it is never an inditement on guys who are out, you got what you got, Wacie has another doctor’s appointment in a week or week in a half and Luke I’m not sure on him.

Who you got. Selfishly I want Texas and also I’d probably have a shot at being credentialed for the game via our Texas site.