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Going with Mullen

Is Harvey returning?

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D-Rad hiring a hoops coach. 🤦🏻‍♂️

...trying to finish off Pitt for Toledo.

Looks like they are predicting rain Friday, but it could be towards ends of game.

Saturday would have been a mess.

Beat Vandy like a mule, stay healthy, keep the momentum going!

Doing the dirty work for y'all. Local people or those that have been there before, feel free to chime in. Would be nice to get as many close together as possible. From the BB website:

On game day Friday, December 27th, BJCC-owned lots will open 4 Hours prior to Kickoff.

Parking on the BJCC campus is $20 per space and will be available on-site, via lot attendants utilizing ZipPark technology. ZipPark is a mobile terminal that only accepts credit cards and debit cards. CASH CAN NOT BE ACCEPTED.

• Onsite parking is available at the following lots:
  • Red: 917 22nd Street N (SOLD OUT)
  • Pink: 973 23rd Street N (ADA Accessible Parking)
  • Orange: 1000 19th Street N (RV's can also park here)
  • Purple: 930 19th Street N (SOLD OUT)
  • Blue: 200 11th Avenue N
  • Yellow: 801 19th Street N
• Pre-purchase parking is available for select BJCC Lots Here.
• REMOTE COMPLIMENTARY PARKING AT RIVERCHASE GALLERIA:The Riverchase Galleria and the Birmingham Bowl are happy to provide complimentary parking and shuttle service for Birmingham Bowl activities at Uptown on December 26th and 27th.
  
  The designated parking area is located in front of the Hyatt and shuttles will run as outlined below.
  
  White Shuttle: Riverchase Galleria at the Hyatt to Uptown District and back.
  
  • December 26, 11:00 am – Midnight
  • December 27, Post-game – Midnight

When you can’t tell who the daughter is and who the wife is. He’s a pathetic ****ing human being.
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Mouhamed Sylla. Will choose his destination soon.

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Both teams are very efficient and Vandy has a great special teams unit and up for and excited to play.

On health

We have a couple of guys, the whole team came over and we have a couple of guys out who had surgery right after the game. They won’t be playing, but other than that we will be a full go. Kyle Efford and Rodney Shelley had surgery after the season.

On seniors

It might be their last game, but this isn’t their last time being a part of this program. Whether you are here six months, six years ,one year, Georgia Tech is special and once a Tech man, you are always a Tech man.

On his Bama ties being a factor in the game

It is not about that, it is about these guys having one more time playing together. The stands will be filled with white and gold, 100%, but I know we will have a great turnout for Georgia Tech and our fans will make the short drive over to see our guys play on Friday. I’ve been fortunate to not be at a lot of places, the most impactful people in my life start with Jack Wood my HS coach. He was a lot of things to me and the longer you are out of high school the more you learn.

On what he learned from Nick Saban

I worked for George O’Leary for almost 20 years of my life (joked it was tough) and then Coach Saban, those three men have impacted my coaching and my coaching style. Then I’ve learned a lot from these guys on this team. It is not a one-way street, it is a two-way street, I want to give them everything they need. It is not about everything I need or they need, it is getting feedback from them. Since the midpoint of the 2022 season, that is when we made that change and it was a two-way street and they can come in and ask for things or share thing from the locker room. That two-way communication builds a lot and it helps hold people accountable. When we got here the police were telling our guys where to go and not go and I wasn’t worried about them. I want them to have fun and be the most disciplined team on the field, but to ask them to be the most disciplined and have fun and celebrate with each other and have no stress. You can’t ask that 12 times a year, you have to live your life that way. That is one of things that in engrained in my head from coach Saban, discipline is making the right decisions no matter the circumstances. Also seeing how he recruited and how he evaluated. It was starting 9th graders and you never stop evaluating, Miles Brooks I offered in 9th grade at Bama, every moment in our program we evaluate our guys to help make them better.

I’m really proud of these men and this season, but also these guys at Georgia Tech finished with a 3.0 GPA, the highest in-season GPA in program history. They aspire to be great on and off the field. That is what I’m most proud about.

HAYNES KING QUOTES

On the drop in his turnovers
Big goal this offseason, one was knocking down the turnovers and that was a big battle this past season and it was turnover margin, when you don’t turn it over you have a chance to win in every game.

On momentum
It shows the growth and maturity this whole team has with the ups and downs this season and momentum coming into the bowl game, hopefully that travels through the next season as well.

LAMILES BROOKS QUOTES

On momentum
Momentum, we see it but we don’t, we view everything as a one-game season, but we do see it catching strides as a team and hopefully we can keep it going this weekend.

On the bowl
I love the camaraderie and the making the most of this opportunity outside of the football trying to hang out as a team. We have a big senior class. Golfing will be a good chance to compete and we have bowling later this week.

On his last game

Sadness, I’ve embraced my journey and what it took to get here, leaving a lasting impact on my teammates and what it takes to keep this ship going.

Here are quick quotes on the media avail with Brent Key, JJ van den Berg and Jordan Williams from Birmingham today.

OPENING STATEMENT
Excited here the day before the game and put our prep in for three weeks and worked to get a lot of guys better. The last two weeks have been focused on narrowing things down and the last eight days on the game plan for Vanderbilt. We’ve had a good time in Birmingham. It is exciting to spend the Christmas Holidays with people you are close to. We have 200 people here that we are close to and it is exciting to be here close to home.

We had a good practice today and focused enjoying the final moments of the 2024 Georgia Tech football team. It is going to be a hard-fought game and two teams that are very similar in

ON EJ LIGHTSEY PLAYING A BIGGER ROLE WITH KYLE EFFORD OUT

He was hampered by something all spring and by the time he got healthy from the groin injury, he had a nasty hamstring pull in the second game of the season. Tyler Santucci believes in playing a lot of players and you have to play a lot of players in the season. You only get so much experience in practice. You have to learn in the fire in games. Making those mistakes he made a huge improvement from ND to VT and from then on he has really shown improvement every week. He is big, strong and physical and he is a guy who isn’t going to run around blocks. He is going to run through your face. He loves playing on special teams and always has a smile on his face. He has overcome a lot of adversity to this point early on with those injuries and he has pushed through and persevered through it. I’m excited about the way he has been playing and I’m excited to have him on the team to see him continue to develop in the future.

ON BOWL OUTSIDE INFLUENCES

Key said when they got here they had a talk with the local police and they tell the kids what they can and can’t do and he said he isn’t worried about that because of the culture and leadership piece here. He said on other teams he has been a part of you have to really hope your guys pay attention and do the right thing, but the good teams you don’t have to say anything because they are going to check themselves and he knows his kids know right from wrong. That is how they prepare every week and they are not going to deviate from that.

ON BEING IN HIS OLD STOMPING GROUNDS

I’m from Clay, when they were building Clay-Chalkville, it is cool to be back home, it has been 30 years since I’ve been here and a lot of things have changed and some haven’t. I drove by this hotel as a kid and it was a big to do and they’d have a concert here and a famous singer would be staying here. The region building would be decked out with a wreath and stocking up there. I had a chance to have a couple of good friends to see me for a night for an hour. They laughed and said 95% of that I was on the phone recruiting. We had some family at practice and Coach Wood my HS coach was here today and he spoke to the team afterwards and that was really neat. That has no impact on this game. It will be a great crowd here and both teams will have a lot fans.

My first live CFB game was here and it was a bowl game with Georgia Tech. Any time we have a chance to play again.

ON MALIK RUTHERFORD COMING BACK

Malik is a great kid and we all know what type of player he is. The reason to created the portal was to create opportunities for guys looking for the portal. Sometimes you become clouded with information and we all have that in our lives, a bunch of people talking to you and you have to sort it out yourself. There are certain things guys look for in their college experience, there is the academic side but then within football you have the brotherhood, the bonds, the relationships and friendships and the other bucket is your player development, the competition you go against and the ability to be developed for the next level and the ability to play for championships. The third part about this is different, 10 years ago, the value part of it right? I can’t control how any one person or player ranks those things and what they provide the different percentages to each one, but each one of them has a bearing right?

The thing with Malik, the bond and the friendships and relationships that is one that tends to be really strong for him and he is a leader of this football team and he is such a positive breath of air for this team. When we start flex I always go to him because he asks me “if I’m good coach” when we were going through it the UNC game two years ago and he was jumped around on his shoulders of some fan and I couldn’t get that out of my head. Malik is such a vital part of this team from chemistry to leadership, everyone goes through different things in their lives they have to think through. My job is to provide the guidance for those guys and what we can do at Georgia Tech to help them. Some of the best players and strongest leaders on our team we got from the portal and they wanted a different experience. I think it is a good thing for these guys if you understand how to use it. We are very transparent with our guys and they are with us and that is something that is special at Georgia Tech. When they do leave, I wish them nothing but success and I want them to provide great lives for themselves after that. When you build relationships for 2-3-4 years you don’t just cut ties, I just tell them when they do leave I hope they are not on the schedule.

Brent Key

JJ van den Berg and Jordan Williams

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Georgia Tech football held its 2024 team banquet on Wednesday night in Birmingham, Ala.



At the banquet, Tech honored its 21 seniors who will play in their final game in the White and Gold on Friday in the Birmingham Bowl versus Vanderbilt, its five permanent team captains and its annual award winners.



Seniors

DL Zeek Biggers

TE Avery Boyd

DB LaMiles Brooks

DB Warren Burrell

WR Trent Davis

OL Weston Franklin

LS Henry Freer

TE Ryland Goede

DL Thomas Gore

DL Kevin Harris II

TE Jackson Hawes

WR Abdul Janneh, Jr.

WR Chase Lane

QB Brody Rhodes

DL Joshua Robinson

LS Will Scissum

DL Makius Scott

P David Shanahan

LB Trenilyas Tatum

OL Jordan Williams

DL Sylvain Yondjouen



Permanent Team Captains

LB Kyle Efford

OL Weston Franklin

QB Haynes King

LS Will Scissum

OL Jordan Williams



Award Winners

Offensive Developmental Award – RB Daylon Gordon

Defensive Developmental Award – DB Cedric Franklin II

Offensive Most Improved Player – TE Avery Boyd

Defensive Most Improved Player – LB Trenilyas Tatum

Comeback Player of the Year – DL Sylvain Yondjouen

Iron Jacket – TE Jackson Hawes

Academic Excellence – DL Makius Scott

Most Outstanding Wide Receiver – Malik Rutherford

Most Outstanding Offensive Back – Jamal Haynes

Most Outstanding Offensive Lineman – Keylan Rutledge

Most Outstanding Defensive Lineman – Zeek Biggers

Most Outstanding Linebacker – Kyle Efford

Most Outstanding Defensive Back – Rodney Shelley

Most Outstanding Special Teams Player – Abdul Janneh, Jr.

Rookie of the Year – QB Aaron Philo

Offensive Player of the Year – OL Jordan Williams

Defensive Player of the Year – DL Jordan van den Berg

Most Valuable Player – QB Haynes King

Tech Man – LS Will Scissum



Georgia Tech closes the 2024 season on Friday versus Vanderbilt in the 2024 Birmingham Bowl. Kickoff is set for 3:30 p.m. ET at Protective Stadium in Birmingham, Ala. The game will be televised nationally on ESPN.

I know it's a long shot but was wondering if anyone had a ticket they wanted to get rid of or sale cheap. Getting one for one of my friends going with me and would like to avoid StubHub or Game time ticket fees if possible. Just let me know! Thanks in advance!

We're going to the game tomorrow and have realized my 5 yo has outgrown all of his GT gear. Where somewhat locally (Marietta) will I have the best luck finding something for him? I just tried a Hibbett as it was convenient and zero stuff.

Sort of how I think, this will be a physical street fight for both teams.

Looking to go to the game but parking within reasonable distance of the stadium seems to be sold out. Where is everyone parking?

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