THE FLATS – Georgia Tech football will open the home portion of its 2024 schedule in primetime versus Georgia State and close the regular season in primetime at archrival Georgia, highlighting five kickoff times for the Yellow Jackets that were announced by the Atlantic Coast Conference and its television partners on Thursday.



The five kickoff times and television designations include:



Saturday, Aug. 31 vs. Georgia State – 8 p.m. (TV: ACC Network)

Saturday, Sept. 7 at Syracuse – Noon (TV: ACC Network)

Saturday, Sept. 14 vs. VMI – 3:30 p.m. (TV: ACC Network Extra)

Thursday, Nov. 21 vs. NC State – 7:30 p.m. (TV: ESPN)

Friday, Nov. 29 at Georgia – 7:30 p.m. (TV: ABC)

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Have you heard how many of our guys have opted in for the new ncaa football game? Saw LSU had like 38 players that opted out and really hoping we don’t have close to that many

KQ- That was sort of an old news story recycled. Some of the LSU players have refuted that report. Apparently, they opted back in. No one has a true count of it yet because of the way people have to go about reaching out to players. It is not exactly a lucrative offer to the players in the game, but they get a copy and a little bit of pocket money from EA. I would be shocked if anyone opted out from GT. I have not heard about anyone opting out, but I haven't asked either.

Do you think cutting capacity at BDS will actually help? Have any of the SA’s been talked to and asked how they feel about it?

KQ- The players could give zero shits about the stadium capacity. They just want a loud and fun environment to play in. It has not been that many years since probably 2016 game to game. That is a fan ego thing not a player thing. Haynes King or Jamal Haynes or Eric Singleton Jr. don't care if there are 2k less seats or whatever in the stadium. Brent Key doesn't care either. They want to win games and they want a loud crowd, end of story.

This part of the move had nothing to do with reducing overall capacity in any real way but had more to do with the space needed for the new building. It was some bold strategy to reduce seating by J Batt. They are going to eventually change the seating IMO from everything I've heard and try to make the stadium have a more premium feel, but this isn't a big cog in that wheel. They had room to trim some excess capacity anyway. Less UGA fans coming every other year now and your tickets become more valuable as well.

When you get a chance, can you ask Romello Height how he feels about opening the season at home in Dublin?

In all seriousness, do you think he was the biggest transfer addition? Sack leader this year?

KQ- That is funny. I'll have to remember that when we talk to Romello. The staff are very excited about Romello and view him as an upgrade over the other rush ends from the last few years from a pure talent standpoint. He was productive and this is where Jess Simpson and Kyle Pope can really earn their keep. They need to develop him into a consistent sack producer. He has all of the tools and it will be interesting to see how both Height and Kevin Harris respond to the coaching and changes in approach from what their previous coaches and schemes had them doing. Both have a lot of potential still. I would put my money on Height leading the team in sacks this season as of today.

Probably a question for Russell, but what dollar figure keeps Drew Burress at Tech next year?

KQ- @Russell Johnson

With schools now paying players like employees, would all scholly players get paid the same amount?

KQ- No it will remain tiered just like it is at most places now. Everyone gets a baseline and GT the top 20 or 25 get more than the baseline and it goes upward for guys like Eric Singleton Jr.

For the top players would it be “base pay” plus NIL?

KQ- That is what it is now.

Do golfers and tennis etc get paid? Female sports?

KQ- That is up to the schools. There is not a requirement that everyone gets paid now, just that they can get paid.

Does the base pay come from Football which would be different than basketball different than softball?

KQ- Again you are thinking about this like a 20-40-hour job with a pay scale. That is not how this will work. They are not being called employees this just allowed them to bring NIL basically in-house.

What would be your guess on base pay for football?

KQ- No clue. I think everyone is trying to figure that out right now.

Seeing rumors GT vs uGA will be prime time on ABC on Black Friday. Any truth to this?

Reveal won’t begin for more than two hours, but wanted to go ahead and get a fresh thread started.

Baseball America has GT among the last teams in

D1 Baseball has GT as the first team out

College Baseball Nation has GT as the second team out.

GT is campaigning HARD to get in, time will tell what happens.

Is in the NJCAA World Series in Grand Junction Colorado. Game is on live right now on ESPN+. They have a 55-8 record on the year. They swept their entire conference championship. Pretty cool to see a local team (Cartersville) be dominant.

In his top 3 ....

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A blast from the past, Omoregie Uzzi joins me to talk about his path to GT, his career, and what he is doing now.

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Chapel Hill, N.C. – Seniors Christo Lamprecht and Bartley Forrestereach fired 4-under-par 66 Wednesday, leading Georgia Tech to a 7-under-par round of 273 to finish in fourth place at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional. The Yellow Jackets thus advance to the NCAA Championship for the fifth straight year and will make their 32nd all-time appearance in the championship when they strike the first tee shot next Friday in Carlsbad, Calif.

Clemson, East Tennessee State, North Carolina, Tech and Baylor are the five teams to advance from the Chapel Hill Regional.

After beginning the final round Tuesday tied for fifth place with Long Beach State, and having the round interrupted by weather until this morning, Tech’s veteran trio of Lamprecht, Forrester and sophomoreHiroshi Tai played near flawless golf on their second nine holes (Tech started the round at the 10th hole) to make sure the Yellow Jackets advanced.

They gave the Jackets some cushion by playing their first nine holes in 5-under-par combined. The trio posted three more birdies in the first three holes on the second nine, but then the Jackets stumbled after making three bogeys on the par-3 fifth, briefly falling out of the top five.

Tech went bogey-free from there, however, with Forrester making birdie at the sixth, Lamprecht following with a birdie at 7, and then freshman Kale Fontenot adding another at the final hole. The Jackets were two shots clear of Baylor and Alabama, who battled down to the last hole for the final spot. The Bears came away with the berth when the Crimson Tide made bogey at the final hole.

Tech has made it through the NCAA regional round each of the last five years (the NCAA Championship and regionals were not conducted in 2020 due to COVID-19), and 28 times since the NCAA went to the regional qualifying format in 1989.

TECH LINEUP – Forrester has played his best golf in the post-season, having finished in the top 10 at the ACC Championship and now at the Chapel Hill Regional. The senior from Gainesville, Ga., made just one bogey Wednesday while putting an eagle and three birdies on his card. He finished in a tie for eighth place individually at 8-under-par 202.

Tai also tied for eighth place after carding a 1-under-par 69 Wednesday, giving the sophomore from Singapore three rounds in the 60s (65-68-69) this week and his third top-10 finish of the spring. Lamprecht (George, South Africa) birdied seven holes in his round, six of them on par-4 holes at the par-70 Finley Golf Club, on the way to his best round of the regional and a tie for 21st place at 208 (-2).

Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) delivered the fourth counting score for Tech Wednesday, a 2-over-par 72, while fellow freshman Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) shot 75. Fontenot tied for 53rd place at 216 (+6), while Kim tied for 63rd at 220 (+10).

TEAM LEADERBOARD – A year after losing a playoff for the final spot to advance in a regional it hosted, Clemson rebounded in a big way, coming from behind to overtake East Tennessee State on the final nine holes to win the team title. The Tigers shot 6-under-par 274 Wednesday and finished the tournament at 25-under-par 815, one stroke better than the Buccaneers (816, -24).

Host and top seed North Carolina took third place at 820 (-20), followed by Tech at 823 (-17) and Baylor at 825 (-15).

Alabama (826, -14) and Long Beach State (827, -13) took turns occupying fifth place Wednesday but saw their seasons come to a close.

INDIVIDUAL LEADERBOARD – North Carolina’s Austin Greaser won medalist honors with a 13-under-par score of 197, posting rounds of 66-65-66 on his home course. The senior held off NC State’s Nick Mathews, who birdied three of his last six holes in an attempt to catch Greaser but came up short at 12-under-par 198, tied with Baylor’s Johnny Keefer.

As the highest finisher not on an advancing team, Mathews earned a tee time at the NCAA Championship as an individual.

Charlie Forster of Long Beach State took solo fourth place with an 11-under-par score of 199, followed by Riley Lewis of Loyola Marymount and Calahan Keever of Clemson, who tied for fifth place at 10-under-par 200.

Clemson’s Jonathan Nielson (201, -9) finished in seventh place alone. Forrester and Tai of Georgia Tech tied for eighth place (202, -8) with Alabama’s Canon Claycomb and ETSU’s Algot Kleen.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – Eighty-one teams and 45 individuals competed for spots in the NCAA Division I Men’s Golf Championship finals in six regional qualifying tournaments. The top five teams and one individual from each regional advance to the finals (30 teams and six individuals total), which will be conducted May 24-29 at the Omni LaCosta Resort and Spa in Carlsbad, Calif.

Each NCAA regional is a 54-hole, stroke-play event with 13 teams and 10 individuals, or 14 teams and five individuals, competing. The field at Chapel Hill included 13 teams and 10 individuals. The other regional sites and their top seeds were Tennessee at Austin, Texas (The University of Texas Golf Club), Auburn at Baton Rouge, La. (University Club), Arizona State at Rancho Santa Fe, Calif. (The Farms Golf Club). Florida State at Stanford, Calif. (Stanford Golf Course) and Vanderbilt at West Lafayette, Ind. (Birck Boilermaker Golf Course).

The Chapel Hill Regional was played at Finley Golf Club on the campus of the University of North Carolina, set up to play to a par 70 over 7,084 yards.

I've confirmed today that there have been two new 2025 WR sent out heading into the month of June. The timing of these offers is fascinating to me, as it appears that GT waited until all coaches were off the road before officially pulling the trigger.

WR Cal Faulkner, Lumpkin County
WR Landon Roldan, North Oconee

They did something similar recently with OL target Xavier Canales as well, waiting to offer until after spring football at Douglass had ended before having him post the news.

More to come on these two, as well as the full running visitor list for this weekend..

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According to Wes Durham.

He’s been a fixture engineering Tech games for radio

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Carlsbad, Calif. – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht and Hiroshi Tai were named Division I PING First-Team All-Americans Wednesday by the Golf Coaches Association of America in partnership with Golf Channel at the NCAA Division I Championship. It was the second straight year Lamprecht has made the team, and Tai joined him after winning the individual title at NCAA Championship.

Luke Clanton of Florida State, Wenyi Ding of Arizona State, Mats Ege of East Tennessee State, Nick Gabrelcik of North Florida, Ben James of Virginia, Jackson Koivun of Auburn, Gordon Sargent of Vanderbilt, Michael Thorbjornsen of Stanford and Brendan Valdes of Auburn made the first team.

It is the first time two Georgia Tech players have made the first team since 2000, when Matt Kuchar and Bryce Molder were honored. Lamprecht becomes the first Tech player to make the first team twice since Ollie Schniederjans in 2014 and 2015.

Tech and Auburn are the only programs to have two representatives on the 11-man team.

Lamprecht completed a four-year career that rivals any of the top players in program history. The senior from George, South Africa was a finalist for all the national player of the year awards (Ben Hogan, Fred Haskins, Jack Nicklaus) and won the winner 2024 Byron Nelson Award, which is awarded to the nation’s top senior golfer based on four years of accomplishment on the golf course, academic performance and service to the community. He also was voted the 2024 ACC Player of the Year.

Collegiately, Lamprecht won the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational and was co-medalist at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational this year, and had six top-10 finishes overall. Additionally, Lamprecht shared second place at the Watersound Invitational and tied for third at this spring’s ACC Championship. He also broke program records for stroke average in a season (69.16) and a career (70.05) held by Bryce Molder since 2001.

Lamprecht sits atop the World Amateur Golf Ranking, is second in the PGA TOUR University rankings and fifth in the Scoreboard National Collegiate Golf Ranking System.

Tai was an automatic addition to the team for winning the NCAA individual championship this year, but the sophomore enjoyed a standout campaign. The sophomore from Singapore earned three top-10 finishes in 11 events prior to the NCAA Championship, tying for eighth at the NCAA Chapel Hill Regional, seventh at the Watersound Invitational and fifth at the RE Lamkin Invitational. He also tied for 12that the ACC Championship and posted six other top-20 finishes. He compiled a 70.74 stroke average across 35 rounds.

Because of his win at the NCAA Championship, Tai will get to play in the U.S. Open in June and the Masters next April.

The latest ahead of this weekend's OV

New Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest movers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-24
Adam Gorney's position-by-position thoughts: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-breaking-down-the-new-rivals250-for-2025

Lodise committed to GT over the weekend, I missed it among all of the bubble news and selection Monday.

He dominated against the competition this season, batting .369 with 49 RBI, a team-high 122 total bases, 14 HR and a 1.191 OPS in 48 games.

He also stole 24 bases on 29 attempts.

The biggest question mark for Lodise heading into this new chapter will be his defense. He finished the 2024 season with a team-high 16 errors, a number that would have been the most in the ACC this season.

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech officially broke ground on the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center during a ceremony on Monday evening.



Located in the northeast corner of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, the Fanning Center was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in April 2022, and is being constructed on the footprint of the former Edge/Rice Center. The 100,000-square-foot facility will serve as a state-of-the-art hub for Georgia Tech student-athletes, with areas dedicated to strength and conditioning, sports medicine (including mental health services) and nutrition, as well as expanded and enhanced meeting and office space exclusive to Georgia Tech football.



The Fanning Center will also be equipped with the Institute’s first-ever sports science lab, which will use pro-model motion tracking to capture student-athletes’ performance data that will feed into an in-house data analytics office for performance tracking and analysis.



Designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) and being constructed by DPR Construction (both Atlanta-based), the design and development of the Fanning Center highlights Georgia Tech’s commitment to sustainability. In addition to energy-reducing strategies, steel from the existing Bobby Dodd Stadium infrastructure will be repurposed into the new structure. Cross-laminated timber will also be featured throughout the facility, adding warm accents, reducing the carbon footprint and boosting student-athletes’ well-being.



The building is named in honor of Georgia Tech alumnus Dr. Thomas A. Fanning, who holds three degrees from Georgia Tech (B.S. industrial management, M.S. industrial management, honorary Ph.D.) and was a visionary leader in the energy industry during his 43-year career with the Southern Company, which included serving as president and chief executive officer from 2010-23. Fanning’s volunteer leadership through the years has been integral to the growth and success of Georgia Tech. His extensive involvement with the Institute includes service on the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, the Alexander-Tharpe Fund Board of Directors, the Scheller College of Business Advisory Board and Transforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech Steering Committee, where he serves as co-chair.



Fanning, Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera, director of athletics J Batt and football head coach Brent Key all delivered remarks at Monday’s ceremonial groundbreaking.



“This is an incredibly exciting day for Georgia Tech athletics, as we move one step closer to delivering a first-class, state-of-the-art facility for our student-athletes,” Batt said. “We’re thankful for the generosity of Tom Fanning and all our generous supporters who have donated to this project, for the visionary leadership of Dr. Cabrera, and for our partners at SLAM and DPR Construction, all of whom have been integral in reaching this milestone. We’re eagerly awaiting the opening of the Fanning Center in 2026.”



“It’s been incredibly special to have led the design for my alma mater, creating a new epicenter of athletics that is holistically dedicated to student-athletes’ success,” SLAM lead architect and principal Marc Clear said. “The groundbreaking of the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center is an exciting milestone in creating this technology-rich home for GT Athletics.”



”As the college athletics landscape evolves, we’re thrilled to start bringing Georgia Tech’s vision for student-athletes and its campus to life,” said Brian Oliver, DPR Construction project executive, Georgia Tech alumnus, men’s basketball letterwinner and famed member of “Lethal Weapon 3,” who along with Kenny Anderson and Dennis Scott, helped lead the Yellow Jackets to their first NCAA Final Four in 1990. “We’re also proud that this project will help support opportunities for local workers in the skilled trades, many of whom feel personal connections with the campus and its athletic program.”



The Fanning Center will begin impacting the performance of Georgia Tech student-athletes on a daily basis in the spring of 2026.

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I’ve got the full list in the works, but this is one that I may have eliminated from the offer list too soon.

Brumfield and McKnight tag teaming this one

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Georgia Tech pushed hard for a regional berth, harder than I've ever seen. Clearly, the hourglass is running low on Danny Hall's tenure at Georgia Tech by any metric. Hall will turn 70 this fall and he has not advanced out of the regional round of play in the entire time I've covered Georgia Tech going back to 2009. The last College World Series was the last time GT advl ianced through the regional phase and that was in 2006. It hasn't been from a lack of attempts as the Jackets have played 11 times in regionals prior to this season since the last Super or CWS appearance. Hall in his defense has dealt with odd pitching injuries and less support both in the NIL sphere now and in just overall athletic leadership for a lot of his tenure working for guys who didn't seem to prioritize baseball or really elevate any revenue sport for that matter until J Batt was hired recently.

I'm not going to lie and say I've paid a ton of attention to GT baseball over the years. Since Russell moved to Georgia I turned the whole thing over to him to deal with because he likes it and I got burned out on going to games and covering the sport for almost nine years straight in various capacities before here and covering UGA prior to that where I worked on every single game for two years home and away on broadcasts. So I needed a break.

The baseball is in Danny Hall and his players' court. They used the squeeze play to get into the Athens Regional and now what are they going to do with the opportunity? I am really pulling for Danny Hall to figure it out and make one last great run. His first ten seasons at GT were excellent and his teams have really underperformed or had bad draws in recent years or key injuries or something else went awry.

I know a lot of the board wants Danny Hall gone and I understand where that is coming from. Georgia is a natural hotbed of baseball and Hall's teams have been unable to get over the hump.

The opportunity to play UGA and get some revenge for some ugly losses this season is an added bonus and gives Hall a chance to maybe up his stock in the minds of those who have written him off. The odds are not in the Jackets' favor, but stranger things have happened and baseball is a strange game.

It would be a fitting end for Hall who is a pretty good guy from my experience to make one last run and make it at the expense of Tech's biggest rival...

ACC TEAMS LAST TIME ADVANCING PAST THE REGIONAL PHASE:
Wake Forest 2023 CWS
Virginia 2023 CWS
Duke 2023
Notre Dame 2022 CWS
North Carolina 2022
Louisville 2022
VaTech 2022
NC State 2021
FSU 2019 CWS
Miami 2016 CWS
BC 2016
Clemson 2010 CWS
Georgia Tech 2006 CWS
Pitt hasn't done it as an ACC member and has never won a Super. They made the postseason last in 1995.

THE FLATS – Senior third basemen Mallorie Black (Cumming, Ga.) has been named 2nd Team All-American by Softball America, the publication announced this morning. Black, who was named to the NFCA All-Region team last week, continues to rake in the awards this year as she becomes just the third Yellow Jacket in program history to be named All-American, National Player of the Week (April 9) and All-Region in the same season, along with Jen Yee (2010) and Jessica Sallinger (2005).



Black earned the recognition by posting one of the best all-around offensive seasons in program history. The Cumming, Ga. native started hot, hitting the Yellow Jackets’ first home run of the season, off Alabama, in the opening weekend. She followed that by earning her first of two ACC Player of the Week honors at the Shriners Children’s Clearwater Invite, where she posted a .727 batting average (eight for 11), two doubles, a home run, four RBI, two walks and a team-leading six runs scored against LSU, Stanford, Northwestern & Minnesota.



She would earn Player of the Week for a second time in the first weekend of April, going 9 for 18 with five home runs, a double, 11 RBI and seven runs scored across four games vs. Troy, at Auburn (twice) and vs. Louisiana Tech. That performance also earned her D1 Softball and NCAA Softball National Player of the Week recognition as she became the first Yellow Jacket to be named National Player of the Week since GT Hall of Famer Jen Yee in 2010.



Black led the team in batting average (.373), slugging % (.825) runs (54), hits (62), RBI (61), doubles (18) and home runs (19), becoming the first Power 5 hitter to secure 50+ runs, 55+ hits, 15+ doubles, 18+ home runs and 60+ RBI in a single season since 2021. Black finished the regular season eighth in the nation in home runs, 11th in RBI, 15th in slugging % and 10th in total bases.



Black graduated from the Scheller College of Business earlier this month with a degree in Business Administration.