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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.

I'm going to soccer tomorrow night with my oldest thanks to a good friend hooking us up with tickets, but I'm planning on smoking some ribs if the weather holds up and maybe some burgers on the grill.

What is everyone else up to?

SEC and Big 12 tournaments underway, and the ACC tournament will begin in about 20 minutes or so.

Use this thread to discuss what I consider to be one of the better weeks in the sport, regardless of who you are a fan of.

LSU already up 2-0 on UGA

Will be doing Q’s take tomorrow and then mailbag on Tuesday as I wanted some extra time with my family and needed a break.

From this Article on ACC revenue as it stands now. Found it interesting that GT receives less than any other ACC school, though admittedly the gap is fairly small:

“The distributions to the 14 football-playing schools are in a tight band from $46.8 million to North Carolina to $43.2 million to Georgia Tech. Notre Dame, a member in all sports but football, received $22.1 million from the league.”

Still, GT received nearly 8% less than UNC, which is unfortunate.

Has GT as the No. 3 seed in the Knoxville regional, along with UConn, Fairfield, and No. 2 national seed Tennessee

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Has this been posted already by someone I ignored? This seems huge

Good evening.

As you saw on Monday, Georgia Tech is still actively seeking ways to improve the roster. I anticipate that is not done yet, either.

Head coach Brent Key and the new DB coach combo of Ricky Brumfield and Corey Peoples have spent a ton of time evaluating the position.

Former Illinois CB Zachary Tobe was one of the top-graded freshman corners in the country last year. As the staff continue to look for upgrades to the current roster, several members of the coaching staff are on the road this week seeing kids and evaluating long-time targets.

This thread will be used over the next several weeks to provide the latest scoop as I receive it, regardless of what the update is.

The first one is going to be rather large.

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Seems like a plan B at RB right now for all four of his favorite schools which is interesting.

Saw this on twitter. What a joke

Last time Danny Hall made it out of the first round

- George Bush was president
- Gas was 2.30 a gallon
- The first Cars movie was released
- Netflix hadn't started streaming yet
- The Iphone hadn't been invented yet
- The class graduating HS right now was born

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One of GT’s newer OL targets has locked in an OV.

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Cincinnati and Memphis also hosting him for OVs in June.

GT 5/31
Cincy 6/7
Memphis 6/21

As I said this what I heard and said in the mailbag.

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Norman, Okla. – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht is among five finalists who were named Thursday for the 2024 NCAA Division I Jack Nicklaus National Player of the Year Award presented by Workday. It is the third national player of the year award for which the Yellow Jacket senior has been named a finalist.

He joins Luke Clanton of Florida State, Nick Gabrelcik of North Florida, Jackson Koivun of Auburn and Michael Thorbjornsen of Stanford. The winner will be announced by Nicklaus on Tuesday, June 4 during his annual Memorial press conference with awards presented to each of the recipients by Nicklaus and Workday.

The senior from George, South Africa already has been named the winner of the 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. The 2024 ACC Player of the Year, Lamprecht also was a finalist for the Ben Hogan Award, which went to Koivun on Monday, and remains a finalist for the Fred Haskins Award, which will be announced next Monday.

Collegiately, Lamprecht has won the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational and was co-medalist at the Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational this year, and has six top-10 finishes overall. Additionally, Lamprecht shared second place at the Watersound Invitational and tied for third at this spring’s ACC Championship. Overall, he owns a 69.13 stroke average, which is challenging the all-time Tech record for a single year.

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. He won the 2023 Amateur Championship and claimed the Silver Medal as the low amateur at the 151st Open Championship (T-74). The South African competed in 2024 Masters Tournament, was a member of the International Team at the 2023 Arnold Palmer Cup, and also competed at the 2023 World Amateur Team Championship, placing eighth.

Three Georgia Tech golfers have previously won the Jack Nicklaus Award: David Duval (1993), Stewart Cink (1995) and Bryce Molder (1998 and 2001).

All five finalists are competing at the 2024 NCAA Championship at Omni La Costa Resort & Spa in Carlsbad, Calif., beginning this week.

Nicklaus, a Big Ten and NCAA Champion at Ohio State, helped inspire and create the Jack Nicklaus Award in 1988. The award is now presented to the National Player of the Year in NCAA Divisions I, II, and III, as well as NAIA and NJCAA.

THE FLATS – Eight former Georgia Tech football student-athletes are among the 30 individuals that have been selected for induction into the Georgia High School Football Hall of Fame in 2024.

The Yellow Jackets selected for induction include Everett Strupper (who played his final high school season at Riverside Military Academy in 1913), Frank Broyles (Decatur H.S. – 1941), Kent Hill (Americus H.S. – 1974), Robert Lavette (Cartersville H.S. – 1980), Jerry Mays (Thomson H.S. – 1984), Joe Burns (Thomas County Central H.S. – 1997), Demaryius Thomas (West Laurens H.S. – 2005) andJonathan Dwyer (Kell H.S. – 2006).

Established in 2022, the Georgia High School Football Hall of Fame’s 40-member board has selected 115 Georgia high school football legends for induction over the last three years, including a total of 22 that went on to play collegiately at Georgia Tech (six in the inaugural class of 2022, eight in 2023 and eight in 2024).

This year’s induction ceremony will take place on Oct. 26 at the College Football Hall of Fame, located in downtown Atlanta, less than a mile from Tech’s Midtown campus.