I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas today! Look forward to hearing about everyone’s day and the Tech stuff everyone receives from Santa!

All the latest from many top prospects as signing day gets closer:

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Hosted by Chase Lane! He's definitely a Tech man!

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Just thought people might be interested.
Grade is their overall grade (Offense/Defense).

Malachi Hosley (RB) - 88.8
Ronald Triplette (DE) - 88.0
Eric Rivers (WR) - 83.2
Brayden Manley (DE) - 80.3
Cayman Spaulding (LB) - 76.1
Melvin Jordan IV (LB) - 75.9
Dean Patterson (WR) - 74.9
Kelvin Hill (DB) - 68.1
Matthew Alexander (DT) - 67.9
Daiquan White (DB) - 66.2
Harry Lodge (TE) - 48.8


Andrew Rosinski, Debron Gatling, JaKolby Jones, JT Byrne - didn't play or didn't qualify (PFF minimum snap count)

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.

This gave me a good laugh this morning.

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Meant to do this earlier and completely forgot this week. We're a little late to the party with the Celebration Bowl already started so we won't get to pick that one, but if you want to join now and make your picks, please do. I'm willing to put up a $100 prize for the winner to make it interesting. Second place, $50.

Link below, and the Group password is "InKeyWeTrust"

To troll FSU and Clemson fans on the futility of their weak ass lawsuit. Now that the season is over all this realignment bs is going to crank back up. They don’t have much argument against 2-10 so use that.

Didn’t see a thread for it but **** it, another thread.

JMU vs WKU in a very elite game

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Just went in after the change.

So guys are still entering the portal and more will continue to enter until the deadline. Here is a look at some of the targets we are currently tracking. Some will not end up with offers and some they've offered or would take if they wanted to come. Not every portal kid is telling everyone about offers but I know these are guys they are interested in.

DEFENSIVE TACKLES

Georgia Tech has one DT portal commit now with Matthew Alexander announcing today.

They will look to add two more before next season.

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Dawson has been an early target for GT in the portal at DT. He has been a three-year rotation piece and will be a 6th year SR.

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Senior with two years of starting experience in the Pac-12/2

DEFENSIVE ENDS

Tech has one DE commit already on board

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GT lost out on Nate Johnson from App State who was down to GT and Mizzou.

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Olds is down to a few schools including GT who was the favorite going into the weekend. He is visiting Kentucky and Ole Miss. He had six sacks this season in a breakout year.

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Everyone and their brother is on George. I have not heard that GT is a favorite or out of it for him. It has been hard to get much info on him in general.

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Tech offered Norman who had a strong redshirt freshman season with 2.5 sacks. He has garnered a lot of attention in the portal.

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GT has gotten involved with Pat Payton. He had a down year like the rest of the Noles teams but still had four sacks. Has 16 career sacks over three seasons at FSU.

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Searcy had 3.5 sacks for the Gators in 2024. Auburn is also involved with Searcy.
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He literally went into the portal yesterday. Camac had 5.5 sacks for the Rebels

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Pitt is heavily involved with the Mercer transfer along with NC State, Indiana, FSU and others. He is a top portal guy. He had 9.5 sacks last year.

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Yates has been a solid defensive end with 11.5 sacks over three seasons at UConn. He actually had a down year for him with 2.5 sacks due to injury was very consistent his first two years.

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Finkley visited Miss State this week, not sure if he has a GT visit or not. He had a down 2024 season.

https://n.rivals.com/content/athletes/amorie-morrison-254825

Bigger DE who had a strong season and is a veteran guy but hasn't quite lived up to potential.


Khris Walton had 13.5 sacks and 18 TFLs at Tifton College, he was an All-American this year at Tiffin University

https://georgiatech.rivals.com/content/athletes/mustapha-coly-299584?view=cv

He had five sacks this season at Virginia State

Brent Key, "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."


https://x.com/Kelly_Quinlan/status/1871637021367980369

This one is maybe the least surprising



Romello Height is discussing a return to Georgia Tech and is having major remorse over his move and Texas Tech apparently hasn’t fulfilled their of the bargain.

At this point he could even play in the bowl game if it happens before the bus leaves for Birmingham tomorrow.

Another get them into the portal and bait and switch deal.

I’ve confirmed conversations with GT are ongoing to bring Height back.

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Also there is one more that Key wants to bring back that could happen as well that entered the portal.

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This is your place to argue or discuss whatever you want to argue about. No cancellations due to topics in this thread or I will show up at your house and beat your $100 out of you.

Feel free if you have a few extra bucks to drop a couple in the old tip jar for myself and Alex.

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