NIL numbers for players have increased significantly, how have the dynamics changed now with some players making as much or more as their position coach?

KQ- Well here that is certainly not an issue and it really isn't at the places paying more than GT does save for a few guys like Quinn Ewers or someone really marketable. We aren't quite there yet overall, but I'm sure it changes the dynamic a little just having some money overall. Most of these kids have never had their own money to speak of so that is a unique challenge regardless of if you think there is a power dynamic or not within the staff/player relationship.

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#14 seed UVU upset UCSB in the semis to face #1 BYU, who won the Championship 13-5.

BYU's avg margin in their 4 games was 9 goals. They finish the season/tourney undefeated.

Last night, we took my mom and step-dad to the Fox to see the stage version of "To Kill a Mockingbird". There is a mention of a Tech-Auburn game as a metaphor for how the trial was going in the play.

It was a cool mention for sure. What was not cool was the collective groans and hissing from the audience when Tech was merely mentioned.

My educated guess is there was a large contingent of dwags in the audience. It was exhibit "a" of gagger entitlement. They feel they should always be the one Georgia team mentioned in anything and act with shocked revulsion when that isnt the case. Even when it happens only a few blocks from the Tech campus.

This was the only black spot on an otherwise great night out.

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As I reflect on Mother's Day sitting around with my wife and youngest son it was my mother who actually helped set me on the path to become a sports journalist and I thank her for that today. My parents divorced prior to my 8th birthday and my dad ended up moving away to chase college teaching positions across the country. My older brother was done with his football and track career around the same time due to a gruesome ankle injury throwing the shotput. That shifted me a little bit away from sports.

I was getting into music which is still a clear love and started playing double bass in orchestra around that time. Still, my mom to her credit made me play every sport they offered for boys at the YMCA to figure out what I liked and to essentially have afterschool care as well since you could walk from my elementary school to the Y. It gave me something to do most of the time while she was working in the library at UGA.

Also, my mom would take me to various sporting events at UGA or on campus like men's basketball, women's basketball, and baseball which we had season tickets for, but never college football. She loathed the UGA football program as did much of her fellow faculty at the time. We also went to Braves games, saw the Harlem Globetrotters and things like Rodeos and I got a pretty full experience except for football growing up. I was also more interested in the NFL at the time and playing Techmo Bowl, but we would watch Texas Longhorn games on TV on Saturdays for the Red River Shootout or one or two other big games back in the day when most games were not televised. My mom went to UT as a grad student and she was a fan as was my dad and older brother. That was the first college allegiance I had despite living 20 minutes from the UGA campus.

Those broad experiences and my love of baseball pushed me to listen to sports talk radio. Because Athens was a small college town there was one station locally 960 AM that carried a few programs, but at night broadcasted syndicated radio in the evening when the AM station would power down. We lived close enough to pull the signal in our small house and I became obsessed with the weird personalities on the radio and my mom would let me listen at night and sometimes I would stay up really late listening to the One-on-One Sports Network and the one I remember the most was a guy named Papa Joe Chevalier who was a Las Vegas-based sports radio host on that network for about 10-12 years. Between that and the prime days of ESPN, I developed my love of sports. My mom bought subscriptions to the Sporting News mainly to fuel my interest in baseball stats (that was the only way other than a daily newspaper to get baseball stats pre-internet) and Sports Illustrated when it was a classic. The swimsuit issue was a bonus that didn't offend my mother thankfully.

All along my mom supported my interest in sports talk radio and sports overall. When interleague play began she would get a hotel by Lenox for several days so I could watch my beloved Red Sox play the Braves for the first time and attend every single game of the first three-game series in Atlanta. We went to opening day several years in a row including the first at Turner Field and while I was more of a Cubs/Red Sox fan I had a love of the 90s Braves and their prolific pitching staff that remains a fond memory to this day.

When I was trying to decide what to do with my life in college and studying a double major in journalism and psychology, my mom and my stepfather both made a point of asking me about what I loved to do rather than focusing on what would make me the most money. My stepfather wanted me to open a restaurant because of my third great love of cooking and my mom wanted me to get into sports journalism.

I've detailed the story many times of how I broke into Rivals and used radio as a platform to jump into writing then cutting my teeth in the deep end of the pool over the years. I won't bore you with that again, but all along my mom was supportive and always excited about the opportunities. She follows me quietly on Twitter and reads some of the content we produce here and has always been proud of the work that I put in along the way. So I say thanks to my mother for being the supporter that has led to JOL's existence in 2024 and hopefully many years to come.

KQ

Fire away

I spaced on posting this on Thursday.

On the NCAAT bubble, leading the 3 seed VT 5-1 in the 7th.

@terrycomer has been pushing this name

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I'm curious if he is a take right now with Ryan Mutombo who has similarly unimpressive numbers.

ICYMI - GT Golf started their run to the 2024 NCAA Championships this morning in the Chapel Hill Regional. Top 5 teams after 3 rounds (Mon-Wed) will advance to the NCAA Championships. Team is currently in second at -8, trailing UNC by 2 strokes. Hiroshi T2 overall at -4, Bartley T6 overall at -3.

Follow along here: https://results.golfstat.com/public/leaderboards/gsnav.cfm?pg=teamPlayer&tid=29178

Sorry for bringing up everyone’s favorite topic. My Xfinity bill has now gone over 3 hundo for my cable / internet.

I was hoping the experts could give me some good advice to get the Braves, ACCNetwork, local news, Disney and other good options for a fair price. I think I’m going back to Windstream for internet unless someone suggests a better option.

Thank you in advance for any help / insight you can provide

To all the JOL moms on here. Believe or not we have a strong group of mothers on here. Behave @mkwilliams

I drove past the BP on North Ave last night and wondered why there was valet parking. This is wild.

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Daughter is in the midst of her second day of middle school tryouts.

To try to take away some of the anxiety going on in the car, I figured I’d take some questions.

I’ll go until 7:15.

This may have been posted already, but Key is back on Twitter and Instagram.

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Charlotte, N.C. – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht, the world’s top-ranked amateur golfer, has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Player of the Year, the sixth Yellow Jacket to win the conference’s top honor. Lamprecht’s honor was announced along with the 2024 All-ACC team announced Thursday after voting by the conference’s 12 men’s golf coaches.

Lamprecht, who is on the All-ACC team for the third straight year, joins David Duval (1992, 1993), Stewart Cink (1995), Matt Kuchar (1998), Bryce Molder (1999, 2000, 2001) and Ollie Schniederjans (2014, 2015) as Tech players to be named the ACC’s top golfer.

The 6-foot-8 senior from George, South Africa sits atop the World Amateur Golf Ranking, is second in the PGA TOUR University rankings and sixth in Scoreboard NCAA Golf ranking system. Collegiately, he won the OFCC/Fighting Illini Invitational and was co-medalist at the 2023 Ben Hogan Collegiate Invitational. Additionally, Lamprecht shared second place at the Watersound Invitational and tied for third at this spring’s ACC Championship. Overall, he owns a 69.11 stroke average with six top-10 finishes in 10 events and no placements outside the top 16.

Lamprecht also is one of three finalists for the Ben Hogan Award, given to the nation’s top collegiate player, and also is a semifinalist for the Fred Haskins Award. Last week, Lamprecht was 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.

2024 ACC Men’s Golf Player of the Year

Christo Lamprecht, Georgia Tech



2024 ACC Men’s Golf Freshman of the Year

Tyler Weaver, Florida State



2024 ACC Men’s Golf Co-Coaches of the Year

Andrew DiBitetto, North Carolina

Trey Jones, Florida State



2024 All-ACC Men’s Golf Team

Gray Albright, Florida State

Michael Brennan, Wake Forest (Co-Medalist)

Luke Clanton, Florida State

David Ford, North Carolina

Maxwell Ford, North Carolina

Peter Fountain, North Carolina

Austin Greaser, North Carolina

Ben James, Virginia

Scotty Kennon, Wake Forest

Frederik Kjettrup, Florida State (Co-Medalist)

Christo Lamprecht, Georgia Tech

Bryan Lee, Virginia

Dylan Menante, North Carolina

Sebastian Moss, Louisville

Tyler Weaver, Florida State

So I was looking at the Miami roster via the teams website. I found that under the players name/height/weight/position it lists NIL opportunities for you to purchase (see below)
https://miamihurricanes.com/roster/marcellius-pulliam/

Why is this not something that's offered here at GT? How is their "NIL" stuff listed on the actual teams roster site? I thought they had to be separate entities.
This is really cool, kind of like Cameo where you could hire a player to wish your kid a happy birthday or something. That or come out to an event for your company.

Easily accessible for everyone to use. Also can request autographs straight forward.
I love this idea.

@thetechway

GT LHP Camron Hill (Jr., 3-0, 5.23 ERA) vs. AUB RHP Joseph Gonzalez (R-Jr., 2-1, 9.72 ERA)

Great minimalist producer and punk at heart. RIP

He produced and engineered some great tunes from my childhood

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He produced a ton of stuff I played on college radio from 2000-04 from bands probably most on here never heard of. Dude worked with a ton of interesting artists from varied backgrounds, but he was very particular about his recording approach and the projects he would take on. He also played music the whole time in his own bands. Classic DIY music guy. RIP

New Ivy League

Between my undergrad from GT and my MBA from Binghamton.... I want a raise.

This has to be one of the best weekends ever for rap. This shit is hilarious. Even with what Drake just dropped tonight (which was incredibly weak) Kendrick is double frying his ass. What say you?