The team is ranked #2 in the nation behind Virginia Tech and is 8-0 so far this season. They head to California next weekend to take on Cal Berkeley and Texas.

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He said nothing he said could be put on a message board or he would never come back so nothing he said will be put here.

Just some random observations which left me a little discouraged (nothing to do with J who was quite impressive).

1. About 90% of the crowd was white men. About 10% was white women. The room looked nothing at all like GT looks these days.

2. I’m 52. My wife is 48. There was 1, maybe 2, people there younger than us. The one for sure younger posts here and asks great questions at these events. He has 3/4 kids; hopefully somehow 1-2 of them end up at GT. I knew one guy who has 2 kids at GT currently. He was the only one in the room with a kid at GT. He is a Michigan grad and whatever he gives currently goes to Michigan. Maybe that changes but I kind of doubt it.

3. We have 3 kids who will be in college next year. None got in/are at GT. The GT grad across from us has a son at College of Charleston. GT lifelong fan next to him has one kid at UGA and one at southern. Two-time GT grad beside him is a very successful businessman who owns a suite at BDS. His kids went to Marist. Neither got into GT. One went to Bama and is in law school; the other was EE at Clemson. big GT fans and donors kids are not getting into GT these days. The future is not promising if I am an AD trying to raise tens/hundreds of millions for AT Fund and NIL.

Not sure how things change but the people who gave to the AA in the 80s/90s/00s are dying off and their offspring are not GT grads and fans.

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I was at the 1st post-CPJ Ga Tech spring FB game. I had put it out of my mind until my phone just reminded me with some pics.

Not surprised

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Sorry for the late night update, but things were quite hectic in the house today.

So to clear some things up. GT expects Baye Ndongo and Miles Kelly to return. Cole Kirouac's status gets cloudy if they can land one more player out of the portal and Kirouac might get another pre-college year very close to GT if that works out for both parties. GT still wants him, but he needs more seasoning. He didn't get to play as much as anyone including Cole would've liked at Brewster Academy this past year. He needs S&C time and to put on weight so this could be a win-win.

GT will host Jared Coleman-Jones from MTSU later this week for a visit coming off a quick OV to San Diego State that wraps up tomorrow. He should be at GT on Thursday. Illinois has started to sniff around a little bit as well. Big man who can shoot the three and bring some versatility.

GT is still messing around with RJ Godfrey (Clemson) as well. He just visited Oklahoma and is visiting VaTech next. UGA was thought to be the co-leader with GT to get him and now it is all over the place with that kid.

A new name to keep an eye on in the big-man mix is Sean Stewart (Duke). He is not a traditional 6'11" center, but that isn't really want Damon Stoudamire is truly looking for based on how they have recruited. They are looking for a complimentary piece to play with Baye Ndongo in the frontcourt whether that is a smaller guy like Godfrey or a similar sized guy like Stewart that is a meat and potatoes big or a more versatile 5 type like Coleman-Jones. That is the beauty of having Ndongo. He works well with different pieces and his future is probably playing the 5/4 spot as a pro so it makes sense to keep him comfortable in that swing role.

Not a huge surprise here. It was a pretty uphill climb for him at his size and with the language barrier. He will hit the portal. He is not in

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Up 7-0 and still batting in the B1. Hill got the start and this would be a good win. Kennesaw is ahead in the RPI and has a good chance to be their conference’s auto bid

Sorry for the wait. Been on the phone a TON this week.

Looks like Darren done stepped in it......yikes

Use this thread to discuss the Falcons and their 2024 off-season adventure, as well as the rest of the NFL.

First off I want to straighten out something that keeps getting mixed up by members on the site. Baye Ndongo is seeking NBA feedback and deciding on whether or not to enter the draft based on that feedback just like Miles Kelly did last offseason. He is not entering the portal so he will either be at Georgia Tech next year (the staff believes he is coming back per sources) or playing in the NBA/G-league. GT pays more than the G-league in NIL to him so there is that answer as well per sources.

Miles Kelly is in the same boat, he I think wants to see if his improved defensive performance and all-around game has helped his draft stock and supposedly he will seek NBA feedback as well, but he is expected back as well.

On the big guy front, GT is shooting their shot with Clifford Omoruyi (Rutgers) aka Big Cliff. If they somehow landed him, GT becomes an instant NCAAT next year assuming they keep everything else they have already. Money will be an issue here. Cliff is supposedly seeking $1 million in the portal. GT's assistant Karl Hobbs is a favorite of Big Cliff and the draw and they are hoping to get a visit and maybe figure out a workable number for him. Bama is going very hard on him as is Florida and others. He averaged almost 11 ppg, 8 rpg and 3 blocks per game!


Tech is still pursuing R.J. Godfrey (Clemson) as well. He would help fill the Tafara Gapare role. Lots of schools involved there including UGA where his dad played football, but he skipped them the first time to go to Clemson. The common thought has been it will be GT or UGA for him.

There is also the cursed Bradley Ezewiro (St. Louis, LSU, G-Town) who has seen every coach he played for get fired in three seasons of college basketball as a possible big man.

MTSU big man Jared Coleman-Jones was an early connection to GT, not much is going on there. Illinois and Oklahoma State are apparently in the mix.

Colorado big guard Luke O'Brien is GT/ND battle still. He is supposed to visit both this week with GT getting the weekend visit. He also could help fill the Deebo/Gapare-ish positions, a corner knock-down three-point shooter.

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Following the initial purge of players leaving in the portal, I was reminded of something that is true now in college football. The days of having a three-deep at any position are over. If you are Bama, UGA, Georgia Tech or even Georgia State or Georgia Southern, most positions especially ones that have limited numbers on the field at the time are going to remain a constant work in progress. There will be some exceptions to that like Jamal Haynes who stuck it out when he was the third-team slot at the end of the spring of 2023 before they moved him to RB where he blossomed, but the days having a fourth-year breakout player that stayed within the program all four years developing are going to be limited.

Kids and coaches are not going to be overly patient for the light bulb to turn on or for depth to clear out to give someone a shot. Quite frankly the coaches can't afford to be in this era where boosters are heavily invested in the product with their own money via NIL and the push to upgrade in unrestricted free agency over anyone struggling to development is too much. On the flip side, schools that get poached for depth are going to poach other programs and that probably is going to flow downhill. I saw a D-2 kid today commit to play basketball at Longwood. Longwood lost one of their best players to the portal, Jonathan Massie who neither you or I have ever heard of, but that is how it is in college basketball now.

You can find plenty of the same in college football, but that example was what popped in my head when I was surfing Twitter early tonight after the Rivals Camp in Atlanta.

We are entering a weird phase of college sports mostly in football and basketball (both men's and women's) where this is getting to be a bigger issue.

Hoops that is not as big of a deal because you need eight good players to have a good team. In football, that number is probably 60 of the 85.

Will this last forever? No, I think things are going to evolve at a rapid pace over the next decade and this is a weird road bump in the forced evolution of college athletics thanks to the ineptitude of the NCAA, but as Paul Johnson liked to say, "it is what it is."

GT has often struggled with fielding a strong two-deep and Brent Key is working to fix that and build out depth while trying to find the right types of kids to develop over the long term. Some will leave for greener grasses and often times many are finding the portal market kind of stinks for them and many are dropping down to the G5s or FCS level when it doesn't work out. It is a lot more cutthroat than it was in 2018 or 2008 or 1998 when it comes to roster management and those types of things on the football or hoops' programs end as well, but that is the double-edged sword of unrestricted free agency. It is bad for pretty much everyone involved except for 1% of the players who can max out their earnings in college by becoming a free agent going to the highest bidder.

Recruiting will still be the bedrock of Georgia Tech athletics and last season the basketball team's top 8 featured four players who signed with GT out of HS and two others who transferred home to be in Atlanta during their college careers (Kyle and Kowacie after different points). The football team's starting 22 featured eight offensive starters who were signed by GT out of HS and defensively eight and all four specialists. That is about the ratio that Key should aim for moving ahead but it will ebb and flow over time and some of the transfers who started or will start in the future were guys who came here as quick transfers as freshmen like Makius Scott or Corey Robinson who actually started fewer games than Ethan Mackenny at LT overall or KJ Wallace at nickel.

This is a different era of sports for both hoops and football. Stoudamire is moving toward the NBA talent acquisition model that Paul Hewitt used well at times and Bobby Cremins in hoops but that will also see a lot of movement roster-wise year to year only there is a portal which Hewitt and Cremins never had access to that will allow saving yourself from a mistake or miss in recruiting.

Key wants as much of his talent to be homegrown and developed and in that 70% kids you signed are your core guys. Culture is a big thing when you start adding pieces as well and that is something that Stoudamire and Key have both harped on when constructing their respective rosters.

At the end of the day, you are going to see guys like Amaree Abram come and go or Tafara Gapare or James BlackStrain or Steven Jones Jr. or Ayo Tifase (the Ebenezer Dowuona of GT football for 2024 so far). It is the nature of the game at the moment. Good depth is like finding gold and is just as hard to keep.

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Tech Schedule and Results | ACC Championship Information | Match Results (Golfstat)

Charlotte, N.C. – Though it led two matches and was tied in two others at the turn, Georgia Tech was unable to score a point Monday morning and lost its ACC Golf Championship semifinal match to Florida State, 4-1, at Charlotte Country Club.

The Seminoles rallied in the first three matches off the tee, ending each of them after 15 holes to clinch its ticket to the finals. ACC co-medalist Frederik Kjettrup downed senior Bartley Forrester (Gainesville, Ga.), Cole Anderson defeated freshman Kale Fontenot (Lafayette, La.) and Tyler Weaver put away sophomore Hiroshi Tai (Singapore), each by 3&2 scores, to get the necessary three points for the victory.

FSU moves on to face North Carolina, which outlasted Wake Forest, 3-2, by winning the individual final match on the 18th hole. The championship match was to begin at approximately 1:30 p.m.

The two matches still underway when FSU captured its third point did not continue and are considered ties, with each team getting a half-point. Senior Christo Lamprecht (George, South Africa) held a three-hole lead with three to play against Luke Clanton in the fifth match, while freshman Carson Kim (Yorba Linda, Calif.) trailed Gray Albright by two holes with three to play.

Next up for the Yellow Jackets is the NCAA Regionals, which will be played at six different sites around the United States May 13-15. Tech will find out its regional assignment live on Golf Channel at 2 p.m. May 1.

MATCH SUMMARY – Fontenot, Tai and Lamprecht each got the upper hand in their matches early. Fontenot led by two holes over Anderson through 11, but dropped the next four in a row and could not recover. Tai’s match was even through nine, but he lost three in a row. Kim and Forrester never led in their matches.

Lamprecht never trailed in his match with Clanton.

TOURNAMENT INFORMATION – The ACC Championship is being contested at Charlotte (N.C.) Country Club, completing a four-year rotation to different sites within the ACC footprint. Last year’s championship was contested at the Country Club of North Carolina in Pinehurst, N.C., following the 2023 championship at Shark’s Tooth Golf Course at Watersound Club in Panama City, Fla., and the 2021 championship at the Capital City Club’s Crabapple Course in Milton, Ga.

The ACC Championship is being conducted for the fourth time under a combination stroke play/match play format Friday through Monday. The championship uses the traditional 54-hole, stroke-play format from 1980 to 2019 (the championship was not held in 2020 due to COVID-19). All 12 competing teams (Miami, Pittsburgh and Syracuse do not sponsor men’s golf) play 54 holes of stroke play, 18 holes each over three days, with the standard low four individual rounds counting toward the team’s daily score each round.

The top four teams after 54 holes are seeded in a match play bracket, with the semi-final matches and the championship match to take place Monday. Each match is 18 holes and involves all five players from each team.

Tech and Wake Forest are tied for the most all-time ACC championships, with 19 each. Tech won last year’s title at the Country Club of North Carolina with a 3-2 victory over Wake in the championship match, and the Deacons won the 2022 title over the Jackets by the same score in Panama City Beach, Fla. The Yellow Jackets have captured 11 of the last 17 championships.

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CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Catcher Matthew Ellis (Waddy, Ky./Shelby County (Indiana)) was named the ACC Player of the Week after leading Georgia Tech baseball to its third-straight ACC series victory against then-No. 10 Virginia, the conference announced on Monday.



Ellis led an offense that scored 37 runs on 47 hits against the 10th-ranked Cavs, hitting .500 himself for the weekend with six hits, one home run and seven RBI. The Waddy, Ky. native struck out just once and drew five walks to reach base at a blistering .647 pace.



On the week as a whole, Ellis had eight hits, including a grand slam at Auburn on Tuesday night, giving him 11 RBI for the week.



The month of April has been all Ellis, as the veteran catcher has been lights out. In 12 games this month, Ellis is hitting .449 with 22 hits, three doubles, seven home runs and a whopping 26 RBI. With a terrific eye at the plate, he’s also drawn 11 walks for a .541 on-base percentage. He currently holds a 15-game hitting streak and 29-game reached base streak.



Last week, Ellis was named to the Buster Posey Award watch list for top collegiate catcher.



Georgia Tech will look to remain hot as it returns home for four-straight games, beginning with Kennesaw State on Tuesday, April 23. First pitch is set for 6 p.m. and will be broadcast live on ACC Network Extra. Tickets remain for the Yellow Jackets’ home stand and can be purchased at ramblinwreck.com/tickets or by clicking HERE!