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Looking forward to who has a great summer only to regress dramatically next spring.

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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lawsuit-settlement-change-college-athletics-100000988.html
I know this has been discussed but the NCAA and agreement from school presidents have allowed the "perfect storm to form" as it relates to the college landscape, and it's not good. I've included an article that specifically addresses how NIL/ Transfer Portal will impact UM sports but this will apply to all schools moving forward.

The long and short of it is that first, schools will be forced to cut programs, mainly which generate little to no revenue and disproportionately men's programs due to Title IX protections. Second, the remaining programs after this fall will cut back rosters to save money, which has already begun. These cuts will impact younger players and current commits who will be college freshmen in the fall. This is because these athletes have not had a real opportunity to compete for a roster spot.

Other issues at play exasperate the issue including the reclassification of student-athletes as employees, the development of a free agency mechanism resulting in a bidding war for a select few athletes, the ability of most of these athletes to navigate this new role, etc. We see examples of this already in the S. Sanders situation, etc.

Just to sum things up. The unfortunate part of this is that sports were once an open door for kids with the desire, ability, work ethic, etc. to compete at a high level and possibly change their lives, will become more restrictive and create the haves and have-nots.

At Pinehurst #2 this year. Here are the Jackets in the field...

Matt Kuchar: +2 (F)
Chesson Hadley: -1 (thru 6)
Hiroshi Tai: tees off at 2:31 PM EST

he had Russell working in this one.

Good morning and Happy Father's Day.

Things are a little bit different today in terms of the way the exit meetings are going today.

Confirmed visitors from this weekend-

RB Isaiah Groves
WR Landon Roldan
WR Cal Faulkner
TE Kevin Roche
IOL Cortez Smith
DE Wilnerson Telemaque
CB Cam Strong
DB Jontae Gilbert

More as I get it.

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Really enjoyed this watch. This is the stuff we need from GT. Black comedy runs through ATL (Funny Marco, Desi Banks, 85South, DC Youngfly, Druski...). Love seeing GT all over the culture.

Georgia Tech with none in the top 100, just one in the top 150. For as heavily as guys were relied on this past season, it feels noteworthy that none of the one-year transfers made the top 500 list.

142. C Drew Rogers (Hamilton HS, Ariz.)
171. 3B/RHP Alex Hernandez (Forsyth Central HS)
183. OF Bo Walker (Starrs Mill HS)
267. LHP Cam Hill
311. SS/2B Payton Green
407. LHP Joshua Evans (Peachtree Ridge HS)
428. RHP Connor Shouse (Pickens County HS)

Javian McCollum game

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Has committed to Michigan while on his OV to Ann Arbor.
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at the Scheller College of Business. The topic was leadership so they tried to ask the audience to ask questions about that and not so much about football but we still got some good stories.

Highlights:

-Saw him down a Stella Artois quickly before he got on stage

-The man hates uga. He made that very clear when asked about the game last year. Said something to the effect of him thinking about beating them at every waking moment.

-Someone asked him for a funny O’Leary story and he talked about how O’Leary was big on being early. He would constantly leave players behind if they didn’t make the bus on time. He even left our AD at the time (Braine?) behind because he was late. Brent did say that he “never left Joe Hamilton behind for obvious reasons”.

-He had his phone next to him on the table and he was checking it constantly. He apologized and said he was in the middle of a big recruiting week.

-He said after he graduated he had 3 free agent offers for the NFL but O’Leary was blunt and told him he would never make it so he asked him to be a GA for him. The Notre Dame thing happened and he thought he was going to follow him there but we all know what happened there. He decided to quit coaching and go into commercial real estate but was miserable. Got back into it when O’Leary ended up at UCF.

-At one point he talked about becoming the interim. He said he immediately called a coach down and tried to fix things (punt team). Then got together with the players and coaches. Gave everyone an opportunity to get up and leave (including coaches) if they weren’t ready to give it their all for the next 8 weeks. He was tired of all the “bull crap” (his words) that had been going on and wanted the team to take accountability and ownership of their team.

I know I’m missing some tidbits so if anyone else went feel free to add. I came away very impressed and feel the program is truly in good hands.

This kid looks like a good one!
https://x.com/zip_2024/status/1801642854822957111?s=46

Before I go to bed, want to go ahead and get this out there for everyone to digest and get familiar with the names on the list going into next weekend-

The coaching staff is still working to try to get recent UGA DT commit Christian Garrett on campus.
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Christo played in his first Korn Ferry tournament this week. He had a terrible day on Thursday-eight over and one of the three worst rounds in the field. Today he was seven under with no bogeys-second best round of the day. Maybe he can find his form and play an entire tournament as the season goes on.

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This is insane

Some pruning and cuts going on. GT had a list of 17 OVs lined up as of last week and that is down to just 10 now for this weekend.

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Any movement on CDS hiring an assistant?

KQ- I have not heard of any changes yet. For now, it seems like BJ Elder is sticking around on the bench. I'll do some digging.

I have two questions, and one might have to wait for coach availability.

When you see times and measurements posted from prospect camps, who is doing the timing? Are you (and/or Russell) keeping your own watch?

KQ- No I am not hand-timing kids. I can find out through sources times whether it is at GT or some other camp. I know a few hundred coaches and staffers across the country at this point as does RJ. We are getting the times as taken by people testing through hard work and hustle.

Whenever you get to talk to Buster Faulkner, and it’s not a Tech specific question more of a football philosophy thing, can you ask him what his favorite old school Air Raid concept is, and what he liked better in the Hatch Attack version?

KQ- Yes, that is something I could ask him about. That is probably something you should bring up in late-July or August when we have media avails again.

— When Hall got the 3-year extension in May of 2022, was it ever explained why Danny Borrell also got a 3-year extension? At the time of the announcement, GT was on the wrong side of the bubble with 3 weeks left in the season and Borrell’s staff had the 2nd worst ERA of all 60+ teams in the Power 5.

KQ- You know the answer to this question, he is currently working at NC State and no longer running any athletic program.

— The Hall part of my question goes back to when you were probably dialed into baseball more. Over the 4 season stretch 2015-2018 he went 51-68 in ACC reg season plus 1-9 at the ACC Tournament for a 52-76 aggregate. That’s Brian Gregory territory and why IMO the vitriol is worse in present day even though the last few years haven’t been nearly as bad as those years. Was Danny ever closed to being replaced back then?

KQ- I had stopped following it at that time and RJ wasn't at all.

Miss FutureCast. Do you plan to have similar feature? Otherwise it seems that it is just wait-and-see with no earlier insight.

KQ- I'll speak for Russell as I'm sure he has the same opinion I do. Things are so nuts right now with NIL and recruiting that it is very hard to make those calls and then stay on top of what is happening with a lot of kids so it tanks our numbers. For example, if a kid decommits from GT, most of the time we stop following them. Our current setup doesn't reset our picks at that time so then RJ or I have to try to keep track of this kid as to not tank our percentages. It has been a growing problem and GC3 with all the weird takes and drops made it hard as hell during that period. RJ does a perfect class thing and will often say I'm predicting X, Y or Z to happen, but our current system is hard to deal with. If it would just reset on the decommit, we would make a bunch of predictions to be honest.

Any work being done by headquarters to address (or even explain) the random “whiteout” when scrolling through threads?…frustrating to say the least & I’m certain I’m not the only one in the community experiencing it…

KQ- I don't see that so if you don't mind send me a screenshot and I'll find out what the deal is. I have a big meeting with Rivals brass at the end of the month and can look into stuff like that.

(basketball) do you think there is a good chance GT lands Dame Sarr.

KQ- Good, I'm not sure. There are often obstacles with international kids that are beyond my scope of figuring out. For example, can he get into school? Is there are a buyout from his current EU team that someone has to pay for him to play basketball somewhere else? What is his visa status? What is the timeline like to get him in for a visit? I'll see what I can find out.

Do you think GT has a chance of making the tournament in basketball next year?

KQ- Depends, if they front load the ACC schedule again it will make it hard as hell. They had a pretty lousy schedule last year that somehow they managed to upset teams on, but it really wore the team down over time having to play so many top teams early in the year. Non-conference matchups are also a key. We only have a few of those that are known.

So thinking that the two main sport’s football and basketball- which of the two would you say is further along in getting its program back on track to being more than just a name?

KQ- I think football is further along in terms of the funding, depth of roster/experience combo and engagement. Hoops had terrible attendance last year for most of the games and that has to change. I think there are a lot of interesting pieces with hoops, but GT football has a top-25 offense back and mildly average defense will have them in the ACC hunt. Hoops has two really good pieces in Nait George and Baye Ndongo and then some nice role players like Lance Terry and Javian McCollum, but they are going to need some younger guys to fill big roles to get it hopping. I am also curious how the Xs and Os and all that shakes out as Stoudamire gets more of a roster built to play in the style he wants to play in.

In Recruiting- do you think kids pull the trigger and commit due to the team winning, the trust of words from Coaches or seeing other kids commit and they do?

KQ- All of the above, but here is the thing that Key is having to do. He is trying to make it cool to go to Georgia Tech again because the team will be good and you will be developed both on and off the field. That is what he is trying to sell. That is why they are picky with commits. They could have three or four more guys right now including two 4-star guys who I am not a huge fan of committed if he was doing what the last guy did and chasing stars and rankings, but he is looking at the overall fit and the locker room piece just as much as anything else. They trust their own scouting and not rankings or anything else on kids and especially not who else has offered. Eric Singleton Jr. is a great example of that or Ethan Mackenny from last year's team.

In a hypothetical scenario, Danny Hall decides to hang it up and retire. What kind of coach would look for to replace him? What kind of traits would you look for in a coach that could bring the best out of this Tech team.

Bonus: any specific names in the college baseball coaching world you think would be good fits for Tech?

KQ- I'll leave the second part as a grenade for @Russell Johnson to consider pulling the pin on. As far as a coach goes when Danny leaves, I am looking for someone who knows Georgia youth baseball. That is the cornerstone of where Tech needs to build out the program. Start getting them on campus young and build up the time on campus each year and those relationships and that will blossom into success on the diamond. You can backfill with the portal and out of state kids, but if you just recruit, Georgia and Florida, you can have the base pieces for a successful program IMO.

I know it was said that we were done taking people out of the portal, but at one point Russell said we were interested in some one in Austin Peay. Any idea what happened, or am I just delusional?

KQ- A kid named Sam Howard who went to Tulane because he is getting the starting job there. GT wasn't going to offer absolute playing time to a kid from Austin Peay when you have experienced guys on your team already and a lot of talent in that room.

Draft starts tomorrow, so I figured I'd start a thread.

I'm not a huge draft junkie by any means, however I decided to mess around with a simulator on profootballnetwork.com

The results of the first 7 picks were interesting....
C. Williams
D. Maye
JJ McCarthy
M. Harrison
B. Bowers
M. Nabers
O. Fashanu


With the Falcons up, I still had Jayden Daniels, Joe Alt, and Dallas Turner available. I feel like ATL needs to take Turner, period. But if Daniels is available, do you trade back (keeping in mind the Bears are directly after you and already drafted a QB, so they might grab Turner with the next one (not sure what their strategy is so I could be wrong here, but it's still a gamble). The Jets are after Chicago so you'd think they would take Daniels, but they might not feel the need to trade up to do so if they don't think ATL or Chicago would draft him.

What's the pick/action in this scenario?