New Rivals250: https://n.rivals.com/prospect_rankings/rivals250/2025
Biggest movers: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-ten-biggest-risers-in-the-rivals250-24
Adam Gorney's position-by-position thoughts: https://n.rivals.com/news/rivals-rankings-week-breaking-down-the-new-rivals250-for-2025

Lodise committed to GT over the weekend, I missed it among all of the bubble news and selection Monday.

He dominated against the competition this season, batting .369 with 49 RBI, a team-high 122 total bases, 14 HR and a 1.191 OPS in 48 games.

He also stole 24 bases on 29 attempts.

The biggest question mark for Lodise heading into this new chapter will be his defense. He finished the 2024 season with a team-high 16 errors, a number that would have been the most in the ACC this season.

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech officially broke ground on the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center during a ceremony on Monday evening.



Located in the northeast corner of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field, the Fanning Center was approved by the Board of Regents of the University System of Georgia in April 2022, and is being constructed on the footprint of the former Edge/Rice Center. The 100,000-square-foot facility will serve as a state-of-the-art hub for Georgia Tech student-athletes, with areas dedicated to strength and conditioning, sports medicine (including mental health services) and nutrition, as well as expanded and enhanced meeting and office space exclusive to Georgia Tech football.



The Fanning Center will also be equipped with the Institute’s first-ever sports science lab, which will use pro-model motion tracking to capture student-athletes’ performance data that will feed into an in-house data analytics office for performance tracking and analysis.



Designed by The S/L/A/M Collaborative (SLAM) and being constructed by DPR Construction (both Atlanta-based), the design and development of the Fanning Center highlights Georgia Tech’s commitment to sustainability. In addition to energy-reducing strategies, steel from the existing Bobby Dodd Stadium infrastructure will be repurposed into the new structure. Cross-laminated timber will also be featured throughout the facility, adding warm accents, reducing the carbon footprint and boosting student-athletes’ well-being.



The building is named in honor of Georgia Tech alumnus Dr. Thomas A. Fanning, who holds three degrees from Georgia Tech (B.S. industrial management, M.S. industrial management, honorary Ph.D.) and was a visionary leader in the energy industry during his 43-year career with the Southern Company, which included serving as president and chief executive officer from 2010-23. Fanning’s volunteer leadership through the years has been integral to the growth and success of Georgia Tech. His extensive involvement with the Institute includes service on the Georgia Tech Foundation Board of Trustees, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board, the Alexander-Tharpe Fund Board of Directors, the Scheller College of Business Advisory Board and Transforming Tomorrow: The Campaign for Georgia Tech Steering Committee, where he serves as co-chair.



Fanning, Georgia Tech President Ángel Cabrera, director of athletics J Batt and football head coach Brent Key all delivered remarks at Monday’s ceremonial groundbreaking.



“This is an incredibly exciting day for Georgia Tech athletics, as we move one step closer to delivering a first-class, state-of-the-art facility for our student-athletes,” Batt said. “We’re thankful for the generosity of Tom Fanning and all our generous supporters who have donated to this project, for the visionary leadership of Dr. Cabrera, and for our partners at SLAM and DPR Construction, all of whom have been integral in reaching this milestone. We’re eagerly awaiting the opening of the Fanning Center in 2026.”



“It’s been incredibly special to have led the design for my alma mater, creating a new epicenter of athletics that is holistically dedicated to student-athletes’ success,” SLAM lead architect and principal Marc Clear said. “The groundbreaking of the Thomas A. Fanning Student-Athlete Performance Center is an exciting milestone in creating this technology-rich home for GT Athletics.”



”As the college athletics landscape evolves, we’re thrilled to start bringing Georgia Tech’s vision for student-athletes and its campus to life,” said Brian Oliver, DPR Construction project executive, Georgia Tech alumnus, men’s basketball letterwinner and famed member of “Lethal Weapon 3,” who along with Kenny Anderson and Dennis Scott, helped lead the Yellow Jackets to their first NCAA Final Four in 1990. “We’re also proud that this project will help support opportunities for local workers in the skilled trades, many of whom feel personal connections with the campus and its athletic program.”



The Fanning Center will begin impacting the performance of Georgia Tech student-athletes on a daily basis in the spring of 2026.

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I’ve got the full list in the works, but this is one that I may have eliminated from the offer list too soon.

Brumfield and McKnight tag teaming this one

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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

fire away

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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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