Hell yes! Go Jackets!!!

Good:
Every aspect of the program from the 2nd qtr on.
This program has momentum and a chance to have a special year next season.

Bad:
Officials- but we overcame

Ugly:
Horse collar tackles. This is more dangerous than targeting and should be ejection.
FSU - hope we beat their ass week 1

Ok so I kind of dropped the ball on this and now realize the game is TOMORROW! When I last checked the poll it seems Las Margaritas was in the lead. My question is, who wants to do this? IOW if I go to Las Margs at 5 or 5:30 and grab a large table, how many of you will show up to watch the game?

The program has the same feel as we all felt in '97... Good QB (learning), we fought our way into a Bowl and won... the momentum gained from that one was significant... really good things followed. Proud of our Coaches and Team 💪 ❤️🍻

GT is in all white.

White tops. White pants. White helmet.

Let’s keep this party rolling!

Y E L L O W . . .

Hawaii (8-1) is supposed to challenge UC-Irvine for the Big West crown this year, and are currently 112 in the .NET (fwiw)….we are 140. They are a veteran team that plays good defense, generally forcing opponents to shoot poorly.

Honolulu, Hawai’i – After missing the first nine games of the season with an injury, Georgia Tech senior guard Lance Terry has elected to redshirt and will sit out the remainder of the 2023-24 season. The 6-3 senior is with the team in Hawai’i and has begun to practice.

Terry was the Yellow Jackets’ No. 2 scorer from last season, averaging 10.1 points per game, and was expected to be a key figure in head coach Damon Stoudamire’s plans for this season. A native of College Park, Ga., who played three years at Gardner-Webb before transferring to Tech in the summer of 2022. He hit 38.8 percent of his three-point attempts and 81.4 percent of his free throws, and was a central figure in the Yellow Jackets’ late-season run in which they won seven of their final 10 games. He played in 29 games and started 21 for the season.

“I wanted to be able to play an entire season for my last year,” said Terry, who also was limited to just nine games as a sophomore at Gardner-Webb because of injury. “It also allows me to practice and learn under Coach Stoudamire and his staff for an additional year, which will benefit me a lot. There’s nothing but positive things that can come out of this.”

Terry has averaged 10.6 points a game for his career, connected on 44.1 percent of his shots from the floor, 37.2 percent of his threes and 81.9 percent of his free throws.

Tech returns to action Friday night against Hawai’i in the semifinals of the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. Tip-off is at 11 p.m. EST and the game will be televised on ESPN2.

Thought about making a thread for this. Check in if you want. We’re here at Embassy Suites. Parking, Lot 4 at game tomorrow. We’ll be there at 3:30.

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This is going to get more interesting! 💰 🍊🦆🐢

GT going with George, Kelly, Reeves, Ndongo, and Dowuona as the starting five.

I'll be covering the game over on @jacketsonline on Twitter

What vote could we put up for NIL donations?

Remember when I said Collins has a plan for everything and is a marketing genius. ATL be ready! Today, tomorrow, the coming days are going to be exciting.

NSD, it is a grind with bowl preparations and getting ready to play and signing day. With the early signing day and the transfers and the things involved with that. The staff and the recruiting staff got the papers in, texts and emails in early this morning. Helped us prepare for the game. This is a Thursday for us in game week mode it is a big day with game plan mode. We have 29 that have signed and 2-3 more out there that have announcements in the next couple of hours that we are crossing our fingers for. We hope to have more than 30 signees in for the early signing day. Out of the 20 of 29 will be mid-year guys and that could shoot up higher in the coming hours and days. Attacking the state of Georgia and the neighboring states as well. I’m excited about that and making an emphasis here in our home state. It is a good mix of guys developmental guys and guys who have a chance to make an immediate impact.

Luke Harpring, heck of a player, makes plays both sides of the ball and on special teams. We had him in camp for two years and my relationship with Matt he carried on what we saw, he is a tight end for us, he is a matchup guy for us 6’3” 220 and as a defensive player he can play standup OLB/DE type but we want him on offense to use his skillset and Luke and helping us as a core 4 special teams guy out of the gate.

On building up from the bottom, building the roster and roster management 85 guys but at the end of a season will be in the 70s and attrition is a big part of CFB and you want to build from the bottom up and improve that 50-70 range and that 40-75 range improves the depth of your special teams and guys who are a year or two out, outside of one or two guys you won’t change the game .

On the next Singleton-type guy in this class, we can’t predict that but it is a maturity thing and how they interact with the guys on the team and what they can do within the team. Hopefully we have that conversation next year.

On the QBs, we wanted two to have four on the roster and have two guys learn from veterans in our program with experience. They are similar in some ways but complemented in other ways and differences, those two guys. Philo set the all-time Georgia HS passing record in the championship game, obviously, I think he did it in one year less than the previous guy, that is a tremendous accomplishment. Graham the level of football he played at in HS and the people he has been around, they’ve done a great job. He is a gunslinger type and he will stand back in the pocket and make the throws. He reminds me of guy I coached several years ago and had success (Bortles). He is 6’6” and can help you.

On the portal approach, every year you tweak needs, it will be different and you will look at the needs you want to fill. How teams used free agency and how teams have used the draft to build rosters and supplement through free agency as a model. Like the Chiefs or 49ers and now Detroit is using it the right way.

On linebackers, when you build your roster in the old days you had this many SRs and JRs and underclassmen, we were very upside down there and there were some gapping holes, we filled them with one year guys this past year, but we don’t want to be in that cycle we wanted some guys with multiple years left and some guys to help.

My story on Sturdivant's performance, as well as the continued emergence of freshmen Naithan George, Baye Ndongo- https://georgiatech.rivals.com/news/sturdivant-freshman-duo-help-lead-gt-past-umass-73-70

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I thought UMass were the dregs of college basketball these days.....I was shocked to see us a dogs tonight. No respect. Kick their arses over yonder tonight. Go Jackets!

I’ve been following GT recruiting for over 45 years going back to the days of Jamie Newburg and others who sent out publications prior to the internet being a forum for such. For the most part, we have never had a class like UGA’s or Bama’s. In fact, I submit we have had a lot of last minute flips away from GT rather than the other way around. I have always submitted kids have grown up in the state of Georgia wanting to be a Bulldog, not a Yellow Jacket. That, in part, was Vince Dooley making them a consistent winner and thus a lot of attraction to sidewalk fans.

This class and this coach feels different. Sure, we lost some blue chippers that had committed to us and we did not hold on to them. That’s Big Boy recruiting. But we flipped and closed on some top talent beating out the big boys in doing so. I say all this because I think the word and reputation is getting out Coach Key is a players coach who is also willing to dish out tough love when needed. But he is organized, has a plan and will take action to do what is necessary for us to win. I, for one, was disappointed when he announced Haynes would be the QB and Zach would be the backup. Boy was I wrong about that. Zach will get his chance when Haynes moves on and can be more developed as an accomplished QB. In fact, I think Zach could be the next Haynes King. Regardless, Brent Key can and will make us a consistent winner. I believe he bleeds gold and white and when the time comes when other programs come calling, I think he stays here for a long time.

As a friend once told me, “the winds of change are beginning to blow.” Brent, while a different coaching style, reminds me of Coach Dodd. He hates to lose (Dodd was highly competitive). In the days of transformation of CFB into a semi-pro game, Brent is smart enough to adapt as things change. In summary, I think we are in store for some good times and recruiting will only get better.

Where can I find a list of players from The Portal to GT? Can find nothing on Burrell and Hamilton. Thanks.

Rumors are that Kam Mikell is already having second thoughts and trying to get out of his NLI. That's what the rumors are with some people in Colorado.

Sunny, 73 high 59 low. 😎