Moving forward, each time myself or Kelly put in a FutureCast that is either a current or former target, we’ll also post it inside this thread.

I have updated the FutureCast link in my signature, so that it will link you to this thread moving forward.

Some noteworthy FutureCasts I currently have in-

DT Cameron Ball to Georgia Tech

WR Skyler Bell to Iowa
DB Aubrey Burks to USF
OL Geno VanDemark to Rutgers

Georgia Tech continued bowl practice on Wednesday in Bobby Dodd Stadium. Per sources, due to recruiting a lot of the staff was on the road doing in-home visits so it was a fundamental day with the GAs stepping up. That is very typical of this time of year especially if you have a pre-Christmas bowl. Today was the second practice, they went yesterday as well.

JAYLON KING

It is exciting and rewarding to see all my hard work paying off through challenges both injuries and playing behind people. I waited it out and it is a rewarding feeling.

On the bowl game, consistent warm weather and Florida typically has nice weather and being able to practice when it is warm is what I’m looking most forward to.

On the rehab to get back, "It was tough mentally and physically. I had a similar injury going into my freshman year. So I kind of knew the rehab process, but since I actually broke my right leg rehab process was a little bit longer and then I'll say is hardest mentally, just because of how long I waited. To be able to earn that starting job and they'll be taken away like that. So there was doubt they're pretty much crept into that. What I was doing wasn't enough. So I'd say that was the hardest part for me."

On approach for practice, the rewards and accolades didn’t change anything for me. I'm the same guy I am every day.

On the trajectory of the program, "the very minimum is a bowl game. I expect to be competing for ACC championship each year, winning no less than nine games each year and pretty much playing in a NY6 Bowl. The program is moving in the right direction. I feel like I feel like everyone in the program has actually had the ability to win now. And I feel like we've brought that too with this program with this coaching staff and just pretty much what (Key) believes I feel like years past we were going out there playing not to lose. Not actually going out there thinking we were going to win the game or we had a chance to win the game. So I felt like the success that we had this year people actually are gonna believe and buy into. We can win. I mean, the games that we lost, we lost in the fourth quarter. We were always competitive for the most part. So once we walk into the small details and fix those, I feel like this would be a 9-10 win team each year at the minimum."

ON UCF and the approach to bowl practice, "we are doing a little bit of both (fundamentals and UCF prep). We are working on a lot of fundamentals, getting back into the groove of things, but then also starting to take a look at UCF. They have a couple of familiar faces. And I mean, just watching the interview has so many late games they're getting to be on before I started seeing them a couple of times before we played

On the post-bowl, I’m going to train and pursue my NFL dreams, I have not chosen who I’m going to train with.


JAMAL HAYNES

On getting recognized, I’ve been blessed to show my talent on the field, the recognition is not a big deal, I’m a team player and I feel like if you do your job the recognition will come.

On progress as A RB, I’ve improved on self-scouting and improved in the film room on taking on that position change and the second part has been taking on those challenges. Getting used to the fast pace of football and getting used to my first snaps, but that improved as we progressed.

Most proud of, persistent, we kept fighting and kept going and that is where we see a leap forward and we’ve kept up that fight.

On preparing for the bowl game while being excited as well, we want everyone to be excited that it is the first bowl game since 2018 and we are going to try to win the game and be prepared to win the next game.

On UCF, I know a few kids Kobe Hudson and Javon Baker, they have really good players, and we get 13-15 extra practices for our young guys

On expectations rising, we are expecting to go to a bowl game every year from here on out, just going into this bowl game. This is not our top goal, we want the ACC Championship and to be in the playoffs.

On the change of pace with Dontae Smith in the RB rotation, I think that starts with a great relationship with Dontae and we have a great 1-2 punch with Tae and even the other RBs in that room and we are going to encourage each other.


EDDIE KELLY

On playing UCF again, I know a lot of those kids and the goal is to go into Tampa and take over Tampa.

On full circle moment playing in RayJay, I’ll say yes the bowl game is in Tampa and it is too cold for me and I’m excited to go make plays in the Bucs stadium again.

On playing a full season, expectations being met here, coming in here, my expectations my mom told me to shoot for the stars, it is a 12-game playoffs, if we win games we will be there. Those are our expectations as a team, I wish you all could see how the team is, this is a great program.

On how important for the season to end with win over UCF, it is very important to go into the offseason with a win and you’ve got a tough opponent and it will make our offseason even better.

On working with Coach Coleman, I love Coach Coleman, he is phenomenal, he makes me get better every day and he is a great man outside of football and I’ve hung out with Coach Coleman and he gets me ready.

On having the extra practices, guys like Jay King we are going to send out right, this gives us time to work on our fundamentals and work on all the things coach Coleman has taught and work on our tools and fundamentals.

To former Pitt DL Samuel Okunlola. If the name sounds familiar, that’s because GT was involved during his HS recruitment as well.
Login to view embedded media Season stats are eye-opening- 18 tackles, 6 TFL, and 5 sacks with 1 FF and 1 FR in 11 games.

USC, Washington, Ole Miss, FSU all involved here as well, among others.

Looks like this might be happening. Would love to see him dominate Miami in Duke coaching gear.

THE FLATS – For the third-straight year, Georgia Tech athletics set a new all-time record by posting a 92% NCAA Graduation Success Rate (GSR) in the latest data released by the NCAA on Wednesday.



The Yellow Jackets’ 92% GSR tops its previous all-time high of 91%, set just last year. Prior to 2021, Georgia Tech had never achieved a GSR above 90% and prior to 2016, Tech had never achieved a GSR above 85%.



Georgia Tech’s 92% GSR is also higher than the national average of 90%.



In addition to reaching an all-time high as a department, 10 of Tech’s 13 teams* – women’s basketball, men’s cross country/track and field, women’s cross country/track and field, football, golf, softball, men’s swimming and diving, women’s swimming and diving, men’s tennis, volleyball – have individual team GSRs that are at or above than the national average in their respective sports. Leading the way are women’s basketball, golf, softball, men’s tennis and volleyball, which all have perfect 100% GSRs.



“We’re very proud of our student-athletes, coaches and staff for setting another new standard for the ultimate measure of our academic success – earning a Georgia Tech degree,” Georgia Tech director of athletics J Batt said. “Congratulations to everyone on our campus that made this achievement possible.”



GSR measures the success of an athletics department in graduating its student-athletes within a six-year period. Unlike Federal Graduation Rate, which assesses only first-time, full-time freshmen, GSR also includes transfer students and mid-year enrollees in the sample. Student-athletes who leave an institution while in good academic standing before exhausting athletics eligibility are removed from the cohort of their initial institution (essentially passed to another squad’s GSR cohort if they transfer and removed altogether in the case of early departures for professional careers). The GSR provides a more complete and accurate look at actual student-athlete success by taking into account the full variety of participants in Division I athletics and tracking their academic outcomes.



The latest GSR cohort includes student-athletes that enrolled at Georgia Tech from 2013-16.



GEORGIA TECH NCAA GRADUATION SUCCESS RATES (since the NCAA began publishing GSR in 2004-05)

2004-05: 67%

2005-06: 69%

2006-07: 69%

2007-08: 70%

2008-09: 71%

2009-10: 75%

2010-11: 78%

2011-12: 76%

2012-13: 79%

2013-14: 81%

2014-15: 84%

2015-16: 87%

2016-17: 88%

2017-18: 89%

2018-19: 88%

2019-20: 89%

2020-21: 90%

2021-22: 91%

2022-23: 92%



GEORGIA TECH NCAA GRADUATION SUCCESS RATES BY SPORT (2022-23)

Sport GSR National Average

Women’s Basketball...................................... 100%.............. 93%

Golf................................................................ 100%.............. 92%

Softball.......................................................... 100%.............. 94%

Men’s Tennis................................................. 100%.............. 93%

Volleyball....................................................... 100%.............. 95%

Women’s Swimming & Diving....................... 97%................ 97%

Women’s Cross Country/Track & Field......... 94%................ 92%

Men’s Swimming & Diving............................ 94%................ 91%

Men’s Cross Country/Track & Field.............. 93%................ 84%

Football.......................................................... 88%................ 82%

Women’s Tennis............................................ 88%................ 97%

Baseball......................................................... 85%................ 89%

Men’s Basketball........................................... 70%................ 85%



* cross country, indoor track and field and outdoor track and field are compiled as one sport for Graduation Success Rate purposes

Is this a thing? Could our collective essentially sign our entire roster to a NIL that pays out based on performance? Every TD a player scores, they get 5K. Every sack a player gets 3K, etc.

Obviously players could have individual NILs but could be a creative way to add more $s to players.

Georgia Tech has entered the fray for the in-state cornerback:

by College Football Network

Man that Q&A last night had me like:


But then Russell was like:




In all seriousness, I do think we will probably need a thread once the questions are answered this morning for reactions. Two and a half weeks till signing day!

Jamal Haynes

Eddie Kelly

Jaylon King

These people need to get fired.

Out of all of our commits, how does Canion not make it? IDIOTS!!

Greetings from the repaired ceiling ancient wonder the Stegosaurus

This probably needs it own thread...

Youngstown State’s Alex Howard.

Howard has tallied 142 tackles, 15.5 TFLs, five sacks and one INT in 38 career games.

This year alone he had 76 tackles, 9.5 TFL, 3.5 sacks, and 1 INT.

Has two years to play one.

UCF is ranked 31 in the country in Jeff Sagarins computer poll. We got our P5 opponent (Big 12). Our team now
for sure has a strong motive to show what they can do against a very good opponent.

Just wants to watch the world burn.

THE FLATS – Behind four players in double-figures, Georgia Tech rolled to a 73-60 victory over Mercer on Tuesday night in McCamish Pavilion. The win pushed Tech to 6-3 on the season.

The Jackets used a 10-0 spurt to get its offense rolling in the first quarter and lead 10-2, but Mercer (3-8) did not go quietly and battled back to knot the game at 20-apiece midway through the second frame. The Bears took the lead off a three-pointer from Deja Williams as the teams traded the lead back-and-forth, leaving Tech with a narrow 31-29 halftime advantage.

Georgia Tech came out of halftime rejuvenated and took control of the third quarter, fueled by Kayla Blackshear with eight points and Ariadna Termis with seven. The Jackets opened a double-digit lead off back-to-back Termis buckets, capped by a triple, to set up a 49-37 lead. Tech maintained an advantage despite the Bears working their way back to two possessions, 62-58, with 4:44 to play, and held strong down the stretch to close the game with an 11-2 run for the final score.

Tech finished with four players in double-figures led by 14 points from Blackshear, 12 from Rusne Augustinaite and 11 from Kara Dunn. Inés Noguero recorded her first collegiate double-double behind 10 points and a game-high 12 rebounds, helping Tech to a 38-32 win on the glass. The Jackets dished out 18 assists paced by six from Noguero and six from Tonie Morgan.

Mercer was led offensively by Williams with a game-high 17 points, followed by Briana Peguero with 15 points. The Bears shot 41.7 percent from the field, hitting seven three-pointers, but were limited to 3-of-6 from the free throw line.

The Yellow Jackets continue this two-game homestand on Sunday, Dec. 10, welcoming Georgia State. Tip is slated for 2 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.

Congrats to him.

Lots of questions about Duke from the TV media, there were a bunch of them today.

Stoudamire said it was a great moment for the players, the fans and the staff and they've put in a lot of work to get there and it was rewarding for the kids and he is happy for them but at the same time, that was Saturday and today is Monday so it is on to the next one. He wants to make sure there are no hangovers going into Georgia tomorrow.

On wins like Duke being his vision for the program, it is definitely the vision but he wants to have a parade down Peachtree so this is an early step, but we are only six games in and I've been telling the team this and I told them this morning and yesterday, but that win put a bullseye on their back and now the expectations go up a little more. I'm pleased with our performance and pleased with our effort, but we can't be content with where we are right now.

Stoudamire said that he is excited to face UGA in start that rivalry and he has been a part of good rivalries in college but they put Georgia's antenna up with that win over Duke so they've got to be prepared and not play like they did at Cincinnati. They lost their first real road test by 35 points so there are a lot of things they've got to do better and they have to limit the turnovers and rebound the ball and be poised and patient on offense.

Stoudamire said the defense is catching up some to the offense now and the offense was a little bit ahead and during the Thanksgiving break they really worked and dug in on defense and were watching more film and understanding the mistakes in the first four games on that side of the ball and you've seen good results in the last two games.

Stoudamire said the help defense has improved a lot and part of that is Baye Ndongo coming back because that gives them a shot blocker presence and he has saved a bunch of possessions on defense for them against Miss State and Duke.

I asked him how he guides Nait George through playing as a true freshman who reclassifies, that everybody makes mistakes and Nait has done a good job and he has been thrust into a position that is not easy and he has held his own. He is working hard to help him and get him adjusted to it.

On UGA, Stoudamire said they have good guards and they put a lot of pressure on teams and they have to get back in transition against them. UGA likes to score in bunches and attack with the guards so they have to be aggressive without fouling which they haven't always been good at this year. Coach White does a great job and he anticipates them being ready for GT.

On the positive atmosphere around GT with hoops and football, Stoudamire said he is very happy for Brent Key and Brent has put in a ton of work and it is not easy what Brent has done. It is not easy to win regardless of what you do. I'm happy for him. He has reached out to me as well and I think the vision that J Batt when he hired both of us last year is starting to come to fruition, but it is early but a great start for all of us and there is great energy around the campus and the athletic department right now.

Stoudamire said that winning on the road is like winning two games and the margin of victory in college basketball is very small and there were a bunch of upsets this weekend. His main thing on the road is he wants to limit live ball turnovers. He said he would rather they throw the ball into the stands than have a live turnover because at least he can set the defense. They've got to keep rebounding at a high level across the court and if they do those two things they will have a chance to win on the road.

Stoudamire said his big rivalry game memory was UCLA breaking a 91-game home winning streak that Arizona had at the time during his freshman season. He said they are big games and fun games when you play a rivalry and the kids need to live for the moment and take care of business in Athens.