So I’m in South Florida for a week of vacation, staying at a nice hotel in downtown Sarasota. My rate includes breakfast at the hotel, and I have eaten there every morning.

The morning I leave, I head down for breakfast. I am wearing my Columbia PFG shirt with GT logo. There are a dozen tables with diners.

Guy comes up to me, bypassing every other diner, interrupts me reading the paper, and asks if everything is ok. (First time anyone at restaurant has spoken all week except for taking my order, etc.). I say fine, and then he leans down and gets close to my ear. He says “Gooo dawgs” and starts to walk off.

I called him an FN A and told him to run along, be a good boy and “fetch my food”. Then I was worried he would spit in it and split before it came. I could not get the thought that he would tamper with my food out of my head, and was having flashback to Horacio Sanz’s special French toast from Road Trip.

Things went as well as they could for this one. I really wanted to use his first quote to Russell verbatim as the headline, but couldn't.

"shit, it was a great visit!"

Golfweek All-America Teams

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht, Ross Steelmanand Connor Howe added more All-America honors to their resumes on Tuesday. Golfweek magazine announced their 2022-23 teams and named Lamprecht and Steelman to its first team, and Howe to its honorable mention group. All three have previously been named All-Americans by the Golf Coaches Association of America.

It is the first time since 2011, and only the second time since the magazine began choosing an All-America team, that three Yellow Jackets have been named and two were listed on the first team. Kyle Scott and James White made Golfweek’s first team in 2011, while J.T. Griffin made the second team.

Ranked No. 7 nationally by Golfstat and No. 6 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index, Lamprecht had a victory and three runner-up finishes in 2022-23. The junior from George, South Africa won the Inverness Intercollegiate in the fall, and in the spring finished second at the Watersound Invitational, the Linger Longer Invitational and The Goodwin. He was the team’s highest finisher in six of 11 stroke play events, and his 69.44 stroke average was one-hundredth of a stroke behind the Tech record of 69.43 set by Bryce Molder in 2000-01.

Steelman was the NCAA Championship individual runner-up at Grayhawk Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., and finished the spring No. 5 in the Golfstat individual ranking and No. 8 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index. The Columbia, Mo., native finished 12th or higher in his final eight events in 2022-23 and delivered the clinching points for Georgia Tech in both of its ACC championship matches and its NCAA semifinal victory over North Carolina. His 69.50 stroke average was the third-best in program history.

Howe, a staple in the Tech lineup for five years, enjoyed his best year in 2022-23, posting five top-10 finishes to come in No. 33 in the final Golfstat individual ranking and No. 38 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index. The Ogden, Utah native tied for third place at the ACC Championship and the NCAA Salem Regional, as well as 29th at the NCAA Championship, all career-best finishes for those events.

PRESS RELEASE




THE FLATS – Georgia Tech once again landed a trio of preseason all-Atlantic Coast Conference honorees from one of college football’s premier publications, as the 2023 Phil Steele College Football Preview has tabbed defensive back LaMiles Brooks (Jacksonville, Fla./Trinity Christian Academy), place kicker Gavin Stewart (Savannah, Ga./Benedictine Military Academy) and linebacker Trenilyas Tatum (Riverdale, Ga./Mt. Zion H.S.) for the recognition. Brooks is a Phil Steele second-team preseason all-ACC honoree, Stewart received third-team recognition and Tatum is on the fourth team.



A rising junior, Brooks led Georgia Tech with three interceptions and seven pass breakups and also ranked fourth on the squad with 52 tackles in his first season as a starter in 2022. He enters the 2023 campaign as college football’s No. 5-ranked safety, according to Pro Football Focus.



Also a rising junior, Stewart was one of the nation’s most consistent kickers after taking over the Yellow Jackets’ place-kicking duties five games into last season. He made his first 12 field goal attempts of the season, becoming the first Yellow Jacket in 40 years to make even 10-straight field goals to start a season. He finished the season 12-of-13 and his .923 field goal percentage ranked 10th nationally.



Another rising junior, Tatum is expected to play a big role for the Yellow Jackets in 2023 following the graduation of a pair of all-conference honorees at linebacker in Ayinde Eley and Charlie Thomas (now members of the National Football League’s Carolina Panthers and Cleveland Browns, respectively). Tatum racked up 31 tackles, 2.5 tackles for loss, a sack and a forced fumble in a reserve role last season and has 43 stops in 23 career games.



With the honors from Phil Steele, a total of five Yellow Jackets have now received preseason all-ACC recognition from national publications. Last month, Brooks (second team), defensive lineman D’Quan Douse (third team) and running back Dontae Smith (fourth team) were tabbed as preseason all-conference honorees by Athlon.

I like to fade coaches that overhaul systems. There is always a lot of hype and if the personnel is even a fit, it takes about 2/3 of the season before they start to click.

Unfortunately Brian Brohm got one of his old QBs to transfer in so that will help tremendously, but hopefully not by week 1.

I’ll take the points and the under. 24-21 type game. I’d wait until gameday to bet, it will be primetime and Joe is going to be all over the preseason hyped favorite.

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Interesting. Something to monitor, I’d imagine.

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By Pete Bevacqua, NBC sports chairman and ND alum.

CAPE COD LEAGUE

Cam Hill- Cotuit Kettleers
Terry Busse- Cotuit Kettleers
Aeden Finateri- Chatham Anglers

NORTHWOODS LEAGUE

Players-
Parker Brosius- Traverse City Spitters
Tyler Minnick- Traverse City Spitters

Signees-
Petey Craska- Rochester Honkers (only HS signee that I saw in the entire league)

NEW ENGLAND COLLEGIATE BASEBALL LEAGUE

Carson Ballard- Danbury Westerners
Aidan Jolley- Danbury Westerners
Demetri Diamant- Marthas Vineyard Sharks
Carsten Sabathia- Marthas Vineyard Sharks
Tyler Hare- Newport Gulls

SUNBELT BASEBALL LEAGUE

Signees-
Carson Kerce- Alpharetta Aviators
Vahn Lackey- Atlanta Blues
Kyle Henley- Gainesville Gol’Diggers

Players-
Brandon Prince- Gainesville Gol’Diggers
Riley Stanford- Gainesville Gol’Diggers

APPALACHIAN LEAGUE

Nico Senese- Pulaski River Turtles
Caden Gaudette- Pulaski River Turtles
Logan Bogue- Pulaski River Turtles

Since I was traveling yesterday and it was an OV weekend the Mailbag will be tonight and my Q’s Take will post tomorrow. We have a backlog of OV interviews we will push out the rest of today ahead of those first.

Fire away

Ibrahima Sacko

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Good morning. I don’t consider it hyperbole to say that this weekend’s group is the strongest from top-to-bottom that I have seen at GT since the Brian Branch/Will Anderson weekend several years ago.

Many around the recruitment of Jameson Riggs believe GT is the team to beat heading into the weekend.

I’ll update as needed.

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Sorry for the belated birthday post. Yesterday i celebrated my day of birth and the happiest day of @St Pete Jacket life.

Since the spring ended.

Changes:
Trenilyas Tatum is now #7 was 40
Kenan Johnson is now #10 was 24
Chase Lane is now #7 was something else I can't remember because he wasn't on campus yet this spring.

New Players #s
12- Dominick Blaylock WR
13- Paul Moala LB
21- Omar Daniels CB/NB
65- Connor Scaglione OG

Freshman Class #s summer enrollees
13- Eric Singleton WR/SLT
24- Steven Jones CB
25- Taye Seymore S
28- Justin Brown S
29- Nico Dowdell S
35- Jacob Cruz LB
41- Malcolm Pugh DE
48- Ezra Odinjor DE
51- Nicari Ashley LB
60- Gabe Fortson OC
66- Benjamin Galloway OG
73- Patrick Screws OT
78- Ethan MacKenny OT
83- Zion Taylor WR
97- Eddie Kelly DL
98- Bryston Dixon DT

They don't have a player card up for Eddie Kelly yet but he is enrolled at GT. I'm guessing that is being worked on still.

Just watched a 42 minute video on and with CDS on YouTube. The channel is named Field of 68. It is candid talk. I found it very interesting.

Might be old news…but just saw Kauf is in the portal..best player on the team. Any news coming there with the staff..program should be in a better place by now? Been a disappointing run by Morales for sure. Think Kauf graduated..maybe a case of not getting in grad school or wants a better program? Just checking on temperature of program for those in the know?

Use this thread to react to the updates from today.

Try to keep the thread on topic please.

Great Twitter Thread on Thad Young & his investor portfolio.
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