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FOOTBALL RECRUITING Expected visitors for this weekend..

Will update as more names trickle in.. rivals rating listed beside each name rather than profile cards to save your bandwidth:

Tucker (Ga.) DE Christopher Jackson - 5.8
Bay City (Tex.) DL Carlon Jones - 5.7
Thompson (Ala.) S Kaleb Harris - 5.7
Theodore (Ala.) LB Bobby Pruitt - 5.7
Mill Creek (Ga.) DB Trajen Greco - 5.6
Orlando (Fla.) Dr. Phillips S Jashad Presley - 5.6
Aiken (S.C.) Silver Bluff DE Jordan Boyd - 5.6
Bibb County (Ala.) DE Trashun Griffin - 5.5

Hearing there is a strong possibility of an LB committed elsewhere making a trip to Atlanta this weekend as well, but I am not in a place to reveal any other info at this time.

GT Golfer Lamprecht @ British Amateur

Lamprecht is currently playing in the British Amateur Championship. After several rounds of stroke play and 5 match play wins, he is currently playing a 36 hole match in the finals. He leads 2 up after 18 holes.

2 GT Golfers have won this championship - Bobby Jones and Charlie Yates.

Key and Saban

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Personally, I feel like this is what the installation of culture that is currently going on at Tech is reflecting, along with GOL principles that were simply talked about by the previous coach but were never taken seriously. What say you?

Skip to 39:02 for Saban in bama vid

FOOTBALL RECRUITING OV Weekend No. 3 reaction thread

Things seem to be a little more quiet this week compared to last week. Let’s kick this thing off.


We have 3 commits (Maddox, big DE, and Butler).

We also have a couple of guys with FCs in Knowles, Matthews, and Harpring.

Add in some interesting guys from MS and another New Orleans guy.

Could be a sneaky good weekend

JOL Mailbag 6/19 Sponsored by Auto-Owners Insurance

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I have some LB and TE questions.

At LB we have:

  1. Tah’j Butler (commit)
  2. Demontrae Gatson (commit)
GTYH - Who do you think fills the 3rd spot? Maybe the new David Bucey offer. Anyone else heating up?

Is GT intentionally loading up on smaller LBs (Charlie Thomas size)? Or do they expect all these guys to put on good weight and get up to Tatum’s size?

At TE we have:

  1. David Prince (commit)
Who else do you think will commit?
  • Luke Harpring (future cast)
  • Benjamin Blackburn?
  • Kylan Fox?
  • Anyone else that is heating up?
KQ- Obviously the TE situation is much clearer at the moment with Kylan Fox being the remaining biggest target for the final spot there and being a good fit since he is more of a flex guy. Russell, I'm sure will have more thoughts.

On the LB thing, they are aiming to replace multiple guys at the MONEY (WLB) spot so that is why you have more athletic commits so far in Butler and Gatson as you lose Oliver and Moala after this season and other guys creeping toward graduating and may want to go somewhere else if they are not in the two-deep. They want guys who can turn and run and cover at the WLB and even when they go 4-3 with a SAM.

They have two guys who are B-list guys right now in MJ Spurlin and Lance Taylor who they are keeping warm but the D'Angelo Barber, Jordan Burns or Samarian Robinson types are the bigger MIKE types.

Of the top 100 fb players in Georgia, how many on average can get in to Tech academically?

KQ- Probably most of them, getting in is less of a problem, but the bigger question and the one Key has to wrestle with is who can survive at GT as well. That is very hard for me to gauge.

1. What are you most looking forward to seeing this year both in football/basketball?

KQ- Competent offenses in both. I think that has been an ongoing struggle for both in recent years.

2. How good is Malik Rutherford?

KQ- He is more talented than Nate McCollum, great speed and better hands, but is very slight of build. He is really good, I think the biggest concern is just can he hold up physically to playing 12+ games.

3. Thoughts on J Batt so far?

KQ- He has been great for me on my end. I think he has a plan like what I said about Key, he knows what he wants to do and is trying to accomplish it. He isn't shying away from the core issues either and he is working to creatively fix them and make GT competitive in the national landscape. How that works long term will determine how he is viewed historically.

4. We are seeing some of the former athlete's kids being recruited. Are there more in the pipeline we are unaware of?

KQ- Yeah, I see them all the time at lettermen stuff or whatnot. Genetics can help jumpstart a strong college athletics career.

5. If your kid is a 4/5 star stud athlete, what is the best piece of advice you give them?


KQ- Use a condom Drum punchline

6. For KQ and RJ, what is the funniest question a recruit asked you?

KQ- "Coach, can you help me get an offer?"

7. If Coach Key comes up to you and asks you what he could do differently, what would you suggest?

KQ- I think he needs to probably open up fall camp a bit for the media. I think that would help generate more interest ahead of the first game. I get why he had it closed in the spring and it is honestly good for me with my sources, but I think they need to be a little more open to contrast what is going on elsewhere in the state and generate more excitement.

8. What does the future of recruiting look like?

KQ- I'm waiting to see what coach (my money is on Lane Kiffin) starts using AI to offer players.

9. Do you think GT should work more on international recruiting? (Perhaps Sylvain and his success this year can help here.)

KQ- Yes, the issue is the gatekeeper for a lot of those kids is all about putting them at the biggest name school possible because that helps his business grow. That is not a slight on Brandon Collier, just the honest truth about his deal. So you have to be careful how you invest your time in those kids. I'd love to see a chart of how his kids are doing as well. That part I don't know, but GT should have a few international kids. I know Brandon is now working his way into Africa as well.

10. For both Football/Basketball, which current or recently graduated player do you believe would make a great coach?

KQ- That is a funny question because the guys I'd expect the least to become college coaches are the ones who have become coaches like Corey Dennis, David Sims, or Kyle Cerge-Henderson. The guy I think will get into coaching is probably Haynes King. Whether he would be good or not, I have no idea. I don't know him at all.

On the hoops side, I think Kyle Sturdivant could coach and he has a great personality that would do well on the recruiting trail.

With their being Co coordinators on both sides of the ball, do you expect one to be in the box and one on the field?

KQ- So to be clear, Buster is calling the offensive plays and Thacker the defensive plays. I would expect one of the COs to be in the box. I'd think that Buster and Sherrer will be in the box just my gut feeling because I think Thacker likes being on the field to call it and I think Weinke probably wants to be hands-on with his young QBs, but that is just a wild guess.

What does moving Fox to Wr on the board mean for us?

KQ- That is their recruiting pitch to him. They are selling him on being the next EJ Jenkins/Leo Blackburn and that is a tangible selling tactic. It would also mean to me if he commits they won't take a third HS tight end.

You mentioned something about Pj losing half a signing class due to drug policy, Can you touch more on that? Don’t remember that.

KQ- So GT started up this very aggressive drug testing policy during the MBob-era that was something that CPJ and everyone else around the program thought was crazy that was very aggressive. At a lot of geographically close schools, they test "randomly" but generally kids get a heads up a day before and/or they test the same person over and over. Will Bryan's dad used to joke his older son who played baseball at UGA got tested every week because he was one of the few non-potheads on the baseball team there at the time.

Without relitigating the past, GT or GT compliance or whatever put in this policy, and honestly the details of it I don't remember at this time, but it was one of the first things that ADTS nuked when he took over that basically kept testing guys over and over after a failed test. The 2013 class had five guys including all three DL signees bounced from this archaic policy. That is part of what bit them in the ass in 2015 and moving ahead. That class also had Travis Custis who had no business being in a college and was a complete inditement of the school system he came from. They signed 14 kids in that class and 7 of them were gone within a two-year window all basically outside of the control of the staff at the time. It was also one of the things that really bothered CPJ and put another chip on his long collection of chips on his shoulder.

FOOTBALL Jackets Visit Children’s Scottish Rite Hospital




Ten student-athletes spent time with young friends in conjunction with Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game



THE FLATS – Ten Georgia Tech football student-athletes made a visit to spend time with young friends at Children’s Scottish Rite Hospital on Thursday. The visit came in conjunction with the Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game, which Tech will participate in its 2023 season opener on Sept. 1.



The Yellow Jackets that made the trip to Children’s Scottish Rite included defensive back LaMiles Brooks, running back Trevion Cooley, offensive lineman Weston Franklin, quarterback Haynes King, defensive back Jaylon King, tight end Dylan Leonard, quarterback Zach Pyron, wide receiver Malik Rutherford, running back Dontae Smith and defensive lineman Sylvain Yondjouen. They were joined by the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl’s official mascot, Huddles.



At Scottish Rite, the Yellow Jackets joined young patients in the hospital’s game zone where they did arts and crafts and played card games, basketball, foosball, air hockey, table tennis and golf. The Jackets also posed for photos and presented their friends with autographed footballs.



“It’s a really cool experience for us,” Leonard said. “These kids are going through these hard times and they keep such a happy attitude and a smile on their faces. It really puts things into perspective for our lives and when we go through hard times. It’s really awesome.”

FOOTBALL RECRUITING DL target Chris Stokes has GT as #1 on his board

unfortunately, I do not think he is #1 on their board at the moment, he really enjoyed his private workout with Coleman. Looked good, but a little undersized compared to some other targets.

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