let's do this. I will go until 10:30ish

Greetings from camp 2. Tons of kids still going through registration

Former Falcons WR Michael Haynes son is here 2025 WR Evan Haynes from Fellowship Christian. Ran well.

Supposed to be some good TEs here.

Coaches from Marshall here today working the camp with GT.

Has anyone done a GTAA-sponsored trip (not including a trip to a game)? Is the entire group Tech people or is it combined with other groups/universities? What's the average age? 60+?

So the other day @Billjr86 profile pic caught my eye. Naturally I zoomed to laugh a little harder, and I don’t know why but for whatever reason Scooters little hair piece reminded me of the Upper North and now I can’t unsee it. Someone with the photoshop skills please make this happen on any pic of Scooter and it will permanently be my profile pic. That is all. Carry on with your day.

This is likely much ado about nothing but it is interesting that GT got a mention.

As reported by si.com, MSN & OutKick: "According to longtime reporter Jim Williams, 10 programs have been "vetted" by the Big Ten for possible membership. This list includes, in no particular order, Cal, Stanford, Oregon, Washington, Georgia Tech, Virginia, North Carolina, Duke, Utah and Miami."

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech baseball had a program-best three student-athletes earn academic all-America honors for their continued hard work and results in the classroom, the College Sports Communicators (CSC) announced Wednesday.



The Yellow Jackets were represented by outfielders Jake DeLeo (Norwalk, Conn./Avon Old Farms School) and Angelo Dispigna (Lawrenceville, Ga./Brookwood HS (Mercer) on the first team, while first baseman John Giesler (Marietta, Ga./Walton HS) was selected to the third team. Georgia Tech led the ACC with its three selections, and were one of just five representatives total from the conference.



Having a career year after finally being fully healthy, DeLeo was one of the ACC’s best centerfielders. Starting in all 57 games, DeLeo hit .365 for 91 hits, 23 doubles, three triples and 14 home runs, slugging .651 and reaching base at a .426 clip. The Norwalk, Conn. native has also stolen eight bases on the field and recorded four outfield assists.



Nationally, DeLeo ranked 12th and 17th in hits and total bases (156), respectively, but in the ACC, he also ranked top 15 in doubles (third), average (10th), runs (10th) and slugging (12th). He also earned second-team all-ACC honors this season.



Majoring in business administration, DeLeo turned in an impressive 3.91 cumulative GPA.



In just his first season on The Flats, transfer outfielder Dispigna was a veteran presence at the plate and in left field for Tech this season. Starting all 57 games this season, Dispigna lead the team with a .393 average, recording 86 hits, 12 doubles and 16 home runs for 58 RBI. He slugged .667 and with a whopping 46 walks drawn, reaching base at a .509 rate. He also had eight stolen bases on the year.



The Lawrenceville, Ga. native ranked top 10 in a myriad of ACC categories at the end of the regular season to be second-team all-ACC – third in on-base percentage, fifth in hits, sixth in total bases, eighth in walks, eighth in RBI, 10th in home runs, and 10th in slugging percentage. He also earned second-team all-ACC honors this year.



Majoring in business administration as a graduate student, Dispigna was one of five first-teamers and 10 student-athletes recognized overall with a perfect 4.0 GPA.



The definition of perseverance and a team player, Giesler earned his spot in the starting lineup this season and ran with it, hitting .333 for the year with 52 hits, 13 doubles, two triples and eight home runs for 38 RBI. With 47 appearances and 41 starts in the infield – primarily at first base but also filling in at third base as well – Giesler was even more deadly against ACC opponents, ranking third on the team with a .377 average and 12 extra-base hits, slugging .688.



Majoring in business administration, Giesler was one of just 10 student-athletes recognized with a perfect 4.0 GPA.



Georgia Tech’s three academic all-American selections mark the highest for a single year in program history and marks the second time in the last three years it has featured multiple honorees (2020). The Yellow Jackets have now boasted a whopping seven selections since 2019 and have had 15 student-athletes honored 19 times for their work in the classroom under head coach Danny Hall.

THE FLATS – Tyzhaun Claude, a 6-8, 236-pound forward who blossomed as one of the top scorers and rebounders in the Southern Conference last season at Western Carolina, has signed a grant-in-aid to join the Georgia Tech program, head coach Damon Stoudamire announced.

A native of Goldsboro, N.C., Claude earned third-team all-Southern Conference honors last season and led the league in rebounding in helping the Catamounts to an 18-16 overall record and a 10-8 mark in conference play. A graduate transfer with one year of eligibility with the Yellow Jackets, Claude spent the first three years of his college career at Morehead State.

“Ty is the ultimate lunch-pail guy,” said Stoudamire, who became the Georgia Tech’s head coach on March 14. “His bread and butter is on the box, and he plays so hard. He brings an energy and a spirit that we’re going to need. He competes every play. He can rebound the ball, and he makes the 50-50 plays. He’s everything I want in a basketball player. I look forward to coaching him.”

Claude finished the 2022-23 season ranked second on the WCU roster with 15.4 points per game and snagged a SoCon-best 8.6 rebounds per game. His 3.2 offensive boards per contest were likewise tops in the league while ranking 30th in the NCAA. He corralled a season-high eight offensive rebounds against USC Upstate with his league-best mark just one below that against The Citadel. In 28 games played, Claude finished with double-figure scoring 27 times, including 15 consecutive games to close season, and logged a team-best 11 double-doubles. He also led the Catamounts in blocked shots, and shot 52.3 percent from the floor and 72 percent from the free throw line.

Claude made the Southern Conference all-tournament team in 2023 after averaging 15.0 points and 8.0 rebounds in two games. Claude logged a double-double in WCU's semifinal loss to Furman with 15 points and 11 rebounds. In the Catamounts’ quarterfinal win against ETSU, Claude tallied 15 points and snagged five rebounds.

At Morehead State, Claude averaged 9.5 points per game as a freshman in 2019-20, then missed the 2020-21 campaign due to injury. He came back to score 31 points in nine games during the 2021-22 season, tallying a season-best 12 points with five rebounds against Kentucky Christian.

A product of Goldsboro, N.C., Claude's strong freshman campaign in 2019-20 included starting 19 of 30 games played. He led the Eagles with 6.4 rebounds per game along with 9.4 points per game. He tallied three double-doubles including a 13-point and 11-rebound performance against Southern Conference foe Samford in his collegiate debut and a 10-point, 11-rebound effort against SEC member Missouri.

Claude wrapped up his high school career at Moravian Prep playing for head coach Jeremy Ellis. During his junior season at Goldsboro (N.C.) High School, Claude averaged 21 points and 12 rebounds. He played AAU basketball for Team Loaded NC.

We're soon going to find out which players are risking their current tour status to join, and it's supposedly 15 of the world's top 100. Other than their card, I believe this jeopardizes Ryder/President Cup status, though I'm not sure how Augusta will handle it. Some names already floated as set to join are Bubba Watson, Lee Westwood, Kevin Na, and Ian Poulter (of course). Wouldn't be surprised if that list included older players like Sergio Garcia, Marc Leishman, Justin Rose, etc. looking for a last decent payday.

My guess is that the overall list will comprise mostly players from the DP World Tour (the top European circuit), and that will be the tour hit the hardest due to the regional overlap.

I also put in my FC for GT to land him very soon.

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I engaged in an interesting conversation this week with a high-level SEC source who was privy to the SEC Meetings down in Destin recently. The big surprise for most was the decision of the league to stick with an 8-game schedule even after the addition of Texas and Oklahoma in 2024. That seemed puzzling as it would remove more opportunities for top-flight games and probably kill off some lame FCS and lower-tier G5 games many in that league like to load up on in non-conference as either early warm-up games or the week before Rivalry Week tune-ups.

However, something I've hinted at is apparently behind the decision to keep it at 8 games. ESPN, the four-letter network is stretched thin financially and my sources tell me the league was told they are not going to pay for additional SEC games and to not look at expansion in the near term beyond the current 16-team format. Disney has spun off ESPN into their own area on their financials and they are tied to some pretty serious rights deals with various leagues all while cord-cutting is at an all-time high and inflation and the economy are going in opposite directions and likely to remain that way for a while after a long boom. The Big 10 already received bad news with some of the fine details of their new media rights deal with Fox by the exiting league commissioner Kevin Warren and despite a bump from the World Cup, Fox has plenty of their own financial concerns as well for similar reasons as ESPN.

I've mentioned on here many times that at some point the bubble would pop on all of this. I think we are getting closer to that. Streaming is becoming bigger and bigger and companies like ESPN/FOX/NBC are trying to navigate that as well without becoming Blockbuster to the next Netflix of streaming whatever that ends up being.

I've said if the ACC survives to the end of the decade the TV deal might look okay once the dust settles. It won't be more than others, but it could be more competitive over time.

College Football feels a little to me like Major League Baseball in 1994 just ahead of the strike. They are losing the plot and are going to end up losing fans with the mega conferences and money if they are not careful. No one wants to watch minor league baseball or the G-league or minor league hockey on TV.

I think a super league of 30-40 teams is doomed to fail because it will just be minor league football and people will tune out expect for those interested and it will break off what made CFB special. I'm hoping that the pushback from ESPN and likely Fox might start to stall all of this out.

The Big Ten leadership may also want to cut USC and UCLA loose before they join because that is where the lawsuit that will allow CFB players to become employees or unionize is going to come from and they will end up paying for that decision as well.

Just some thoughts, I actually feel a little better about GT's standing in all of this at the moment, but it can change on a dime.

THE FLATS – Redshirt freshman Kristian Campbell (Marietta, Ga./Walton HS) was lauded for his first year of action on The Flats, being named freshman all-America by Collegiate Baseball, it was announced Wednesday.



The Yellow Jackets’ second baseman most of the year – only missing for an early injury – Campbell showed off his incredible bat-to-ball talent as Tech’s leadoff hitter, hitting .376 for 65 hits, 16 doubles, one triple, four home runs and 24 RBI. Drawing 29 walks and 11 hit-by-pitches with just 16 strikeouts in 173 at-bats, he reached base at a .484 clip.



In conference play alone, Campbell hit a gaudy .388 with 45 hits, 10 doubles and two home runs, drawing 19 walks, five HBP and striking out just 13 times in 116 at-bats for a .493 on-base percentage.



In the ACC, the Marietta, Ga. native ranked as the second-toughest to strike out at 10.3 at-bats per strikeout, as well as fourth in on-base percentage, sixth in average, eighth in runs per game and hits per game, and ninth in doubles per game.



Campbell is the 40th freshman to earn the distinction in program history and the first since Kevin Parada in 2021. Since arriving in 1994, head coach Danny Hall has coached 28 freshman all-Americans.

Arnold Palmer Cup official site | Lamprecht bio

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech’s Christo Lamprecht, a first-team All-America selection and an All-Atlantic Coast Conference choice for the Yellow Jacket golf team this past spring, is set to compete this weekend a member of the International team for Arnold Palmer Cup for the second straight year. The 27th annual competition of collegiate players representing the United States and the International team is conducted June 8-10 at Laurel Valley Golf Club in Ligonier, Pa.

The three-day Ryder Cup-style event features competition between Team USA and Team International involving both men and women, beginning with 12 mixed four-ball matches on Thursday (12 groups of two-person teams). Friday begins with foursomes matches between the men’s and women’s teams in the morning, followed by mixed foursomes matches in the afternoon (both sessions are 12 groups of two-person teams). Competition concludes Saturday with 24 singles matches. Each team is composed of 12 men’s and 12 women’s players.

The team with the most points at the conclusion of the four rounds of play will be the Arnold Palmer Cup Champion. If the two sides are tied, the International team will retain the Cup. The International team defeated the United States last summer in Switzerland, 33-27, as Lamprecht went 3-1 in his matches. Team USA leads the all-time series, 13-12-1.

Ranked No. 6 nationally by Golfstat and No. 8 in the Golfweek/Sagarin Index, Lamprecht had a victory and three runner-up finishes in 2022-23. The rising senior from George, South Africa won the Inverness Intercollegiate in the fall, and this spring has finished second at the Watersound Invitational, the Linger Longer Invitational and The Goodwin. Selected to the All-Atlantic Coast Conference team for the second straight year, Lamprecht led the Yellow Jackets to the program’s 19th ACC Championship, the title at the NCAA Salem Regional and a runner-up finish at the NCAA Championship. He was the team’s highest finisher in six of 12 stroke play events.

Lamprecht, a finalist for the Fred Haskins Award and a semifinalist for the Ben Hogan Award, is currently No. 10 in the World Amateur Golf Ranking.

Lamprecht is the 10th different Georgia Tech golfer to compete in the annual competition and the fifth to compete in two Cups. He is the first to represent the International team. He represented his home country in the 2022 World Amateur Team Championship in Paris, the 2021 Spirit International in Trinity, Texas, as well as the 2017 and 2019 Junior Presidents Cup matches.

Passes away at age 81

Thought you guys might find it funny but on the other site He was #98 in the country when he committed on 3 May. On 4 May he was moved to #70.

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THE FLATS – Georgia Tech women’s basketball head coach Nell Fortner announced the addition of Jayda Hill to her staff on Tuesday. Hill joins the Yellow Jackets as the creative director for women’s basketball.

Hill arrives on The Flats after spending the 2022 season as the social media coordinator with the Indianapolis Colts. While in Indianapolis, Hill assisted in the development of the Colts’ social channels, while helping coordinate the organization, development, delivery and tone of all social content for the Club. She helped capture and edit content surrounding practices, gamedays, and various organizational events in accordance with the team’s brand and campaign objectives.

Prior to her stint with the Colts, Hill served as the director of recruiting and creative content with women’s basketball at the University of Houston. Covering the Cougars for the 2021-22 season, Hill was responsible for all social media content including game highlights, hype videos, in-game photography, graphics and creating a mini-series. Additionally, as the director of recruiting, Hill developed all content specific to recruiting including graphics and videos.

Hill has also held stints at Quincy Media Company as a multimedia journalist and Central Missouri athletics department, working in media relations as a graduate assistant.

A native of O’Fallon, Ill., Hill was a track and field student-athlete at the University of Central Missouri, where she graduated with a bachelor of science degree in digital media production and minor in sports communication in 2018. She earned a master of science in kinesiology and sports management from Central Missouri in 2020.

Now that Miles Kelly is staying in school (praise the Lord), is our 2023-2024 team roster now set? If so, can you share your expectations for the staters and the rotation guys?

KQ- I think they are probably set unless there is a HS kid or one other portal piece floating around they'd like to take a shot at. Really the only thing I could see would be a true center at this point though. I think Damon wants to hold some ships for next year. If there is proof of concept with a good product he should be able to upgrade over what's available now anyway.

It's hard to say what the exact rotation will look like in terms of who starts and who doesn't. I think if he is going to follow his NBA trend they will be 9-10 deep most nights. That would look like this

PG- Sturdivant or Abram, Forrest
SG- Kelly, Terry or Abram or Coleman
SF- Reeves or Coleman or Kelly, Gapare
PF- Reeves (I think they'll play small a lot) or Claude, Gapare, Ndongo
C- Claude or Dowuona

My guess is Ndongo and Gapare will take a little longer to work into the rotation both seem pretty raw. Coleman and Reeves are the two wild card guys to me that haven't lived up to their potential yet. They can play smaller with Sturdivant, Abram, Kelly, Reeves and a big as well. Reeves basically replaces Jalon Moore in this scenario and will have to defend bigger guys. Gapare is a wildcard in this too.

Dowuona will be interesting as well because I just am unsure how many minutes he can play and if he can play at the pace they are probably going to play at.

Do you think that James Ramsey has the best chance of becoming the HC at GT after Danny Hall retires?

KQ- I have no idea what J Batt's thoughts are on this topic so I'll let RJ weigh in.

Do you think that the new head coach will be able to make use of Pastner’s late season improvement (I know most of our improvement came as a result of beating up on bad teams, but still)?

KQ- The schedule was really goofy last year and that made the season more uneven. It was something I noted before the year even started as a major issue and then you had Deebo Coleman and Ja'von Franklin both nursing leg injuries limiting both of them and that didn't help.

I think the experience that Coleman, Kelly, Kyle and Terry have is something to build upon and all have shown the ability to play as major ACC contributors, it has been more of a consistency issue especially with shooting that has hurt them over time. Damon should be able to help there and they have enough guys now to roll other options in if someone is struggling and that was a problem last year because the team was very thin.

Which happens first…
Key leads us to a bowl
CDS leads us to NIT or NCAAT
They do it same season

KQ- It is probably the third option, but that may not happen until 2024 (2024-25 season for hoops). Both programs are very young at key spots and have some holes that will take time to fill. I like the 2024 FB schedule a little more than the 2023 schedule as well.

KQ - a few weeks back you had expressed concern that CDS may not be able to field enough players to hold quality practices in addition to noting he appeared to be learning some key processes on the fly (using cutting an International player and related scholly as an example). Obviously many JOL subscribers were concerned with that early CDS assessment as we respect your view on such matters. What are your current thoughts on where the basketball program sits with regard to your previous concern about a high enough quantity of quality players to field a competitive team as it appears good progress has been made since that time?

KQ- Sure, from everything I've gathered he was definitely diving into the deep end of the pool because so much changed from when he exited the college game to jumping back in especially with NIL and the transfer portal now major things. He was also trying to put together a staff and recruit and retain guys as well. I think he has put together a decent team. They didn't hit a home run at the big man spot, but they should be okay based on the way he wants to play to work around that. I think he is realizing there will need to be some proof of concept on what he is doing and some gains in NIL before he is at the footing he wants to be at. I know he is very actively trying to raise more NIL money for example.

The thing I was not concerned about was Xs and Os. I know he knows more about basketball than many other coaches around. I'm not concerned about that, I think GT isn't as cutthroat as other programs so it is a little different too and that was an area of concern. Stoudamire is like Key in that he is all about ball. Key has the added bonus of knowing GT and having those deep connections while Damon is starting from square one. He did a really good job of filling most of my areas of concern with the roster and I think they have a solid team. He probably should've kept a Jordan Meka or Cyril Martynov because they are still very thin if there is an injury at the 5 spot, but overall I'll give him an A for the roster he was able to cobble together.

Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work. Never asked a question on here before but figured I'd ask a light hearted question in if you could pick one college sport to get more attention and coverage what would it be?

KQ- Thanks for the kind words. I do enjoy volleyball and I would enjoy covering that, but it is a time/resources issue for me along with the interest isn't there for it. That would be the one I would enjoy adding.

Would you describe yours and Russell's approach to the work week (when you aren't at a camp) as more proactive vs reactive?

That is, do y'all have a daily or weekly plan as to contacts you plan to make with recruits, players, coaches, and sources, or is a lot of your time spent receiving and reacting to folks contacting you?

I'm guessing it's a combination and if so, what percentage would you assign to each?

And then there's always the out of the blue unexpected "breaking news" you have to work into your work day...

KQ- So every day I have a post-it note with what I need to work on that I write the night before. RJ has specific days he has assigned content like the Q&A/visitor lists/post-visit updates or whatever and generally we are proactive on stuff, but it is relative to kids responding or what we have in our audio archive of interviews that need to run and what is going on each week. During the season is it very regimented because we have specific days with football media or hoops media and the other days we backfill with recruiting content. I probably spend 50% of my time on the phone, texting or DMing with sources or my staff about whatever we are working on. Russell is probably more like 75-80% doing that.

Miles Kelly’s return leaves 2 spots left I think. There are still good players in the portal as I think it was around mid-June last year when Pastner secured Javon Franklin. Do you think Damon will look to fill those spots with win-now guys, younger guys who can develop, or neither and hold the spots for 2024 kids?

KQ- Really the only thing they could add right now is a big man. I'm not sure what's available there and what's within the NIL budget or worth the risk. Most of the kids left are holding out for money or have some skeletons or flaws in their game or just haven't announced where they are going yet.

You’ve shared your views on what you think might happen down the road with expansion, but I’m not sure I’ve read your take on what you believe is best for GT. Obviously for now starting to win again is what matters, but do you think it’s better for GT to have a seat at the table 10 years from now in a 40+ team D1 or to be a big fish in a smaller pond like Boise State and UCF were?

KQ- I don't think the D1 will be 40+ teams if it turns into a super conference. I think it will be USC/Bama/UGA/UF/OhioSt/Michigan/Clem types that make up what I think will be a 30-40 team league and GT doesn't fit into that. My hope is that the TV rights come crashing down and they put some blocks up on transfers and make the players parttime employees and make them have to earn NIL the way it was intended by selling jerseys or sponsorships with a car dealership instead of the money laundering system that several big schools seem to be using it as.

My hope is that GT is playing actual college sports. I have no interest in covering minor league football or basketball and if I wanted to cover pro sports I'd go cover Atlanta United or the Braves.

Canceled an OV to NC State and other trips...

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech seniors Ross Steelman and Connor Howe, key members of the Yellow Jacket team that won the Atlantic Coast Conference championship and finished runner-up at the NCAA Championship in 2022-23, were named to PING All-America teams Tuesday announced by the Golf Coaches Association of America. Steelman was named to the second team, while Howe was named honorable mention.

They join teammate Christo Lamprecht, who was named a first-team All-American by the GCAA last week. All three players made the All-Atlantic Coast Conference team.

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.

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.

Finishing up a couple other stories from yesterday, but did get confirmation on two things this morning-

Clemson is quickly losing confidence in landing OL target Jameson Riggs. I’ve talked to sources in the state of GA who currently believe GT and Auburn are in the driver’s seat. He visits Atlanta this weekend, and I expect GT to push extremely hard in an attempt to lock it down.

Four-star Grayson TE Kylan Fox has finalized his official visit for this weekend. GT has a seat at the table going into the weekend, and the family is excited still about the possibility of Kylan staying close to home. Don’t be surprised if GT offers his younger brother during the visit.