Drop your questions here for myself and RJ

Dunno if this is posted elsewhere, but this seems like good news even if he jets soon.

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech football has officially added six transfers to its 2024 roster. The newest Yellow Jackets are TE Josh Beetham (Yorkville, Ill./Michigan), DB Jayden Davis (Suwanee, Ga./Cincinnati), DL Thomas Gore (Nashville, Tenn./Miami (Fla.)), DL Romello Height (Dublin, Ga./Southern California), DB Zachary Tobe (Ocoee, Fla./Illinois) and DL Jordan van den Berg (Johannesburg, South Africa/Penn State).



All six have begun participating in offseason football activities with the Yellow Jackets in preparation for the 2024 season.

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Looking forward to who has a great summer only to regress dramatically next spring.

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https://www.yahoo.com/sports/lawsuit-settlement-change-college-athletics-100000988.html
I know this has been discussed but the NCAA and agreement from school presidents have allowed the "perfect storm to form" as it relates to the college landscape, and it's not good. I've included an article that specifically addresses how NIL/ Transfer Portal will impact UM sports but this will apply to all schools moving forward.

The long and short of it is that first, schools will be forced to cut programs, mainly which generate little to no revenue and disproportionately men's programs due to Title IX protections. Second, the remaining programs after this fall will cut back rosters to save money, which has already begun. These cuts will impact younger players and current commits who will be college freshmen in the fall. This is because these athletes have not had a real opportunity to compete for a roster spot.

Other issues at play exasperate the issue including the reclassification of student-athletes as employees, the development of a free agency mechanism resulting in a bidding war for a select few athletes, the ability of most of these athletes to navigate this new role, etc. We see examples of this already in the S. Sanders situation, etc.

Just to sum things up. The unfortunate part of this is that sports were once an open door for kids with the desire, ability, work ethic, etc. to compete at a high level and possibly change their lives, will become more restrictive and create the haves and have-nots.

At Pinehurst #2 this year. Here are the Jackets in the field...

Matt Kuchar: +2 (F)
Chesson Hadley: -1 (thru 6)
Hiroshi Tai: tees off at 2:31 PM EST

he had Russell working in this one.

Good morning and Happy Father's Day.

Things are a little bit different today in terms of the way the exit meetings are going today.

Confirmed visitors from this weekend-

RB Isaiah Groves
WR Landon Roldan
WR Cal Faulkner
TE Kevin Roche
IOL Cortez Smith
DE Wilnerson Telemaque
CB Cam Strong
DB Jontae Gilbert

More as I get it.

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Really enjoyed this watch. This is the stuff we need from GT. Black comedy runs through ATL (Funny Marco, Desi Banks, 85South, DC Youngfly, Druski...). Love seeing GT all over the culture.

Georgia Tech with none in the top 100, just one in the top 150. For as heavily as guys were relied on this past season, it feels noteworthy that none of the one-year transfers made the top 500 list.

142. C Drew Rogers (Hamilton HS, Ariz.)
171. 3B/RHP Alex Hernandez (Forsyth Central HS)
183. OF Bo Walker (Starrs Mill HS)
267. LHP Cam Hill
311. SS/2B Payton Green
407. LHP Joshua Evans (Peachtree Ridge HS)
428. RHP Connor Shouse (Pickens County HS)

Javian McCollum game

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Has committed to Michigan while on his OV to Ann Arbor.
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at the Scheller College of Business. The topic was leadership so they tried to ask the audience to ask questions about that and not so much about football but we still got some good stories.

Highlights:

-Saw him down a Stella Artois quickly before he got on stage

-The man hates uga. He made that very clear when asked about the game last year. Said something to the effect of him thinking about beating them at every waking moment.

-Someone asked him for a funny O’Leary story and he talked about how O’Leary was big on being early. He would constantly leave players behind if they didn’t make the bus on time. He even left our AD at the time (Braine?) behind because he was late. Brent did say that he “never left Joe Hamilton behind for obvious reasons”.

-He had his phone next to him on the table and he was checking it constantly. He apologized and said he was in the middle of a big recruiting week.

-He said after he graduated he had 3 free agent offers for the NFL but O’Leary was blunt and told him he would never make it so he asked him to be a GA for him. The Notre Dame thing happened and he thought he was going to follow him there but we all know what happened there. He decided to quit coaching and go into commercial real estate but was miserable. Got back into it when O’Leary ended up at UCF.

-At one point he talked about becoming the interim. He said he immediately called a coach down and tried to fix things (punt team). Then got together with the players and coaches. Gave everyone an opportunity to get up and leave (including coaches) if they weren’t ready to give it their all for the next 8 weeks. He was tired of all the “bull crap” (his words) that had been going on and wanted the team to take accountability and ownership of their team.

I know I’m missing some tidbits so if anyone else went feel free to add. I came away very impressed and feel the program is truly in good hands.