Off to a bit of a late start after typing out the Petty story, but there’s about 300 kids here today.

Some notable names here to camp-

2025 Ga. WR Cal Faulkner
2025 Tenn. TE Luke Hutchinson
2025 Tenn. TE Aaron Mattingly
2025 Fla. RB Jojo Troupe
2025 Ga. DB Kory Pettigrew

2026 Ga. RB CJ Givers
2026 Ga. OL Jayce Sanker

Western Michigan has a strong contingent of coaches here, including head coach Lance Taylor.

Coaches from Memphis, UAB, Chattanooga, and Albany State are all here as well.

He recently broke out all FBS QBs in tiers here

TIER 5a: The Transfer Market II: Endgame (eight players)​

Florida's Graham Mertz, D.J. Lagway
Georgia Tech's Haynes King, Zach Pyron
Virginia Tech's Kyron Drones, Collin Schlee
Oklahoma State's Alan Bowman, Garret Rangel

We're still in the very early stages of properly evaluating the impact of the transfer portal on QB play around the country, but last year's numbers tell a pretty clear story. There were 113 FBS quarterbacks who started at least eight games. That group can be separated into three distinct categories: homegrown talent, first-year transfers and transfers who had been on campus for more than one season.

Dig into those three camps and you'll see a stark difference between them:

Homegrown talent (48 QBs): 60.0 Total QBR, 61.9% completions, 2.2-to-1 TD:TO ratio, 6.8 yards per dropback
First-year transfers (36 QBs): 58.1 Total QBR, 62.1% completions, 1.9-to-1 TD:TO ratio, 6.4 yards per dropback
Multiyear transfers (29 QBs): 70.0 Total QBR, 65% completions, 3-to-1 TD:TO ratio, 7.4 yards per dropback

What does this mean exactly? Could be nothing. After all, it's a one-year sample set, and some of those multiyear quarterbacks were established successes even in 2022 (Penix, Nix, Gabriel, Williams).

But it could also be that success is correlated with familiarity of a system and comfort in an offense, and so Year 2 (or beyond) starters are simply better. This makes some intuitive sense, which leads to a better question: Who might be best primed to take a leap in Year 2 after a transfer in 2024?

Mertz, King, Drones and Bowman look like the obvious choices. All had some degree of success in Year 1 at their new schools, but all should be well-positioned to take another step in Year 2, with some pretty clear areas in need of improvement.

What you need to know:

• A comparison:
  QB A: 18 starts, 59.9% completions, 6.92 yards/dropback, 44 total TDs, 23 turnovers, 4,819 total yards
  QB B: 17 starts, 60.1% completions, 6.92 yards/dropback, 46 total TDs, 15 turnovers, 4,192 total yards
  Aside from those pesky turnovers, you'd certainly say they're incredibly similar in their production, right? QB A shouldered a bigger load for his offense, so perhaps the turnovers aren't a surprise.
  Who are they? QB A is the career starts for Georgia Tech's King, who flourished after escaping Jimbo Fisher's offense at Texas A&M but clearly has some room to cut back on the mistakes. QB B is the career starting stats for Ohio State's Howard, who figures to be the most important transfer quarterback of the 2024 season. We'd wager few Ohio State fans are excited about their quarterback looking a lot like King, but it might actually be a credit to what King could do in 2024 instead.
• Playoff-era ACC QBs to throw for 2,800 yards and 25 touchdowns and rush for 700 yards and 10 touchdowns: Lamar Jackson (twice), Deshaun Watson, Jerod Evans and King.

Good morning. Several high school programs, both in Georgia and beyond, are here at Georgia Tech today for the first 7v7 of the summer.

With several GT targets set to compete, should be a good day.

Kelly and I will have updates and eval notes throughout the day.

Excited specifically to get eyes on Santaluces (Fla.) WR Jamar Browder and CB Caden Gordon.

Gordon is a top target. Browder looks the part in warmups.

Mark your calendars

From an AJC article:
Almost all of the valedictorians who responded to the AJC’s questions are planning to go to college — overwhelmingly, they’re heading to Georgia Tech in Midtown Atlanta.

Tech is the top destination for the East Cobb kids:

THE FLATS – Recognized as part of the nation’s top student-athletes for their combined performance on the field and in the classroom, Georgia Tech baseball featured four student-athletes on the 2024 Academic All-District Team, the College Sports Communicators announced Tuesday.



The Yellow Jackets receiving recognitions are:

• Carson Ballard, Biomedical Engineering
• Dawson Brown, Business Administration
• John Giesler, Master’s – Real Estate Development
• Ben King, Business Administration

To be named academic all-district, a student-athlete must maintain a career GPA of 3.5 or higher, while holding on-field status as a starter or important reserve. The four Yellow Jackets selected mark the second-straight year Tech has had four or more all-district members. Tech earned multiple selections for the fifth time since 2012 (2012, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024) and the sixth time overall since 1979.



Academic all-district honorees advance to the academic all-American ballot. First-, second- and third-team (when selected) academic all-America selections will be announced in June.

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I've said this numerous times, but Georgia Tech has bigger fish to fry (to use a Paul Johnson phrase that angered UGA fans) than investing deeply in overhauling the baseball program this summer. J Batt has a full plate with a massive construction project, a $20-plus million dollar budget to pay players through the school directly, and supporting the two main revenue drivers, football and men's basketball in that order of priority. This is a changing landscape in college athletics and all money is going in on the two drivers and really football is what moves the needle. GT and their donors have invested HEAVILY in Brent Key's vision for restoring Georgia Tech to national relevance at a key time when many things will be in flux.

Danny Hall has had a tremendous career, but he will be 70 next season and took over the program when George H.W. Bush was still president in the fall of 1993 and coached his first season during Bill Clinton's first year in the White House. I was just wrapping up middle school when Danny became Tech Baseball's leader. He regardless of the last of postseason success over the last 16-18 years has been a great leader for the program, huge for fundraising for Tech and has done a ton around the Tech community to help. Danny is a good guy, but he is in the last year of his contract this upcoming season and it is clearly going to be time sooner than later to make a change. Batt knows that, Danny knows that and many of you have wanted that change for several years.

Hall has the fourth-longest active streak as a coach at the same program trailing coaches at Dartmouth, Stony Brook, and Binghamton. Hall has just over 1,400 wins and sits at 17th all-time in D-1 baseball wins with a chance to jump as high as 13th with a strong 2025 season. He is a HOF coach.

So my read on this from talking to people has remained the same all year, I expect Hall to return for 2025, but I do not foresee him coaching beyond that point at Georgia Tech. Hopefully they will find a tasteful way to celebrate his tremendous legacy running this program and hopefully the fans complaining the most can get on board with the idea of a farewell tour for Hall and show up at the Rusty C and cheer on the Jackets and wish Hall the best as he wraps up a HOF career at Tech.

I really don't follow college baseball, but for those that do, what needs to happen for Tech to be great, honestly?

Wildly different tone than the past few years

Figured it was time for its own thread:
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THE FLATS – Head coach Michelle Collier has added a pair of freshmen to the incoming 2024 recruiting class, signing middle blocker/right side Mira McCool and defensive specialist Lydia Zeng to the roster. The signings bring the current recruiting class to five, including three high school signings: McCool, Zeng and Logan Wiley, who joined the Yellow Jackets in January, and two transfers: senior Luanna Emiliano and junior Sofia Velez.



Mira McCool | Freshman | Middle Blocker/Right Side | 6-3 | Birmingham, Ala. | Homewood HS | Alabama Performance

McCool comes to The Flats following a remarkable four-year career at both Homewood High School and Alabama Performance Volleyball Club. The 6-foot-3-inch net front presence earned herself a spot on the Alabama High School Volleyball Coaches Association Class 6A All-State team in both her junior and senior seasons, being named 1stTeam All-State after her junior year, when she posted 382 kills, 128 digs and 35 blocks. Her senior year, McCool stepped up as team captain, leading the team its third-straight Area Championship while reaching over 500 career kills.



McCool has been lauded for her leadership on and off the court. She achievements extend into the classroom as well, where she was named a National Merit Finalist in the State of Alabama. She plans to study biomedical engineering while at Georgia Tech. She is the daughter of Dr. Brian McCool and Dr. Tarika Bhuta, who, together, run an Ear, Nose and Throat practice out of Homewood, Ala. Her little sister, Ellis, also plays volleyball and will be entering her junior season at Homewood HS this fall.



Follow Mira on Instagram: @mira_mccool



Lydia Zeng | Freshman | Defensive Specialist/Libero | 5-6 | Marietta, Ga. | Walton HS | TK Volleyball Club

Zeng joins the Georgia Tech volleyball team following a very strong athletic and academic career at Walton HS. The Marietta native saw playing time on Varsity for all four years, starting the final two seasons as the libero and her final season as team captain. She finished her high school career with 525 digs, 73 aces and 87 assists while leading Walton to a 7A GHSA State Championship appearance in her senior season, earning herself a spot as one of the Top 5 liberos in the state of Georgia according to PeachStateVolleyball.com



In the classroom, Zeng has excelled, recognized as a Georgia Scholar, one of only 177 in the state, and was named a National Merit Finalist in the state of Georgia after delivering a 4.773 cumulative GPA in high school.



Follow Lydia on Instagram: @lydiazeng.24 and on X @LydiaZeng7



The 2024 signing class is now up to five members, featuring graduate transfer setter Luanna Emiliano, junior college transfer DS/L Sofia Velezand three freshmen: McCool, Zeng and middle blocker Logan Wiley. The 2024 roster currently contains 17 Yellow Jackets with the possibility of adding more through the transfer portal.

RIP Larry Allen. Arguably the greatest Offensive Lineman to ever play the game.

Geep Wade lands another top OL target.

Fire away

Q’s take tomorrow, mailbag probably late tomorrow night.

Want to clear out a backlog of our recruiting stories while I’m trying to take a break in Maine.

Good morning.

Georgia Tech’s first official visit weekend is coming to an end, and the vision for the 2025 class is, slowly, starting to become more clear.

The vibe around visitors across the country heading into this weekend was that it was going to be extremely hard to get kids to lock in after one visit and not go on others.

That vibes has carried into Sunday morning, based on the majority of the conversations I have had thus far this morning with sources, parents, and recruits.

I’ll post updates as I get them this morning, both from GT’s visit weekend and from elsewhere.

I’m watching the baseball game, but just noticed that Duval is currently tied for the lead in the PGA Tour Champions tournament. He hasn’t been in contention in a tournament for a very long time. Current coverage on the Golf Channel.

Good morning. Following a brief delay waiting to hear back from sources close to Fellowship Christian, I've confirmed that priority Rivals100 OL Josh Petty's official visit is underway.

Having the first official visit there is interesting, as they can set the bar quite high going into his other visits. I'll see what I can gather on him after his visit wraps up.

I'll update this thread as more names confirm they are in, or visiting just to workout for the staff in a camp or workout setting.

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Released a top schools list today with GT on it.
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Greetings from GT. Lots of good OLs today

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Torian Chester from Westover
This kid could get an offer