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  1. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    Clemson wants us out of the ACC

    Ignorant as well. The Clemson cow college has not done well against the 10th avenue trade school over the years. For the all -time football series, Georgia Tech leads, 50–36–2. They are 14 years away from breaking even. They are probably still mad because Tech hired John Heisman away from...
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    Dennis Scott Jersey Retirement

    From the GT MBB press guide on uniform numbers.
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    Practice

    I listened to it and it is truthful. I could not tell who her audience was. If to college student athletes, coaches should avoid recruiting those, and it is easy to notice that. during real recruiting, maybe not depending on recruiting services. If it was to a kids camp whose parents have...
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    Dennis Scott Jersey Retirement

    As I recall at the McCamish grand opening, most all the legends of Georgia Tech basketball were recognized by name and uniform number, at least for those played after the SEC withdrawal.. I think they were painted over during the last refresh of the Zelnak gym. I don't think today there is...
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    Dennis Scott Jersey Retirement

    There is a better chance if they have an undergraduate degree from Tech, according to the school and GTAA policy.
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    Homer Rice passes away at 97

    Agree totally with all you say. His Georgia Tech and lifetime legacy should live on by retaining and highlighting the name "The Homer Rice Center for Sports Performance" as a significant part of the replacement for the Edge building. Over 5,000 Georgia Tech athletes have benefited from the...
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    Practice

    I learned from one of my UConn coaching friends today that practices have changed since 2013, but Oct 15 is still significant as the date the entire team can practice team basketball (5 on 5 scrimmage). Until then, less than full team practice and conditioning can occur, but limited by a total...
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    Practice

    Before 2012, official team practice starts Oct 15. That midnight is often referred to as midnight madness, supposedly started by Lefty Dresell at Maryland at 12:03 a.m. on October 15, 1971, on the track where he had 3,000 fans watch the team run one and a half miles. That may have motivated...
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    Recruiting Budget

    I agree that most rich GT donors are not former GT athletes. And most former GT athletes like me are not rich donors. The NCAA rules still prohibit donors as well as former student athletes from involving themselves with any recruitment of a student athlete prospect, and former student...
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    Thanks to the basketball posters here

    Sounds like a good plan. The Tech letterwinners (several hundred still alive) and many of the coaches get together in Jan-Feb for a Letterwinners day at an ACC game. Bobby Cremins began that annual event in 1985, and we played a game after the ACC game for the first 35 years. I will let...
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    Thanks to the basketball posters here

    Why thank you TechPhi. Living in North Carolina, you are surrounded with college basketball and you know it well also. I totally agree with you that these fellow Tech Tech fans know how to analyze teams and players. I am learning a lots from them by just by tuning in. Now that I am retired, I...
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    House vs. NCAA

    Could they be IRS form 1099 contract employees?
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    Do academics mean anything anymore at college

    A lots will come out in this lawsuit, such as the truth with college recruiting and NIL and the transfer portal. As usual the lawyers and agents will win.
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    Your First GT QB

    Coach Rice is being inducted into the National Football Foundation Leadership Hall of Fame at the College Football Hall of Fame on June 20, 2024.
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    Your First GT QB

    Charlie was just a decade late in coming to Tech. Interesting discussion in the Veer Offense in https://veersite.blogspot.com/2004/06/coach-homer-rice.html to quote: "Coach Homer Rice is one of the names you will hear when the Veer offense is discussed. Coach Rice wrote one of the first books...
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    Do academics mean anything anymore at college

    Not so idealistic a belief for many of us old timers. Go back 50 years years and you will find it was true that athletes graduated. Coach Hyder had only one scholarship basketball player not graduate in his 22 years as head coach. The football team was similar. Yes, we were real students...
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    Baye Declares for NBA; Retaining Eligibility

    I did catch it on a Florida web site when Kowacie signed last year that he had $95K in NIL at Florida. According to On3.com, he is the only basketball player at Tech getting NIL. Maybe if one signs up for The Tech Way, it is revealed to them what a player gets. Otherwise we are just stabbing...
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    Baye Declares for NBA; Retaining Eligibility

    What are salaries in the G League? To make things clear, yes, G League players are paid a salary. As of this season, players have a minimum salary of $40,500 for a total of 50 regular season games. Understandably, some players earn more depending on their performances and more importantly their...
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    Baye Declares for NBA; Retaining Eligibility

    At 21, we were looking for our first full-time paying jobs. I can see him doing the same at 21, looking for that full-time paying job The opportunities are there for him to be as one of 480 players on 32 G-League teams, one of 450 players on 30 teams in the NBA league, or 180 players on 12 NBA...
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    Your First GT QB

    Charlie Dudish, for a short while. Being the #1 recruit in America in 1968 and played freshman football, Playing varsity starting QB as a sophomore, he started the first two games in the 1969 season. He then got hurt in the 3rd game. Clemson won that game, their first win at Grant Field...
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