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  1. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    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.
  6. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    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...
  9. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    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...
  12. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    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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    Baye Declares for NBA; Retaining Eligibility

    I suspect he was "discovered" in his home country of Senegal (one of the 12 teams in the NBA's Basketball Africa League (BAL)) and then attended three basketball academies in the US, being highly recruited as an academy "graduate". It appears he wanted to go to an academic oriented US college...
  14. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    Baye Declares for NBA; Retaining Eligibility

    With a birth date of Jan 1, 2003, he was an older freshman. I was 21 when I graduated from Tech after 4 years. Times have changed for sure with the advent of basketball prep academies extending beyond the normal high school years. I can understand why he wants to go pro after his freshman...
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    Baye Declares for NBA; Retaining Eligibility

    Does anyone know what GT players get what NIL money and what they do to earn it?
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    Baye Declares for NBA; Retaining Eligibility

    https://ramblinwreck.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/GT-NIL-Policy-7.8.2021.pdf
  17. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    Bobby Dodd Renovation in the NE Stands

    The topo map shows the blue-ish lowlands of Georgia Tech that had to be considered as Tech grew. The Atlanta news article below says that Peters Park was favored below Grant Park in southeast Atlanta for the site of the new technological school in 1887 because of the low land location in Peters...
  18. Tommy_Taylor_1972

    Bobby Dodd Renovation in the NE Stands

    I remember a tunnel under the interstate when I was a freshman in Towers dorm in 1968. Extension of third st (Bobby Dodd Ave) to the east.
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    Bobby Dodd Renovation in the NE Stands

    To me it looks like the new Peters Park connects directly to the north end of Bobby Dodd Stadium. I assume the red bridk building on the far left is the Fanning building. I guess there are no more streets for cars like Bobby Dodd Way. Makes you wonder about the parking situation on campus for...
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