Haynes King Update: How Do We Feel About Him?

[gameface]

Don’t wanna derail too much but I’m into the whiskey clear and can’t resist. It’s almost harder to go to college for 6 years and NOT get a degree than it is to get one. Especially for a football player. They get the most academic support and coddling of everyone on campus, especially a place like uGA. If you’ve been on a college campus for 6 years and haven’t gotten an undergraduate degree, you do not deserve to be eligible to play sports. You’re actually just wasting taxpayer dollars in that case and should have to forfeit your SCHOLARship.

So glad King fits into GT culture so well. Makes it even easier to root for him. Same with CBK. He gets Tech, and isn’t trying to do anything to change who we are or what we do. He just wants to embrace it. Brent Key wants GEORGIA TECH to have a good football team. He doesn’t just want to have 85 dudes out there that couldn’t give a rip about the school and the people they’re representing. King is fully bought into that mindset as well, and it seems like a good chunk of the team is too.

I once dated a woman who graduated from UGA who had 110 extra hours when she graduated. Her daddy kept putting money in her checking account and she stayed in school to party.

 

[devcon]

 

[bke1984]

He is still a very young guy. His personality is bent on perfection. He will be better. You can count on it.

So I’m excited too. But calling him very young is an interesting take. He turns 23 on 1/9. If he sticks around he will be nearly 25 before he graduates.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

So I’m excited too. But calling him very young is an interesting take. He turns 23 on 1/9. If he sticks around he will be nearly 25 before he graduates.

I was referring to his eligibility.

 

[Root4GT]

I was referring to his eligibility.

That was not clear at all. Good recovery though

 

[Flajacket]

Don’t wanna derail too much but I’m into the whiskey clear and can’t resist. It’s almost harder to go to college for 6 years and NOT get a degree than it is to get one. Especially for a football player. They get the most academic support and coddling of everyone on campus, especially a place like uGA. If you’ve been on a college campus for 6 years and haven’t gotten an undergraduate degree, you do not deserve to be eligible to play sports. You’re actually just wasting taxpayer dollars in that case and should have to forfeit your SCHOLARship.

So glad King fits into GT culture so well. Makes it even easier to root for him. Same with CBK. He gets Tech, and isn’t trying to do anything to change who we are or what we do. He just wants to embrace it. Brent Key wants GEORGIA TECH to have a good football team. He doesn’t just want to have 85 dudes out there that couldn’t give a rip about the school and the people they’re representing. King is fully bought into that mindset as well, and it seems like a good chunk of the team is too.

I’ve wondered how he managed to pull off that stunt.

I thought there was a requirement that you had to be making progress toward a degree to maintain eligibility.

Where is Jan Kemp when you need her?

 

[roadkill]

I’ve wondered how he managed to pull off that stunt.

I thought there was a requirement that you had to be making progress toward a degree to maintain eligibility.

Where is Jan Kemp when you need her?

I would love to see the details of how uga kept Stetson eligible by complying with the NCAA's "progress toward degree" requirements. Didn't we get burned by that rule when we changed to semesters?

 

[dressedcheeseside]

That was not clear at all. Good recovery though

I admit I had no idea he was that old.

 

[iceeater1969]

On our lads Bo Nix will be 24 on Feb 5 th 2024.
He has started 60 games.


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King was injured right leg in first year. He will be 24 on jan 4, 2024.

Maybe he gets a covid year in addition to redshirt.

 

[Techster]

We got us a good one, GT fans.

 

[CrackerJacket]

We got us a good one, GT fans.

That tweet (or whatever you call it now) translates to "We're lucky to have him". I wholeheartedly agree. The shade I can throw my Aggie relations is a nice bonus, too.

 

[MountainBuzzMan]

OK FINE! I think he is serviceable.

 

[alagold]

I luv Haynes.My only concern is all his running is going get him HURT.Think of us without him. hmmm

 

[TechPhi97]

So I’m excited too. But calling him very young is an interesting take. He turns 23 on 1/9. If he sticks around he will be nearly 25 before he graduates.

Probably why he and Weinke get along so well.

 

[ThatGuy]

OK FINE! I think he is serviceable.

Yeah. He'll do.

 

[kg01]

Probably why he and Weinke get along so well.

Yeah they be out there comparing 401k plans 'n sh*t.

Seriously though, I was always jealous when we played BYU and they got 43 year-olds across the lines 'n sh*t. Everybody over there got grown man skrength. No surprise they controlled the LOS.

 

[TechPhi97]

Yeah they be out there comparing 401k plans 'n sh*t.

Seriously though, I was always jealous when we played BYU and they got 43 year-olds across the lines 'n sh*t. Everybody over there got grown man skrength. No surprise they controlled the LOS.

Did you ever hear about the carpool lane at BYU’s practices? Their kids would pick them up so they could study on the way home.

 

[CuseJacket]

 

[slugboy]

Well, Travis did gruesomely break a leg…

The other guys have no excuse—they just got beat. Imagine if our OL was blocking as well at the beginning of the season as they were at the end—we’d have had a few more wins and some more passing TDs.

 

[dressedcheeseside]

I don’t think most of us realize how good we have it at quarterback.