Rutherford in Portal

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wesgt123 said:
It's getting very hard to cheer for any individual players. They're gonna give us the finger faster than we can close out a full season.

Something has got to be done. Contracts are needed like right now yesterday.
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Cheer during the season for the individuals. Cheer for the coaches and admin in the off season. Always cheer for the GT.
 
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MonroeJacket said:
Oh, you mean high schoolers? It’s a different world. Can’t rely on developing guys from day one anymore unfortunately. We have to get portal guys. Two of the three graduating are portal guys themselves. I even forgot to mention Leary. That’s FIVE receivers we started the season with we knew we had to replace before we ever even had an incoming portal commit. We signed THREE HS receivers. Add Malik, that’s six receivers we have to replace. Our entire two deep at WR. That’s 6 in 6 out. I just find it really hard to believe Malik is leaving for any other reason other than being disgruntled. Based on the timing alone. If it was his intention all along, why wait?
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By your own reckoning, prior to MR our WR attrition was 5/6. So we added 3 trannies. Why should that concern him with 5/6 on the 2-deep gone?
 
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Listen, guys….

We can be upset with the Malik news, OR we can all be ABSOLUTELY STOKED that these two IMMACULATE vintage jackets just showed up to my door. Still got the tags. Mods I’m sure you’ll move, but I wanted all the eyeballs on this. Santa came early.

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I'm sorry to see Rutherford go and I hope he has second thoughts. He would have been the primary WR next year. Oth, Tech may have the best stocked WR room in the ACC if not the country. There are several players who haven't even seen the field yet who could turn out to be real contributors and there are good WRs from both the frosh and the portal coming in as well. Given that, the year he was coming off of, and his smurf-like size I can see why Rutherford may have thought this was his best shot at some real money. It is too bad, for both him and Tech that he probably isn't going to rethink the decision.

I was talking the situation over with my wife, the management labor lawyer. She agreed that going to the donors every year to pony up more and more money won't work for long unless there's a T. Boone Pickens in the background. The solution she saw has been mentioned here before: contracts. The problem is that a contract is usually given for a proven commodity and most football players aren't that, even after a couple of years. That will mean that the teams that can afford the freight will put up the money up front for the very best players and hope for the best. The rest will pay for the best they can get, hope players pan out, and, if they don't, cut them off with, perhaps, a scholastic scholarship. I'm inclined to think this will lead to a flurry of lawsuits until the law gets settled. So was she.

Well, we'll see and pretty soon, I'd guess.
 

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Tommy_Taylor_1972 said:
All I can say for athletes who are running for the money now is I hope they don't repeat the Georgia Tech Sammy Drummer story, thinking that sports are their life and that a million dollars will last a lifetime, not realizing that a degree from Georgia Tech would. Sammy put sports ahead of everything, including getting a degree, not making the NBA, and wound up a janitor at age 35 and was killed in an alleged drug deal in Muncie, his home town.

Sports is just a part of life in their youth for most. Those who who do make it to the next level and make lots of money at it, often have unfulfilled lives when they reach the age of many of us now. My advice to today's student athletes is "meet your commitments to your college, coaches, and your game, and finish your degree and your mothers and grand kids will be proud. You are at the age of developing character and integrity that will be you the rest of your life." That was the advice of Homer Rice to thousands of athletes in his 97 years. These transferring athletes will not be major contributors to Georgia Tech as graduates and will be soon forgotten. I have very little respect for them unless they get their degree and then transfer to grad school if they want to play sports at the college level later. Georgia Tech made an investment in these athletes, and they did not do their part because of the lure of NIL and no-fault transfer. This is just my personal feelings on what sports and athletes have become.
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Sammy Drummer...now that is a name I have not heard in a long time. So much potential all of it wasted. Sad.
 

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mts315 said:
If I'm the coach he doesn't get another snap in practice much less the Bowl game
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He may decide to stay. He was one of our top two receivers. Why would you give up when you really don’t know if he is leaving. Unless he told the coaches he is 100% gone he should practice and play.
 
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Really appreciate what Malik had become for us and how well he contributed to the team, and was every bit of a Tech Man while here. But it's going to be next man up and I personally am very curious to see who steps up. Leaving, we have Abdul Janneh, Eric Singleton Jr., Chase Lane, Leo Blackburn, and Malik Rutherford. While Isaiah Canion, Zion Taylor, Trey Horne, Bailey Stockton, Chris Elko, etc. is still here with the team. Couple that with the incoming transfers I'm very curious to see how our WR depth shakes out. Losing that much production will be tough to replace but this coaching staff has given me reason to believe that we can be just as productive moving forward.
 
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