So who leaves? Attrition.

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stech81 said:
You are like my wife you are not going to say you are wrong.
CB Dorian Walker
Just completed his redshirt freshman season as the #4 CB on the depth chart. Played sparingly in all of the team’s regular season games, recording 3 tackles all season. Made an interception against Vanderbilt.

Players ahead of him on the depth chart entering his sophomore season include rising senior Step Durham, rising senior Lance Austin, and rising junior Lamont Simmons. In other words, he was due to again spend a majority of 2017 on the bench and on special teams before having a shot at starting as a junior in 2018 — and that’s assuming he could beat out incoming recruits such as Tre’ Swilling and Jaytlin Askew.

LB Emanuel Bridges
Just completed his freshman season, having redshirted after enrolling in January 2016.


Players ahead of him on the depth chart entering his freshman season of 2017 included rising junior Brant Mitchell, rising junior Vic Alexander, rising senior Terrell Lewis, rising junior Tre Jackson, and rising sophomore David Curry. As Georgia Tech continues to play in many 2-linebacker sets, there’s a decent chance Bridges wouldn’t have seen much of the field in 2017 and may not have had much opportunity to start until 2019.

WR Christian Philpott
Just completed his redshirt freshman season, outside of the two-deep at wide receiver. He recorded a catch for 9 yards against Vanderbilt, and only played in two other games without recording any statistics.

Players ahead of him on the depth chart entering his sophomore season included rising senior Ricky Jeune, rising junior Brad Stewart, rising junior Mikell Lands-Davis, rising true sophomore Jalen Camp, and rising senior Antonio Messick. Rising sophomore Harland Howell also played in more games in 2016 than Philpott did, and both Steve Dolphus and Jair Hawkins-Anderson will be eligible to play as freshmen in 2017 after redshirting in 2016. It’s unlikely he ever would have started at Georgia Tech, and it was probably unlikely that he would have played a significant amount over his final three seasons.

SDE/DT Trent Sellers
Just completed his redshirt freshman season, outside of the two-deep at both SDE and DT. His only game action was in a blowout win against Vanderbilt, and he didn’t record any tackles or other statistics.

There are no less than three players that would have likely been in front of Sellers on the depth chart entering his sophomore season of 2017 at either position, including senior Antonio Simmons, junior Tyler Merriweather, senior Desmond Branch, junior Kyle Cerge-Henderson, sophomore Brentavious Glanton, and potentially redshirt freshman Chris Martin. It’s unlikely he ever would have started at Georgia Tech.
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And none were forced out to make room due to oversigning. I feel bad for your wife :D
 
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Whiskey_Clear said:
And none were forced out to make room due to oversigning. I feel bad for your wife :D
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You could still use those scholarships on recruits next year. Oversigning or not, it isn't hard to believe a coach would't want non-contributors just taking up space for multuple years. And you seem so sure that we never ever oversigned when nobody even paid attention to this stuff until recently.
 
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Techster said:
Eh, I know some on here want to believe that GT is above a lot of things, but the reality of it is GT does the same things a lot of the factory schools do...we just don't do it to the extreme levels they do.

"Cut" players before their eligibility runs out? We do it, former SAs that have sat in front of coaches who gave them "the talk" attest to it.

"Pay" players? If you dig deep enough on this board, you'll find some very well informed posters have alluded to it...hint: look up posts on the 2007 class. I doubt we're paying tens of thousands, definitely not hundreds, but GT isn't as clean as many want to believe.

Taking in players and "getting them through" classes for sports? Quite a few of the "attrition" is because the staff got players as far as they could and SAs had no choice but to transfer to a JUCO or lower level school.

There's probably a LOT more going on than we'll ever know, or want to know. Being a fan of a school is a choice. Some of it isn't as clean as we'd like, but business is rarely clean. College sports is a business. If it doesn't sit well with you, choose the Ivy League...but they're not wholly clean either. How about High School sports? Same.

If you don't like that compromises are made to be successful, then maybe quit following sports altogether because even the lowest levels of sports (pee wee ball) has some elements that isn't clean.
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No point in embracing being only a little dirty. Might as well go all in and out “Bama” Bama.
 
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smokey_wasp said:
You could still use those scholarships on recruits next year. Oversigning or not, it isn't hard to believe a coach would't want non-contributors just taking up space for multuple years. And you seem so sure that we never ever oversigned when nobody even paid attention to this stuff until recently.
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A lot of attention was previously paid to this issue. With widespread derision of other programs that obviously did this.
 
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Ibeeballin said:
Now who is moving the goalpost now? Oversigning or not. The processing process is in proceess
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Maybe we didn’t really land on the moon and filmed it in a backlot outside of Hollywood? After all we only have pictures from one direction and there’s no stars in the background of the pictures.
 
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