Transfer Portal: Who do we need to target this offseason?

[gtee91]

Sirad Bryant.

Of the currently 20 outgoing players, only 3 have found new homes so far - Kennard to USCe, Johnson to Utah, and Dixon to South Alabama.

So I wonder what this means. I wonder if they are getting contacts/offers ? Are teams waiting ?

 

[Flajacket]

Frankly, I think it means entering the portal without a landing spot may not have been a good idea.

 

[LargeFO]

Frankly, I think it means entering the portal without a landing spot may not have been a good idea.

A lot of our guys downgrade or turn out kinda sol if ya look thru the past years.

 

[Techster]

Sirad Bryant.

Of the currently 20 outgoing players, only 3 have found new homes so far - Kennard to USCe, Johnson to Utah, and Dixon to South Alabama.

Bryant was a good get out of HS. Top 50 GA recruit, and starred on both sides of the ball.

Wonder what happened here. Higher rated than a couple of guys who have turned out to be starters in our secondary.

 

[jgtengineer]

A lot of our guys downgrade or turn out kinda sol if ya look thru the past years.

Most from any school that honom have that probelm

 

[RhoChi]

So I wonder what this means. I wonder if they are getting contacts/offers ? Are teams waiting ?

I think it’s a lack of tape + coming out of a not so great (yet) team makes them not super desirable for many teams.

 

[RhoChi]

Frankly, I think it means entering the portal without a landing spot may not have been a good idea.

I mean if you graduate and don’t get into the grad school at Tech, what option do you have.

You gotta give some of these guys credit for sticking it out as long as they could before WE booted them bureaucratically

 

[apatriot1776]

Frankly, I think it means entering the portal without a landing spot may not have been a good idea.

I'm sure it's violated often, but the NCAA's tampering rules prevent any contact with opponent coaches before entering the portal. So obviously there should be no landing spot.

If they are playing by the rules, it is certainly possible some players entered the portal with the intent of "seeing what's out there" and may still return.

 

[RhoChi]

I'm sure it's violated often, but the NCAA's tampering rules prevent any contact with opponent coaches before entering the portal. So obviously there should be no landing spot.

If they are playing by the rules, it is certainly possible some players entered the portal with the intent of "seeing what's out there" and may still return.

ESJ made comments that many teams reached out to his family. He never even entered the portal lol.

What’s frustrating is you know that if we did it, we’d get sanctioned to hell and back. But any other team can and it’s okay.

 

[leatherneckjacket]

I mean if you graduate and don’t get into the grad school at Tech, what option do you have.

You gotta give some of these guys credit for sticking it out as long as they could before WE booted them bureaucratically

Take more undergraduate classes. You choose when you walk.

 

[slugboy]

If we offered a teaching degree, a bachelor’s or master’s in education would be a good fit for graduates. even though teaching is a really stressful environment these days, a number of athletes want to get into coaching

Not likely to happen here

 

[stinger78]

If we offered a teaching degree, a bachelor’s or master’s in education would be a good fit for graduates. even though teaching is a really stressful environment these days, a number of athletes want to get into coaching

Not likely to happen here

An MS in Educational Technology would be right up our alley.

 

[BCJacket]

If we offered a teaching degree, a bachelor’s or master’s in education would be a good fit for graduates. even though teaching is a really stressful environment these days, a number of athletes want to get into coaching

Not likely to happen here

Georgia has had a shortage of STEM educators since the 90s. The state offers enhanced HOPE benefits for teacher candidates that specialize in STEM and work in high need areas.

Athletics aside, I've felt for a long time it's a huge missed opportunity for our premier STEM Institute to have NO education program at all. If you don't want to dilute the value of the degree (VT has this issue) then make it a small cohorted program that is a 5 year direct-to-master's that turns out candidates qualified to teach AP Calculus and AP Sciences. Have a strong research and Doctoral program focused on educational technology and college preparation. Work on preparing Georgia's best and brightest K-12 to be the next generation of in-state students to elevate Tech's rankings.

Rant over.

 

[kg01]

If we offered a teaching degree, a bachelor’s or master’s in education would be a good fit for graduates. even though teaching is a really stressful environment these days, a number of athletes want to get into coaching

Not likely to happen here

I've thought this for years. In a state/region that's had problems with math/science scores, it's criminal they don't use what GT offers to help there in some way.

Also agree it's unlikely to happen because ... reasons.

 

[Buzztheirazz]

This is the kind of transfer I have been waiting for! One or two more like this please!

Wow! We actually get a big ugly and NO ONE talks about it for two pages and dilutes the thread with BS about STEM and teaching degrees. Wake up folks! Look at the topic of this thread.

 

[stinger78]

Most of us can process two things at once.

 

[DvilleJacket]

Most of us can process two things at once.

Why beat a dead horse though

 

[stinger78]

Is it dead?

 

[DvilleJacket]

Is it dead

I'm just a country bumpkin who happens to love Georgia Tech but why talk about something Tech doesn't seem to care to change?

 

[kg01]

Most of us can process two things at once.

True but, to his point, this probably ain't the right thread for this necessary discussion.