Brandon Adams was one of the kindest and more enjoyable young men I've had the pleasure to be around. It breaks my heart learning about his untimely death this morning. Absolutely crushed. I can't imagine what his family, friends and teammates are going through. Prayers to all.
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WR signee Bryce Gowdy has passed away. Tragic news from his HS team confirming the news. As someone who knew the young man I am speechless. As a father and a reporter covering a team that has faced two deaths in less than a year I’m heartbroken for everyone involved.
My father passed away earlier today. We had a complicated relationship but we loved each other and he got to know my son a little through my attempts to reconnect some. Unfortunately he won’t get to know his next grandchild. RIP dad.
Beau Alexander Quinlan has joined the world this evening. It’s been a long week but baby and mom are doing wonderfully. Thanks to everyone for the kind messages and words.
Keep Georgia Tech TE Brett Seither in your thoughts and prayers today. He lost his mother which he announced on his IG this afternoon. Prayer to him and his family during this tough time.
My first advice to the next GT head coach would be to bring back
@DMoSpeaks
asap. He was the heart of the football program for many years and the heart of it.
Congrats to my friend
@CoachCollins
and his team and staff on his first ACC win. A win on the road in Miami for the first time since 2007 for
#GaTech
.
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interim head coach Brent Key after his first win also taking down a top 25 team. I can hear the team celebrating in the locker room next door to the media room
This is unbelievably sad. Demaryius overcame tremendous personal problems in his life growing up to become a star in college and then the NFL. This hurts my heart so much.
I just emailed Demaryius Thomas position coach while he was at West Laurens High School - Jeff Clayton.
He tells me that the rumors are true. The former Georgia Tech and Broncos receiver has passed away at the age of 33.
This picture says more than any of us could type or say as the Jackets closed spring practice on Friday night with the annual spring game minus a great young man taken from this world too young and too early.
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HC Brent Key has hired former Blessed Trinity, Roswell and current Fellowship Christian head coach Tim McFarlin as the Director of High School Relations. Big hire and a legend in Georgia HS coaching.
Stat of the day, Brent Key picked up his 6th win of the year and 10th as the head coach of the program in 19 games. It took Geoff Collins 20 games to win his 6th game at Tech.
Freshman WR Eric Singleton Jr. said when he made the decision to come to Georgia Tech, he never had a plan to leave once he signed with GT. The portal wasn't on his mind. He said some schools reached out to his family but he wants to be at GT.
Highlight of the presser today was AHC/OL coach Brent Key's response to a question about why he left Alabama for Georgia Tech. "(Tech) is home and I can guarantee when we are done here no one will ask that question again."
@CoachCollins
@CoachBrentKey
Jaylon King said he expects Georgia Tech to become a 9-10 win team minimum every year under Brent Key and the bowl game is now the bare minimum again like it used to be.
Big day for Georgia Tech on Friday. Jackets won the first bowl game since 2016 over UCF dominating the final three quarter, hoops beat Hawaii to advance to the championship game at the Diamond Head and Stoudamire landed a 4-star top 100 player as well before tipoff.
Former
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DL and NFL star Marco Coleman will return to coach the DL for the Jackets under Brent Key. Coleman left last year for Michigan State where he coached the whole DL in 2022. Big pickup for the Jackets.
Brent Key, "tonight we had somebody tried to come in our home and take what's ours and we defended our home. We treated this as our home. This is our home."
I’m still sort of shocked about the resiliency I saw from
#GaTech
football on every level last night at FSU. Tremendous buy-in and growth in year two under
@CoachCollins
and his staff to win a game like that through so much adversity.
Jordan Williams said the lack of GT guys going into the portal has a lot to do with how happy everyone is with the team and what Coach Key is building at GT. He said the team is very close.
Geoff Collins said that former GT and UCF football coach George O'Leary will be at the GT-UCF game this weekend to honored as a new member of the
#GaTech
Hall of Fame.
@UCFSports
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head coach Brent Key is starting to build out his defensive staff for 2024 and he has added former Duke Co-DC/DL coach Jess Simpson, a Georgia HS legend to his staff as a defensive assistant. A home run hire for Key on D.
Cabrera said that athletics should be among the best just like academics, it will change the focus and direction and give GT a chance to win. He is willing to do anything he can to make the program among the best in the country where they should be at
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I would say GT fans don't get too excited over people getting fired. Collins' staff are all good people with families and have been amazing to work with on my end. It is the nature of the business this happens but cheering for it is a bit crass.
So in the new
#Rivals250
GT has three top 200 players committed. First time in my time covering GT. Gibbs at 111, Brooks at 127 and Gowdy at 184. If they all sign that is crazy work by
@CoachCollins
and his staff.
𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘙𝘈𝘛𝘐𝘕𝘎𝘚 𝘈𝘙𝘌 𝘐𝘕 … 📺 👀
2️⃣.3️⃣5️⃣ million people watched
@GeorgiaTechFB
’s
@GasparillaBowl
win over UCF. That is easily the most-watched game of the 1st 2 weeks of
@BowlSeason
on ESPN — 780,000 viewers (50%) more than any other bowl telecast on ESPN.
#StingEm
🐝
Pastner said that Georgia Tech absolutely deserves to be in the NCAA Tournament. The Jackets have played the hardest schedule in the ACC and have four wins over top 20 teams. He is correct.
Georgia Tech tight end Brett Seither opted to play in the scrimmage today despite his mom passing earlier this week. He wanted to be out there and Brent Key said he caught two TDs today in the scrimmage.
Brent Key said as of today his team has a higher GPA at Georgia Tech than they did collectively in high school. That is very impressive at any school let alone Georgia Tech.
Tre Swilling on the UGA fans taking over the stadium, “seeing all the red on SR Day and my last game here doesn’t feel great. Everything these SRs went through, that wasn’t good. As a Gt fan it has been hard but those who were there supporting us is all we care about.”
Worked myself up enough to write something about Bryce Gowdy and his tragic passing. I hope this is the last time I have to ever write something likes this.
Georgia Tech without the ACC Player of the Year Moses Wright played Loyola Chicago closer than the
#1
seed Illinois. Crazy how good the Ramblers are playing too.
Geoff Collins said they make a drink called the Bay-Bay at Capital Grille for recruits on OVs, it is a collection of all the fruit juices mixed together and that has been something they've done at GT since he was here. Been a tradition for many years on OVs.
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moves to .500 on the season with a 46-27 win over Louisville on Friday night at Bobby Dodd Stadium. Key stat is ZERO turnovers and 5-5 in the red zone.
Credit to Jordan Usher who after the loss and doing his media session came up to me and Ken hugged both of us and thanked us for our coverage of him at
#GaTech
. Always a classy young man.
@Callmeush
remains one of my favorite players I've covered at GT.
Thank you to every coach that has reached out to me in the portal but after heavy thought and consideration I have decided to withdraw my name from the transfer portal and finish what I started at Georgia Tech. Let’s get back to work !
#THWg
Dontae Smith said that he had a great quick chat with CPJ before the game. He hadn't seen him in a long time. he said it was like when he met him in HS.
This is the craziest moment I’ve ever covered in my journalism career and probably the only time I’ve seen a press box go nuts with both media groups because of how crazy it was.
This is probably the craziest sports moment I’ll ever witness in-person. Also my most vivid memory in my decade-plus covering Gt and the only time I’ve seen almost everyone in a press box stand up out of amazement.