2023 GT Spring Ball Thread

He also threw shade at UGA twice in the 4 pillars he discussed. He was very clear that Tech football players were going to commit and be disciplined not just on the field but in "all aspects of their lives", both in and out of the classroom.
 
AJC article on first day of practice ---


Brent Key begins his first spring practice: ‘This is a new football team’
By Ken Sugiura, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
58 minutes ago

Many of the faces on the coaching staff were new. The drills were slightly different. And as the sun shone down on Alexander Rose Bowl Field on Monday morning for the start of Georgia Tech’s spring practice, a new chapter in program history was opened.
Coach Brent Key led his team through the first day of his first spring practice as head coach, mostly observing as the Yellow Jackets toiled through a two-hour workout, the first of 15 practices of the spring. Key strode from position group to position group during drill work, staying long enough to get a feel for the activity before moving on. Sometimes he stationed himself to watch multiple groups sharing the field.
He joked that his path around the indoor and outdoor practice fields had been designed by his young daughter Harper.

“That’s why sometimes it looked like it was all over the place because that’s where she got out of the lines a little bit with her crayons,” he said.
In reality, he was following a model for practice set before him by two mentors – former Tech coach George O’Leary and Alabama coach Nick Saban.SIGN UP
“They might have called it something different; really, it was the same thing,” Key said. “And the way practiced flowed, the way it went, what drill went to the next drill, how it progressed, how you built upon a practice in a part-part-part-whole-type scenario, those things hadn’t changed regardless.”
He barked at the offensive line, his former position group before being promoted midseason to interim head coach last season to replace Geoff Collins, for a lack of focus during an 11-on-11 period at the end of practice.

Among other things, he has urged his players to set a standard in spring practice, summer workouts and in the preseason leading to the season opener against Louisville on Sept. 1 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
“We don’t have a standard yet,” Key said. “Their job is to go out and create that standard. So I don’t want to hear cheesy coach talk right now unless you really understand what it means. And to go play to a standard, well, there is none. This is a new football team.”
Fifteen weeks into his job, Key has shaped the program according to his vision in myriad ways. Most notably, he has brought on new coaches and support staff in tune with his plan for coaching, developing and recruiting. Two months of strength and conditioning workouts preceded Monday’s practice.
“I think we’ve showed major improvements,” he said.
Spring practice, which concludes April 15 with the spring game, will send the Yellow Jackets further down the path that Key has laid out.
As the Jackets practiced in helmets, jerseys and shorts, there wasn’t too much to glean about the state of Key’s team. Full-pads practices will come later after players are acclimatized.
Quarterback Zach Pyron, back from a broken clavicle injury that ended his season and wearing a new jersey number (5, from 14), threw tight spirals that found their targets. New linebacker Andre White carried his notable size (6-foot-3 and 235 pounds) well. Defensive back Sirad Bryant made an acrobatic interception of a deep ball in an 11-on-11 drill.
New offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner was one of seven new coaches on the practice field with their players. Faulkner gave constant feedback, lined up at defensive back to give receivers an opponent to play off of in individual drills and exuded an air of urgency.
Key extolled Faulkner’s football knowledge, his understanding of Tech (“what this place can be”) and his ability to teach the offense not just to players, but coaches as well.
“And that’s what you look for, is a guy that has a belief, has a system, knows what he believes in, but also understands that regardless of what that system is, we’ve got to make sure that system fits our current players,” Key said.
Offensive line coach Geep Wade was another newcomer. As he drilled the linemen on shuffling to the outside in pass protection, he reinforced teaching points by peppering players with questions.
“Don’t be so fast you get weak where?” he asked Jordan Williams, working at guard Monday.
“Inside,” Williams responded.
Across the two fields, coaches oversaw drill work and emphasized teaching points.
“It’s about developing the core building blocks of a football team,” Key said. “It’s about base fundamentals. It’s about techniques. It’s not really about the plays that we’re going to run on offense or the calls on defense or the blitzes or the coverages, or what type of schemes on special teams. It’s basically about developing ourselves as good football players and the building blocks that go along with that. That hasn’t changed in 100 years.”
About 20 recruits watched from the sidelines. They included Henry Hasselbeck from Massachusetts, the son of former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck who committed to play lacrosse at Maryland. (Matt Hasselbeck, a teammate of Tech scouting director Kenyatta Watson at Boston College, also was at practice Monday, and Henry announced a scholarship offer from Tech later in the day.) Three others were Rome High defensive lineman Justin Terrell (who committed to Wake Forest in February), four-star defensive lineman Dealyn Evans from Texas (committed to Texas A&M), and four-star athlete Amir Jackson from Portal High near Statesboro.
Key said that coaches will stress the development of four traits in the spring – toughness, discipline, execution and commitment.
“Toughness is a skill,” Key said. “It’s not something we’re born with. It’s a skill. It’s something that can be coached, it’s something that can be developed. It’s something that is expected by myself through the coaches and the coaches to the players, and it’s something that’ll be coached every day and something that’ll be developed throughout this entire spring of football.”
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
AJC article on first day of practice ---


Brent Key begins his first spring practice: ‘This is a new football team’
By Ken Sugiura, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
58 minutes ago

Many of the faces on the coaching staff were new. The drills were slightly different. And as the sun shone down on Alexander Rose Bowl Field on Monday morning for the start of Georgia Tech’s spring practice, a new chapter in program history was opened.
Coach Brent Key led his team through the first day of his first spring practice as head coach, mostly observing as the Yellow Jackets toiled through a two-hour workout, the first of 15 practices of the spring. Key strode from position group to position group during drill work, staying long enough to get a feel for the activity before moving on. Sometimes he stationed himself to watch multiple groups sharing the field.
He joked that his path around the indoor and outdoor practice fields had been designed by his young daughter Harper.

“That’s why sometimes it looked like it was all over the place because that’s where she got out of the lines a little bit with her crayons,” he said.
In reality, he was following a model for practice set before him by two mentors – former Tech coach George O’Leary and Alabama coach Nick Saban.SIGN UP
“They might have called it something different; really, it was the same thing,” Key said. “And the way practiced flowed, the way it went, what drill went to the next drill, how it progressed, how you built upon a practice in a part-part-part-whole-type scenario, those things hadn’t changed regardless.”
He barked at the offensive line, his former position group before being promoted midseason to interim head coach last season to replace Geoff Collins, for a lack of focus during an 11-on-11 period at the end of practice.

Among other things, he has urged his players to set a standard in spring practice, summer workouts and in the preseason leading to the season opener against Louisville on Sept. 1 at Mercedes-Benz Stadium.
“We don’t have a standard yet,” Key said. “Their job is to go out and create that standard. So I don’t want to hear cheesy coach talk right now unless you really understand what it means. And to go play to a standard, well, there is none. This is a new football team.”
Fifteen weeks into his job, Key has shaped the program according to his vision in myriad ways. Most notably, he has brought on new coaches and support staff in tune with his plan for coaching, developing and recruiting. Two months of strength and conditioning workouts preceded Monday’s practice.
“I think we’ve showed major improvements,” he said.
Spring practice, which concludes April 15 with the spring game, will send the Yellow Jackets further down the path that Key has laid out.
As the Jackets practiced in helmets, jerseys and shorts, there wasn’t too much to glean about the state of Key’s team. Full-pads practices will come later after players are acclimatized.
Quarterback Zach Pyron, back from a broken clavicle injury that ended his season and wearing a new jersey number (5, from 14), threw tight spirals that found their targets. New linebacker Andre White carried his notable size (6-foot-3 and 235 pounds) well. Defensive back Sirad Bryant made an acrobatic interception of a deep ball in an 11-on-11 drill.
New offensive coordinator Buster Faulkner was one of seven new coaches on the practice field with their players. Faulkner gave constant feedback, lined up at defensive back to give receivers an opponent to play off of in individual drills and exuded an air of urgency.
Key extolled Faulkner’s football knowledge, his understanding of Tech (“what this place can be”) and his ability to teach the offense not just to players, but coaches as well.
“And that’s what you look for, is a guy that has a belief, has a system, knows what he believes in, but also understands that regardless of what that system is, we’ve got to make sure that system fits our current players,” Key said.
Offensive line coach Geep Wade was another newcomer. As he drilled the linemen on shuffling to the outside in pass protection, he reinforced teaching points by peppering players with questions.
“Don’t be so fast you get weak where?” he asked Jordan Williams, working at guard Monday.
“Inside,” Williams responded.
Across the two fields, coaches oversaw drill work and emphasized teaching points.
“It’s about developing the core building blocks of a football team,” Key said. “It’s about base fundamentals. It’s about techniques. It’s not really about the plays that we’re going to run on offense or the calls on defense or the blitzes or the coverages, or what type of schemes on special teams. It’s basically about developing ourselves as good football players and the building blocks that go along with that. That hasn’t changed in 100 years.”
About 20 recruits watched from the sidelines. They included Henry Hasselbeck from Massachusetts, the son of former NFL quarterback Matt Hasselbeck who committed to play lacrosse at Maryland. (Matt Hasselbeck, a teammate of Tech scouting director Kenyatta Watson at Boston College, also was at practice Monday, and Henry announced a scholarship offer from Tech later in the day.) Three others were Rome High defensive lineman Justin Terrell (who committed to Wake Forest in February), four-star defensive lineman Dealyn Evans from Texas (committed to Texas A&M), and four-star athlete Amir Jackson from Portal High near Statesboro.
Key said that coaches will stress the development of four traits in the spring – toughness, discipline, execution and commitment.
“Toughness is a skill,” Key said. “It’s not something we’re born with. It’s a skill. It’s something that can be coached, it’s something that can be developed. It’s something that is expected by myself through the coaches and the coaches to the players, and it’s something that’ll be coached every day and something that’ll be developed throughout this entire spring of football.”
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Maybe he just hasn’t felt any heat yet, but he seems really relaxed. That’s good I think.
 
You mean there wasn’t any rap music blaring from the speakers? Unbelievable TStan got bamboozled by that clown. I wonder if G**** C****** even gives a crap that he cost TStan his job. If what I’ve heard about GC is true … he didn’t lose a minute of sleep about it.
 
Observe how fast Key answers the questions from the press - extremely detailed responses delivered at lightening speed.

Its like when you interview somebody, ask a couple questions and the candidate just nails every question - his vision is crystal clear and it seems to me that he has meticulously thought through thousands of details - nothing will be left to chance.
 
00Burdell said:
Observe how fast Key answers the questions from the press - extremely detailed responses delivered at lightening speed.

Its like when you interview somebody, ask a couple questions and the candidate just nails every question - his vision is crystal clear and it seems to me that he has meticulously thought through thousands of details - nothing will be left to chance.
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A student of the O'Leary/Saban coaching tree. None of the old hocus pocus, smoke and mirrors, dancing circles around the question that the clown used as his strategy.
 
CornerBlitz said:
A return to good, solid Coach speak. It’s so refreshing.
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That was one thing I noticed about Key last year. In his pressers he got technical. Not lazy coachspeak but actually telling you the mechanics of what was being done on the field. For someone who loves to watch the game, who's son played from pee-wee into HS I always am interested on 'how to play' and what it takes. I'm just glad to get back to 'basics', hard nosed, no excuse football. Period.
 
GoldenIsle said:
You mean there wasn’t any rap music blaring from the speakers? Unbelievable TStan got bamboozled by that clown. I wonder if G**** C****** even gives a crap that he cost TStan his job. If what I’ve heard about GC is true … he didn’t lose a minute of sleep about it.
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He's got that pillow of 11 million dollars to sleep on. He don't give no **** about the collateral damage he left behind.
 
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