2024 Recruiting

justafan said:
DL are the personnel we need most and that's where our decommitments are happening. Great
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GT should be using the Portal for proven DL’s. Worked with Keon White. Unfortunately GT lost Solomon Byrd to USC after Byrd committed to GT.

Safer bet to get 2 a year from the Portal who have performed at the FBS level vs 3-5 guesses coming from the HS ranks. You still take 2+ a year from HS (based on need), but the Portal is the route to go in order to fill-in the gaps.
 
USCJacket said:
Solomon Byrd
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does have 5 sacks but given how God awful their D is he is not much of a difference maker
SOMEBODY is going to get sacks for a team, even the bad ones.

This second guy is a 3 star. Those are interchangeable. It is not good for anybody to leave us but we will probably backfill with someone else just as serviceable OR use the opening for a transfer.
 
USCJacket said:
GT should be using the Portal for proven DL’s. Worked with Keon White. Unfortunately GT lost Solomon Byrd to USC after Byrd committed to GT.

Safer bet to get 2 a year from the Portal who have performed at the FBS level vs 3-5 guesses coming from the HS ranks. You still take 2+ a year from HS (based on need), but the Portal is the route to go in order to fill-in the gaps.
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Proven DLs are leaving Tech and/or getting poached to bigger teams. Keon White was a converted TE that had 1 good year at ODU, and we took a chance on him. Of course, he turned out to be a star.
 
Vespinae said:
Proven DLs are leaving Tech and/or getting poached to bigger teams. Keon White was a converted TE that had 1 good year at ODU, and we took a chance on him. Of course, he turned out to be a star.
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Uh, he had a great year at ODU.
 
RoanokeJacket said:
does have 5 sacks but given how God awful their D is he is not much of a difference maker
SOMEBODY is going to get sacks for a team, even the bad ones.

This second guy is a 3 star. Those are interchangeable. It is not good for anybody to leave us but we will probably backfill with someone else just as serviceable OR use the opening for a transfer.
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The talent on the DL at USC isn’t the issue. It’s the piss poor coaching / scheme under DC Grinch. Byrd as a backup last year made an impact and as a starter this year is leading the team as you mentioned in sacks (5), 6th in tackles (24) with 3 FF’s. He would have been a day 1 starter at GT in 2022.

2nd part I agree with regarding 3 DL’s starting elsewhere (Ole Miss, Colorado and WVU) but let’s hope some of that was more of leaving because of the former HC vs anything else.
 
GTRules said:
How many decommit this week?
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Well most of the rest of the ACC sucks mostly so they aren't being lured there unless somebody has more money.
 
May I remind you knuckleheads that some of our best recruiting classes came on the heels of some of our worst seasons.
 
00Burdell said:
May I remind you knuckleheads that some of our best recruiting classes came on the heels of some of our worst seasons.
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How much do recruiting classes really matter anymore for us in terms of being great vs average? Any player we get out of high school that's great is unlikely to give us more than a year of it.
 
GTLiebs said:
How much do recruiting classes really matter anymore for us in terms of being great vs average? Any player we get out of high school that's great is unlikely to give us more than a year of it.
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We should just hold them hostage via grades or something.
 
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