2025 Recruiting

[coldbeer]

 

[justafan]

15 offers. We must really want him!

 

[00Burdell]

15 offers. We must really want him!

Problem is, if he signs, we only have 70 schollys left for the rest of the team.

 

[GTRules]

Problem is, if he signs, we only have 70 schollys left for the rest of the team.

Wrong. We get to use 14 schollys from other teams.

 

[THWUGA]

I wonder if the negative effect on the defense is a systemic issue, bad luck, or a bad job by staff on retention. Higher demand for DL across college football means they get higher offers we can't match?

Seeing Kennard win the defensive Heisman, Ivey like top 20 in sacks, and now our leading pass rusher hit the portal is highly frustrating...

2024 was our first year in this scheme so it wouldn't point to a scheme problem. YET. I say "yet" because we have some game plans which have required our DL to be selfless occupiers instead of playmakers. I have no idea if that can pointed at, yet. Call me a yetman.

 

[Vespidie]

2024 was our first year in this scheme so it wouldn't point to a scheme problem. YET. I say "yet" because we have some game plans which have required our DL to be selfless occupiers instead of playmakers. I have no idea if that can pointed at, yet. Call me a yetman.

Just stay away from the macaroni and beef.

 

[covingtonjacket]

Higher demand for DL across college football means they get higher offers we can't match?

Yes I get the impression that impact defensive players (especially DL) are the highest demand

 

[Dawgstinger]

What challenges? We are using NIL like a champ. Get the big uglies on the OLine and let the primma donna wide receivers waste money elsewhere. As for the portal, Haynes King has been a HUGE part of getting The Wreck out of the ditch (see ND graphic) and he is a portal guy. GT should be thankful every day for the portal and NIL.

I think it's plainly obvious both NIL and Portal benefit Georgia Tech football. For one, having the money out in the open helps us because we were bad at or unwilling to financially incentive players which is why we got smacked down for sweatshirts while other programs' booster networks got away with God knows what.

For two, Portal players are clearly not interested in education so it helps that both our recruiting and transfer prospects don't have to consider taking three years of Tech classes. I know they can take athlete courses, but there is still a Tech standard or at least a stigma that must've dissuaded at least a few prospects in the past.

I'd prefer all of NCAA athletics be truly 'student athletes' instead a farm program for certain greedy sports monopolies, but that ship has long since sailed and I think we're better positioned now with the NIL and Portal than we have been in ages.

 

[G776T]

Yes I get the impression that impact defensive players (especially DL) are the highest demand

Defense is probably easier to plug and play than offense,