Georgia Tech Notches Its 15th Commitment
Statesboro High School Offensive Lineman Freddie Burden committed to Georgia Tech over the weekend.
Why Georgia Tech? "It’s one of the best combinations of college football and education you can get."
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What about others still on list?
Last I checked Tech had offers on the table for several more linemen. Do the latest pick-ups mean that these offers are now off the table? Does it mean Tech has a pretty good idea from private conversations that these other linemen are going somewhere else? I am referring primarily to Defensive line but I think this pick up (along with recent pickups) seems to be shutting the door on some linemen that were given offers. How does this work?
by Atlanta's original team on Jan 16, 2012 9:44 AM EST reply actions
We had about 4 slots left going into this one
Now that we have 3 left, the two biggest targets left for us are DT Dalvin Tomlinson (4-star, AJC Super 11), who is deciding between us and Alabama (we look to be the front runner for a couple reasons), and DE Alex McCalister, who is announcing his decision between us, UNC and Florida in the next week or so. With the last slot, we may take a kicker/punter type, or we may take a best-available case. DE Justin Thomason will get an offer if the numbers work out, but he hasn’t been an eye-popper for the coaches and isn’t quite at the top of the priority list.
Overall we’ll be giving about 18 scholarships, and have currently got 15 commitments.
The Church of Paul Johnson - There's not much to it outside of whooping ass and giving haters the finger. To HELL With georgie!
by LilBroey700 on Jan 16, 2012 10:30 AM EST up reply actions
as long as it's a solid kicker/punter type
Better to have died a small boy than to drop this football - John Heisman FromTheRumbleSeat
by Winfield Featherston on Jan 16, 2012 10:39 AM EST up reply actions
Those that you mentioned were on my mind but also . . .
Michael Flint and Kenderius Whitehead. Some of the others that were offered I just noticed verbally committed to other schools.
by Atlanta's original team on Jan 16, 2012 6:10 PM EST up reply actions
Interesting
how before, it was “Georgia Tech vs. Florida Gators for OL Recruit,” and now it’s “Georgia Tech over Middle Tennessee State.” Just sayin’.
It's all case-by-case
It’s also GT vs UNC and Florida for a DE, and GT vs Bama and uga for a DT. And we look to be the frontrunner in both cases, according to sources.
The Church of Paul Johnson - There's not much to it outside of whooping ass and giving haters the finger. To HELL With georgie!
by LilBroey700 on Jan 16, 2012 11:00 AM EST up reply actions
From 3-star Athlete Michael Summers (projects as a WR)
While schools like Florida and Georgia have inquired about Summers in the past few months, the talented Statesboro star says he isn’t going anywhere but Tech.
“I feel just like felt the day I committed, and that’s 100-percent solid with my decision to go to Georgia Tech,” he said. “I knew Freddie’s offer was coming, it was just a matter of when. It feels great to have my best friend as a teammate for 4-5 more years.”
The Church of Paul Johnson - There's not much to it outside of whooping ass and giving haters the finger. To HELL With georgie!
by LilBroey700 on Jan 16, 2012 12:57 PM EST up reply actions
Burden's UF offer was assumed...
to be given on the spot if he had gone on his scheduled OV to UF next week…which of course is now moot.
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
by TBuzz on Jan 16, 2012 11:27 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
Don't take my
snide remarks too seriously. I’m just trying to stir the pot.
Regardless what gets reported
It is nice to be in the running for kids who have the option of going to Florida or Bama. Although, in the case of Bama, they’ve begun rescinding offers and pushing kids back to next year as they’re already at 26 commits, so maybe if they took a DT, they got a better one than Tomlinson?
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
What Bama did to Justin Taylor is utterly attrociousness and unethical..,
Forcing a kid to sign in 2013 after he’d been committed for over a year? Ridiculous.
"Reach down in there...TURN THAT DAMN THING UP!" - Coach Paul Johnson
by TBuzz on Jan 16, 2012 11:56 AM EST via mobile up reply actions
In my wildest dreams
If Nick Saban ever wanted to come coach on The Flats I hope we’d run him out of town. Despite CPJ’s austere personality he’s known as a coach who does his darndest to set kids up for life. His players get paraded in front of Fortune 500 execs for internships and professional networking nearly as often as they play football in front of NFL scouts (and scouts do come to Tech games, I met some this season.) If they’re injured, they keep their scholarship and even get to help as trainers or GA’s if they’re willing and able. This is the way it should remain at Tech. I really wish it were that way in all of college football.
I met her on the campus, sir, cheering the Brave and Bold.
by GT_Jason on Jan 16, 2012 12:08 PM EST up reply actions 2 recs
EDSBS' expose of
Bama’s “thenshirting” is disturbing.
Paaawwwwllll, they’s ruinin’ the game asking these kids to wait a year.
CEO Coach now has a bad connotation in my mind.
You'd do it for Randolph Scott!
RANDOLPH SCOTT!
by DressHerInWhiteAndGold on Jan 17, 2012 7:16 AM EST reply actions
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