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Georgia Tech’s not-so-secret door to hoops redemption? Players
Josh Pastner isn’t out of work because he couldn’t draw up a nifty inbounds play. He won an ACC Tournament with players...
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Classifying college athletes as employees would protect them from abuse
NCAA schools commercialized intercollegiate sports long ago. There was no turning back once they decided to maximize...
Georgia Tech’s Brent Key has the players to win in ACC
Brent Key isn’t taking on a rebuilding job at Georgia Tech. Key already repaired the team’s spirit after it was broken...
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North Gwinnett football coach Stewart gets Georgia Tech analyst job
Bill Stewart, the football coach who led North Gwinnett to a state title in 2017, is taking a job as an analyst on...
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Georgia Tech hires longtime coach Tim McFarlin as high school relations director
Tim McFarlin, who led Roswell and Blessed Trinity to state championships before becoming Fellowship Christian’s...
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Josh Pastner’s forever young Georgia Tech team may be bad again
Josh Pastner stressed his team’s youth Monday, and just in case I didn’t get the point, his messenger reiterated it...
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The right man for a tough job – Brent Key, Georgia Tech head coach
This feels like the right hire. It mightn’t feel that way five years from now, but we’re not living in 2027. We’re...
Georgia buries Georgia Tech but needs to be better in postseason
ATHENS — Georgia Tech hadn’t put this much pressure on Georgia since 2016. That’s the last time the Yellow Jackets beat...
Weekend Predictions: Another big win for Georgia over Georgia Tech
It’s Rivalry Week in college football. Time for Georgia vs. Georgia Tech, Ohio State vs. Michigan and Weekend...
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Georgia Tech should give Brent Key the job for good
Ideally, if Georgia Tech football makes Brent Key the permanent head coach, it will work out for the Yellow Jackets...
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Weekend Predictions: Georgia rolls again, Georgia Tech continues slide
I woke up early (for a sports writer, not a normal person) Sunday to watch the Seahawks play the Buccaneers because...
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Georgia Tech ‘still growing’ but blowout loss to Miami is a bummer
We still don’t know how long the Brent Key era will last for Georgia Tech. Can it even be considered an “era” when he’s...
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Weekend Predictions: Georgia wins big, Georgia Tech clips Miami
Two weeks ago, Weekend Predictions was surging toward a fifth winning season in five in picking games against the...
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Weekend Predictions: Victories for Georgia, Falcons
Weekend Predictions went into Sunday with a chance to salvage a winning record. Alas, the Raiders lost as favorites at...
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Weekend Predictions: Falcons and Georgia win, Georgia Tech beats spread
Weekend Predictions is looking good halfway through the football season. Well, I guess the 17-game NFL season won’t be...
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Weekend Predictions: Georgia wins, Falcons and Georgia Tech lose
I’ve long believed that soccer gets it right by not only allowing games to end in ties but awarding a point to each...
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Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins experiment needs to end
This was the kind of game that can get somebody fired. In Geoff Collins’ 37th game as coach, Georgia Tech was...
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Weekend Predictions: Falcons open with close loss to Saints
Weekend Predictions played to a draw in Week 1. It felt like a loss. My standards are high after three years of proving...
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Clemson isn’t great, but there’s still a big gap to Georgia Tech
The first sign of trouble for Clemson in 2021 came in Week 3. It was one thing when the Tigers struggled to score...
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Weekend Predictions: Big wins for Georgia over Oregon, Clemson over Tech
My analytical brain rejects the idea of “clutch” performance in sports because nearly every attempt to prove it using...
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Geoff Collins promised more. Georgia Tech has delivered less
I probably should say thanks. Geoff Collins has made it easy for folks like me. He brought “Money Down” to the Georgia...
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Here’s how Georgia Tech’s football season will play out
Georgia Tech football tried to leave the past behind. The Yellow Jackets still haven’t moved forward from the...
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Who runs college football? At the moment, nobody
Pete Thamel of ESPN reports the College Football Playoff’s board of managers raised a salient question: Since nobody...
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Jeff Sims is best reason to believe Georgia Tech can be better
It was clear from his first snap that Georgia Tech’s Jeff Sims was no ordinary freshman. The big man with quick feet...
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Chaos in ACC Coastal Division leaves opening for Georgia Tech to surprise
Clemson is the big bully in the ACC’s Atlantic Division, and Florida State used to be. Every team has a chance to rule...
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Pigskin Pickin’: Georgia Tech to win four games, Georgia to win all but one
Not to sound like an old fuddy-duddy, but games have become the least interesting things about college football...
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Bradley’s Buzz: Under new management, the Braves’ draft is still producing
The Braves have executed two top-10 draft picks under Alex Anthopoulos. In 2018, they took Carter Stewart, a high...
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With college football in flux, where can the ACC turn?
It seemed the crowning achievement of a quietly brilliant career. ACC Commissioner John Swofford secured the league’s...
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How NCAA can help ‘students be students’ by improving education
Dabo Swinney isn’t the only coach with hypocritical opinions about paying college athletes. Swinney is only the most...
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An SEC-only playoff? Probably won’t happen, but it could
ESPN’s Pete Thamel reports that next week’s SEC meetings in Destin, Fla., could see the conference discuss the...
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Nick Saban might be a hypocrite, but he’s not wrong
Week in review: Nick Saban of Alabama accused Texas A&M of “buying every player on their team.” Jimbo Fisher, the A&M...
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Saban rips Jimbo’s team. Jimbo likens Saban to God
What hath NIL wrought? Only the SEC’s goofiest impromptu offseason news conference since Steve Spurrier stepped forward...
Asking again: What exactly does the NCAA do?
Today’s exercise was intended to offer guesses as to how college sports will look in five years, which would mean 2027...
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The College Football Playoff doesn’t need to grow just yet
On Dec. 1, a hotel meeting room in Dallas was prepared for an announcement that the College Football Playoff had agreed...
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College football’s Wild West is head coach salaries, not NIL
College football is out of control. Boosters are pooling money to attract talent to their favorite program. It’s all...
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After bad start to offseason, Georgia Tech’s Geoff Collins recovers via transfers
It felt like Georgia Tech’s football program was crumbling, and coach Geoff Collins couldn’t make it stop.
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After one good season, Josh Pastner’s Yellow Jackets back in ‘desperate mode’
Georgia Tech athletic director Todd Stansbury’s constituents were upset with football coach Geoff Collins after another...
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Demaryius Thomas: Gone too soon, never to be forgotten
On Nov. 29, 2008, Georgia Tech opened its game against Georgia with a completed pass. The Yellow Jackets were in their...
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Geoff Collins’ third season ends with Tech being outscored 100-0
Geoff Collins’ third season as Georgia Tech’s coach ended not with a bang but with a series of thuds. His Yellow...
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The gap between Georgia Tech and Georgia has never seemed so vast
For the first time in two years, toe will meet leather in a Georgia-Georgia Tech game. Of all the rivalries lost to...
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Everyone can see Georgia Tech going in wrong direction with Geoff Collins
SOUTH BEND, Ind. — Maybe you were down on the Yellow Jackets after they lost their third consecutive game and fourth in...
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It’s Year 3 at Georgia Tech, and the clock on Geoff Collins is ticking
If you can’t see progress in this Georgia Tech season … well, you’re not alone. Geoff Collins said he sees progress...
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‘Big-time player’ Jeff Sims saves Georgia Tech at Duke
DURHAM, N.C. — Georgia Tech was great while blowing out North Carolina, then got pummeled by Pitt. Jeff Sims was good...
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There’s an opening for improved Georgia Tech in wild ACC
The ACC is a mess. That’s nothing new for the Coastal Division, where Georgia Tech plays. The difference is that...
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Yellow Jackets dominate UNC to prove they’re just getting started
Georgia Tech keeps accumulating evidence that its opening loss to Northern Illinois was a dip, not a dive. Losing a...
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Georgia Tech flirts with upset of Clemson, settles for encouraging loss
CLEMSON, S.C. - Because it’s the only goal worth having, winning was Georgia Tech’s aim here Saturday.
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Before schedule turns nasty, Georgia Tech enjoys win over Kennesaw State
This is no time to quibble about the relative worth of a win. Quibbling is not a luxury afforded Georgia Tech and Geoff...
Georgia Tech should be wary of everyone — Kennesaw State included
When the Georgia Tech-Kennesaw State football match was made back in October 2014, the Yellow Jackets were on their way...
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Why I’m still buying that Geoff Collins can win at Georgia Tech
Geoff Collins is a good salesman. That’s a compliment because selling is a big part of the job for college football...
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#404Takeover? Georgia Tech loses to Northern Illinois
Geoff Collins met the media after one of the worst losses in Georgia Tech annals and spoke, of all things, about...
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Weekend Predictions: Georgia clips Clemson, Tech hammers Huskies
The 2020 football season was a downer in so many ways. There was a raging pandemic, a limited number of spectators at...
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The ACC finds new friends. The SEC needs no friends
The ACC, Big Ten and Pac-12 are set to announce an alliance. Still unclear is what such an alliance would do, other...
In Year 3 of rebuild, Georgia Tech’s defense has the players to ‘attack’
For the first time since he was a graduate assistant, Georgia Tech defensive coordinator Andrew Thacker is in Year 3 at...
Collins’ latest pitch at Tech: ‘It’s time to play really good football’
CHARLOTTE, N.C. - In this new, untamed, everyone’s-a-human-billboard frontier that is college football today, each...
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Pigskin Pickin’ again! Georgia Tech wins six games, UGA wins it all
Observant readers – AJC readers are nothing if not observant – will have noticed that something has gone missing. It...
A new Georgia law paves way to pay college athletes
Inside a glitzy new recruiting center built into the University of Georgia’s famed football stadium, Gov. Brian Kemp...
Could Georgia Tech’s Moses Wright really go undrafted?
Every ACC player of the year — the league has chosen one since 1954 — has been drafted by an NBA team. The 2021 ACC...
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As always, the winner of Georgia Tech’s spring game is optimism
There at the lightly guarded border between optimism and self-delusion is where you’ll find every spring football game...
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At 47, Cink winning again on PGA Tour and enjoying it more
Creeping up on five-oh, with nest emptying, Stewart Cink is trading in his big Duluth golf club manse for something...
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In college hoops, the transfer portal has become a turnstile
At the 2018 Final Four in Glendale, Ariz., the NCAA brass offered its corporate thoughts on the issue of the day — the...