What topic/team/rebuild should I cover next?

I’m fresh off a trip to the Gasparilla Bowl. Love the rejuvenated Jackets

Brent Key is definitely the savior of Georgia Tech Football.

I'm a lifelong GT fan and it's been hard with UGA being the sun of College Football and Tech being so bad. Depressed and nothing to look forward to not now that's in the past Brett Key has made me love Tech again I honestly hope our QB Haynes King stays healthy and gets trained in the off season same with the entire team so many players I'm looking forward to seeing break through and become NFL caliber

Turns out the Georgia game was competitive. Tech had 363 yds of offense and 205 yds on the ground.

As someone who kept my season tickets during the Collins’ debacle (and yelled “MONEY DOWN” ironically as we seemed to always give up the 3rd down), this is a great summary. I think what sealed his hire was marching into Athens with a game plan and actually scoring first against Georgia with backup QBs(!) as Jeff Sims was out for the year. The game stayed somewhat close until the end of the first half, which was far better than anyone expected, especially on the road. Key has thrown a lot of red meat to GT fans in terms of circling the Georgia game on the calendar, rather than making excuses as Collins seemed to. As long as Kirby is in Athens any win will be a huge upset for Tech, so we’re realistic about it, certainly, but hearing that fight was a breath of fresh air. As a lifelong fan I’m over the moon Key got the nod, he loves the school and there is clear buy-in from the players. It’ll be great to watch Key and Kirby square off each year, regardless of the outcome. You have to love former players who come home to coach their programs. That being said, THWG. 😊

As a lifelong, diehard Tech fan, this season has restored my faith in the program. Sure, there have been some tough losses, however I love that we have raised our ceiling by beating some ranked opponents. Haynes King will undoubtedly be the best quarterback in the conference next year, at least heading into the season. We also have a lot of great skill players coming back on offense. Our defense has been pretty bad this season, but the bright side is that it can only get better. Our defensive backfield is actually pretty decent, but our front seven needs a lot of work. I see Tech being on the short list of contenders for the conference next year, as UNC and FSU will most likely take a step back. Clemson should have a better year though. All that being said, I love the direction of the program. Go Jackets and THWg!!!!

I’m a Clemson fan but have to give them credit they’ve impressed me this year I see them being good for the foreseeable future hopefully we get some good future matchups

I am glad to see Haynes King doing well in GT. I had no problem with the guy at A&M, but it was just clear that SEC play and the environment wasn't quite right for him. I hope he can continue to suceed at GT during the rest of his college football tenure.

Bowl game time! 🐝🐝

Ive been to over 30 Georgia Tech games and im 12 ive been a fan for all my life!

As a GT fan I was pleased with how well GT played against uga. I get that a loss is still a loss, but the spread was 23 points and GT only lost by 8. Hopefully they do well in the bowl game to get some momentum for next season and can do well in the portal. I dont think Brent Key is some offensive or defensive guru, but i believe he is a good football coach, and connects with his players. I think he will be successful at GT

This is what I’m talking abt. Thanks so much!!! 💯 💯 💯 go jackets!

As a Georgia fan i love that the North Avenue Trade School is getting better. Its always good when the rivalry is competitive.

Nicely done, enjoyed it.

J. Batt is the behind the scenes main ingredient

GEORGIA TECH 45 uga 31 Go Jackets! Sting 'em!!!

Hoping for their continued growth and success!

I thought Key at first was just going to be your typical interim head coach during the #24 Pitt game back in Oct of 2022 after Collins was fired but he proved the whole world wrong that he was worthy being a HC and handle things respectfully for the players and got them a surprising win. This would also lead to him to another ranked win game at North Carolina who were ranked #13 and despite them being rusty in the 1st half they managed to shock the world again by beating them with 21-unanswered points and they won the game without their starting QB and their third string QB. That’s the type of resiliency that I knew Key was the guy for this job and to save this program because he’s not here to mess around and to produce silly branding, he’s a guy that wants to compete and win games by coaching the right way. I’m happy to see this team be successful again and seeing Key finally have his recognition that he’s been working his tail off to get this job for a long time. #GoJackets

Good and fair video. I am very thrilled with how well Coach Key has lead this team this year. I am also as thrilled with the season that Haynes has had. No, we won't beat UGAg with almost certainty. But as you noted, we are in a bowl and two years ago, a bowl game seemed years away. I was hopeful we could make a bowl coming into this season and I thought we would. It's even more gratifying given that many of the "expert" felt we would win 3-4 games, which I always thought undersold us. Of course, after BG, 3-4 was looking more likely but the team responded. Sure, I would love to upset UGAg, but I will be very, very happy to finish 6-6 and then to hopefully actually get a WINNING SEASON if we can get a bowl win! If you had asked me two years ago today about a bowl game and a winning season, I would have sadly laughed.

You have to mention BeBe with Megatron! Demaryius Thomas.

I’m going to probably write a novel about the past five Georgia Tech football seasons, I have so much to say about my beloved Jackets. I think I’m in agreement with you for the most part on everything you said, the Collins hire was a clear mistake in hindsight. Even those who don’t know one lick about football could tell you that, I’d love to travel back in time and be a fly on the wall in the GTAA meeting that made that decision so I could know what the motive was behind it. But one things for sure, it didn’t work. Key I am really growing to like as a guy and as a coach. Not that I ever disliked him but I wasn’t sure of his ability to coach given his role as a lineman’s coach and recruiter didn’t pan out that well in Geoffs tenure but I think when all is said and done we’re going to find out just how much coaches weren’t allowed to do under Collins. The immediate eye grab for the college football world about Brent Key is this: He wins big games. Yes, the loss to Bowling Green is still inexcusable but he has us believing that we can beat teams with a little number next to their name. I as a season ticket holder was at the North Carolina game and I just knew as the game was winding down that I had witnessed a classic. As Haynes King said “it was Tech like”. When the recruiting starts to gel, and I trust it will, I think we’ll be poised to be competitive with anyone in the country. The challenge ahead will be one thing: Money. We need to donate to the Tech way and to Alexander-Tharpe to get the ball rolling for our dreams to become reality. Go Jackets!

Thank you for this video it means so much! I love my Yellow Jackets!

This year I don't think you can tell the story of Brent Key (or even Haynes King) without talking about Buster Faulkner. You should do a video on him sometime.

We’ve won 3 games 3 years in a row and haven’t made a bowl game in 5 years, now we’re above 500 with a bowl game and several upsets and a close game vs now top 10 Louisville. So yeah Id say we’ve risen quite a bit

I think Tech has the right guy now. Their recruiting pool is limited due to academics. They have barriers that many schools do not have. I recall an old story from a UGA coach many years ago, He said he always took high-powered Math textbooks on his recruiting trips to see players who were torn between Tech and UGA. He showed them what they would have to master at Tech to graduate and more often than not that sealed the deal for UGA:)

Ppl forget that Georgia Tech was a powerhouse in the past. They have won multiple National Championships in their history. Including their last one in 1990. Split the NC with Colorado that season.

GT Fan and Alumnus here. I've watched all your GT videos and this one is great like the others. Looking back at the 20 years before Paul Johnson's retirement ('98 - '18), we were a consistently good, occasionally great team. In those 20 years, we went to bowl game 18 (90%) times, were ranked at least once throughout the season 15 times (75%), and ended the season ranked 8 times (40%). Also have some great conference runs, winning twice and being runner up another 3 times. While the Paul Johnson era was less good near the end, I don't think you could have asked for much better from a program with tough academics and low athletic spending. Geoff Collins was pretty bad, you made three videos on the point, so I won't belabor the point but 3-9 three times in a row, combined with so many losses being absolute blow outs, was rough. He was so bad the AD that hired him was fired too, which was bittersweet since he was an alumnus, but we got an alumnus coach now and a great AD in J Batt who I think is young and understands what needs to be done in the current collegiate athletic landscape. Like you said the Bowling Green game this year was horrible, but we honestly should not have beat Miami, so it evens out in the end in my mind. This year we finished 4th out of 14 in the ACC, and had a real shot being 2nd if we had beat Louisville, which is amazing to say for a 1st year head coach with a team that was previously bowl ineligible. The players and fans like Brent, we got a good recruiting class lined up for next year (33rd overall which is amazing for GT), and King will be back next year as well. The future is looking up for returning to consistently good, occasionally great; going beyond that will be another discussion regarding if a program like GT can ever feasibly muster the resources to compete against the biggest and best teams routinely. The future of the ACC is also spotty, which worries me as well as I don't think GT would come out on top in an ACC realignment.

This video is going to blow up after the win over the dwags Saturday. Go jackets, THWG!

I know this is a bit of a stretch. But we were up against Louisville for most of the game, played tough against Ole Miss before they ran up the score at the end. This could have easily been an 8 or 9 win season. Really looking forward to this team’s progress next year

maybe the most celebrated 6-6 season of all time at GT

Its definitely been a season with some highs and lows, but this season is definitely a step in the right direction

How has Brent Key been so successful?

The Gt team has some people who are young and hopefully they will improve next year and also can’t wait for the recruits we got also.

every preseason, I pick a team that I think is going to exceed expectations and have a surprisingly great season, like 10+ wins out of nowhere. This season, I picked Mizzou, and was right. Last season, I picked Kansas State, and was right. It’s still way too early for me to lock in a 2024 pick, but GT has been one of my frontrunners for a while.

They finally found their QB after nightmare of Jeff Sims

I love to see GT getting some love. It's incredible what Key has done. Tech very well could have been 7-4 or 8-3 (loss to Louisville late and bowling green). Going 6-6 and seeing a bowl game this year is all I ask for. I'm pleased with how well the season has gone.

I think Brent Key is the coach for the future, just focus on recruiting the right QB. A smart QB will come to Tech

as you can see from the profile picture i love tech all my life and love key this is the future for sure

Coach Key is likely going to become one of the top coaches in Georgia Tech history. When your coach loves the institution he represents and the young men he coaches you have a winner and you keep him.

Well... that uga game was pretty competitive;) GT wins 8 games next year. 4 of 5 OL return. Lead RB returns. Top 3 WRs return while getting back their superstar WR Leo Blackburn from ACL surgery. Plus they are already looking at the portal hard. Also, they are about to flip WR Gatling from Texas A&M, and will likely end up with a top 30 2024 High School class and top 20 High School and transfers class.

Georgia Tech Football is showing America that smart student athletes can compete in a Power 5 Conference. This coaching need to continue recruiting hungry young man that want a college degree and those with chips on their shoulders. They should North Carolina and University of Miami how to play team football.

Gotta do unc football this year Man we are so overrated it’s not funny anymore 😢

How and where should we celebrate when we beat the Gawga Bullfrawgs on Saturday?

Lifelong Tech fan here. Great video. We love Brent Key!

Tough schedule. We all want that Bowling green game back should be 7-4 right now. Excited next year they’re bringing back almost everyone

As a lifelong Georgia Tech fan who was there in Athens when Joe Hamilton, who should’ve won the Heisman in ‘99 but lost to Ron Dayne mostly because the former Badger broke the all time rushing record, hit Kelly Campbell for the game winner to beat the Dawgs. I’ll be honest though, I couldn’t stand Paul Johnson. Yes he won an Orange Bowl (that was the first year during the college football playoff though so it wasn’t a BCS bowl rewarded to one of the best 8 teams in the country since it was the first year of the CFP) but we did beat Mississippi State and Dak Prescott in that game and the Bulldogs were #1 earlier that season. Johnson thrived early at Tech because although his scheme was absolutely brilliant and he’s one of the greatest X’s and O’s coach in football history at any level, he was a terrible recruiter because whether you’re a lineman, QB, WR or even a RB, you’re not developing skills you need as a pro running the triple option. Johnson took full advantage of a loaded roster left by Chan Gailey, who was literally the polar opposite of Johnson: An incredible recruiter who, when it came to running things on the field, might as well have assumed he was coaching futbol instead of football. Had Gailey had enough sense to not have Reggie Ball, statistically one of the worst QBs in college football history at any level (who started all 4 years, 3 with Calvin Johnson) at QB and literally anyone else (heck, they would’ve been worlds better just having Calvin run the wildcat or RPO’s and making little 5-10 yard dink downs or just using his incredible size and speed to run defenders over it’s possible Gailey is the one who retires this season, goes down as one of the greatest coaches in Tech history (which is saying something because we had John Heisman who led us to this day the largest win in CFB history, a 222-0 drubbing of Cumberland, Bobby Dodd and Bobby Ross, who won a national championship at Tech in 1990 before making an ill fated decision to leave to go and coach the Lions in the NFL). That’s how great of a recruiter Gailey was. But you hit everything on the head and that’s why I’m subscribed to your channel. We have a brutal schedule next year but Haynes King was absolutely phenomenal (2800 passing yards 700 rushing yards 38 total TDs 16 INTs) considering how limited he was in terms of weapons. Eric Singleton runs a 10.19 100 meter dash (faster than any time Tyreek Hill has ever run) but unfortunately he was a true freshman and you can tell he just needs more reps as he split his time between football and track in high school and at 5’11” he plays smaller than his size. Those things should improve though. He had over 700 yards and 7 TDs I believe. Our #2 option is another burner in sophomore Malik Rutherford who is much more seasoned at playing receiver but doesn’t quite have Singleton’s speed and at 5’8” that’s a problem. That’s one of the reasons why tight end and UGA transfer Brett Seither had 7 catches on the season, 4 for touchdowns. I feel like if our top 2 receivers keep developing and we can pick up a solid possession receiver the offense will be near unstoppable. Haynes King had a phenomenal season showing why he was a 5 star recruit at one point but he would’ve had an even better campaign had he had receivers with more experience. A lot of his interceptions were on his receivers. Tech has a brutal schedule next year but I feel like this team is a couple players on the DLine away from being a factor in the ACC which is why losing top sack man Kyle Kennard to South Carolina in the portal really hurt. But if there’s someone who can problem solve that, my trust is in Brent Key. Great stuff Scott. Love your content and style.

What is the measurement for an insane rise? 6-6 is tough to seem insane. Not trying to take away that the team is miles improved. And I think they will keep improving.

Love this

Go Tech keep up the good work ! Great Coach !

The '23 Jackets have been Jeckyl and Hyde...gonna take a year or two more to wash off the Geff stank.

GO JACKETS!!!🐝🏈🐝🏈🐝

They were literally running the wishbone a few years back.

I'm an old fart...been a Tech fan since the 50s...remember some great teams under Bobby Dodd, then slowly but surely Tech struggled to compete against top teams. Now Brent Key has made me believe again.

Go Jackets! Love Brent Key

A forgotten member of those mid 2000’s teams is our tribal chief Roman Reigns ☝🏾

can u do a video about Duke football with Mike Elko🥺

Scott, the phrase "money down" at Georgia Tech is banned for another 8.5 years.

I loved Georgia Tech triple option. Oh, the option

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I believe we will see a repeat of the oleary days key is that kind of coach

Haynes king is really good

I’m cautiously optimistic for Georgia Tech. Geoff Sims being left to fail at Nebraska is good.

It is all relative. You can still get tickets for 10 bucks. At another school about 90 miles away they once fired a coach the year the team won 10 games. Tech will forever live in the shadow of the other school unless they find a way to spend hundreds of millions to upgrade the staff and recruit the best players. If tech only got half of the players inside 50 miles of campus they would have a top 20 class every year. My daughter is in the band and this is her first bowl game (Tampa)

Im all here for the rise of Georgia Tech football. after using them a lot in NCAA football 14 and liked em a lot ever since

I don’t think Key is going anywhere. It’s probably why he came here from Alabama and stuck around through Collins. Bet he’s had his eyes on the GT HC job for quite some time.

I will give it to the nerds he is the coach nobody wanted in a job nobody wanted and they have surprised a lot of folks

I like Key, but as a Tech fan the right answer was and is Willie Fritz. Fritz has had a conference title, a Rose bowl win and only lost 2 games since Key was hired. One of the loses was a close loss to the same ole miss team that blew out Tech.

Paul Johnson kill Tech football with running the option that killed recruiting. What top QB or wide receiver coming to Tech with a triple option offense? They miss out on Deshaun Watson, Trevor Lawrence, Justin Fields, all out of the Metro Atlanta.

I believe if they never left the SEC they would be a top tier program still to this day and UGA wouldn’t have became what they did because back in the 50s and 60s when they were SEC they were the top program in GA.

Georgia tech is back!!!

Wouldn't be surprised if tech is where MJ morris ends up

God I hope they beat UGA-though extremely doubtful.

Go Jackets 🐝🐝🐝

i disagree with a statement you made here. georgia tech was a power house in the 1950-1960s

I'm gonna enjoy a great big ole loaded "Walking Dawg" wid fries and a cold soda pop at da Vahcity when we whip those stankin gawga bullfrawgs dis Satiday!!!

6-6 is indeed a rise from the Collins years. Congrats on going from terrible to mediocre.

Go Jackets

Not sure if you actually watched GT play the had some of the worst Qb play in the power 5, he only put up huge passing yards in blowout losses and he has a TO problem

Three road Ws* 😬

Nobody cares about academic standards, Vanderbilt has high academic standards. They also never got scared or made stupid decisions in the athletic department and left the SEC.

Dumping Simms off to Nebraska really helped too...bastards. Can't turn the ball over a dozen times a season and expect to win.

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Why I’m a tech fan

What rise are y’all speaking of. Being bowl eligible make it a rise.

They're about to be 6-6. How tf can this be consodered a rise?

I love the videos but how is this an insane rise isn’t tech around 500

Meteoric rise?! You have been easier to watch but come on. Except for the gift from Miami, your record would be exactly the same as last year.

Second.

6-5...calm down!

ITS THE LZRD SLEEVES

Ima a dawg through and through, but I support all GA teams. As long as tech isn’t against my dawgs I rout for them. Glad they’re doing better

…I don’t know man, they’re still 6-5

Neeeerrrrrrrrrrds!!!!

WHATS THE GOOD WORD???????

"IMPOSSIBLE RISE" ??? They have been good and bad all season. They lost games they should have won. Key should have changed DC before the season. The Miami win was a gift and not deserved.

it's not insane....it actually comes from a plan....you need to learn the meaning of insane.

Can you talk about the rise of UNLV football this year

Hold on. Catch your breath. Tech is 5-3 in the ACC. Should be 4-4 if Miami didn’t go stupid. The key will be recruiting. Can Tech convince good players to come there? Of course the answer is not often. But they should be able to compete in the ACC on a regular basis. The athletic department has really lost a lot of ground in the FBS. The alumni need to pay up and show up.

Dude how many times are you gonna use the word impossible in your videos?