Tech freshman class arrives Wednesday
The newest batch of Georgia Tech football players is arriving. After one final evening at home Tuesday, incoming freshman quarterback Vad Lee planned to decamp from his Durham, N.C., home around midnight Wednesday to begin the trek down I-85 to Atlanta.
“I probably won’t be able to sleep,” said Lee, who was to make the drive with his parents. “It’ll probably be emotional and exciting and everything else.”
The entire class is expected to report to Tech by 8 a.m. Wednesday, excluding early enrollee Trey Braun, an offensive tackle. They’ll be fitted for equipment and move into their dorms Wednesday and go through orientation Thursday and Friday. The second session of summer classes begins Monday. Lee has been keeping in touch with many members of the 23-member 2011 signing class.
“Now we finally get to spend time with each other,” Lee said. “It’s going to be an awesome experience.”
He has also been communicating with current players such as offensive lineman Will Jackson, wide receiver Stephen Hill, B-back Charles Perkins and A-back B.J. Bostic.
Lee said he has spent the summer following a workout plan put together for the freshmen by the strength and conditioning staff and trying to prepare his body for the rigors of college football. He has done what he could to study up on the Georgia Tech offense, even looking at plays on Youtube.
“Anywhere I could find information,” he said.
While plenty of fans have been clamoring for Lee to win the starting quarterback job — he faces long odds, given the two-week window he’ll have to compete with No. 1 Tevin Washington and No. 2 Synjyn Days before the team begins preparations for the opener against Western Carolina — Lee wouldn’t bite.
“I just want to prove myself and just go out and do all that I can,” he said. “I can’t really control everything else. I know I can control myself and how I perform.”
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Jimmy's a Loser ...
June 22nd, 2011
8:25 pm
Loser…
Jimmy's a Loser ...
June 22nd, 2011
8:27 pm
Jimmy, there ya go again – ON A GT BLOG – spouting-off.
Loser, that’s you. Help yourself out…find something better to do.
Jimmy's a Loser ...
June 22nd, 2011
8:42 pm
Hey Loser…pull your pants up already – You’re scaring the goats!
And it sure don’t take no genius to figure out you’re a UGA fan. No, not a graduate, but obviously a FAN.
Loser…
Jimmy
June 22nd, 2011
8:53 pm
Loser,
Thanks for entertaining me for the past few hours. It’s been fun, really. I would say your wife is more “entertaining” though, but obviously you nerds don’t have wives, unless you count the blow up doll variety of course.
Buahahahahahahahahaha.
Jimmy's a Loser ...
June 22nd, 2011
9:06 pm
Like clockwork – bingo! Loser…..
We both know my statement regarding you (that you are a loser is accurate). However, your assumptions of me are so far off you’d soil your britches if you were to ever bump into me “in the ghetto”
Genius Jacket
June 23rd, 2011
9:55 am
I hope our football freshmen are ready to take nuclear physics and split the atom.
comment...
June 23rd, 2011
10:24 am
I swear Jimmy is one of the folks with 50 name lines. The fact that he quotes that great line about Tech fans not having women but using blow up dolls is quite disturbing. You seem to know quite a lot about the subject. I’ve met a lot of UGA fans, but I hope to goodness you are the only one that goes to bed at night thinking about blow up dolls.
State of GA Mental Health Hospital
June 23rd, 2011
1:20 pm
Damn…Jimmy got out again!!! Guess he’s selling his meds in ‘the ghetto’ again. C’mon Jimmy, we got your Big Mac all warmed up and supersized…he loves Big Macs.
Jimmy
June 23rd, 2011
1:53 pm
gots to runz as my sister is lookin smokin hot in the kidde pool- time to go suck face and drinks a bud or too
blackprix
June 23rd, 2011
3:12 pm
Dawg fans are delirious, have been for years and years. They win games and STILL NO NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP. Richt was suppose to be the savior and take them to the promised land, I’m still trying to figure out what that might be!
Logic and realism doesn’t exist amongst dawg fans … wishing and hoping prevails.
just the truth
June 23rd, 2011
6:51 pm
The freshman report to Tech and everybody on here wants to talk about some idiotic blogger. What next, my father can beat your father ! This is suppose to a positive site encouraging young men attending college. Set an example instead of showing your ignorance.
GT BBall
June 24th, 2011
11:11 am
Good luck VAD! Welcome to the flats, where kids prepare to become successful Millionaires.
pcb mike
June 24th, 2011
6:17 pm
Jimmy, I am always amused at someone calling someone else a nerd as an insult. If you weren’t soooo stupid, you would realize that someone who studies is probably more intelligent than those that don’t or are unable to read.
original ole yeller
June 24th, 2011
9:16 pm
Jimmy, your school has a great vet. center. We always take our animals there. However, any time you walk the streets of Athens, you smell urine on the streets. Give me a break about ghetto’s. Downtown Athens is a cesspool. Help clean up the city, before critical statements are made about some other city.
Old Jacket
June 25th, 2011
9:57 am
I saw Jimmy’s Mom I know now why has always been a dog Fan.
Jimmy
June 26th, 2011
9:54 am
Just because my pappy had to mirry his sista afta he git her pregnint wit me and I am putting the movz on my sista do not mean I am a loser! At least I am not a nerd – I am pride that I canot spell, canot read and clean toilets for a living!
BobChicken
June 27th, 2011
4:08 pm
Jimmy, you have anger issues. I would suggest that you find a cool, dark and quiet place and try to remember back to your childhood. Did mommy stop nursing you too soon because she had to go back to working door to door at the truck stop? Did daddy beat you because he realized you look an awfull lot like his cousin Bubba? Did the babysitterlock you out of the house when she was supposed to be watching you so she could spend time in your bad with her “special” friend?
Massengill Nozzle, QB Summers Eve High
June 28th, 2011
9:45 am
Thanks for welcoming me to the Tech family.
My goal is to bring the Heisman, that barely eluded the Great Josh Nesbitt, to North Avenue.
Coach Pectorals Johnson has some big surprises this year.
The new fumble ruski – statue of liberty based set will shut down the critics who say that he runs a gimmick offense.
Sure, we’ll lose to the mutts 4 times while I’m in school, but the most powerful conference in America, the ACC, will fear us. It will take them another year to figure out our new offense, just like it did for the triple joke. I just pray that we get to a bowl that is shown on ESPN 360, so we don’t have another widely televised beat down, like the Orange Bowl.
I can’t wait to hear the roar of the tens of fans and the smell of free hot dogs in the air as we storm the field next year.
THWG
The Bees Nees
June 28th, 2011
11:08 am
Do we have any updates on how the freshmen are doing so far?