Basketball prospect Daniel Miller switches from UGA to rival Georgia Tech
By Darryl Maxie, dmaxie@ajc.com
Georgia’s loss became Georgia Tech’s gain Wednesday when 6-foot-11 center Daniel Miller of Loganville Christian Academy signed a financial-aid agreement with the Yellow Jackets, a day after gaining his release from the letter-of-intent he signed with Georgia last fall.
“He’s very happy with the decision,” said Preston Towns, Miller’s father. “And Tech seems very happy with the decision.”
Tech coach Paul Hewitt confirmed those sentiments in a statement Wednesday afternoon.
“We feel very fortunate to add a student-athlete of Daniel Miller’s caliber to our recruiting class,” Hewitt said. “My staff and I are looking forward to the opportunity to work with him. We feel that he will fit in great with our other players and take full advantage of our player-development program.”
He joins a class that already has been ranked No. 3 nationally by Rivals.com, headlined by 6-9 forward Derrick Favors of South Atlanta.
Miller signed with Georgia in November, when Dennis Felton was still the Bulldogs’ coach. When Felton was fired Jan. 29, and ultimately replaced by former Nevada coach Mark Fox, the 240-pound center reconsidered one of the schools that seemed to have pursued him in vain.
Asked if the coaching change was the reason for Miller’s change of heart, Towns said simply, “Yes.”
Miller led Loganville Christian to three straight championships in the Independent Christian Schools of Georgia-Alabama as his team won 71 of 73 games during his stay. He was named most valuable player for his final two seasons at the private school.
He averaged 20.8 points, eight rebounds, five blocks and connected on 73 percent of his shots, often playing only the first half.
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199 comments Add your comment
Red Foreman
April 22nd, 2009
4:39 pm
Told you!!!!!
Ugay is a sinking ship!!!!
jaxdawg
April 22nd, 2009
4:41 pm
So, he isn’t good enough to sign a “scholarship?” Huh, interesting…
GT wins again.
April 22nd, 2009
4:42 pm
Clean sweep of ugay by the Jackets. Football, basketball, baseball and recruiting.
Carolina Jacket
April 22nd, 2009
4:47 pm
If Gani stays that will be a hell of a front line. If the guards come along as expected that should be a hell of a team. Could be exciting.
threatt
April 22nd, 2009
4:50 pm
U GTech fans are funny. I am a gator fan. But when I read these blogs I can tell that GTech is not used to winning anything. SEC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ccrider
April 22nd, 2009
4:51 pm
Jaxdawg, The financial aid package is usually used to keep another scholarship open in the event of another player who may want to sign this year and who needs the money, particularly a player from out of state who would have to pay out of state tuition. Miller has the Hope Scholarship and the financial aid package will probably make up the difference, or it could be for the signing of Demario Mayfield who Tech considered offering before he signed with UGA.
Ronald McDonald
April 22nd, 2009
4:51 pm
Oh he’s good enough for a scholarship jaxdawg, it’s just that Tech has used there’s up on McDonald’s All Americans and other super studs.
JM Dawg
April 22nd, 2009
4:54 pm
NERDS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Institute
April 22nd, 2009
4:56 pm
The financial aid agreement is signed instead of the national letter of intent because players are only allowed to sign one of those. Once his LOI with UGA was rescinded, he could not sign one with GT, so, instead signed the financial aid agreement.
FL Dawg
April 22nd, 2009
4:57 pm
All these McDonald’s All Americans and “stud” recruits, and Tech’s basketball team still stinks. No post-season? Are you kidding? At least the Dawgs have a reason for being so bad.
jaxdawg
April 22nd, 2009
4:57 pm
The financial aid package is typically used on a player who is not “scholarship” material. I played college sports. Would you rather tell someone you have a “athletic scholarship” or a “financial aid” package??
Charlotte Dawg
April 22nd, 2009
4:59 pm
So why did we ask him to leave and Tech welcomed him with open arms? I thought GT had such high and almighty standards, etc. etc.?
Pokey
April 22nd, 2009
5:00 pm
“NERDS!!!!!!!”?????
The old fallback line when UGA fans have nothing to say.
The Fan
April 22nd, 2009
5:00 pm
Red Foreman I told you!!!!
That your a Pin Head!
jw
April 22nd, 2009
5:02 pm
When will we a coach to take advantage of the outstanding talent we already had. More great talent that never lives up to their potential due to a lack of coaching won’t win the ACC.
Rufio
April 22nd, 2009
5:04 pm
I loved the part at the end about the “player development program”
whats that?
The Ole Ball Coach
April 22nd, 2009
5:05 pm
UGA is better off without Miller ….He was going to just play for Felton and not the university of Georgia. Evidently Miller could leave Georgia so quickly and then go to arch rival Tech.
Hey yellow or pink will be great colors for him….
allenlaw
April 22nd, 2009
5:06 pm
Hey, losing recruits is just part of the deal when you change coaches. As a Georgia guy, I have to say that I can’t blame a young player for deciding to go with someone who already recruited him, rather than staying for a rebuilding job with coaches he’s never met. I hope he has a great career at Tech, except, of course, for that one game a year.
HHH
April 22nd, 2009
5:07 pm
Tech fans…football really? You won by 3 points in a game our defense gave you and who won the 7 previous games? Your basketball team sux, so does ours for now. You baseball team beat us in one regular season game this year, now which baseball team is the one that keeps knocking Tech out of regionals and super-regionals when it counts? That would be UGA. Ya’ll are truly pathetic that you have so much hate for us.
Joe
April 22nd, 2009
5:07 pm
Apparently Mr. Miller has an affinity for terrible coaches. He loved Felton and now is signing with the worst basketball coach in the state of Georgia, the talent-waster known as Paul Hewitt. Even his own fans know he cannot coach his way out of a paper bag.
ArkyTech
April 22nd, 2009
5:08 pm
Dogs got Quincy-ed!
MiltonDawg
April 22nd, 2009
5:08 pm
who cares?! is there any hype to the guy?
Ronald McDonald
April 22nd, 2009
5:13 pm
Let me put it in terms even leghumpers can understand. He WAS scholarship material for UGetA. He’s NOT scholarship material for Tech.
BeachGaBulldog
April 22nd, 2009
5:16 pm
Red Foreman, Go $*$* YOURSELF! LOSER!
the real OLD GOLD
April 22nd, 2009
5:18 pm
BAHAHAHAHAHHAH!
Wreck7
April 22nd, 2009
5:20 pm
HHH said:”Tech fans…football really? You won by 3 points in a game our defense gave you and who won the 7 previous games?”
Hahaha, nice one there HHH. Isn’t that the point? Take what weakness the other team gives you and exploit it. Unfortunately for the mutts, their weakness was the whole damn defense.
Jones
April 22nd, 2009
5:21 pm
Miller going to GT probably confirms that Lawal is going pro.
Wreck7
April 22nd, 2009
5:22 pm
And it doesn’t matter who won the previous years. We beat the nadlickers fair and square and we have bragging rights so suck balls.
By using your logic, we can say who won the 3 straight years before your 7 games. Idiot.
MinnesotaJacket
April 22nd, 2009
5:23 pm
HHH…Im sorry did those sub-regionals happen THIS year….that WAS LAST YEAR ooo yeah I forgot along with the 7 wins that WEREN’T this year…I mean honestly live in the hear and now and stop being so fn worthless
UGA logic
1. start with talking about the past 7-10 years
2. if one 1 does not work talk about how many girls we have (even though you did not go to UGA you are hoping this is true)
3. if both don’t work just call them nerds because they are going to get paid more than you ever will in the first 2 years out of college.
Good job UGA fans maybe when you can talk about something that differs from those 3 things once in a while it might be fun to talk smack to you but since none of you can think outside of the box its like hitting a blind kid.
Also could be another Luke Schensor from back in the day…not a great athlete but good rebounder and defender!!
Go Jackets
jaxdawg
April 22nd, 2009
5:23 pm
I played baseball with a guy who was on the “hope” scholarship and he told everyone that he was on a “scholarship.” No one ever questioned hum until we actually saw him play. He was awful!!
Draft Me
April 22nd, 2009
5:24 pm
Who cares. No college basketball team in GEORGIA is good anyways.
BergMoo
April 22nd, 2009
5:26 pm
Draft Me, I think Mercer was competitive at points this year.
Ronald McDonald is an IDIOT
April 22nd, 2009
5:30 pm
Let me correct you trade school rejects. Miller was about at the bottom of the barrel so he was someone
Felton could recruit. Miller is a PRIVATE SCHOOL PROJECT and Fox is better off without him.
I’m glad that at least one college in Georgia now has a real coach and it is justice that the joke by
coke is stuck with Hewitt because you idiots gave him that silly contract. LOL
Shane
April 22nd, 2009
5:31 pm
He’s white
???
April 22nd, 2009
5:32 pm
GT football aganist UGA?
Doesn’t UGA lead the overall series by 20 games.
Wow, you got them in basketball.
Maybe GT should worry about winning ther conference first.
Last outright title, 1996.
Maybe this sorry azz boy will help with that.
tjhook
April 22nd, 2009
5:33 pm
Good lookout Bergmoo, Mercer was competitive. Daniel Miller, you are a bandwagon jumper. If being in state was the priority, you should have looked at all the Division I choices. Hope you are not infatuated with the name schools so much that you forfeit your own potential. You’ll be a seven-footer all your life. You’ll be a Techie for a few years at best. And since you moved so 180 in direction, I’m casually concerned about your loyalty for the school you attend.
Jaded Jacket
April 22nd, 2009
5:34 pm
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!!
Guys...
April 22nd, 2009
5:35 pm
The financial agreement is made because he can’t sign a LOI at GT due to rules. That does not mean he won’t be on an athletic scholarship come fall.
clickdawg
April 22nd, 2009
5:36 pm
hey yellow bellies, how many fans at your spring game again?
Independent thinker
April 22nd, 2009
5:37 pm
Actually, the term “athletic scholarship” is an oxymoron. The athletes are give “grant-in-aids” to pay for their education. A scholarship, in its strictest sense is a financial award for scholastic ability.
TrimmDawg
April 22nd, 2009
5:42 pm
I am a UGA grad and I bleed Red & Black through and through, but seriously people…..I cannot believe how torn up people get on these things. In reality, most of these comments make both schools look like their fan bases are morons. C’MON!!!!!!
As allenlaw said, you cannot blame a kid for changing schools when the coach and staff who recruited him (and whom he and his family got comfortable with)leaves. He knows the Tech guy so good for him….I hope he does great as he is a product of our state! Hopefully UGA will shut him down when the Dawgs and Jackets play.
We have to be behind Fox as our coach. There have been so many successful coaches come into programs as unknowns who did great just like there have been big name hires who sucked up the place. He will recruit and UGA is not a sinking ship…it sank a few years ago when Harrick sank it. It is just very rusty and stuck in the seaweed of the past! Hopefully it will be pulled up soon so that our states talent has a choice as to where to go for an in-state Div. I basketball program.
It does amaze me how much Tech folks seem to rag UGA all the time, but then it amazes me how ignorant some comebacks can be. Tech beat us last year…no one handed it to them. Don’t let people get so under your skin… seriously…. GO DAWGS!!!!!
Kevin M
April 22nd, 2009
5:44 pm
Georgia gets a brand new start this year and not many currently on board for Coach Fox. Based on what I have heard about his playing style, I won’t be surprised to hear of more defections.
Georgia, IMO, didn’t improve their standing in the state for basketball talent by this hire. Somehow I hope they find a way to be NCAA tourney competitive. Same for Tech. Hewitt should be on the hot seat this year if he gets last year’s results.
Tom
April 22nd, 2009
5:46 pm
He will sign an LOI with Tech in the Fall 2009 signing period. Even with the release from the LOI he signed last Fall with UGA, he cannot sign another LOI in the same ACADEMIC YEAR. That’s the rules.
James
April 22nd, 2009
5:52 pm
Nobody was really knocking down doors to get this guy however as a Dawg fan I hate to us loose anyone right now.The only reason he wanted to leave was because of the coaching change and he chose Tech to stay close to home.Tech didnt win any big recruiting war with Georgia they got an ok player by default.Big deal.
Hmmmm.....
April 22nd, 2009
5:55 pm
….saw this posted earlier today in another site’s blog….
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My son played w/ Daniel his Sr yr at LCA (Daniel’s soph yr) and my wife works there. I’ve seen him play a bunch. We are UGA grads and go to 2-4 UGA B-ball games/yr. Here’s my take fwiw.
That GWA video is from Daniel’s Jr yr when he was 6′8″. He’s a legit 6′11″ now and has size 17 feet. He’ll top 7′. The league we played in is weak …really, really weak. The league is not about embarassing people or rolling up big #’s.
He got his D-1 attention from his AAU play this summer (his only yr playing AAU – Jon Richt didn’t play against any D-1 caliber comp until he got to Clemmuns). He got his offers from that (Tubby really wanted him ,but Minn too far). As soon as word got out last PM that he had been released he got phone calls from Virginia, Minn, and the like in 2 hours.
He’s got a really high B-ball IQ which helps make up for some of his lack of strength and quickness by his seeing plays developing and anticipating. A year of D-1 conditioning will improve those areas I’m sure.
He has great hands and a really soft 12-15 ft jumpshot (see free throw form in video).
He is a quality kid in every regard and comes from a wonderful family with major UGA ties – Spec Towns grandson).
I haven’t talked w/ him this week, but I’d guess he wanted to play for a coach he had previous relationship with (nothing against Fox, just nothing for him per se). He liked Felton adn likes Hewitt. Even after he signed w/ UGA (he attended just about every UGA home game) he also went to a couple of Tech games and likes the staff and team there
Even those I “boo-hiss” the NATS everytime I pass it on the downtown connector, I’ll be cheering loudly for Daniel.
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Jaded Jacket
April 22nd, 2009
5:55 pm
Scout.com rank him as the 28th best center in the nation. Favors is the #1 center of course.
Jaded Jacket
April 22nd, 2009
6:03 pm
Dear Clickdawg, it’s only a spring game. Spring games (if you want to call it a game) don’t count in the ACC standings. Maybe they do in the SEC. I suppose SEC fans have nothing else to do but go watch a bunch of back-up players play one another.
Red Foreman
April 22nd, 2009
6:05 pm
HA HA HA HA -I pissed off the UGAY boys!
jacketbacker
April 22nd, 2009
6:12 pm
it must suck to be a mutt!!
45-42!!!!
THWG
Douglas
April 22nd, 2009
6:14 pm
All that talent Ga. Tech gets in basketball each year — and Hewitt cannot coach them to even an ACC championship. You are just a revolving door for all the AAU basketball players in Atlanta who want to play 1 or 2 years and then leave for the NBA. I bet you will not win an ACC championship in the next 10 years or longer.
gold and white
April 22nd, 2009
6:15 pm
it doesnt appear that gani will be staying. the coaches probably told miller that and that he could play a fair amount, so he came here immediately
Tom
April 22nd, 2009
6:20 pm
Lawal’s departure is still uncertain. If it was a done deal, he would have signed with an agent and discontinued his classroom work. Neither has happened as of yet.
Clarification on the “grant-in-aid” vs “letter of intent” question….(per ncaa)….
NLI policy states a prospective student-athlete is only permitted to sign one valid NLI in an academic year. Therefore, if you sign a NLI during the early period and get a complete release by the institution or one of the NLI committees before the spring signing period ends, you are not permitted to sign a second NLI in the spring. You must wait until the next academic year to sign another valid National Letter of Intent if you have not enrolled at a four-year institution.
Outhoused
April 22nd, 2009
6:21 pm
Tall, stiff, no hops, he may contribute, but not much…
???
April 22nd, 2009
6:23 pm
Watching the back up players is better than watching any GT team.
Dawg1
April 22nd, 2009
6:24 pm
Well I see the idiots from Tech and UGA have made their apperance.
The Dog grad who’s son played with the kid is the best post in here. Let’s wish the kid a great career at Tech and whatever he does in life.
To the Tech idiots – to say that you lack class is an understatement.
For one good post there are 10 poor ones (from both schools). Think I’ll take some time off from you guys for a while.
db
April 22nd, 2009
6:24 pm
why so many angry dog fans? Still smartin’ from foosball?
What?
April 22nd, 2009
6:25 pm
Dear Jaded Jackoff, its way better then watch a regular season ACC game.
GT Fan
April 22nd, 2009
6:30 pm
Please, we need to stop this. We suck at basketball. And we haven’t won crap in ACC football in forever.
to db
April 22nd, 2009
6:33 pm
Foosball? I dont even consider Tech a rival game no more, hell we got a 20 game series lead. Maybe UF. We cant beat them for sh*t.
Baba O'Riley
April 22nd, 2009
6:37 pm
What- what???
Erkel
April 22nd, 2009
6:44 pm
Rivals 3 star recruit- his only other offers were from Minnesota, Davidson, Chattanooga, and Furman. He will ride the pine at Tech?
Dorsey Hill
April 22nd, 2009
6:45 pm
Hey Tech Fans,
Check out this article called “The biggest busts from MAJOR college programs:
http://nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/30336666/?pg=118#spt_NFL_draft_busts_school
Where’s Tech in this list of MAJOR college programs?
Sid
April 22nd, 2009
6:48 pm
Not only is Hewitt a sorry coach but he has no ethics apparently! Neither does this kid’s parent(s).I hope he rides the pine for 4 years and gets one of those highly regarded Industrial Management degrees. You know,the business degree plus one math course.
Miller Time
April 22nd, 2009
6:48 pm
I like your comments Mr. Perry and even though i hate tech ill be cheering for Daniel.
gotech
April 22nd, 2009
6:50 pm
At least he’ll get a real education
Not Disappointed
April 22nd, 2009
6:54 pm
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!! Somebody is having a bad day! Somebody else is still wondering?????? Time shall tell. Now go get my Frosty Orange!!! Ramblin Wreck!
AltamahaDawg
April 22nd, 2009
6:55 pm
Hope the kid finds what he is looking for. Kudos to Coach Fox for releasing him unconditionally. It’s understandable why the Dawg fans are mostly concerned about how his leaving might affect the Georgia basketball program and where he ended up is not really that important. What I dont get is that so many tech fans seem to feel the same way.
Baba O'Riley
April 22nd, 2009
6:55 pm
Sid- Where is the breech in ethics? The kid is going to his 2nd choice because there was a coaching change in Athens.
Jason
April 22nd, 2009
6:56 pm
I don’t mind him being gone.. I’ve seen him play because a friends daughters go to the same school. DUH!!!! He’s great at the Independent Private School level. Heck he has no competition. He’s a man among boys out there and I mean little boys. Half of those kids wouldn’t start for my local middle school team. Good luck Tech and thank you UGA for releasing him.
DJ
April 22nd, 2009
6:59 pm
Dorsey Hill and ClickDawg……. first, if there are no “busts” to talk about then we’re not listed. Thanks for setting yourself up for that one. ClickDawg, as for the all-important attendance at the spring game, I can’t recall the exact number. It was either 45 or 42. I’ll take 45. Seriously, you lose on the field but you have more in the stands. Sounds like you just have more losers following your program to me.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 22nd, 2009
6:59 pm
Dorsey Hill, the link was about the biggest busts. I guess Tech’s absence from the list means that no Tech players turning pro turned out to be busts. DUHH!!!
Isn’t it amazing that whenever UGAG loses a recruit to anybody else, especially Tech, the kid becomes worthless, somebody they really didn’t want to begin with, somebody who could never have contributed. SUCH LOSERS !!!
jacketbacker
April 22nd, 2009
7:02 pm
OMG!…did i just read a ugag fan talk about quality of degrees???? that is FUNNY!!!!….my ugag grad friend is scheduled to mow my lawn this week!!
Jason
April 22nd, 2009
7:04 pm
Jacket… I bet thats the best lawn service you’ll ever get.
R-Wreck
April 22nd, 2009
7:04 pm
Somebody asked earlier if there were any good basketball teams in the state of Georgia. It may be Division 2, but Augusta State Universitry finished 3rd in the nation in Division 2 this year, losing in the semi-finals of the national tournament.
Sanford Drive
April 22nd, 2009
7:05 pm
Actually, Supersize, you’ve got that backward. Tech people like to remind us how sorry our basketball team is by insulting the players. However, now you guys are excited about having one of our terrible players. Your hypocrisy intrigues me. Please explain.
carober
April 22nd, 2009
7:08 pm
the ajc readership is indicative of its writers.
Brian
April 22nd, 2009
7:10 pm
If he is leaving because we don’t have Dennis Felton anymore then I’m ok with that. Thats a fair trade off to me.
Sanford Drive
April 22nd, 2009
7:13 pm
DJ,
You guys are coming off a great season. It’s surprising that there aren’t more people supporting Tech football by attending to the spring game. Why do you think your spring game can’t draw a few more fans in the stands after having such a good year?
RedGADawg
April 22nd, 2009
7:18 pm
Interesting! It wil be hard on this young man if he doesn’t make it at Yella Bug U, it is probably best for new coach to have his own and now with all the Hoopla over this class Hewitt’s backside (class way a DAWG states the obvious) is really on the line. As I say about Global Warming and the Enginerds can understand this, there are not enough data points to predict the future. Therfore if Big Paully boy does’t win it all next year what will the North Ave crowd blame? A bunch of one and dones on campus, gotta get it done in ten months! Countdown is starting!
Bleu_Bayou42
April 22nd, 2009
7:21 pm
Let me get this straight. The kid is 6′ 11″ and only averaged 9 rebounds a game while playing 2A Independent Christian Schools of GA/AL division. Wow, we are really going to miss that guy. Recruiting projects like this is what is what got Felton fired in the first place. The bottom line, Georgia Tech needs to graduate some basketball players for PR and to stay in compliance. Georgia Tech’s program is the worst in the country. I can’t think of another college program that has had more NBA talent on their roster in the last five years and done absolutely nothing with it.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 22nd, 2009
7:22 pm
Sanford, if you look at all the posts on this blog today only, you will not see one post trashing any UGAG players, but plenty of posts by your fans saying how worthless this kid is and how Tech is welcome to him.
RedGADawg, Hewitt WON’T win it all next year, and the blame given by Tech posters here will be the same that it always has been. Hewitt CANNOT coach.
OldRat
April 22nd, 2009
7:24 pm
I don’t have enough talent or insight to judge Hewitt as a coach. I do have background for judging character. I couldn’t believe that we had two Seniors, never see a second of playing time on Senior Night, even after game was already decided??????????????
DJ
April 22nd, 2009
7:32 pm
Sanford,
I’ll take that as a serious question, although I assume there will be a punchline at some point. We have a significantly smaller school, therefore a significantly smaller fanbase. We have significantly fewer majors, and let’s face it we have a different overall make-up of the student body than most liberal arts/state U. schools. And that’s not meant as a slam on UGA nor is it a slam on some of our “nerdier” students. It’s simply fact. And I could care less. I must say that I personally only care about a select few (myself and family, coaches and players) attending any of our games. I do laugh at the fact that it (attendance and stadium size), along with Star Trek (not a fan) and tickle piles (no idea what that is, but I think it may resemble that picture of Stafford and his buddy at the kegger a few years back) always come up when the little North Avenue trade school gets a leg up on the Pugs from Athens. Come on, bigger school, prettier women, more resources (facilities, money/alums, curriculum), REM, Ryan Seacrest, Auburn and every Georgia high school’s fight song……you should never lose to us in anything. But lately, I can’t think of anything head to head of any importance that you have won. So, having a smaller crowd at the Tech spring game doesn’t really bother me, and doesn’t really help you.
BehindEnemyLines
April 22nd, 2009
7:34 pm
It’s just a pity we don’t have anyone who can coach this kid up. With the current coaching staff we couldn’t win the ACC if we had LeBron + the Western Conference all-stars.
OldRat
April 22nd, 2009
7:45 pm
Rated the No. 8 center prospect by ESPN.com, Miller averaged 28.8 points, 12.3 rebounds and 7 blocks in leading his school to the championship of the Independent Christian Schools of Georgia-Alabama.
“For a player of his size, he has tremendous hands, touch and instincts for the game,” Georgia coach Dennis Felton said. “He can score with his back to the basket and also facing up to 18 feet. He also has a real knack for rebounding and blocking shots, most of which he keeps in play.”
Steve
April 22nd, 2009
7:45 pm
Miller is a great recruit, and a big loss for the Dawgs. I know no Dawg fan wanted to keep Felton but….
Ty Webb
April 22nd, 2009
8:02 pm
I like it. I was wondering if this was a possibility when I heard about Miller’s release. Now can UGA release Thompkins too?
Decatur Tech Fan
April 22nd, 2009
8:10 pm
ACTUALLY, Tech won a BIG recruiting war over UGAG this year…….His name is Derrick Favors. so all we did when Miller signed is DOUBLE THE DOSE!!!!! Go Jackets!
AltamahaDawg
April 22nd, 2009
9:08 pm
Dawg fans, Don’t pretend we are bettr off without this kid. Unless you think that 3 on 3 drills are the way to go, we need warm bodies.
Tech fans, dont pretend this is some victory. This kid chose to come to a program that clearly had some big issue, over yours. He intially would rather have played for a coach, that we eventually had to be fired, and frankly had one foot in the grave when he recruited him, over your coach who “should” be pretty well established by now.
Steve
April 22nd, 2009
9:08 pm
It’s funny how Tech just keeps pulling in top recruits but consistently finishes far down in their conference and RPI.
Hewitt may be winning the recruiting battle, but why ANY player would want to go there is beyond me. He does nothign with the talent, and his track record of taking top tier talent and prepping them to even amount to average NBA players is probably the worst in all of college basketball.
Basically, as a recruit you gain NOTHING from attending Tech unless you are there for the academics. We all know the big stud recruits are rarely concerned with their academics, no matter what school they go to, so why go to Tech? Shows very poor decision making ability. It would be one thing if they actually improve while at Tech, but one could make a strong argument that most of Tech’s recruits under Hewitt are valued less after they play for him than they were straight out of high school.
Tokyo jacket
April 22nd, 2009
9:29 pm
As a man, he’ll be about 7′ or more, 260 lbs and most likely see 5 seasons at Tech. If he’s the 28th best center this year, I’d say by the time he’s a junior he’ll be a solid contributor.
Oh, and for the guy who said he’s white, how did that white center in Chapel Hill work out for the past 4 years?
BS Patrol
April 22nd, 2009
9:31 pm
DJ, That’s how you know when the doggies like Sanford have really bottomed out. They start talking about their round-heeled women & spring game attendance. And their stadium is huge. I mean it’s sooo BIG!!
Dawg1, AMF!
GADAWG
April 22nd, 2009
9:38 pm
MinnesotaJacket, I think its spelt “HERE and now” not “HEAR and now”…you just got corrected by a UGA student…way to represent GA Tech buddy
CarolinaDawg
April 22nd, 2009
10:07 pm
Good point GADAWG, I know that “spelt” is used in Georgia, but us Carolina Dawg fans like to used the word “spelled”.
Supersize that order, mutt
April 22nd, 2009
10:14 pm
Yeah, GADAWG, you sure didn’t help your cause with that one. The fact is that the grammar and spelling of probably 75% of the posters here from both sides is atrocious. Some of it may be the result of honest typos, but not much. I can’t believe how many apparently do not know the difference between “there” and “their” and “they’re”, or “hear” and “here”, or “your” and “you’re”. Come on, guys, didn’t you learn anything basic in school, however far you managed to go?
Sour Grapes Patrol
April 22nd, 2009
10:16 pm
Sidewalk alums & Wal-Mart fans falling off the bandwagon left & right. Why in the world would anyone that wants to be the best top to bottom go to Ga if they can go to Tech? Wait. I forgot. Big stadium, round-heeled women & the chance to hang around Athens & go to spring games for the rest of your life.
Willy
April 22nd, 2009
10:41 pm
UGA basketball is a joke. GT tapped that ass in basketball, football and baseball this year. Sucks to be a UGAY fan. Look for GT to be top 15 next year in basketball, football, and baseball next year. Feels great to be a GT fan!
Terry Taylor
April 22nd, 2009
10:47 pm
Bleu_Bayou42, he averaged 30 a game and 9 boards playing only half the game. Read the paper, son.
Big Bee
April 22nd, 2009
10:53 pm
HHH, you are such an AH. Just cannot get over loosing several things to GT. probably including your virginity, to an ex-UGA cheerleader that transfered to GT. PS, you are also an idiot. Why don’t you just leave the kid alone and let him live his own life without so much interference?
Chuck Uga
April 22nd, 2009
11:27 pm
This kid will be a benc player at best. The kind of competition he faced was pretty weak. At 6′11″, he’ll have fun and get a good education. But superstar he isn’t. Keep in mind techies that he signed with Dennis Felton who was a miserable failure at recruiting…which is why he isn’t coaching UGA hoops anymore. Oh yeah, and you two-faced fools were calling for Hewitt’s head on a platter just a couple of weeks ago! Enjoy Derrick Favors for the single year he will be at Tech. Looking forward to Mark Fox becoming a hell of a success very shortly. That’s a guarantee.