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4/4 Mailbag 4 Apr 2:30 PM (yesterday, 2:30 pm)

Happy Atlanta Day!

Burdell91: So what significantly changed in the couple of months between Fortner signing a contract extension and retiring? Did a Tech player tell her “show me the money”? It’s not like the rules or environment changed in that time. It just feels really weird, unless there’s something more going on that isn’t public.

Jack: A big thing Fortner noted in her press conference was the fact the sport completely changed in her six years at Tech. When she got here, it was normal. Then COVID, then transfer portal, then NIL, then expanded ACC...eventually it all adds up to a lot for one person to keep carrying. To quote her directly, she said “the atmosphere in college athletics today, it’s not for me.”

While she did sign the extension mid-season, having the time to decompress from the season and reflect what’s ahead is a great point to have internal conversations that could lead to a decision like this. Ultimately, she just felt like it was her time to not be the head ball coach at a college team. She knows she’s on the older side of things and doesn’t need to keep doing this role. She’ll still be around the sport in some way, but ultimately from what we know, it was just a “this feels right” kind of decision.

Jake: Anything I say here would be pure speculation, but I have to imagine it could be a variety of interrelated factors — the game is different, the rules are different, players and personnel changed. She came out of retirement once to take this job, and I am sure there comes a time when you have enough and are ready to have more time for leisure and retirement, especially having done that once already. Also noteworthy is the significant turnover (Fortner, Hinsdale, and Hall all retired or are retiring after the current season), given the “changing of the guards” seems to be coming in a wave.

BuzzForPresident: Who the hell set off the IED in our basketball programs?

Who’s on your short list for WBB Coach?

Why can’t we have good things? (Was really looking forward to next season for both BBall programs, now I’m not sure they can field coherent teams)

Over/Under on the baseball team giving us hope after all this other bad news and then letting us down in 2019 fashion?

How much therapy money should a Tech fan put aside each year to be appropriately covered?

Jake: I agree on having previously been quite optimistic for next year’s basketball teams. I would think that someone will be able to cobble together something on both sides, and recruitment should leave MBB in an okay spot at least, but it is certainly a lot of change to digest. I know it might seem a bit odd, but I think the coach that just beat us (Aaron Roussell at Richmond) has built a nice program, for starters. I am a big fan of hiring a successful mid-major coach, which rules out Blanche Alverson, who just left for her first head gig, but I also do like the idea of trying to scrape together some kind of continuity. As for baseball, I am just trying to take it one day at a time. Can’t win a regional or host one if you never make it there in the first place, and the ACC is a brutally tough league. The next month might be tough sledding.

Jack: One thing’s for sure, we ain’t alone in feeling like things aren’t going our way in college sports. A point of optimism for WBB: the coaches convention happens at the final four, so I imagine J Batt and Joleen Akin are going to be scouring that conference looking for a new coach like last time when we hired Fortner at the same conference in the same city. A great coach can change everything, just like Fortner did.

Let baseball do its thing. They know they’re good, and they know they have tough sledding ahead of them. Right now they’re set up pretty well for this point in the season. Pray the injury bug stays away.

Partywaggin: Did Fortner’s successor just leave for SD?

Jake: I had the exact same first though (though I think saying taking a first time head role in the ACC might be a tall ask).

Jack: I think Jake is right. Blanche Alverson is fantastic, but it would be a significant leap for her to start her head coaching career here. If things work out down the line, I’d of course love to see her back as she was integral in creating so many of these fantastic teams with Fortner, but in general, no, she was not the successor in the same way we expect Ramsey to be Danny Hall’s.

jabsterjacket: WTH Barves?

Jack: I was in the same headspace as you, but then I came across something on the interwebs that noted multiple World Series teams have lost seven straight or more in a season, just not necessarily to start the year. Usually, I’d say we just got the worst of luck, but now we already have injuries stacking up...so man idk, this might be a pay attention to Tech baseball season instead.

Partywaggin: Did “Hangman” from Top Gun Maverick go to Tech?

Jack: No clue but hopefully!

DressHerInWhiteAndGold: Summertime, and the living is easy…unless you’re a Barves fan. What’s on your Summer to do/see/go list?

Jack: Seeing a show at Chastain is always a highlight for me. Usually the Indigo Girls play a summer show there and it feels like church everytime.

Jake: Agreed with Jack about Chastain - but I am a midwesterner still at heart, so would also recommend a show in cooler weather there, too. As for other stuff around, get out on a bike! Atlanta is only getting better, and I would argue that some of Atlanta’s best places to bike or walk are in places other than the Eastside Beltline (Proctor Creek and Westside Park, the trails along the Cobb side of the river from Johnson Ferry through to US 41, the Westside Beltline Connector, etc.). We’re also within sight of the Silver Comet extension to the westside (and onward via the Beltline or downtown routes to Stone Mountain) being done, so plenty to be excited for there. Otherwise, grabbing a cold beverage at a local establishment (Halfway Crooks, Wild Heaven West End) is fully in season, and there are lots of neat things to see and do as weekend events come through town, too.

Yeller Bug: What’s happening at Spring practice? Who is shining and who is not? What should we expect for the Spring game?

Jack: What to expect? Very minimal answers revealed of things we don’t already know. That said, seeing standouts on the defensive line is going to be nice. That is the big question spot for this team. I wouldn’t call the Spring Game a good place to actually see how good they are considering no one is going to be tackling Haynes King or Aaron Philo (or whoever else plays QB that day). We also have a killer offensive line, so if someone stands out, they’ll really stand out.

Also will be very curious about our new wide receivers. The FIU tandem Dean Patterson and Eric Rivers will be good to see when it comes to raw speed and timing they have with King.

Maybe Aidan Birr goes for a 65 yard field goal? He hit from 62 last time!

Submitted via Twitter: Good or bad, what’s been surprising about this year’s transfer portal with Georgia Tech?

Jack: With football, it’s how many primary guys that make up the core of this team have stayed. If anything nowadays in college sports, that’s as good of an indicator as we have that a team is doing things the right way.

In basketball, man it’s just the amount of volatility there. Of course a team can survive with just seven guys (as we saw firsthand for lots of this season), and with a gazillion teams out there, it ends up making sense for many players to move to where they’ll actually play. The move of Naithan George to Syracuse seems as surprising as any move so far. He was excelling for us and we had a fantastic class coming up behind him, but for whatever reason the cold winds of upstate New York seemed better.

Submitted via email: Did a rivalry ever develop between Tech and Tulane during their SEC days? It would seem so given their shared higher academic standards. Games in New Orleans would have been fun too.

Did the relationship ever carry into both schools independent phases? Are future series planned in football?

Jake: Well, Wikipedia would call it a “significant series,” but I think it is most telling that these schools were certainly more than just random opponents when one takes a look at the frequency of meetings between them as well as the locations of the matchups relative to other SEC matchups. Prior to the modern conference format (i.e., during the period Tech was in the SEC), schools were not required to play each other with any regularity. Accordingly, as a large brand in the SEC with an exceptionally large stadium in a city easily accessible by train, Tech famously maintained an imbalance between home and road games. In fact, the decline of this trend as demonstrated in the plot below, as schedules became more balanced after World War II, was a contributing factor behind Tech’s decision to leave the SEC altogether — declining gate receipts due to playing more road games.

Analysis by Jake Grant

As seen here, Tulane was a regular on Tech’s schedule throughout the SEC era and even into independence in the 1970s and 1980s. Among original SEC teams, Tech has played Tulane more than any school save for Alabama, Auburn, and Athens. This includes 6 more games than Tennessee, 11 more than Florida, and 12 more than Vanderbilt, and I am certain a decent number of Tech fans would consider at least the Tennessee schools historical rivals. Among the rest, Tech rarely ventured to visit the Mississippi schools, LSU, and Kentucky, given the distance for the team and fans, and they were not considered rivals nor large enough brands to command fan interest and garner gate receipts at Grant Field. In fact, LSU and Ole Miss are notable in that they are the only two teams among these 12 in which Tech has played more on the road or in neutral site games combined, and most of these have come in modern bowl game matchups. The only team Tech is 50/50 with on this list is Tulane. Among the rest of the top 4, Tech has played the Athenians at home 59% of the time, Alabama 62% of the time, and Auburn a staggering 78% of the time, thanks in part to the tiny facilities at the time and rural location resulting in a stretch between 1906 and 1959 where Tech hosted Auburn 52 times, visited Auburn once (1940-41), and one year where the game was not played due to World War II. Tech fans could be said to enjoy trips to New Orleans, but the city was also easy to get to, and the stadium was large and able to draw financially lucrative crowds in the way that other SEC schools simply could not.

Tech continued several SEC series into the independent era, playing Athens, Auburn, and Tulane all years between going independent and joining the ACC in a phased scheduling process during the 1980s, Tennessee most years during that time, and a few sporadic series with Kentucky and Alabama (with the latter influenced by ill will in the fallout of the SEC era, a story for another time). During this period, Tulane deemphasized athletics, went independent in sports, and was a frequent homecoming opponent (generally alternating with Duke, another staple opponent). To this day, Tulane is the second most-played opponent on Homecoming behind the Blue Devils. However, upon joining the ACC, Tech ceased its sporadic SEC matchups, as well as the regular Tulane series after 1982. Tech continued annual games with Tennessee and Auburn for another 5 years before modern scheduling practices for conferences resulted in the decimation of inter-conference play on a wider scale than the annual in-state SEC and ACC rivalries.

Since 1982, Tech and Tulane have played twice, a home-and-home series that included Tech being the first visitor to the new Yulman Stadium. All in all, it is certainly a historic matchup, and one that I personally feels to be a little bit more recognized as an interesting and significant one in the history of both schools. Time to start looking for open dates on the teams’ calendars!

Mailbag 4/4 Questions 3 Apr 5:03 AM (2 days ago)

Seems like some things happened recently

Apologies for the delay in getting a mailbag out recently! Busy times out there in the real world.

Shoot us your questions for our staff either in the comments, by emailing us at fromtherumbleseat@gmail.com, or in our mentions on Bluesky, Facebook, or Twitter.

Eva on Survivor: Episode 6 Recap 2 Apr 6:08 PM (3 days ago)

In which we merge and get maybe a little nervous?

Welcome back to our series covering Georgia Tech alum Eva Erickson as she competes on Survivor 48. If you missed our recap last week, that episode went down as one of the most impactful in show history, and Eva was right in the middle of it. Even if you don’t watch the show, we highly encourage checking that particular episode out.

SURVIVOR 48 EPISODE 6 SPOILERS AHEAD

We’ve reached a big milestone in season 48, the merge! After pulling out an incredible challenge win last week, Eva is reunited with Joe and the rest of her former Lagi tribemates in a very full 13 person tribe. Critically, we’ve reached the stage of the game where Eva has the chance to be the most shielded she can be. It’s all downhill from here in that department.

Once all together, Eva and Joe reconcile all the new people they’ve allied with while on separate tribes, which results in a David/Joe/Eva/Kyle/Shauhin five way alliance. Joe and Eva are each other’s #1 ally. Kyle has Kamilla as his #1 ally that basically no one knows about. David and Shauhin don’t seem to have true #1’s out there, but have built large networks around them. All in all, there’s enough entanglement going on that this group of five should be operating on the most up to date information on the island at all times for the next couple of votes. Oh, and Eva has an idol.

Outside of them, Eva’s name is getting thrown around because everyone eventually found out about her idol. Charity is leading the initial charge on this, who Eva already has a distaste for. Objectively, it makes sense to throw Eva’s name out there from a gameplay standpoint. Known idols are usually just a burden. We’ve seen people play fully known idols even when they weren’t in trouble, just to get the heat off of them.

In Eva’s case though, with this many people aligning with her from the two variations of Lagi, the numbers don’t appear to make voting for her make any sense. Her name is still getting tossed around by Sai at the merge challenge feast (which Eva does not win), but Kyle was there to steer off that idea.

Instead, enough people latch onto the idea of doing an easy vote that won’t seismically shift the game like voting Eva would, which the personifications of that end up being Charity and Sai. Not coincidentally, those are the two that have stirred the pot the most throughout the game. In the end, we get a huge split of the vote on both Charity and Sai, with Charity, who has been the most vocal thus far about getting Eva out, going home. With her going home, someone from the original versions of each tribe has now been voted out.

Where does this leave Eva? Last week, the big question we were left with was how her very public showing of her autistic episode was going to affect how she was perceived on the island. Would it lessen her threat level? Would people want to give her some grace and stick around a little bit longer?

Ultimately, I think because she found an idol, that moved a lot of the context of her episode out of the picture. Her having an idol severely impacts everyone else’s ability to win the million dollars. She’s shown that even though she’ll have certain struggles that other people out there won’t, she’s going to play at the same intensity as everyone else, and that’s getting reciprocated to her. Plus, she’s done the work to have solid alliances. She’s an important number for Joe, Shahin, Kyle, and David to advance in the game. A group of five almost certainly won’t last super long, but at worst that’s four people that have her back, and that’s without mentioning Star who has seemingly jumped on board the Eva train.

For now, Eva’s best asset is the people around her. The longer she can maintain that, the better. If this vote tells us anything, it’s that sticking out amongst the crowd isn’t going to help. Sai and Charity’s past gameplay put them in that situation. Eva is doing that by having the most valuable item in the game. Winning immunity of course would help, but any immunity win would greatly increase the target on her back. It’s a very precarious balance she’ll have to navigate her way through to stay alive in the game.

Scions E266 Pt. 2: The Changing of One More Guard (Nell Fortner’s retirement w/Kurt Hoyt) 31 Mar 4:41 PM (5 days ago)

GT’s fourth coach announces their retirement in the 2024-25 season

On the heels of Nell Fortner announcing her retirement after six seasons with Georgia Tech women’s basketball head coach, Jack and Tech women’s basketball + volleyball commentator Kurt Hoyt quickly get together to discuss the impact Nell had on the program, what the current team’s outlook is, what the coaching search process will look like, and what of the future we can decipher mere hours after Nell’s retirement.

Host: Jack Purdy

Guest: Kurt Hoyt

Production: Jack Purdy

Music: ⁠⁠Georgia Tech⁠⁠ Glee Club, Georgia Tech Marching Band

Scions E266: The Changing of the Guards 30 Mar 1:40 PM (6 days ago)

Danny Hall & Grover Hinsdale’s retirements lead the week

After a combined 65 years of leading their respective programs, Danny Hall (baseball) and Grover Hinsdale (track & field) announced their retirements from the programs at the end of their respective seasons. Jack and Jake go into what that means for both programs as Alan Drosky takes over for T&F and we speculate on who may take over for baseball. On the field, both baseball and softball have impressive weeks.

Our order of operations:

• Basketball transfer news
• Hindale + Drosky
• #25 Baseball vs. #6 Clemson, Danny Hall’s passing of the torch
• Softball vs. #13 Oklahoma State & Penn State
• Tennis vs. various North Carolina schools
• Eva Erickson on Survivor
• Men’s swimming at NCAA’s
• Club lacrosse @ Florida
• Club swimming at nationals

Hosts: Jack Purdy, Jake Grant

Production: Jack Purdy

Music: ⁠⁠Georgia Tech⁠⁠ Glee Club, Georgia Tech Marching Band

Danny Hall announces he will step down at end of season 28 Mar 6:23 PM (8 days ago)

#25 Tech falls in series opener vs. #3 Clemson

RUSS CHANDLER STADIUM — Yesterday, March 27th, head coach for Georgia Tech Baseball, Danny Hall, announced that he would be retiring at the end of the 2025 season, his 32nd at Tech and 38th overall.

“I have made a decision to step away from coaching at the end of this season. My family and I have been blessed beyond belief for 32 wonderful years of wearing the White and Gold,” he said in a press release.

The announcement came the day before the most anticipated series in recent memory for Tech baseball, who entered the D1 Baseball rankings this week at #25 and are hosting #3 Clemson this weekend. A group of at least 20 former players joined Hall on the field for a photo where Hall was also recognized for becoming the 10th most winningnest coach in D1 history.

For Hall, getting his decision out there is what mattered.

“I’ve thought long and hard about it. I didn’t want whether I was coming back or not lingering and I didn’t want any chatter behind the scenes that I thought might affect my team. That was the biggest thing that went into my decision,” Hall said after Friday’s game, a 9-7 loss to Clemson.

Of note, Hall’s announcement did not use the word “retirement” but instead the term “step away,” a critical note as Hall looks to the future.

“J [Batt] has said, ‘hey, would you want to stick around and be a special assistant,’ and I think that’s definitely something I’ll think about,” said Hall. “I could see myself staying in baseball in some capacity.”

Hall went on to note that ever since he was eight years old, he’s been part of a baseball team in some form or fashion, a 62 year run. Over half of those years have been at Georgia Tech.

As to who might take over for Hall in 2026, he has a guy in mind, and he’s told J Batt.

“I’ve given him my opinion and his comment was ‘I really value your opinion.’ I don’t think he’s [made a decision] yet,” said Hall.

Reading between the lines, it would be no surprise if the man Hall is referring to is associate head coach James Ramsey, who was elevated to the role in 2021.

Coming into the weekend, Hall sits at 1,432 wins and counting. Tech was not able to get the job done tonight against Clemson to get win 1,433.

Tate McKee and Mason Patel combined to throw all nine innings, allowing nine runs (seven earned). Patel received his first loss of the season, moving to a 7-1 record. The loss is Tech’s first on a Friday all season.

Kyle Lodise hit his 10th home run of the season in the bottom of the 1st after Clemson went out to a 2-0 in the top of the inning. Clemson next scored in the 4th inning on a Jacob Jarrell home run and an RBI single by Dominic Listi to take a 4-1 lead.

Carson Kerce earned one back in the bottom of the fourth on his 11th double of the season, driving in Caleb Daniel.

In the bottom of the 5th inning, Daniel drove in two on his second double of the game to make it 5-4. With one out, Alex Hernandez in the next at bat hit a warning track fly ball out to right, but Clemson’s right fielder Tryston McCladdie mistook how many outs there were and didn’t throw the ball in for a couple of seconds, which allowed Daniel to score all the way from second base on the fly ball, tying the game at 5-5.

The tie game prompted Hall to put Mason Patel (who this week was named the #1 reliever in the country per D1 Baseball) in the game in the 6th inning over Caden Gaudette, who had been warming up when Tech was down.

Patel had his stuff, but a couple mistakes gave Clemson the wiggle room they needed in the late innings. Collin Priest hit a solo home run in the 7th inning. After a sacrifice fly to score one, Andrew Ciufo landed a squeeze bunt that resulted in a throwing error by Patel in the 8th. In the 9th, Jarrell hit his second home run of the game, giving Clemson a 9-6 lead going into the final frame.

Drew Burress reached base to lead off the 9th for Tech, eventually scoring on a Tyler Neises single. Vahn Lackey with two outs hit a towering fly ball to left field, but at 87 miles per hour off the bat didn’t have the legs to get out, ending the game when Listi secured the catch.

Tech will continue the final season of Danny Hall’s managerial career with two more games against #3 Clemson this weekend. Brady Jones is slated to start game two.

Eva on Survivor: Episode 5 Recap 26 Mar 6:34 PM (10 days ago)

A monumental moment in show history

My goodness did we have a doozy of an episode this week on Survivor. Our fellow Georgia Tech graduate, Eva Erickson, was front and center tonight as we approach the halfway point of the season. If you missed our recap of Eva’s game from last week, you can find it here.

SPOILERS FOR SURVIVOR 48 EPISODE 5 AHEAD

We start immediately at a reward challenge with a sanctuary visit on the line, which Lagi wins easily. They munched on some breakfast pastries and got what many visitors to the sanctuary get: a full belly and a good nap.

Eva has one confessional during the sanctuary visit where she remarks how she doesn’t feel that Charity comes across fully authentic person (she uses the word “fake), a sentiment I totally understand. There of course is real depth with Charity, but there can be a natural tension between people who just don’t do superfluously nice personalities and people pleasers.

Fast forward to the immunity challenge, which involves dragging a boat in the water, lifting a heavy chest, and digging through sand, all of which Eva excels at to give Lagi solid lead going into the final ball maze.

Here is where things get interesting. Usually, a table ball maze like the one provided in this challenge can be done by anyone as long as the each ball (four in this case) is slotted on the other side of the table, but this time all four participating tribe members had to complete the maze once, no exceptions.

Everyone at this point goes through the learning curve of figuring out the timing of the track the ball goes on, and some contestants trade out as they got the feel for the maze. Eva went for that option, eventually becoming the final person on Lagi who needed to complete the maze to win the challenge. By her turn, only Lagi and Civa were left to get the final immunity spot, Lagi ahead by one ball.

It was obvious that landing the ball on the other side of the table was causing distress and overstimluating her to the point that Jeff Probst even walked over to motivate her as she fought through tears, which us as viewers knew that likely meant one of her autism episodes was bubbling up (we get quick looks at Joe during this entire sequence as he’s the only competitor who actually knows what’s going on with Eva in the moment).

Eva soon figures out the maze and lands the final ball in its socket, winning reward for Lagi. While she celebrates, the overstimulation comes over her. She has an episode, which Jeff is quick to realize and gives Joe the freedom to go over to Eva and guide her through the moment and come out the other side, doing exactly what Eva taught her at the beginning of the season if this moment ever arose. After what seemed like a couple of minutes, Eva gets through it and is ok.

Of course, considering everyone left in the game and Jeff saw this play out, Jeff gives clarification to the players that he felt in the moment it was more than ok for Joe to cross tribe lines and provide comfort to Eva (something that usually wouldn’t happen at an immunity challenge). Jeff then asks Eva about that moment, which she uses to tell her story about growing up with autism and how that’s become a part of her life she embraces. “Everyone who has autism should not be ashamed to ask for help and to receive it,” she says. It gets multiple players teared up to the point even Jeff chokes up when he talks about being a parent and wanting to see people treat his kids like he saw Joe treat Eva in that moment.

In the end, the cast were very appreciative to see and hear her story. Back at Lagi, the celebration continues with her as in a sense, this is the first time in the entire game she’s been able to be her full true self without hiding any massive parts of her life.

During the celebration, Star uses the opportunity to tell everyone that she has the Lagi beware advantage (which everyone knew she had because Eva spiilled the beans right after last week’s tribe swap), prompting a clue hunt to figure out the cipher to unlock her idol. Eva once again steps up, figuring out the cipher (the code word was “silent”) and unlocking the idol, which Star lets her keep (Star couldn’t figure out the clues for an entire week, keeping that idol would’ve been A CHOICE).

So, Eva this week had the winning moment in the immunity challenge, one of the most vulnerable moments in show history, and found an immunity idol all in the same day. For a day on Survivor, that’s about as jam packed as it can get while feeling the whole spectrum of emotions.

For her gameplay, it’s in a very unique place. People know that her relationship with Joe not only is strategic, it’s also literally a lifeline for her from a medical standpoint. What’s left to decide is do the contestants care about that when strategy comes into play? Eva still has yet to go to tribal council. She’s never had to really discuss strategy with her life in the game on the line.

When the tribes merge, everyone is going to know that Joe and Eva are working together and likely will vote as a unit. Usually, those are the kind of pairings you want to split up. Almost never though do those kinds of strategic pairs have an incredibly meaningful and purposeful reason for existing outside of the game itself like Joe and Eva have. If you vote out Joe, that could legitimately affect Eva from a mental health standpoint. On the flip side, how could you think about voting out Eva after seeing this from her?

This is where not having ever played limits my knowledge, but I couldn’t even comprehend of voting for Eva without feeling an incredible amount of guilt. Would it make me a bad person? Do I ignore the humanity of it all and treat it as a million dollar game? Or is considering the humanity of it all better for my game? Now imagine trying to figure all of this out after not eating for a week. It’s all part of what makes Survivor the incredible game that it is; the line between real life and the game is not straight and inflexible. It moves every single second depending on who’s out there and how they got to each specific moment.

What does this mean for Eva? We know the merge is coming next week, so her and Joe will be able to reunite. She’s made inroads with David as well, but that relationship never was tested since Lagi 2.0 never went to tribal council. Everyone to an extent should be able to care for her better than before in case she does have another episode, so the biggest medical hurdle she had coming in is likely cleared. Does that free up her confidence in gameplay? There’s so much to consider spawning from this episode that we’ll only get answers from in the coming episode.

Scions E265: GT Baseball Anticipation Builds (w/Ben King) 24 Mar 3:55 PM (12 days ago)

With baseball ranked, things are looking up for Danny Hall’s team

The Scions trio is finally all back together and joined by GT Baseball alum Ben King to talk about the incredible weekend sweep over Notre Dame, the success of the pitching staff, and how monumental the upcoming series against #3 Clemson is. Then, a dive into the current state of Georgia Tech Softball, a postmortem on the end of both the women’s and men’s basketball teams, and a quick preview on men’s swimming at the NCAA Championships this week.

Please let us know what you think via email (⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fromtherumbleseat@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠), on Twitter (@FTRSBlog), Bluesky, Facebook, or in the comments below!

Hosts: Jack Purdy, Akshay Easwaran, Jake Grant

Guest: Ben King

Production: Jack Purdy

Music: ⁠⁠Georgia Tech⁠⁠ Glee Club, Georgia Tech Marching Band