Scions of the Southland - A Georgia Tech Sports Podcast

This week, the Scions crew is joined by Georgia Tech Lacrosse head coach Ken Lovic to recap another fantastic season for the team after winning SELC’s for the third consecutive year and making the MCLA national championship game against Liberty. Plus, some discussion on the inner workings of how the team operates within the current college recruiting landscape as a high functioning club team. The...

Scions is back after an off week for some classic late-season diagnoses of Georgia Tech baseball and softball, both of whom still have paths to their NCAA Tournaments with ACC play coming up. Then, a recap of new women’s head coach Karen Blair’s newly constructed roster and where golf sits going into the NCAA Regional. Hosts: Jake Grant, Jack Purdy, Akshay Easwaran Production: Jack Purdy Music: ⁠⁠...

We’ve got all three Scions hosts today to go through Georgia Tech Baseball’s slide, the state of Tech softball after their series at Florida State was cancelled, and a peek into how the new women and men’s basketball recruits shape up the thin rosters. Plus, Brent Key is playing golf with Paul Johnson Hosts: Jake Grant, Jack Purdy, Akshay Easwaran Production: Jack Purdy Music: ⁠⁠Georgia Tech⁠⁠ Gle...

Jack and Jake are joined by Jackson Caudell from Georgia Tech on SI to give his scoop from the Georgia Tech Football spring game and the notables from that afternoon in Bobby Dodd Stadium. Then an update on #14 Georgia Tech Baseball, where they stand in the ACC, and their NCAA Tournament outlook before quick hits on softball, tennis, and Hiroshi Tai. Hosts: Jake Grant, Jack Purdy Guest: Jackson Ca...

The Scions trio is back for a dive into Georgia Tech Baseball’s historic sweep at Stanford, plus our early thoughts on the hire of Karen Blair to the women’s basketball team. Then quick hits on the rest of the Tech sports world including club swimming winning a national championship and Hiroshi Tai playing The Masters. Today’s lineup: Baseball vs. Stanford Softball vs. Syracuse Karen Blair to WBB...

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 N...

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 h...

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 m...

The ides of March are here and bring many, many (oh dear Neptune, just so much) basketball to watch — Jack and Akshay are back to preview both MBB at the NIT (tipping off as this podcast comes off the presses) and WBB at the full NCAAT, before diving into baseball’s escapades versus Pitt, softball’s westward travails in Berkeley, and a smorgasbord of tennis results, along with a quick preview of t...

In a special episode, Jack and Jake are joined by Zach Keschner and Andy Hildrum from Georgia Tech Club Hockey to talk about why they changing conferences, how their season went, the state of ice hockey in Georgia, and who they might see at AAU Nationals in Jacksonville. Then, our usual rundown of the week’s news in Georgia Tech sports: Baseball @ Virginia Tech Softball vs. NC State Women’s Basket...

After another super packed weekend of Georgia Tech sports, Jack and Jake dig through the many storylines going on between both basketball teams, interesting softball performances, and a remarkable record set by the men’s swim team at the Auburn Last Chance Meet. The rundown: Baseball vs. West Georgia & Western Michigan Softball vs. #18 Stanford Women’s Basketball 4 game skid Men’s Basketball w...

After the first mega-spring sports weekend at Georgia Tech, Jack/Jake/Akshay hit all the week’s news ranging from Baseball’s four game series vs. Marshall to an extensive conversation about the state of Georgia Tech Swim & Dive after announcing John Ames as the full time head coach. The rundown: Baseball vs. Georgia Southern & Marshall Softball in the I-75 Tournament Women’s Basketball vs....

Jack, Jake, and Akshay are back to recap the busiest weekend thus far in the 2024-25 Georgia Tech Athletics season. On this episode: Baseball’s opening weekend sweep vs. Old Dominion Softball in Starkville Women’s Basketball loss @ Clemson and bounceback win vs. Wake Forest Men’s Basketball’s impressive wins over Stanford & Cal Women’s Tennis razor thin loss to Alabama ACC Swim & Dive prev...

The whole gang of Jack, Jake, and Akshay are back together and welcome Georgia Tech Baseball stalwart Ben King to quickly recap the 2024 season, the guys to look out for on the 2025 team, how the schedule pans out, and a bunch of insights as to how Drew Burress and the team is feeling going into 2025. Then (44:00), the weekly recap of #19 Women’s Basketball, Men’s Basketball, #12 Golf, Softball’s...

After updates on Georgia Tech Men’s and Women’s Basketball, Jack and Jake go through their preview of the 2025 Georgia Tech Softball season, which includes nine new freshman and the 2024 Ohio Gatorade Player of the Year joning the pitching rotation. Then, quick hits on GT Tennis and Club Lacrosse. Please let us know what you think via email ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fromtherumbleseat@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ), on Twitter (...

It’s a quick episode as Jack and Akshay cover a light week in the Georgia Tech sports world, focusing on #18 Women’s Basketball’s loss to #14 Duke: the positives, the clear negatives, and what this means for them going forward. Please let us know what you think via email ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fromtherumbleseat@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ), on Twitter (@FTRSBlog), on Facebook, or in the comments below! Hosts: Jack Purdy, A...

It’s once again a two man booth as Jack and Akshay go deep on the last week in Georgia Tech Women’s Basketball that included the first triple-double in 23 years for the program and the 3rd biggest crowd in its history. Plus a quick hit on men’s basketball before recaps of the week for swim & dive vs. Duke, track, and the tennis teams as they get the spring semester season underway. To those we...

Jack and Jake are at the helm this week as we go over Georgia Tech Women’s Basketball’s two losses, GT Men’s Basketball’s two losses, swim and dive’s return to the pool highlighted by diver Max Fowler, plus Men’s Tennis is back in action with a win over Charlotte, a much better mid-major than one might imagine. Please let us know what you think via email ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fromtherumbleseat@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ )...

With Jack on this week's injury report with an illness, it's just Jake and Akshay in the virtual recording booth this week to dish on New Year festivities, women's basketball's continuing cruise against ACC opposition, and men's basketball's run of good form to end 2024 / start 2025. Please let us know what you think via email ( ⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fromtherumbleseat@gmail.com⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠ ), on Twitter (@FTRSBlog)...

Jack and Akshay deep dive into what went wrong in the Birmingham Bowl for Georgia Tech before doing a full post mortem on the 2024 season, what Haynes King meant to the success of the team, and revisit our original thoughts on the team coming into the season. Then, a review of #13 Georgia Tech women’s basketball’s 39 point win over Pitt to establish a program record 14th straight win. Please let u...

Jack is joined by Jackson Caudell from Georgia Tech on SI to dive into how Georgia Tech Football’s team has changed with the opening of the transfer portal and who the big acqusitions have been. Then, a quick preview on the Birmingham Bowl and who we think will win. Then Jack solo on the now #13 Georgia Tech Women’s Basketball team. Please let us know what you think via email ( ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠fromtherumble...

Akshay, Jack, and Jake are joined by longtime Georgia Tech Women’s Basketball and Volleyball radio announcer, Kurt Hoyt, to help give some valuable context to how Women’s Basketball has reached the program record 11-0 start and how they can continue to capitalize amongst a very crowded ACC schedule coming up. Then, a review into Tech’s Volleyball season and who the reinforcements are that are comi...

Georgia Tech Women’s Basketball is ranked!! Maggie Doster joins us to dig into this fantastic WBB season including the wins over Mississippi State and Mercer before we establish our recalibrated expectations for the season. Plus, we go over our thoughts on the Birmingham Bowl selection, national signing day updates, a quick hit on men’s basketball, and our evaluation of Georgia Tech Volleyball’s s...

Jake and Jack are joined by former Georgia Tech Baseball pitcher, Ben King, to go through our experience in Athens on Friday night, what the game and the season meant for the players, and just how incredibly proud we still are of this football team. This is a sad podcast episode, but more importantly, this is a hopeful podcast episode. Then, we go over the current state of Men’s Basketball (not go...

Jack is joined by our old pal Joey of the Basketball Conference to recap Georgia Tech Football’s 30-29 win over NC State, getting Tech to their 7th win of the season and matching last year’s win total with two guaranteed games left to play. Since we don’t know the next time we’ll be recording (holidays always throw a wrench into our schedule), we get a short preview of the COFH matchup next week i...