ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — Winning an ACC Championship is no small accomplishment, but as Georgia Tech first-year head coach James Ramsey has made clear, this program is aiming even higher.
“Winning the ACC Championship is no small feat, but this group has obviously set their sights on a lot higher things than that,” first year head coach James Ramsey said.
Ramsey has been named the 13th head coach in program history after long time head coach Danny Hall retired after 32 seasons. This season marks his eighth year with the Yellow Jackets, including the last five as associate head coach.
“I think it’s all culminated at the right time,” Ramsey said. “I don’t take it for granted at all. I’m super grateful for the administration trusting, Coach Hall trusting, the fanbase trusting. The players, I think at the end of the day, that’s the thing I’ve taken the most respect is, didn’t have to have a single meeting with a single player to retain them.”
For the first since 2005, Tech won the ACC regular season championship last year outright but went on to fall to Ole Miss in the Oxford Regional. Last year the Yellow Jackets had 12 players selected to All-America teams.
This year’s squad will have a deep lineup of talent with new additions in recruits and transfers and key returners including first team All-Americans Drew Burress and Vahn Lackey.
“We get it that the expectations are high,” Burress said. “That’s exactly where you want to be. Definitely the highest they’ve been since I’ve been here, and at the end of the day it doesn’t mean anything. You got to go out there and put it on the field.
“We’ve seen plenty of teams in the past that have very high expectations and don’t get it done. I think we are confident about our skillset on the field against any other team in the country.”
They Yellow Jackets open up the season at home against Bowling Green on Friday, Feb. 13 at 4 p.m.
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