ATLANTA — It’s 6:58 a.m. and Jeezy is bumping in Georgia Tech’s defensive meeting room. The meeting starts in two minutes. The tunes began playing 18 minutes ago. At some business conferences, they’ll plonk on a xylophone to let attendees know a session is about to begin. In a Geoff Collins program, you know it’s time to move when the bass drops.
Following the THOUGHT OF THE DAY WITH UR BOI—an inspirational message from a player; that player this day is safety Tre Swilling, the son of former Georgia Tech great Pat Swilling—defensive coordinator Andrew Thacker begins constructively criticizing the defense’s performance from practice two days earlier.