Former Georgia Tech quarterback and 2014 College Football Hall of Fame inductee Joe Hamilton will be the featured speaker at a Georgia Tech Alumni Network event on Thursday at Coach’s Corner.
Hamilton, a recruiting assistant for the Georgia Tech football program, will be joined by former Benedictine Military School standout and current Yellow Jackets assistant football coach Lamar Owens. Owens, who played quarterback at the U.S. Naval Academy under Georgia Tech coach Paul Johnson from 2003-05, graduated from BC in 2002 and is in his seventh season on the Georgia Tech football staff.
Hamilton, who will be inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in December, enjoyed a spectacular career as a four-year starter at quarterback for the Yellow Jackets from 1996-99. He is the school’s all-time leader in total offense with 10,640 yards, and he won the prestigious Davey O’Brien Award as the nation’s top quarterback in 1999 while finishing runner-up to Wisconsin’s Ron Dayne in the 1999 Heisman Trophy voting.
Playing under then-head coach George O’Leary, Hamilton guided Tech to consecutive bowl victories and back-to-back wins over Georgia. He established ACC career records for total offense, touchdown passes and total touchdowns.
Hamilton was selected as a first-team All American in 1999 and was part of the inaugural class of the ACC 50 Football Legends.
Cost for admission to the event will be $10 for Georgia Tech students (with valid student identification), $25 for alumni and guests and $10 for children under 13. Proceeds from the event will be divided between the Georgia Tech Alumni Network Scholarship Fund and the Georgia Tech Athletic Association.
ESPNU sets GSU TV times
STATESBORO — Kickoff times for Georgia Southern’s two Thursday night games on ESPNU have been set for 7:30.
Both the Eagles’ Sun Belt Conference home opener against Appalachian State on Sept. 25 and the Oct. 30 contest with Troy place GSU on the national network during prime time.
The network has also opted to exclusively distribute Georgia Southern’s Sept. 6 home opener in the newly expanded Paulson Stadium digitally on ESPN3, accessible online at WatchESPN.com and on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app, and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Chromecast (via the WatchESPN app), Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Kickoff will remain at its originally scheduled 6 p.m.
Season tickets for Georgia Southern’s 2014 five-game home campaign are available for purchase online at GSEagles.com/fbtix. For more information, call 1-800-GSU-WINS or email tickets@georgiasouthern.edu weekdays from 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m.
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