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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 252744" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>Just FYI, GT has 61,000 living alumni IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF GEORGIA. Uga has some 90,000 in the Atlanta metro area alone.</p><p></p><p>Football attendance is generally correlated strongly with alumni base. For all the talk about sidewalk fans etc, donations levels and attendance at games is almost always related very closely to the size of the alumni base. Winning, even at the highest level, for one season does not move the needle on either front. We proved that in 1991 and again in 2015, when strong winning seasons the previous year did little for attendance the following year. Winning at a high level for a decade (Miami in the 1980's-90's) can bring in a legion of sidewalk fans, but fickle fans they are usually.</p><p></p><p>Georgia has about 3 times the renumber of living alumni in the state than we do. They ought to be filling up a 150,000 seat stadium if their alumni attended at the same rate as ours did. THAT is where our disadvantage lies. They don't call us the North Avenue Trade School for nothing. UGa also has over $100M in athletic revenues compared to about $60M for GT.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 252744, member: 944"] Just FYI, GT has 61,000 living alumni IN THE ENTIRE STATE OF GEORGIA. Uga has some 90,000 in the Atlanta metro area alone. Football attendance is generally correlated strongly with alumni base. For all the talk about sidewalk fans etc, donations levels and attendance at games is almost always related very closely to the size of the alumni base. Winning, even at the highest level, for one season does not move the needle on either front. We proved that in 1991 and again in 2015, when strong winning seasons the previous year did little for attendance the following year. Winning at a high level for a decade (Miami in the 1980's-90's) can bring in a legion of sidewalk fans, but fickle fans they are usually. Georgia has about 3 times the renumber of living alumni in the state than we do. They ought to be filling up a 150,000 seat stadium if their alumni attended at the same rate as ours did. THAT is where our disadvantage lies. They don't call us the North Avenue Trade School for nothing. UGa also has over $100M in athletic revenues compared to about $60M for GT. [/QUOTE]
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