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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 596816" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>I would be curious as to where you got your data. A quick internet search shows that Texas A&M's alumni network organization boasts 640,000 members, with 59,741 students in College Station (over 47,000 of whom are undergraduates). That dwarfs GT in every way. GT has just over 15,000 undergraduate students, so we are a little less than 1/3 the size of the Texas A&M undergrad student body. More to the point, GT has about 126,000 living alumni, or only about 20% of the numbers the Aggies have. I know from prior research that a significant percentage of Gt alumni live out-of-state, where I would guess the opposite is true in Texas which makes the ratios even worse. If we do indeed have only 1/7 of their ticket sales and donations, that would be around 14% plus, which would not be unreasonably correlated with the size of their alumni base in state vs ours.</p><p></p><p>While I think that GT marketing can do better at attracting younger, hipper, fans like Atlanta United has done, I think it is a huge uphill battle and we can only make incremental progress. The numbers are simply against us in a huge way unless GT expands their curriculum and campus to become a full university that issues both BA and BS degrees....which many here oppose in principle.</p><p></p><p>By the way, let's see how Atlanta United attendance does after three years in a row of mediocre results......</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 596816, member: 944"] I would be curious as to where you got your data. A quick internet search shows that Texas A&M's alumni network organization boasts 640,000 members, with 59,741 students in College Station (over 47,000 of whom are undergraduates). That dwarfs GT in every way. GT has just over 15,000 undergraduate students, so we are a little less than 1/3 the size of the Texas A&M undergrad student body. More to the point, GT has about 126,000 living alumni, or only about 20% of the numbers the Aggies have. I know from prior research that a significant percentage of Gt alumni live out-of-state, where I would guess the opposite is true in Texas which makes the ratios even worse. If we do indeed have only 1/7 of their ticket sales and donations, that would be around 14% plus, which would not be unreasonably correlated with the size of their alumni base in state vs ours. While I think that GT marketing can do better at attracting younger, hipper, fans like Atlanta United has done, I think it is a huge uphill battle and we can only make incremental progress. The numbers are simply against us in a huge way unless GT expands their curriculum and campus to become a full university that issues both BA and BS degrees....which many here oppose in principle. By the way, let's see how Atlanta United attendance does after three years in a row of mediocre results...... [/QUOTE]
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