Georgia Tech vs Minnesota

[Skeptic]

We have zero equivalent to Waffle House or Huddle House here on the tundra. Always give them a visit when back down south...

In the immortal words of my No. 2 son, the history professor, a town without a Waffle House is no town at all.

 

[GTNavyNuke]

In the immortal words of my No. 2 son, the history professor, a town without a Waffle House is no town at all.

But what if they have Huddle House? That really should count double.

 

[Whiskey_Clear]

Not to digress too much, but South Carolina drivers on 85 around Gaffney are the country's worst. A flight from ATL to DET is the best way to go by far. Saves almost two days of your life in a car. Just go to the lounge and relax ...... {ad for Chase Sapphire where some lounges at major airports are included with free food and drink.}

Ever drive in Manhattan?

 

[JacketFromUGA]

Fun fact: Atlanta is further west than Detroit

And if you were born and raised in south Detroit you'd be Canadian.

 

[MikeJackets1967]

And if you were born and raised in south Detroit you'd be Canadian.

Just a City Boy
Born and Raised in South Detroit
He took the Midnight Train
Going Anywhere

 

[DvilleJacket]

In the immortal words of my No. 2 son, the history professor, a town without a Waffle House is no town at all.

Our little beloved huddle house that drugs were being sold out of is now a BBQ. Savage!

 

[Animal02]

Elaborating more on Detroit area.
EATS
Polish immigrants settled in Hamtramack. It is surrounded by the city of Detroit.
http://www.polonia-restaurant.net/
Greektown has been a go to place for 50 years. There is a casino there as well
Monroe Street downtown
Pegasus is probably the best known and popular
http://pegasustavernas.com/
Also a big Mexican area south of downtown near the bridge to Canada
I like the Mexican Town better than Xochimilco Restauran, they are on the same block
http://mexicantownrestaurant.com/menu/
Dearborn has a sizable Middle Eastern population and lots of restaurants.....too many to list
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=mideastern&find_loc=Dearborn,+MI
Detroit's version of The Varsity is the Lafayette and American Coney Island.....next door to each other downtown.
http://americanconeyisland.com/home.htm
Upscale dining in an old mansion.........maybe you will confront those donors pushing KW
https://www.thewhitney.com/
The downtown core has seen a sort of rebirth, there are a lot of new restaurant around that I have not been to.

Things to do.
Canada is a tunnel or Bridge to the south......not much to do in Windsor.....a business partner lives there.....he call it the armpit of Ontario.
You can tour the Rouge Assembly plant where Ford make the F-150 (have never done the tour....I lived it spent several years in auto plants designing offices etc)
Also the Museum and Greenfield Village.....Village is closed during the day but they have a Holiday lights thing
http://gatetoadventures.com/henry-ford-museum-rouge-factory-tour-greenfield-village/#respond
There is a pretty decent art museum
https://www.dia.org/
Henry Ford estate.....the house is closed for renovations but you can walk the grounds.
http://www.henryfordfairlane.org/
Edsel Ford Estate
http://www.fordhouse.org/

 

[Heisman's Ghost]

This is completely ridiculous ,does Swofford hate CPJ this much? We should be playing in the Belk bowl. Maybe our AD needs to worry more about finding us a coach and fighting for the best bowl game to end PJ’s career. Instead of worrying about if the stupid dwags finish 4th or 5th.

This is completely ridiculous ,does Swofford hate CPJ this much? We should be playing in the Belk bowl. Maybe our AD needs to worry more about finding us a coach and fighting for the best bowl game to end PJ’s career. Instead of worrying about if the stupid dwags finish 4th or 5th.

"does Swofford hate CPJ this much?" Good question. I think it is equal parts dislike of Coach Johnson and disdain for the Institute. Pretty obvious he has it in for Tech. Well, there will come a time when he can get paid back in his own coin.

 

[iceeater1969]

Elaborating more on Detroit area.
EATS
Polish immigrants settled in Hamtramack. It is surrounded by the city of Detroit.
http://www.polonia-restaurant.net/
Greektown has been a go to place for 50 years. There is a casino there as well
Monroe Street downtown
Pegasus is probably the best known and popular
http://pegasustavernas.com/
Also a big Mexican area south of downtown near the bridge to Canada
I like the Mexican Town better than Xochimilco Restauran, they are on the same block
http://mexicantownrestaurant.com/menu/
Dearborn has a sizable Middle Eastern population and lots of restaurants.....too many to list
https://www.yelp.com/search?cflt=mideastern&find_loc=Dearborn,+MI
Detroit's version of The Varsity is the Lafayette and American Coney Island.....next door to each other downtown.
http://americanconeyisland.com/home.htm
Upscale dining in an old mansion.........maybe you will confront those donors pushing KW
https://www.thewhitney.com/
The downtown core has seen a sort of rebirth, there are a lot of new restaurant around that I have not been to.

Things to do.
Canada is a tunnel or Bridge to the south......not much to do in Windsor.....a business partner lives there.....he call it the armpit of Ontario.
You can tour the Rouge Assembly plant where Ford make the F-150 (have never done the tour....I lived it spent several years in auto plants designing offices etc)
Also the Museum and Greenfield Village.....Village is closed during the day but they have a Holiday lights thing
http://gatetoadventures.com/henry-ford-museum-rouge-factory-tour-greenfield-village/#respond
There is a pretty decent art museum
https://www.dia.org/
Henry Ford estate.....the house is closed for renovations but you can walk the grounds.
http://www.henryfordfairlane.org/
Edsel Ford Estate
http://www.fordhouse.org/

Thanks.
Wife says no way - to close to Christmas.

The Mexican area sound interesting.

 

[chewybaka]

I know it’s tough circumstances (day after Christmas, mid-week, long distance) but low attendance will just perpetuate the claim that our fan base doesn’t travel well. That is why I chose to travel. If you can’t travel please at least watch on tv so we have something to point to in future years.

I would not miss it! I am glad we are plyong a big 10 apponent - the gophers are an old school group like tech.

Debbie downers please calm down and enjoy the game on TV and let the players and cpj have some fun with it...

 

[Animal02]

Thanks.
Wife says no way - to close to Christmas.

The Mexican area sound interesting.

We were planning on doing a roloae trip for the bowl game. Only ones we would not have made were the ones before Christmas and going to El Paso. Now I am stuck with the "Honey Do" list over the holidays.

 

[Skeptic]

Just a City Boy
Born and Raised in South Detroit
He took the Midnight Train
Going Anywhere

Yesterday we got hit with Jeffrey Chaucer and now it's rock music video and lyrics, geography lessons and Detroit history and restaurant lessons. The board has become too erudite for the likes of us.

 

[Skeptic]

Our little beloved huddle house that drugs were being sold out of is now a BBQ. Savage!

In my son's history class a student from some little SC town rose to tell him that not only did it now have a Waffle House, but on the first night open there was a shooting. No, he was told, "a Huddle House would have a shooting. For the Waffle House, it is a christening."

 

[GT_EE78]

found this in a AJC article "Tech also is saddled with what is called the golden rule of the bowl business: College teams based in NFL markets don’t travel. Besides Tech, that would include schools such as Miami, South Florida, SMU, Cincinnati, Vanderbilt and Boston College, among others. (Miami may overcome this association with a strong national brand.) "
So why should a college team in an NFL market not travel as well as others? does competition dilute the fan base?

 

[BilldGopher]

Clearly a perception out there that having a pro team in town adversely affects a college program attendance wise. Similar situation for Minnesota in the Twin Cities with the Vikings as GT with the Falcons. Not so much as diluting the fan base but there is only so much entertainment dollar to go around.

In the Big 10 West, programs such as Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska have great reputations for traveling strong to bowl games and none of them have pro teams to compete with. Minnesota always seems to fall down the bowl pecking order...when our records with these schools is similar or even better...for getting to "better" bowls.

Tech has been to more significant bowls than us over the modern period so you have better data. Clearly our bowl apex since the early 60s was the Citrus Bowl 2014 against Missouri. This was our first Florida bowl game and the fanbase responded very well. Estimates were that at least 25,000 showed up...maybe more...and certainly tons more than what Mizzou fielded in the stands. The Big 10 and bowl committees were very surprised.

Our fallback is if we actually fielded a consistently winning program...and actually made it to contending for the conference championship within living memory...then the fans would come to both TCF Stadium in the fall and follow to the bowl.

 

[iceeater1969]

Clearly a perception out there that having a pro team in town adversely affects a college program attendance wise. Similar situation for Minnesota in the Twin Cities with the Vikings as GT with the Falcons. Not so much as diluting the fan base but there is only so much entertainment dollar to go around.

In the Big 10 West, programs such as Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska have great reputations for traveling strong to bowl games and none of them have pro teams to compete with. Minnesota always seems to fall down the bowl pecking order...when our records with these schools is similar or even better...for getting to "better" bowls.

Tech has been to more significant bowls than us over the modern period so you have better data. Clearly our bowl apex since the early 60s was the Citrus Bowl 2014 against Missouri. This was our first Florida bowl game and the fanbase responded very well. Estimates were that at least 25,000 showed up...maybe more...and certainly tons more than what Mizzou fielded in the stands. The Big 10 and bowl committees were very surprised.

Our fallback is if we actually fielded a consistently winning program...and actually made it to contending for the conference championship within living memory...then the fans would come to both TCF Stadium in the fall and follow to the bowl.

We feel your pain w all the competition for entertainment $
How has the " grab the oar, row the boat" theme been pushed out to high schools in your area. ??
(My h s coaching son has adopted this theme for his team and is having his players go to Jr high etc and model the theme. Has worked well and he sees lots of younger kids/parents buying tee shirts.).

Good luck next year. Hope u guys recover after we take your oars !

 

[684Bee]

Clearly a perception out there that having a pro team in town adversely affects a college program attendance wise. Similar situation for Minnesota in the Twin Cities with the Vikings as GT with the Falcons. Not so much as diluting the fan base but there is only so much entertainment dollar to go around.

In the Big 10 West, programs such as Iowa, Wisconsin, and Nebraska have great reputations for traveling strong to bowl games and none of them have pro teams to compete with. Minnesota always seems to fall down the bowl pecking order...when our records with these schools is similar or even better...for getting to "better" bowls.

Tech has been to more significant bowls than us over the modern period so you have better data. Clearly our bowl apex since the early 60s was the Citrus Bowl 2014 against Missouri. This was our first Florida bowl game and the fanbase responded very well. Estimates were that at least 25,000 showed up...maybe more...and certainly tons more than what Mizzou fielded in the stands. The Big 10 and bowl committees were very surprised.

Our fallback is if we actually fielded a consistently winning program...and actually made it to contending for the conference championship within living memory...then the fans would come to both TCF Stadium in the fall and follow to the bowl.

Curious what your enrollment is? My guess is twice as big as GT.

 

[5277hike]

Just a City Boy
Born and Raised in South Detroit
He took the Midnight Train
Going Anywhere

The first concert I ever went to was called the Detroit concert. It was in the building near Georgia State where they used to wrestle (Civic Auditorium or something like that). It featured Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes, Bob Seager, and a group called MC5. As a 15 year old I was shocked to see joints passed up and down the rows!

 

[MWBATL]

We have zero equivalent to Waffle House or Huddle House here on the tundra. Always give them a visit when back down south...

Sounds like a business opportunity to me!

 

[BilldGopher]

Curious what your enrollment is? My guess is twice as big as GT.

For 2015 about 30,500 undergrads and 12,600 graduate students...so in the 43-45 thousand range. UM is the same as Tech, UGA, and Ga State all in one school. It's the land grant institution for Minnesota and only D1 school. What's Tech's enrollment?