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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 256309" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>Being a fan means different things to everyone. NO ONE is more right (or more wrong) in how they want to be a GT fan. Anyone who questions someone else's allegiance to GT just because they don't believe in the same principles is an f'ing idiot. Yes, a f'ing idiot. One of the dumbest things that gets posted on this message board is someone questioning another poster because their fan beliefs are different than yours. What does that prove? There's always the vocal minority that's upset about the program no matter who the coach is or what the team is doing, and on the flipside, there's the vocal minority who will support the program no matter who the coach is and what the team is doing. Most of us fall in between with various degrees of shading towards one side or another (think a bell curve).</p><p></p><p>Here's how I feel about GT since I was a student in the early 2000's. Ma Tech demanded the highest degree of excellence of myself every day, and put me through the ringer to get out. I'm much older now than when I first fell in love with GT sports in the early 90's, so my perspective has changed. GT sports is always my first sports entertainment option, but at this point in my life that's exactly what it is. It's just an entertainment option. I no longer live and die by how the football and basketball teams do (lord know how many deaths I would have had with the basketball team had I still lived and died by their results the last 5 years). Since Ma Tech demanded my best during school, now that I'm out of school and GT asks me for money, I now demand their best. It's become simple for me. Do not ask me to do what you're unwilling to do yourself. </p><p></p><p>I get that certain fans normalize results based on the decade they became fans. Anything GT does looks better than what happened during to the program in the 80's. GT won a national championship, and had the O'Leary years in the 90's (oh, and the 2 year black hole of the Lewis years), and if you're a basketball fan, we also had the Final Four run and the Cremins years during that time. So I had no where to go but downhill when I first became a GT fan. That kind of run for our football and basketball program may be unrealistic in today's environment, but as someone who became a fan of that time, I do think those years are possible more often than not (not the National Championship or Final Four...but consistently a top 25 type program). And because of the demands of myself as a GT student, I now demand the same kind of commitment and performance for my time. Some of you may disagree with that POV, and some may agree, but my point is we all view fandom differently. </p><p></p><p>Most of us are pretty hard core GT fans. Seriously, you have to be to get on message boards and bash heads with everyone. I think we all want what's good for our program. I think if we all actually met in person, 90% of the stuff we disagree on wouldn't be the big deal we make it out to be on this board. The only difference most of us have is HOW we can get GT to where we all want it. The beautiful thing is, as a GT fan, we all want to see our program do well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 256309, member: 360"] Being a fan means different things to everyone. NO ONE is more right (or more wrong) in how they want to be a GT fan. Anyone who questions someone else's allegiance to GT just because they don't believe in the same principles is an f'ing idiot. Yes, a f'ing idiot. One of the dumbest things that gets posted on this message board is someone questioning another poster because their fan beliefs are different than yours. What does that prove? There's always the vocal minority that's upset about the program no matter who the coach is or what the team is doing, and on the flipside, there's the vocal minority who will support the program no matter who the coach is and what the team is doing. Most of us fall in between with various degrees of shading towards one side or another (think a bell curve). Here's how I feel about GT since I was a student in the early 2000's. Ma Tech demanded the highest degree of excellence of myself every day, and put me through the ringer to get out. I'm much older now than when I first fell in love with GT sports in the early 90's, so my perspective has changed. GT sports is always my first sports entertainment option, but at this point in my life that's exactly what it is. It's just an entertainment option. I no longer live and die by how the football and basketball teams do (lord know how many deaths I would have had with the basketball team had I still lived and died by their results the last 5 years). Since Ma Tech demanded my best during school, now that I'm out of school and GT asks me for money, I now demand their best. It's become simple for me. Do not ask me to do what you're unwilling to do yourself. I get that certain fans normalize results based on the decade they became fans. Anything GT does looks better than what happened during to the program in the 80's. GT won a national championship, and had the O'Leary years in the 90's (oh, and the 2 year black hole of the Lewis years), and if you're a basketball fan, we also had the Final Four run and the Cremins years during that time. So I had no where to go but downhill when I first became a GT fan. That kind of run for our football and basketball program may be unrealistic in today's environment, but as someone who became a fan of that time, I do think those years are possible more often than not (not the National Championship or Final Four...but consistently a top 25 type program). And because of the demands of myself as a GT student, I now demand the same kind of commitment and performance for my time. Some of you may disagree with that POV, and some may agree, but my point is we all view fandom differently. Most of us are pretty hard core GT fans. Seriously, you have to be to get on message boards and bash heads with everyone. I think we all want what's good for our program. I think if we all actually met in person, 90% of the stuff we disagree on wouldn't be the big deal we make it out to be on this board. The only difference most of us have is HOW we can get GT to where we all want it. The beautiful thing is, as a GT fan, we all want to see our program do well. [/QUOTE]
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