GTHomer
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Question for the board. Probably not a clear either/or but it's worth a shot.
Did you become a GT basketball fan because of GT's success during a period of time?
OR
Would you be a GT basketball fan regardless?
Reason I ask is I was predisposed to being a college b'ball fan and naturally was entrenched with GT the moment I stepped on campus. That said, at least half if not a significant majority of my friends became GT b'ball fans because of our success while on campus from '02-'07. Most of those friends still follow the team and attend games from time-to-time, and they freely admit it's because of our success and how fun it was to attend games while in school. They didn't and still hardly know s*** about basketball, but they now put butts in the seats and are loud (and in doing so often scare their own children).
If we can sustain the success and trajectory it seems we're on, I think we'll develop a nice new wave of young fans.
This question is worthy of a separate topic.
I was at GT as we transitioned from Dwayne Morrison to Bobby Cremins. Though already a basketball fan, I got excited with the direction CBC began to take the program, especially with the early upsets of Maryland and Lefty Driesell during the 81-82 season. Brooke Steppe was the man back then.