But would you rather this, which has become the norm for Tech football games?
At least everyone in gold represents Tech. I have no idea what team is represented in the picture above. If I weren't a Tech fan and someone showed me this picture, I'd have no clue what team this is. I can't for the life of me understand why Tech fans are so averse to representing their team in the stands. The discussion has never been about what the team wears: they decide that themselves. But if Clemson fans can do this:
And Georgia fans can do this:
And even a team like North Carolina, in their ugly sky blue, can do this:
And all of these teams doing this without even being prompted to do so, why is it so hard for Tech fans to just wear gold? If we can do this when we're motivated to:
Then we sure as hell can come unified every other game. We're a smarter fanbase than UGA, UNC, Clemson, and all others, but for some reason everyone wants to think that it doesn't matter what the fans look like in the stands. It does. Recruits notice it, players notice it, and other fans notice it. Want to stop being called a "lukewarm fanbase"? Want more people to show up to games? Want to attract more fans from the Atlanta area? Want to have a true home field advantage? There's one easy way that over time will certainly do it. You can keep making excuses, but you know that in the end, the most successful teams also have the most unified and rabid fans, and most importantly,
it shows. Nobody is calling you a bad fan for showing up in a different color; you're not. But there's a great deal of us tired of our reputation and looking around and seeing this support that other fans throw behind their team and seeing it having a true advantage, and we want the same. And it's not that hard to do, and it truly has an effect on the game. Taking gold and owning it and decking out the stands in gold like we did in the past as a Tech tradition will lead to benefits that we will reap down the road. Likewise, we've been reaping what we've sown with terrible branding and a confused color scheme that muddles up the stands. Let me end with a question: if last year's game against Florida State wasn't a whiteout, do you truly think that we'd have won that game?
