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<blockquote data-quote="Techster" data-source="post: 465393" data-attributes="member: 360"><p>I graduated from GT in the early 2000's. I was there during the O'Leary years. I was a fan of GT since the days Shawn Jones was slinging the football for Friedgen and Bobby Ross. </p><p></p><p>Since I graduated, I've bought 2 season tickets every year. When CPJ was hired, I talked 2 non-GT alum fans (one 'Bama grad, one Notre Dame grad) into buying season tickets each since they both love college football and GT has become their "other" team due to distance from their alma mater. In the last 10 years, both of those friends have gotten married and one of them now has a kid. Getting to games has become a bigger ordeal than just rolling out of bed and picking up our favorite adult beverage for tailgating on the way to BDS since those life events happened. Since 2015, both of them have continued to buy season tix, but their attendence has fallen off. Both recently told me that this year might be the last year they buy season tickets. They no longer enjoy games like they use to, and the hassle of family and being new homeowners outweighs enduring the all the stuff they have to deal with parking, and sitting through unwatchable football. </p><p></p><p>How much of a deleterious effect has the last few years been? We spent the last decade slowly improving our position for seats, but my two friends are willing to let it go until GT gives them a reason to renew. They are textbook sidewalk fans, but they've invested in our program as much as a lot of GT "fans" I know. They're the kinds of fans GT should be working to keep. Unfortunately, in this day and age of large screen HD TVs, gourmet food delivery, and comfy man caves, they can watch GT fumble away possessions and let defenders go unblocked a lot easier at more comfortable from their homes. </p><p></p><p>If you want to know why "we need to give Coach X" more time (after 10 years) can be harmful and eroding to fan base, unfortunately my friends are Example A and Example B of what can happen when a coach overstays his effectiveness at a school.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Techster, post: 465393, member: 360"] I graduated from GT in the early 2000's. I was there during the O'Leary years. I was a fan of GT since the days Shawn Jones was slinging the football for Friedgen and Bobby Ross. Since I graduated, I've bought 2 season tickets every year. When CPJ was hired, I talked 2 non-GT alum fans (one 'Bama grad, one Notre Dame grad) into buying season tickets each since they both love college football and GT has become their "other" team due to distance from their alma mater. In the last 10 years, both of those friends have gotten married and one of them now has a kid. Getting to games has become a bigger ordeal than just rolling out of bed and picking up our favorite adult beverage for tailgating on the way to BDS since those life events happened. Since 2015, both of them have continued to buy season tix, but their attendence has fallen off. Both recently told me that this year might be the last year they buy season tickets. They no longer enjoy games like they use to, and the hassle of family and being new homeowners outweighs enduring the all the stuff they have to deal with parking, and sitting through unwatchable football. How much of a deleterious effect has the last few years been? We spent the last decade slowly improving our position for seats, but my two friends are willing to let it go until GT gives them a reason to renew. They are textbook sidewalk fans, but they've invested in our program as much as a lot of GT "fans" I know. They're the kinds of fans GT should be working to keep. Unfortunately, in this day and age of large screen HD TVs, gourmet food delivery, and comfy man caves, they can watch GT fumble away possessions and let defenders go unblocked a lot easier at more comfortable from their homes. If you want to know why "we need to give Coach X" more time (after 10 years) can be harmful and eroding to fan base, unfortunately my friends are Example A and Example B of what can happen when a coach overstays his effectiveness at a school. [/QUOTE]
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