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<blockquote data-quote="BLKJacket" data-source="post: 484186" data-attributes="member: 2317"><p>Gonna go ahead and assume that you're just trolling and don't actually think that playing some songs during games is all that's necessary to embrace the hip hop culture of ATL. And also my post wasn't really about fan attendance. Honestly I think fan attendance is a bit of a losing battle (for everyone not just GT), and although it's important I wasn't addressing that. I'm more concerned about gaining sidewalk fans for the ripple affect it can have on recruiting down the road. I want kids in the metro ATL area to grow up cheering for GT (even if only from home), wearing our gear, and dreaming of playing on the flats. I'm tired of seeing these posts on kids we are recruiting where 99% of their family and friends are UGA fans and the only one pulling for GT is mama (because of the education). And yet they live right down the street(tic....kinda) from campus. For better or worse peer/family pressure can (and to varying degrees, do) influence recruits choices.</p><p></p><p>So how can we change that? Of course the product on the field is a big thing. But that's not what this thread is about. So my larger point is that GT needs to embrace ATL's culture and be THE school of Atlanta. I specifically called out hip hop because as someone who grew up in Atlanta it's something that is a part of the city's culture for me, and I think would resonate with recruits and the younger generation. But that doesn't mean that its the only music genre that's a part of our culture or that would appeal to recruits. So lets figure out what parts of the culture (music, sports, food, whatever) we want to embrace and drum up a fan base in our own city. FWIW I think CJP and the basketball team is already starting to do this, but here's just a few ideas I had in the last few minutes of thinking about this.</p><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) is one of the hottest rappers and comedians of the past few years, and a self-proclaimed NERD (come on that's too easy) and he grew up no that far away in Stone Mountain. Maybe he'd be willing to do a show on campus and tickets only go to the first X students and X fans that go to the game that weekend.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Quavo (rapper in the group Migos) is a huge basketball fan (and has some game himself) and periodically host charity football and basketball games. Could we organize a celebrity scrimmage at McCamish and make him and some other ATL celebrity captains. I'm sure there are other ATL based celebs that would play, I can think of a few that hoop off the top of my head. We could give out free GT t-shirts to the first X attendees.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">When I was at tech I took a history of jazz class. Could we offer a class on any of the music genre's connected to ATL. Could we have any of the artist named above as a guest lecturer.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Could we offer a class on Audio Engineering or music production engineering or whatever its called (this is not my area of expertise) and get one of the many producers in ATL to guest lecture.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Turner broadcasting is right there, gotta be something we could be doing there.</li> </ul><p>Maybe some (hell maybe all) of these ideas are bad or have been tried already, but is anyone in the AA thinking about this? I also realize most of the ideas above are hip hop focused but as I mentioned I talk about that because that something I know. I'm not suggesting we over rotate on the hip hop thing because I now some of you old guys' heads would explode. But I'm sure there are people with other better ideas on parts of the ATL culture we can incorporate into the GT experience.</p><p></p><p>Sorry for the long post, FWIW even though I'm a season ticket holder I live in NYC now and don't get a chance to make it to many games so I have not had the chance to hear what they play in the stadium now. But I'd bet a good amount of money that most of the players, students, and recruits don't think its "gawd awful". But anyway I'm sure you were just trolling for the sake of trolling so I'll get off my soapbox now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BLKJacket, post: 484186, member: 2317"] Gonna go ahead and assume that you're just trolling and don't actually think that playing some songs during games is all that's necessary to embrace the hip hop culture of ATL. And also my post wasn't really about fan attendance. Honestly I think fan attendance is a bit of a losing battle (for everyone not just GT), and although it's important I wasn't addressing that. I'm more concerned about gaining sidewalk fans for the ripple affect it can have on recruiting down the road. I want kids in the metro ATL area to grow up cheering for GT (even if only from home), wearing our gear, and dreaming of playing on the flats. I'm tired of seeing these posts on kids we are recruiting where 99% of their family and friends are UGA fans and the only one pulling for GT is mama (because of the education). And yet they live right down the street(tic....kinda) from campus. For better or worse peer/family pressure can (and to varying degrees, do) influence recruits choices. So how can we change that? Of course the product on the field is a big thing. But that's not what this thread is about. So my larger point is that GT needs to embrace ATL's culture and be THE school of Atlanta. I specifically called out hip hop because as someone who grew up in Atlanta it's something that is a part of the city's culture for me, and I think would resonate with recruits and the younger generation. But that doesn't mean that its the only music genre that's a part of our culture or that would appeal to recruits. So lets figure out what parts of the culture (music, sports, food, whatever) we want to embrace and drum up a fan base in our own city. FWIW I think CJP and the basketball team is already starting to do this, but here's just a few ideas I had in the last few minutes of thinking about this. [LIST] [*]Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) is one of the hottest rappers and comedians of the past few years, and a self-proclaimed NERD (come on that's too easy) and he grew up no that far away in Stone Mountain. Maybe he'd be willing to do a show on campus and tickets only go to the first X students and X fans that go to the game that weekend. [*]Quavo (rapper in the group Migos) is a huge basketball fan (and has some game himself) and periodically host charity football and basketball games. Could we organize a celebrity scrimmage at McCamish and make him and some other ATL celebrity captains. I'm sure there are other ATL based celebs that would play, I can think of a few that hoop off the top of my head. We could give out free GT t-shirts to the first X attendees. [*]When I was at tech I took a history of jazz class. Could we offer a class on any of the music genre's connected to ATL. Could we have any of the artist named above as a guest lecturer. [*]Could we offer a class on Audio Engineering or music production engineering or whatever its called (this is not my area of expertise) and get one of the many producers in ATL to guest lecture. [*]Turner broadcasting is right there, gotta be something we could be doing there. [/LIST] Maybe some (hell maybe all) of these ideas are bad or have been tried already, but is anyone in the AA thinking about this? I also realize most of the ideas above are hip hop focused but as I mentioned I talk about that because that something I know. I'm not suggesting we over rotate on the hip hop thing because I now some of you old guys' heads would explode. But I'm sure there are people with other better ideas on parts of the ATL culture we can incorporate into the GT experience. Sorry for the long post, FWIW even though I'm a season ticket holder I live in NYC now and don't get a chance to make it to many games so I have not had the chance to hear what they play in the stadium now. But I'd bet a good amount of money that most of the players, students, and recruits don't think its "gawd awful". But anyway I'm sure you were just trolling for the sake of trolling so I'll get off my soapbox now. [/QUOTE]
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