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<blockquote data-quote="JacketOff" data-source="post: 991209" data-attributes="member: 4572"><p>The college baseball schedule is just not conducive for drawing fans to RCS. The cold weather with 4pm starts on work days in the beginning of the season make it near impossible for anyone to get to the game unless they have a specific reason to go ie: they have a son/brother/nephew/grandson/etc. playing, their job is to watch college baseball games as a scout, agent, or reporter, or they’re just retired with nothing else to do. Midweeks and early season OOC (save UGA) weekends just aren’t enticing enough for people to make plans to fight Atlanta traffic and try to find parking on campus for a game. Especially not while kids are still in school. </p><p></p><p>Where Tech can and should be better for attendance is the late season conference weekends. The temperatures get into the 70s & 80s so gametimes are later in the day and it’s amazingly beautiful out at the ballpark, and kids start getting out of school so it’s something for parents to take their kids to. A lot of that will come with winning and actually making it to the nationally broadcast Supers and maybe to Omaha. Vandy is in a similar position as Tech where they struggle to draw fans early in the season for many of the same reasons Tech does. But when conference play starts their small-ish stadium is packed. If Tech starts showing progress towards becoming a Vandy-like program we’ll start to see attendance trends like they do. </p><p></p><p>People talk about GT football being a sleeping giant, which maybe it is. Probably more like a sleeping Shaquille O’Neal, really big but far from a giant. GT baseball on the other hand, now that’s a sleeping Titan. Something that could be colossal. The student attendance has been much better in recent years which is a good step. Now we just need the program to take that step back into the national spotlight. GT should dominate UGA in baseball and basketball. Give the sidewalk fans something to consider. There’s a ton of kids in the metro Atlanta area that would probably love to come to GT games if we were nationally dominant, and even the dumbest mutt fan dads would see that driving 30 minutes from Kennesaw to Midtown is easier than driving an hour and a half to the cesspool. </p><p></p><p>Long story short: win and they will come.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="JacketOff, post: 991209, member: 4572"] The college baseball schedule is just not conducive for drawing fans to RCS. The cold weather with 4pm starts on work days in the beginning of the season make it near impossible for anyone to get to the game unless they have a specific reason to go ie: they have a son/brother/nephew/grandson/etc. playing, their job is to watch college baseball games as a scout, agent, or reporter, or they’re just retired with nothing else to do. Midweeks and early season OOC (save UGA) weekends just aren’t enticing enough for people to make plans to fight Atlanta traffic and try to find parking on campus for a game. Especially not while kids are still in school. Where Tech can and should be better for attendance is the late season conference weekends. The temperatures get into the 70s & 80s so gametimes are later in the day and it’s amazingly beautiful out at the ballpark, and kids start getting out of school so it’s something for parents to take their kids to. A lot of that will come with winning and actually making it to the nationally broadcast Supers and maybe to Omaha. Vandy is in a similar position as Tech where they struggle to draw fans early in the season for many of the same reasons Tech does. But when conference play starts their small-ish stadium is packed. If Tech starts showing progress towards becoming a Vandy-like program we’ll start to see attendance trends like they do. People talk about GT football being a sleeping giant, which maybe it is. Probably more like a sleeping Shaquille O’Neal, really big but far from a giant. GT baseball on the other hand, now that’s a sleeping Titan. Something that could be colossal. The student attendance has been much better in recent years which is a good step. Now we just need the program to take that step back into the national spotlight. GT should dominate UGA in baseball and basketball. Give the sidewalk fans something to consider. There’s a ton of kids in the metro Atlanta area that would probably love to come to GT games if we were nationally dominant, and even the dumbest mutt fan dads would see that driving 30 minutes from Kennesaw to Midtown is easier than driving an hour and a half to the cesspool. Long story short: win and they will come. [/QUOTE]
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