The scenario of kids who grew up as fans of other football schools attending a different school is not unique to GT. The difference is other programs successfully turn those kids by the end of freshman year through culture, tradition, on field success or a mixture of all of the above. I used to manage a company in my previous career where most of the entry level positions were teenagers. Many of these kids were fans of other SEC teams or BIG Ten teams. We would always talk shop Mondays after the games that weekend. I can’t tell you how many of these kids got accepted to UGA and claimed they would never root for UGA over their childhood team, only to return to work after one semester a full blown mutt. The fact that GT has current students who consider themselves fans of other schools is absolutely our problem and proof that our football culture needs some major improvement. Fielding a good football team is a step in the right direction, but we definitely need to do our part, too, whenever possible. I know there are many who simply can not attend every home game for whatever reasons, and I completely understand that(I can not, myself). There are many things in life that are more important than football, but we can still do better on our side of things, too.
