Petition to stop noon home games

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

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The side walk fans are the key.
Many UGA sidewalk fans are regular folks.
We have to many elitist fans that crack jokes - walmart, clemson fans drive your tractor home, etc. The sad thing is the gt folks are probably good people and would say something funny but not mean if they just paused.

I wonder if we could get some local ga tech grads to volunenteer as ambassadors to opponents and street fans. Norte Dame does this - guys wear Blazers ( stored at school) and come around the stadium greeting folks. Even w the but whipping , I hope to go back to see gt play them in a few years. Just a great experience.

Also we need more stuff (BUZZ-) going on before and during the game. Why come early and see nothing

As much as I have always hated Notre Dame, the two times I have been to South Bend, once in victory, and once in defeat, I found the ND fans to be among the nicest, if not the nicest, fans I have ever encountered. They were gracious in defeat and gracious in victory as well.

 

[stech81]

I like it. Maybe just sell $1 beers from 45 min to 10 min before kick-off and during halftime, and then don't sell beers during the game.

They would need to give each team one more timeout so I could pee . I'm slow add one more TV timeout .

 

[RonJohn]

I saw somewhere that donations for the GTAA were way up this past year

I don't doubt that. TStan has been much better at reaching out than MBob. I know they got donations for the locker room renovation. They got smaller(albeit average $1,000) for the recruiting drive. However, to be on the same level as the factories, the entire athletic budget needs to be about 50% higher than it is now. The post I was responding to said:

that money needs to be used to attract better/higher ranked recruits (in all sports).

The GTAA already raised money to hire four new recruiting specialists. If that post wants bowling alleys and water slides like some schools GT's budget needs to be more like the factory budgets.

 

[iceeater1969]

I've always been a Georgia Tech fan, always. However, a long time ago during a darker period of my life, I admit, I attended two Georgia home football games. Kinda like someone admitting to watching the "View". OK, I did that once too. I'm so ashamed. But anyway, one thing that they did that impressed me was they would have a pee-wee football game played in front of their fans before the game. Their fans loved it. That probably won't get more GT fans to buy tickets, but I thought it was unique.

great idea!

 

[GT_05]

As much as I have always hated Notre Dame, the two times I have been to South Bend, once in victory, and once in defeat, I found the ND fans to be among the nicest, if not the nicest, fans I have ever encountered. They were gracious in defeat and gracious in victory as well.

I agree. One guy made an effort to walk out of his tailgating tent, held out his hand, and said, “Welcome to our campus.” Very classy.

I did the same when FSU came to BDS later that year. Those guys looked at me like I had two heads. I still chuckle about that after what happened later that night.


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[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

great idea!

I don't think they do that in the cesspool anymore, but back in the 50s (so I have heard) there were similar initiatives at Tech. One thing I know they did at Tech was to have boy scouts as ushers. Well, ushers are a thing of the past now, as (sadly) are the BOY scouts.

 

[iceeater1969]

I don't think they do that in the cesspool anymore, but back in the 50s (so I have heard) there were similar initiatives at Tech. One thing I know they did at Tech was to have boy scouts as ushers. Well, ushers are a thing of the past now, as (sadly) are the BOY scouts.

Coached Pee Wee football and we had a superbowl game w 1500 fans 5$ each.

 

[MikeJackets1967]

Coached Pee Wee football and we had a superbowl game w 1500 fans 5$ each.

More people showed up for that game than show up for Duke home games

 

[AE 87]

Nm

 

[Augusta_Jacket]

I think a lot of the problem is a lot of the GT students are from other countries and don't know anything about football or don't care about it.

GT has about 3000 international students out of 21000 total. (Grad and undergrad) I don't think this is as big a problem as we make it.

 

[Augusta_Jacket]

I saw somewhere that donations for the GTAA were way up this past year

That's because we had a targeted drive to hire two new people for recruiting.

 

[stech81]

Coached Pee Wee football and we had a superbowl game w 1500 fans 5$ each.

I did not know you coached at Duke

 

[MikeJackets1967]

I did not know you coached at Duke

 

[dressedcheeseside]

GT is full of students not interested in football. Period. If someone conducted a poll, I would be shocked if even 50% of current students attend football games. It has nothing to do with how good the team is. These students didn’t go to football games in high school, either. This is not a simple fix.

If we truly want to build the fan base, it’s gonna have to be through the sidewalk.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

GT is full of students not interested in football. Period. If someone conducted a poll, I would be shocked if even 50% of current students attend football games. It has nothing to do with how good the team is. These students didn’t go to football games in high school, either. This is not a simple fix.

If we truly want to build the fan base, it’s gonna have to be through the sidewalk.

I would venture to say that most college students everywhere didn't attend HS football games. And yet, most colleges have students who DO attend their college's football games, although apparently student attendance IS down throughout the country, but probably not at the factories.

 

[Gold1]

That's because we had a targeted drive to hire two new people for recruiting.

Not the only reason

 

[GT_05]

I would venture to say that most college students everywhere didn't attend HS football games. And yet, most colleges have students who DO attend their college's football games, although apparently student attendance IS down throughout the country, but probably not at the factories.

I grew up in a town with three red lights. People assumed that you were somewhere causing trouble if you weren’t at the game on Friday night.


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[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

I grew up in a town with three red lights. People assumed that you were somewhere causing trouble if you weren’t at the game on Friday night.


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That may be true in small towns, but I don't think it is in the larger ones. HS football attendance at Augusta HS's is nowhere like it was in the past.

 

[ramblinwreckguru]

That may be true in small towns, but I don't think it is in the larger ones. HS football attendance at Augusta HS's is nowhere like it was in the past.

I hear you and agree about Augusta area high school football, but I think the biggest issue with that is that football in Augusta is notoriously bad. Not quite sure why that is, but fans, including students, are drawn to good teams that have a chance in the postseason.

 

[Supersizethatorder-mutt]

I hear you and agree about Augusta area high school football, but I think the biggest issue with that is that football in Augusta is notoriously bad. Not quite sure why that is, but fans, including students, are drawn to good teams that have a chance in the postseason.

Are you from Augusta? Sounds like you might be. I think the problem in Augusta is that there are way too many high schools here. Back when there was only one public (white) high school when I was in school, and even as late as the 70s, when there were only 4 (IIRC), there were some decent football teams and a few exceptional players (Mike Kelly, Ken Whisenhunt for two). But now, including the outlying areas, there are, I think, 10 high schools in the area, and that's just way too many. Meanwhile across the river in North Augusta, there is still only one high school, and they still have some damn good teams.