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<blockquote data-quote="Legal Jacket" data-source="post: 157163" data-attributes="member: 601"><p>There's a few reasons:</p><p></p><p>One, the visitors' section was in a much different (and more noticeable) place back then. Now we basically get a small corner (really for the band) and they stick us in the 600 level (which didn't even exist in the 1980s). I think that does a few things - one, it convinces people not to come because the view on TV is much better and two, it probably makes it seem, optically, that there are less GT fans than there really are. Also, the stadium wasn't as big so the proportion of GT fans would seem bigger. If it was 1980, Sanford was only 59k people (or a big expansion to 82k in 1981).</p><p></p><p>Two, we had more fans back then. Even though we hadn't been good recently, uga hadn't been on the 15 year dominance it has been on today. Pretty much all sidewalk fans these days are going to uga. We had beaten uga 3 times from 1970-1980, which was the worst we had done in a decade to that point. We also trailed the series only 39-31-5 at that point. The programs were just on a much different level, and "SEC dominance" had not yet asserted itself. It wasn't until the 80s and 90s, and then with the Richt hire, that uga really positioned itself to be the "flagship" football school in the state.</p><p></p><p>Three, as someone else said, technology is different. No HD. Watching a game is a lot different now than it used to be.</p><p></p><p>Four, related to two, because uga has been good recently its also a lot harder to get a ticket and lodging in athens. It was much easier in the 90s when they weren't that good. Now everyone and their sister flock to uga on saturdays.</p><p></p><p>Long story short, the programs are just much different now than they were in 80.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Legal Jacket, post: 157163, member: 601"] There's a few reasons: One, the visitors' section was in a much different (and more noticeable) place back then. Now we basically get a small corner (really for the band) and they stick us in the 600 level (which didn't even exist in the 1980s). I think that does a few things - one, it convinces people not to come because the view on TV is much better and two, it probably makes it seem, optically, that there are less GT fans than there really are. Also, the stadium wasn't as big so the proportion of GT fans would seem bigger. If it was 1980, Sanford was only 59k people (or a big expansion to 82k in 1981). Two, we had more fans back then. Even though we hadn't been good recently, uga hadn't been on the 15 year dominance it has been on today. Pretty much all sidewalk fans these days are going to uga. We had beaten uga 3 times from 1970-1980, which was the worst we had done in a decade to that point. We also trailed the series only 39-31-5 at that point. The programs were just on a much different level, and "SEC dominance" had not yet asserted itself. It wasn't until the 80s and 90s, and then with the Richt hire, that uga really positioned itself to be the "flagship" football school in the state. Three, as someone else said, technology is different. No HD. Watching a game is a lot different now than it used to be. Four, related to two, because uga has been good recently its also a lot harder to get a ticket and lodging in athens. It was much easier in the 90s when they weren't that good. Now everyone and their sister flock to uga on saturdays. Long story short, the programs are just much different now than they were in 80. [/QUOTE]
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