Tech fans are awful

Augusta_Jacket · Sep 17, 2016

Supersizethatorder-mutt said:
Looking straight across at the west stands, where the vast majority wore gold, albeit definitely in varying shades, it still stood out

That's because you are emotionally invested in it standing out. I was reading on a Vandy blog and they noted how bad it looked. I won't go that far, but it didn't stand out. I'll also go back to my original point. The empty seats aren't wearing gold. I'd worry more about butts in eats than color choices of fans.

iceeater1969 · Sep 17, 2016

Supersizethatorder-mutt said:
Did your wife wear gold/yellow?

She loves the old gold shirt I bought her
from dicks sporting

goods.

We drive up thursday and she has a fancy ladies white polo with sweet Gt

awbuzz · Sep 17, 2016

wishbone said:
The largest color today was bleacher silver. This apparel kerfuffle is stupid. Wait till Thursday.

Maybe a "bleacher silver" out would be best... would look like the stadium is full assuming the club seat section dresses accordingly.

Supersizethatorder-mutt · Sep 17, 2016

Augusta_Jacket said:
That's because you are emotionally invested in it standing out. I was reading on a Vandy blog and they noted how bad it looked. I won't go that far, but it didn't stand out. I'll also go back to my original point. The empty seats aren't wearing gold. I'd worry more about butts in eats than color choices of fans.

No argument there, although surprisingly the lower west was close to full. North stands and at least part of the upper east were BAD

Supersizethatorder-mutt · Sep 17, 2016

awbuzz said:
Maybe a "bleacher silver" out would be best... would look like the stadium is full assuming the club seat section dresses accordingly.

LOL

awbuzz · Sep 17, 2016

Milwaukee said:
Crowd looked abysmal on tv. Pathetic.

Attendance: 41916... means officially over 13 thousand empty seats...

Supersizethatorder-mutt · Sep 17, 2016

DAMN, the mutts eked out another one

iceeater1969 · Sep 17, 2016

Milwaukee said:
Crowd looked abysmal on tv. Pathetic.

Are u in Milwaukee?
You could come down for a couple games a year! Grab some buds and make a "12 hr road trip".
Its going to be a fun year.

We come 5.5 hr up from fla every game (it was tempting to skip mercer) & after today will be there for sure. Kids are growing up fast

Augusta_Jacket · Sep 17, 2016

awbuzz said:
Maybe a "bleacher silver" out would be best... would look like the stadium is full assuming the club seat section dresses accordingly.

That's how Miami does it...

forensicbuzz · Sep 17, 2016

Supersizethatorder-mutt said:
Maybe you were looking into the sun. From where I sat, it stood out big time. You just don't like gold.....LOL

The stands looked empty on TV.

Dustman · Sep 17, 2016

forensicbuzz said:
The stands looked empty on TV.

The east stands were empty. The weather was damn near perfect so what's the problem? Smh

Edit: maybe the gas shortage kept people from traveling?

Milwaukee · Sep 17, 2016

iceeater1969 said:
Are u in Milwaukee?
You could come down for a couple games a year! Grab some buds and make a "12 hr road trip".
Its going to be a fun year.

We come 5.5 hr up from fla every game (it was tempting to skip mercer) & after today will be there for sure. Kids are growing up fast

I come to ATL for one game per year and make one road game as well; was a season ticket holder when I was in the south. I'm allowed to be embarrassed.

Crowd looked the worst I've ever seen it on tv.

Augusta_Jacket · Sep 17, 2016

forensicbuzz said:
The stands looked empty on TV.

The East stands were empty. The upper north was empty. Heck, the upper everything was empty. Attendance was listed at 41916. Considering the Mercer game attendance was listed at 49992, I'd say the problem isn't the gear we are wearing to the game. We need butts in seats.

Whiskey_Clear · Sep 17, 2016

Yeah....even fans that don't get up on 3rd down are a little better than no fans at all. At least they cheer for TDs.

Seriously though.....if those who did attend made a bit more effort to be loud....it wouldn't seem as empty....or wouldn't matter quite as much at least.

Augusta_Jacket · Sep 18, 2016

Whiskey_Clear said:
Yeah....even fans that don't get up on 3rd down are a little better than no fans at all. At least they cheer for TDs.

Seriously though.....if those who did attend made a bit more effort to be loud....it wouldn't seem as empty....or wouldn't matter quite as much at least.

I refuse to chastise fans that are actually in attendance unless their behavior is just plain offensive. And no matter how loud we are, you can visibly see 15000 empty seats.

As a side note, there's no way 41000 people were there today. I didn't even have to wait in a restroom line at half time. My guess is 35000 at best. We had a better turnout for FCS Mercer than an actual $EC opponent.

Milwaukee · Sep 18, 2016

I would say 30K from what I saw. Just guessing though.

Supersizethatorder-mutt · Sep 18, 2016

Buzz_wiser told me there was a stupid Georgia fan in his section (lower west somewhere) that "woof woof'd, sic 'em dawgs" the whole day." Now why the hell would a Georgia fan come there and be obnoxious. Well, they're always obnoxious, but why would one come to a game between two teams he had no vested interest in. What was worse, though, was that he inadvertently pushed his son a couple of times. BW was obviously ticked, even angry.

iceeater1969 · Sep 18, 2016

Milwaukee said:
I come to ATL for one game per year and make one road game as well; was a season ticket holder when I was in the south. I'm allowed to be embarrassed.

Crowd looked the worst I've ever seen it on tv.

It was worse for mercer.
Vandy was a poor draw and has very few fans. One more excuse is the heat.

Since we had pretty good crowds in 15 after 14, isnt it kind of expected for there to be a drop off right after 16.
Things will pick up(3-0 several long playsand defense swarming at end).

Imo
We have a hill and a gtaa that accepts their place as a former dominant football power. That's what is embarrassing and leads to empty seats.
Gtaa and marketing are two parallel lines that never meet.

iceeater1969 · Sep 18, 2016

iceeater1969 said:
It was worse for mercer.
Vandy was a poor draw and has very few fans. One more excuse is the heat.

Since we had pretty good crowds in 15 after 14, isnt it kind of expected for there to be a drop off right after 16.
Things will pick up(3-0 several long playsand defense swarming at end).

Imo
We have a hill and a gtaa that accepts their place as a former dominant football power. That's what is embarrassing and leads to empty seats.
Gtaa and marketing are two parallel lines that never meet. Till thats fixed get used to it

Dustman · Sep 18, 2016

Augusta_Jacket said:
I refuse to chastise fans that are actually in attendance unless their behavior is just plain offensive. And no matter how loud we are, you can visibly see 15000 empty seats.

As a side note, there's no way 41000 people were there today. I didn't even have to wait in a restroom line at half time. My guess is 35000 at best. We had a better turnout for FCS Mercer than an actual $EC opponent.

i know at least one GT alum in Nashville that did not travel today due to the gas shortage. I bet that kept a lot of Vandy fans at home. Not that we need opposing fans to make our attendance look better, but their section in lower east wasn't full. Mercer brought three times as many of their fans as Vandy did.

The fans in attendance today were much more into the game than last week's crowd.

Tech fans are awful

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