Exactly. Our local, very popular, super successful high school football team has had to cancel two games already due to Covid. We are not back to normal yet.
"We are as much to blame as the coaches are." Nope. They bought it, and now they have broken it. This is all on the players and the coaches.
I sometimes feel I’m the only side-walk fan in Albany, GA. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been asked if I went to GT when I’m wearing my gear. Almost always, it‘s a GT grad asking that works at P&G. When I see UGa gear, I always assume they never went there.
To paraphrase another guy,I don't take any responsibility at all for Collins or game attendance. You want fans? Win. Don't throw the loyalty card at folks who are about to spend a lot of hard-earned bucks to watch this team with the circus clown on the sideline. You could go randomly into the stands and find somebody who made better in-game decisions. And to allow crowd reaction to change your call and cost two timeouts?
Yep. “No reason we can’t win 6-8 and go to a bowl game”. Lolz. Too much juice I guess. This staff - mainly the HC and coordinators - has given literally zero reason to think that’s possible.
Or WIN games... and that hasn't happened 2016
People want to be associated with a winner and the converse is also true. As Lombardi said, “Winning isn’t everything; it’s the only thing.” It’s taxing driving hours from South Georgia for the displeasure of watching the s**t show Collins is becoming famous for. Then, the long drive home gives you hours to question why you thought this time would be different. When the nearly universal assessment of the program is that it is an embarrassment, that the head coach doesn’t know how to coach big boy football and that even the “gimme” games are too often nail biters and far from certain, well, there is the problem. Winning solves a host of problems. Establish a reputation for a consistent, winning program and attendance should improve.
If you go back before 1990, you’d have seen something similar. The late 70’s and a lot of the Curry years felt similar. Curry was a lot more reserved, but the offense and defense were entirely conventional. Our offense and defense are conventional today. Pepper Rodgers had a lot in common with Collins in the amount of flair that rubbed a lot of the fan base the wrong way, but with a wishbone for at least some of the time. Either way, the fans weren’t coming out then.
Can't disagree with anything you state, but unless you know a "magic trick", even if GT gets a solid or great coach, in today's big boy football, we most likely will not be able to sustain great winning football consistently (9 out of 10 years competing for conference championships). I do believe we can have a team that provides us decent to good seasons (with maybe an outlier of 10 wins) consistently though. But, in my opinion, it will take a special coach, and we don't have that guy. Also, you don't really build a large new fanbase on "decent to good" seasons, but it does help maintain the one you already have.
Or lower the cost of a ticket. There are close to 6 million potential fans within an hour or less of the stadium. Make the unused tickets cheap for a few years. Then later you can jack up the price. You have to create a demand. Simple economics.
Problem what about people like me who paid full price for their tickets Tech going going to slap them in the face . Great way to do to the few season ticket holders we have watch next season and season ticket holders will drop again . Not much you can do with the worse team in the ACC ( maybe worse than Duke we will see) 4 more years of CGC and we will need to play division 2 football.