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<blockquote data-quote="Atomic Jacket" data-source="post: 104390" data-attributes="member: 1008"><p>This has nothing to do with the players's ability to line up and play any given week. This is solely about building and maintaining a fanbase. Tech is getting killed right now in the arena of maintaining and growing a fanbase. The Tech fans of the glory years are dying off, sadly enough, and Tech has done precious little since those glory years to build and grow a fanbase. If we had more fans, we'd have more money flowing into the program. When money flows into the program, it translates into better, more elite recruits. When recruiting makes a step-change upward, a team becomes elite. The constant losing, year after year, to Georgia at the end of the season, does tremendous damage to Tech's image among the casual fanbase. I'm not talking about the real fanatics like those of us who take the time to post on message boards. Our interest in the program is inelastic. We'll be watching no matter what. I'm talking about the fickle, distracted, busy, short-attention-spanned, casual college football fan who has no patience for foolishness or desire to dwell on disappointing flops at the end of a season. Mock and ridicule these sidewalk types all you want, but their dollars are just as green as yours and mine, and they outnumber us by an order of magnitude. These fans want to celebrate a season at the end and not have to go into work and listen to the rival fans mockery for the entire off-season just because their game happened to be the last one of the regular season. It p*sses them off and they take out that anger on Tech by just spending their entertainment dollars elsewhere. And thus, Tech remains mired in a morass of mediocrity at the end of every season.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Atomic Jacket, post: 104390, member: 1008"] This has nothing to do with the players's ability to line up and play any given week. This is solely about building and maintaining a fanbase. Tech is getting killed right now in the arena of maintaining and growing a fanbase. The Tech fans of the glory years are dying off, sadly enough, and Tech has done precious little since those glory years to build and grow a fanbase. If we had more fans, we'd have more money flowing into the program. When money flows into the program, it translates into better, more elite recruits. When recruiting makes a step-change upward, a team becomes elite. The constant losing, year after year, to Georgia at the end of the season, does tremendous damage to Tech's image among the casual fanbase. I'm not talking about the real fanatics like those of us who take the time to post on message boards. Our interest in the program is inelastic. We'll be watching no matter what. I'm talking about the fickle, distracted, busy, short-attention-spanned, casual college football fan who has no patience for foolishness or desire to dwell on disappointing flops at the end of a season. Mock and ridicule these sidewalk types all you want, but their dollars are just as green as yours and mine, and they outnumber us by an order of magnitude. These fans want to celebrate a season at the end and not have to go into work and listen to the rival fans mockery for the entire off-season just because their game happened to be the last one of the regular season. It p*sses them off and they take out that anger on Tech by just spending their entertainment dollars elsewhere. And thus, Tech remains mired in a morass of mediocrity at the end of every season. [/QUOTE]
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