Game day email

[ptcJacket]

I'm sure the rest of you got that email from GTAA this afternoon about "important information for game day". So it says the parking lots open at 5? TF? I was gonna get there shortly after noon. Guess I'm SOL?

 

[coit]

I'm sure the rest of you got that email from GTAA this afternoon about "important information for game day". So it says the parking lots open at 5? TF? I was gonna get there shortly after noon. Guess I'm SOL?

Yep. This has been a big issue for many years. For some reason Tech puts academics over athletics.

 

[gtrower]

Yeah this has been a common gripe among fans over the last decade really. Although I've wondered how it's enforced. Do they kick you out of the none-gated lots if you drive up and set up shop?

 

[Diseqc]

Yeah this has been a common gripe among fans over the last decade really. Although I've wondered how it's enforced. Do they kick you out of the none-gated lots if you drive up and set up shop?

You've never encountered PTS I see

 

[MEwreck02]

Yeah this has been a common gripe among fans over the last decade really. Although I've wondered how it's enforced. Do they kick you out of the none-gated lots if you drive up and set up shop?

Why don't you try this as an experiment and report back on Friday?

 

[GT1992]

Yep. This has been a big issue for many years. For some reason Tech puts academics over athletics.

You mean when I paid to park my car and GT forced me to move it mid-week for the New Kids on the Block concert, they were stressing academics?

 

[gtrower]

Why don't you try this as an experiment and report back on Friday?

I live in DC - the Thursday nighter did me in for this one.

 

[coit]

You mean when I paid to park my car and GT forced me to move it mid-week for the New Kids on the Block concert, they were stressing academics?

When did you have to move it?

 

[DressCheeseSideSeaboard]

You mean when I paid to park my car and GT forced me to move it mid-week for the New Kids on the Block concert, they were stressing academics?

IIRC, one of the Kappa Sigs hit Donnie with a frisbee while he was riding his bicycle around campus. CSB.

 

[texstinger]

Yep. This has been a big issue for many years. For some reason Tech puts academics over athletics.

Not the issue at all.

If it were the issue, then the obvious answer, except to people so smart they are morons, would be not to have any Home games on Thursday nite.

 

[coit]

Not the issue at all.

Great insight.

So, you schedule a football game for a weeknight, but you don't cancel classes at any point during the day of that game. Including late afternoon classes that actually run into the scheduled time of the game.

Would it be so bad to cancel classes after 2 PM on a gameday? The schedule is set before the term even starts, so profs can easily teach around the lost class time. It isn't rocket science.

 

[Deke]

Great insight.

So, you schedule a football game for a weeknight, but you don't cancel classes at any point during the day of that game. Including late afternoon classes that actually run into the scheduled time of the game.

Would it be so bad to cancel classes after 2 PM on a gameday? The schedule is set before the term even starts, so profs can easily teach around the lost class time. It isn't rocket science.

I remember my last year at Tech I had a late Thursday afternoon class on a gameday, and I brought a 20oz coke to class. But get this, guys. It had whiskey in it too! #yolo

We had VPISU on a Thursday my freshman year, and I knew a handful of people that had a 7-10PM lab that they had to go to. I'm definitely not a person who thinks academics should always take a backseat to athletics, but that öööö was weak. You'd think they could reschedule a class that was happening DURING a football game.

 

[JJacket]

Bill Curry said they used to have to go to class Saturday morning on GameDay.

 

[jacketup]

You young'uns have no work ethic. My freshman year I had 8 am chem lab followed by calculus at 11. On Saturday. I'd walk from Skiles back to Smith dorm after noon-- and obviously past Grant Field. All the home games started at 1:30 in those days. Change out of my sulphuric acid smelling clothes from Lyman Hall and walk across the street to the game.

Cancel Thursday afternoon classes indeed.

 

[coit]

We had VPISU on a Thursday my freshman year, and I knew a handful of people that had a 7-10PM lab that they had to go to.

This is what I'm talking about. I think that still goes on now. Maybe it was GTMom that mentioned her son having a class that met during the game.

 

[coit]

You young'uns have no work ethic. My freshman year I had 8 am chem lab followed by calculus at 11. On Saturday. I'd walk from Skiles back to Smith dorm after noon-- and obviously past Grant Field. All the home games started at 1:30 in those days. Change out of my sulphuric acid smelling clothes from Lyman Hall and walk across the street to the game.

Cancel Thursday afternoon classes indeed.

I wonder when they did away with Saturday classes? Never had any when I was there.

 

[andrew]

This is what I'm talking about. I think that still goes on now. Maybe it was GTMom that mentioned her son having a class that met during the game.

The final home game of my college career was a Thursday night game against Miami in 2008. One of my teachers scheduled a test for right before that time and refused to move it. He seemed to relish it, too.

I ended up just making it to the game, but didn't get to sit with any of my friends (we all did front row so I couldn't just show up at kickoff), missed all the senior day cermonies, etc. It was frustrating, to say the least.

 

[RamblinWreck09]

I remember my last year at Tech I had a late Thursday afternoon class on a gameday, and I brought a 20oz coke to class. But get this, guys. It had whiskey in it too! #yolo

We had VPISU on a Thursday my freshman year, and I knew a handful of people that had a 7-10PM lab that they had to go to. I'm definitely not a person who thinks academics should always take a backseat to athletics, but that öööö was weak. You'd think they could reschedule a class that was happening DURING a football game.

Was that ~2008? I had a Fluids test the day after a Thursday night game that I want to say was against VT. Of course I went to the game and IIRC I got my highest test score all semester the next day.

Yes, I know, it is a very cool story.

 

[gtg970g]

I had an Ochem lab during a Thursday night game in 2008. Consuming adult beverages was deliberately overlooked and over half the class was participating. Beverages did have to be left in the hall because there's not eating or drinking in the lab.
The lab I wish they canceled was the one which took place in the middle of a tropical storm. Every campus in the state of GA was closed by noon and roads were flooded but we were required to show up.

 

[Deke]

Was that ~2008? I had a Fluids test the day after a Thursday night game that I want to say was against VT. Of course I went to the game and IIRC I got my highest test score all semester the next day.

Yes, I know, it is a very cool story.

Edit, scratch my original comment. I was thinking of 2004. I believe you would be referencing the 2007 game.