The average student (smart people) absolutely do not like athletics or the athletes. Why? Because of what us alum saw in our time at GT. It’s all the special privileges they get that normal students don’t. Best dorms, best food, best facilities, tutors, the best word, let alone non-competitive admission, and then they get mad if we don’t go to their games like we saw from several players this year. I remember being in management classes that I didn’t know football and hoops players were in until test day. I still remember a stud WR from the 1990 team sitting next to me for a test when he had never been to the class until that point. I looked around and half the team was in there.
And it still comes back to GT becoming a non- Georgia school. When you admit folks with no ties to the culture of the area and end generational family ties to GT thru admissions this is what you get. It will be way worse in 30 years when the 80’s, 90’s, and 00’s alums get old (if we still field a team then). My son lives in a dorm across from the stadium and he was shocked this past fall when half the dorm could have cared less GT had a game that day. And the open TV’s all had soccer games playing on fall Saturdays. That use to be a code red violation. If he would have walked in and changed the channel to UVA/UNC he would have gotten a code red.
