Are The Good Times Really Over For Good?

The past always looks better than the current situation. Time has a way of doing this. Kind of like the fish story where the fish gets bigger with each passing year. Football is football and Tech like every school has had it's ups and downs. It will be the same this year, next year and into perpetuity. Just enjoy the highlights and stay the course when things don't go our way. That is what being a fan is really all about. I am 66 myself and have been watching Tech football since I was old enough to know what it was. I love it and will always love it. The years are running short for us so make sure you enjoy each and every game.

Go Jackets!
 
CiraldoForever said:
I honestly hope you are all right. I certainly love Tech and want to see the Yellow Jackets do well. If you can really get excited about this year's home schedule, you are much better fans than I am. I guess I just got spoiled, when I used to see Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, Michigan State, Southern Cal and other great teams run onto Grant Field. Not quite the same feeling when Mercer shows up.
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We've played Southern Cal 4 times ever. One of those was in 2012. Only one time was at Grant Field.
Michigan State 3 times ever. Only once at Grant Field.
Otherwise, as Architorture said, we'd see a lot more of UT, UA, AU, etc if we hadn't left the SEC. It is what it is.
Buck up, buddy. Your post made me want to slit my wrists.
 
Neither Southern Cal nor Michigan State ever stepped foot on to Grant Field..as far as I can remember.
 
Oops..just corrected on the USC/MSU point.
For those of us of a certain age, the good times were never that good. I remember playing UGA/Hershel in the early 80's and there was legitimate talk of moving down to D-II. OK, so things were great in the 50's..so were the Dodgers in Brooklyn.

Tech will do fine..just need to mobilize the alumni base (which is the most loyal per capita in the nation--BTW). It can be done..a good AD is the logical place to start.
 
clapper said:
I'm still trying to figure out which days those were when people left big programs to come to Tech.
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Pepper left UCLA to come here, perhaps not the best example.

Dodd was on his way to sign the HC from UT to come to GT, but was stopped by some geniuses saying we just had to hire a man with ties to GT.

But the nature of the beast is " what have you done for me lately?"

But certain times ,perhaps, may be done as long as this generation of fans, and I do not doubt their loyalty, accepts the dumbing down process that has continued by entitled elitists on the Hill.

And by an expanding acceptance of always making excuses.
 
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As Jerry the Jacket said, when you get to be in your late 60's, you do feel like the years are running short. It's tough to read about games scheduled in 2027, for example, and wonder if you will be around to see them. It's tough to hear about a high school Junior we're trying to recruit and wonder if you'll be around to see him play out his career at Tech. I know that being a Tech fan has had its ups and downs, and it's especially hard when the best part was the earliest part, when I started going to games with my Daddy in the late 1950's. But I can promise you that, even though I have been frustrated from time to time, I've never regretted being a Yellow Jacket. I'd just like to see Tech athletics get the respect that it used to have.
 
CiraldoForever said:
As Jerry the Jacket said, when you get to be in your late 60's, you do feel like the years are running short. It's tough to read about games scheduled in 2027, for example, and wonder if you will be around to see them. It's tough to hear about a high school Junior we're trying to recruit and wonder if you'll be around to see him play out his career at Tech. I know that being a Tech fan has had its ups and downs, and it's especially hard when the best part was the earliest part, when I started going to games with my Daddy in the late 1950's. But I can promise you that, even though I have been frustrated from time to time, I've never regretted being a Yellow Jacket. I'd just like to see Tech athletics get the respect that it used to have.
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I think you need to adjust your expectations and hopes then. Those days are almost certainly over.
 
CiraldoForever said:
As Jerry the Jacket said, when you get to be in your late 60's, you do feel like the years are running short. It's tough to read about games scheduled in 2027, for example, and wonder if you will be around to see them. It's tough to hear about a high school Junior we're trying to recruit and wonder if you'll be around to see him play out his career at Tech. I know that being a Tech fan has had its ups and downs, and it's especially hard when the best part was the earliest part, when I started going to games with my Daddy in the late 1950's. But I can promise you that, even though I have been frustrated from time to time, I've never regretted being a Yellow Jacket. I'd just like to see Tech athletics get the respect that it used to have.
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You need to pull yourself together. Unless you have smoked for 45 years, 66 isn't that old. Stop being a bitch. You will die one day and no one knows what day that will be. Until then cheer for the White and Gold.
 
Better question, does the OP sit or stand during the games?


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I respect every member of this board, and I know there are generational differences between me and most of you. However, there are two things that I'll never understand.

First, how can anybody read the stuff that I've written and have any doubt about how hard I cheer for or care about Tech?

Second, what happened to cause people to think that it's worthy of Georgia Tech for us to make fun of each other or use vulgar language, especially on a public forum on which our comments can be taken to be even unofficially representative of Tech fans?

You know, the thing that endeared Coach Dodd to Tech people and the thing that he did that brought so much respect to Tech was not his winning percentage. Besides the first part of the 1950's, his typical record was around 7-3. The reason he was so loved by Tech fans and so admired by others was because he had so much integrity and class. And he was loyal to Tech. Texas and its alums offered him a big raise and two or three oil wells to become its Head Coach, but he turned them down. He was the ultimate Tech man.

When I read a book about Coach Dodd or watch videos of him on the internet, I feel so proud of Tech. I think Coach Johnson is an excellent Coach, but reading about or seeing videos about Coach Dodd really makes me miss those days. When he walked onto Grant Field in that hat, the sunglasses, the white shirt, the gold tie, the blue blazer, the grey pants, the white socks, and the football shoes, it seemed like he was floating above the ground. In my opinion, absolutely no school has a better athletic heritage than Georgia Tech. Not one.
 
CiraldoForever said:
I respect every member of this board, and I know there are generational differences between me and most of you. However, there are two things that I'll never understand.

First, how can anybody read the stuff that I've written and have any doubt about how hard I cheer for or care about Tech?

Second, what happened to cause people to think that it's worthy of Georgia Tech for us to make fun of each other or use vulgar language, especially on a public forum on which our comments can be taken to be even unofficially representative of Tech fans?

You know, the thing that endeared Coach Dodd to Tech people and the thing that he did that brought so much respect to Tech was not his winning percentage. Besides the first part of the 1950's, his typical record was around 7-3. The reason he was so loved by Tech fans and so admired by others was because he had so much integrity and class. And he was loyal to Tech. Texas and its alums offered him a big raise and two or three oil wells to become its Head Coach, but he turned them down. He was the ultimate Tech man.

When I read a book about Coach Dodd or watch videos of him on the internet, I feel so proud of Tech. I think Coach Johnson is an excellent Coach, but reading about or seeing videos about Coach Dodd really makes me miss those days. When he walked onto Grant Field in that hat, the sunglasses, the white shirt, the gold tie, the blue blazer, the grey pants, the white socks, and the football shoes, it seemed like he was floating above the ground. In my opinion, absolutely no school has a better athletic heritage than Georgia Tech. Not one.
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Don't let it get to you CF. Don't you have anyone in your life you like to give good natured shit to?
 
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