Curse of the CAT

wesleyd21 said:
Most GT fans blame the new coaching staff for the historically heinous results on the field over the past 3 seasons.

But I wonder what our record is playing on our new slick and slippery football field is? I hate our crappy looking field and point the blame directly at T-Stan for this nonsense.

Is there a GoFundMe to rid ourselves of this crapola? Should we start one???
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Others have already pointed it out likely but....both teams playing on the same crappy field.
 
Bring back yellow paint on the field, and yellow britches. Beige paint and britches look like öööö.
beige is boring.
beige is lame.
beige is for losers. :furious::soapbox:
 
None of you are going to get what you want. The glorious turf is here at long last and it is eternal. By complete coincidence, or perhaps by synthetic divine providence, today a lifelong dream of mine came true. I now own a patch of artificial turf.

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Later virgins.
 
I’ve been disappointed that we haven’t (as far as I can tell) played around with the paint schemes this year. We did a little of that last year, but it seems like we’ve stuck with the generic default this year.

We also don’t seem to be repainting it each week - the logos and things were looking really washed out and “blurred” (from all the traffic on the midfield logo) the last two weeks.

I realize this is probably just a money thing, but it’s a shame given how great our natural grass used to look.

JRjr
 
vapspwi said:
I’ve been disappointed that we haven’t (as far as I can tell) played around with the paint schemes this year. We did a little of that last year, but it seems like we’ve stuck with the generic default this year.

We also don’t seem to be repainting it each week - the logos and things were looking really washed out and “blurred” (from all the traffic on the midfield logo) the last two weeks.

I realize this is probably just a money thing, but it’s a shame given how great our natural grass used to look.

JRjr
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1) I agree with those who mention the paint thing. This has always been an issue, or at least since the end of the 1999 season when we stopped doing the yellow redzone paint every game and seemingly stopped putting any care or effort into the field paint job. There have been games where we literally just had the outlines of text with no color in them. Nobody can convince me this is a money issue, and that we can't somehow acquire the paint required or someone with the creativity to recognize that it's better to have a bright, colorful field.

2) The grass most certainly did not always look great. Some seasons when it was hotter/drier, it could be hovering between green and brown, and was frequently a pale shade of green regardless. The complaints about the turf "looking" bad are probably the most hilarious complaints I've every seen on this board and I want every single one of you to know that each time it bothers you, I am there in spirit, laughing in your dumb face. The color of the turf itself is fantastic, what's lacking is any effort whatsoever into doing it justice with the paint job. The only reason any of you have for disliking it is this nebulous notion of "the way it should be" which can mean we ought to be wearing the uniforms from the 1970's, 80's, or 1990, but of course, don't wear them on an artificial surface, like we did in those years. Modern turf looks and functions far better than it did back then, but that doesn't matter because some ööööing nerd wants to be bitter and angry about something like there's not enough going on with this program right now to commit self-delete over.
 
Our natural grass sometimes looked worn, but I had visitors ask if it was real or artificial multiple times, and we won awards for it. We were on the high end of the scale for natural surfaces.

Maybe the new turf looks good on TV, but it looks like ass in person - kind of a dark green-gray color that’s unappealing, and the texture often looks sort of mangy, with brown rows of the infill visible (maybe an artifact of how we’re grooming it?).

We also have slipping problems, and having actually touched it, it just doesn’t feel as good as the good old fashioned grass did. Yeah, it’s miles better than the 80s-90s turf (which I also had some experience with), but it’s still not great.

Maybe if we start raking in money from hosting events it’ll be a good trade off, but at the moment it seems like a bad deal.

JRjr
 
The Jacket said:
Describe this experience immediately. In a girl voice, if it is not too much trouble.
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Heh. They let season ticket holders on the field during a practice. The turf felt surprisingly similar to like those astroturf doormats. Short blades, kinda plastic-y and bristly feeling. At least it was trying to be grass and not green fabric, but it wasn’t great.

JRjr
 
vapspwi said:
Heh. They let season ticket holders on the field during a practice. The turf felt surprisingly similar to like those astroturf doormats. Short blades, kinda plastic-y and bristly feeling. At least it was trying to be grass and not green fabric, but it wasn’t great.

JRjr
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vapspwi said:
I’ve been disappointed that we haven’t (as far as I can tell) played around with the paint schemes this year. We did a little of that last year, but it seems like we’ve stuck with the generic default this year.

We also don’t seem to be repainting it each week - the logos and things were looking really washed out and “blurred” (from all the traffic on the midfield logo) the last two weeks.

I realize this is probably just a money thing, but it’s a shame given how great our natural grass used to look.

JRjr
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We are broke as a joke
 
THWG247 said:
You are the ultimate broken record, i picture you in a nursing home someday muttering in a corner about how much blue sucks
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You seem to think (incorrectly) that I am the only one who totally hates the use of blue. I can assure you that we are probably in the majority, and it's not just old farts like me. WE ARE THE WHITE AND GOLD......NOT the blue and anything. Homer Rice refused to accept that, TStan refuses to accept it, and Collins refuses to accept it. I don't give a damn what they tell us the players and recruits like. They don't set the standard; the standard was set more than 100 years ago, so why attempt to change it now? No other school, outside of possibly Oregon is stupid enough to do that. Why are we? In the '80s, the NCAA stuck its nose in where it didn't belong and wasn't needed, and said that home teams had to wear dark jerseys. The OBVIOUS solution was gold jerseys, but nooooo, some fool decided we needed to change, and until somebody who actually loves Tech traditions comes along again, I am afraid we are stuck with it.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
You seem to think (incorrectly) that I am the only one who totally hates the use of blue. I can assure you that we are probably in the majority, and it's not just old farts like me. WE ARE THE WHITE AND GOLD......NOT the blue and anything. Homer Rice refused to accept that, TStan refuses to accept it, and Collins refuses to accept it. I don't give a damn what they tell us the players and recruits like. They don't set the standard; the standard was set more than 100 years ago, so why attempt to change it now? No other school, outside of possibly Oregon is stupid enough to do that. Why are we? In the '80s, the NCAA stuck its nose in where it didn't belong and wasn't needed, and said that home teams had to wear dark jerseys. The OBVIOUS solution was gold jerseys, but nooooo, some fool decided we needed to change, and until somebody who actually loves Tech traditions comes along again, I am afraid we are stuck with it.
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The temptation to explain how flimsy and ridiculous your "the standard was set" argument is, is almost overwhelming. But I have been reading this board long enough to know how futile it would be. I am a person who would like to see less use of the navy outside of special occasions, a return to a more traditional uniform design like we had at the end of the 90's. I think we had a chance with adidas to establish the "identity" we talked about so much, and the one we got is thin and inconsistent and unremarkable.

But acting like the use of blue is somehow categorically an insult or disrespectful to the school, or that your preferences aren't just your opinion, but some kind of law handed down by the god of Georgia Tech athletics on the very first gameday - it's absurd. I will point out one thing and resist bothering the rest.

I don't give a damn what they tell us the players and recruits like. They don't set the standard; the standard was set more than 100 years ago, so why attempt to change it now?
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Tech students set that "standard" you seem to hold as some kind of divine commandment. If current Tech students have now decided that they like navy in their uniforms, they absolutely do have every right to do that just as much as the students had over 100 years ago.
 
The Jacket said:
The temptation to explain how flimsy and ridiculous your "the standard was set" argument is, is almost overwhelming. But I have been reading this board long enough to know how futile it would be. I am a person who would like to see less use of the navy outside of special occasions, a return to a more traditional uniform design like we had at the end of the 90's. I think we had a chance with adidas to establish the "identity" we talked about so much, and the one we got is thin and inconsistent and unremarkable.

But acting like the use of blue is somehow categorically an insult or disrespectful to the school, or that your preferences aren't just your opinion, but some kind of law handed down by the god of Georgia Tech athletics on the very first gameday - it's absurd. I will point out one thing and resist bothering the rest.

Tech students set that "standard" you seem to hold as some kind of divine commandment. If current Tech students have now decided that they like navy in their uniforms, they absolutely do have every right to do that just as much as the students had over 100 years ago.
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And I still maintain that you don't change tradition....PERIOD, no matter who says they like the new better, Collins (or TStan) has already de-emphasized Buzz at the football games, and I understand (just heard this) that Collins also didn't want the Wreck on the field but was vetoed on that. Are you willing to accept those ridiculous and unnecessary changes too? What do you think would happen if the students at Bama, or Clemson, or the cesspool, decided they didn't like their colors anymore, or they didn't like other time-honored traditions? NO, the students do not have a right to change things based of personal preference or likes.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
You seem to think (incorrectly) that I am the only one who totally hates the use of blue. I can assure you that we are probably in the majority, and it's not just old farts like me. WE ARE THE WHITE AND GOLD......NOT the blue and anything. Homer Rice refused to accept that, TStan refuses to accept it, and Collins refuses to accept it. I don't give a damn what they tell us the players and recruits like. They don't set the standard; the standard was set more than 100 years ago, so why attempt to change it now? No other school, outside of possibly Oregon is stupid enough to do that. Why are we? In the '80s, the NCAA stuck its nose in where it didn't belong and wasn't needed, and said that home teams had to wear dark jerseys. The OBVIOUS solution was gold jerseys, but nooooo, some fool decided we needed to change, and until somebody who actually loves Tech traditions comes along again, I am afraid we are stuck with it.
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It’s not even that bro, it’s just that i am sick and fcking tired of reading your tired ridiculous rants about blue, over multiple GT forums and many years now you have made your view painstakingly obvious to all.
 
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