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[The Jacket]

It’s electrifying

His whole schtick is cringe, but we'd be ok with it if we actually were to see improvement in wins.

Basically, but I guess I phrase it differently in my head. It's only "cringe" because it isn't meant to appeal to any of the generations represented on this board. Despite all the stupid mockery thrown around on here in reaction to the losses, I think his marketing is smart and effective. But since we're not winning and his recruiting marketing strategy doesn't appeal to us, it becomes the biggest softball for people who want something to ridicule and vent their anger.

Those of you who are waiting for Tech football, or college football, or sports in general to return to the way they were - where the personality of a team was inferred from their play and what we could glean from the game broadcasts and the occasional newspaper article - are going to be waiting forever. Every team, professional or amateur, has to have their own eccentricities and quirks for fans to parrot and imitate endlessly through. The logo or colors they wear will never be enough again, they have to have memes and gimmicks and slogans and trademark gestures.

When a team does well, everyone wants to get in on the act and you'll hear little-to-no complaints, and those who do complain will be shouted down as being the sour fun-hating sticks in the mud they probably are. (Ex: The Braves with their pearls and whatever that arm gesture is called and being those öööööööööööös and so on.) When a team does okay or poorly, mainly that stuff just fades to black when the season does, if not sooner. (Ex: Whatever any Cub may have done this year. Nobody knows or cares.) In some cases, like with Tech fans, we have a tendency to separate Tech from whatever elements within it we blame for our shortcomings, and then relentlessly disparage and hate them. Most of the clever little snide remarks and succinct mocking slogans you see posted on here after a loss now, could easily be something copied and pasted from an enemy board, except with a lot more seemingly heartfelt venom. Sometimes it's funny, but most of it just honestly makes me sad. To each his own, but it for me it already feels bad enough for Tech to suck at football without me taking every opportunity to öööö all over the thing I'm most passionate about.

 

[GoJackets89]

Basically, but I guess I phrase it differently in my head. It's only "cringe" because it isn't meant to appeal to any of the generations represented on this board. Despite all the stupid mockery thrown around on here in reaction to the losses, I think his marketing is smart and effective. But since we're not winning and his recruiting marketing strategy doesn't appeal to us, it becomes the biggest softball for people who want something to ridicule and vent their anger.

Those of you who are waiting for Tech football, or college football, or sports in general to return to the way they were - where the personality of a team was inferred from their play and what we could glean from the game broadcasts and the occasional newspaper article - are going to be waiting forever. Every team, professional or amateur, has to have their own eccentricities and quirks for fans to parrot and imitate endlessly through. The logo or colors they wear will never be enough again, they have to have memes and gimmicks and slogans and trademark gestures.

When a team does well, everyone wants to get in on the act and you'll hear little-to-no complaints, and those who do complain will be shouted down as being the sour fun-hating sticks in the mud they probably are. (Ex: The Braves with their pearls and whatever that arm gesture is called and being those öööööööööööös and so on.) When a team does okay or poorly, mainly that stuff just fades to black when the season does, if not sooner. (Ex: Whatever any Cub may have done this year. Nobody knows or cares.) In some cases, like with Tech fans, we have a tendency to separate Tech from whatever elements within it we blame for our shortcomings, and then relentlessly disparage and hate them. Most of the clever little snide remarks and succinct mocking slogans you see posted on here after a loss now, could easily be something copied and pasted from an enemy board, except with a lot more seemingly heartfelt venom. Sometimes it's funny, but most of it just honestly makes me sad. To each his own, but it for me it already feels bad enough for Tech to suck at football without me taking every opportunity to öööö all over the thing I'm most passionate about.

I get all that man. It really does just suck ass. Tech football means much more to me than any other fandom I have. I didn't go to Tech, but I grew up going to games because my dad was an alum. He loved Tech and made me a huge Tech fan in the process. I'm pretty meh about all the other teams I'm a fan of, happy for wins but the loses don't really sting. The sting of Tech loses is lessening with age and realizing there are more important things in life than football, but it also doesn't help we've been so pitiful lately. Hope we can turn it around soon

 

[BravoWhiskey]

Basically, but I guess I phrase it differently in my head. It's only "cringe" because it isn't meant to appeal to any of the generations represented on this board. Despite all the stupid mockery thrown around on here in reaction to the losses, I think his marketing is smart and effective. But since we're not winning and his recruiting marketing strategy doesn't appeal to us, it becomes the biggest softball for people who want something to ridicule and vent their anger.

Those of you who are waiting for Tech football, or college football, or sports in general to return to the way they were - where the personality of a team was inferred from their play and what we could glean from the game broadcasts and the occasional newspaper article - are going to be waiting forever. Every team, professional or amateur, has to have their own eccentricities and quirks for fans to parrot and imitate endlessly through. The logo or colors they wear will never be enough again, they have to have memes and gimmicks and slogans and trademark gestures.

When a team does well, everyone wants to get in on the act and you'll hear little-to-no complaints, and those who do complain will be shouted down as being the sour fun-hating sticks in the mud they probably are. (Ex: The Braves with their pearls and whatever that arm gesture is called and being those öööööööööööös and so on.) When a team does okay or poorly, mainly that stuff just fades to black when the season does, if not sooner. (Ex: Whatever any Cub may have done this year. Nobody knows or cares.) In some cases, like with Tech fans, we have a tendency to separate Tech from whatever elements within it we blame for our shortcomings, and then relentlessly disparage and hate them. Most of the clever little snide remarks and succinct mocking slogans you see posted on here after a loss now, could easily be something copied and pasted from an enemy board, except with a lot more seemingly heartfelt venom. Sometimes it's funny, but most of it just honestly makes me sad. To each his own, but it for me it already feels bad enough for Tech to suck at football without me taking every opportunity to öööö all over the thing I'm most passionate about.

But did you die?!

 

[The Jacket]

I get all that man. It really does just suck ass. Tech football means much more to me than any other fandom I have. I didn't go to Tech, but I grew up going to games because my dad was an alum. He loved Tech and made me a huge Tech fan in the process. I'm pretty meh about all the other teams I'm a fan of, happy for wins but the loses don't really sting. The sting of Tech loses is lessening with age and realizing there are more important things in life than football, but it also doesn't help we've been so pitiful lately. Hope we can turn it around soon

You're in good company on the sidewalk. I didn't go to Tech but started my obsession with the football team in fifth grade, the 1997 season. Up through about the 2009 season I could remember the outcome and story of every game. Now I care about more than just the football team and Tech sports in general mean more to me than they did back then, but the shape of the obsession has changed considerably. I have the Braves because I've loved them my entire life, and winning it all this year was as meaningful and perfect as anything can be. But meaningless sports are the only thing I am genuinely passionate about and since the Thrashers are gone, that just leaves Tech and the Braves. Life is far more enjoyable or tolerable when they are doing well and right now it seems like it is going to be a long time before our football team is worth a damn again. I totally understand self-deprecation as a coping mechanism, it's basically the only thing I'm good at. I just draw the line way short of where a lot of people on here do, and I have a hard time understanding what they get out of it when they go from ironic self-loathing to pouring outright vicious and hateful bile on Tech-as-it-is and pretending it's a separate thing from the Tech, which they say they love. Different strokes, let every man worship as he will, etc, etc. It just gets depressing when the bulk of what you read/hear from the fanbase you belong to sounds identical to what you hear from the fanbase you would like to set on fire.