GT v. FSU in Ireland 2024

[GTRules]

I guess you are right. I've watched this board long enough that I should know complaining and Mom jokes will never cease. Go ahead fellow Jacket fans and find the dark cloud instead of the silver lining, but make plans to be in Dublin!! You will not regret it.

Your mom quit complaining and learned to appreciate it.

 

[Akinji07]

Akinji, Corndog, Flunkout, and BJW were all avid football fans, and when they heard that Georgia Tech was going to play against Florida State Seminoles in Dublin, they knew they had to be there. The group of friends had been planning this trip for months, and they had saved up enough money to make it a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

As they boarded the plane, they were filled with excitement and anticipation. They couldn't wait to explore the city of Dublin, drink Guinness, and most importantly, watch their beloved Yellow Jackets beat the Seminoles.

Once they landed in Dublin, they immediately headed to their hotel to drop off their luggage before setting out to explore the city. They visited Trinity College, St. Patrick's Cathedral, and the Guinness Storehouse, where they learned how to pour the perfect pint of Guinness.

On the day of the game, the friends put on their Georgia Tech gear and headed to Aviva Stadium. The stadium was packed with fans from both teams, creating an electric atmosphere. The game was intense, with both teams playing their hearts out.

In the final quarter, Georgia Tech was leading by three points. The crowd was on the edge of their seats, and the friends were cheering loudly for their team. However, with only a few seconds left on the clock, Florida State made a Hail Mary pass and scored a touchdown, winning the game.

The friends were devastated. They had come all this way to watch their team win, and now they were going to leave empty-handed. But as they were leaving the stadium, they noticed a commotion in the distance. A group of Georgia Tech fans had gathered, and they were celebrating something.

Curious, the friends made their way over to the group and saw that they were holding a sign that read "We won the tailgate!" It turned out that Georgia Tech had won the pre-game tailgate competition, and the friends had unknowingly taken part in it.

The group was ecstatic. They may not have won the game, but they had won the tailgate, and that was something to celebrate. They partied with their fellow Yellow Jacket fans, drinking beer and singing the Georgia Tech fight song.

As they walked back to their hotel that night, the friends realized that even though their team had lost, they had still had an incredible time in Dublin. They had made new friends, experienced a new culture, and had created memories that would last a lifetime.

I’m tired of winning the tailgate and not the game. öööö you ChatGPT.

 

[Akinji07]

Ok this prediction is much better.

Akinji, Corndog, and Flunkout were ecstatic about their upcoming trip to Dublin to watch their favorite football team, the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets, play against the Florida State Seminoles. They had been planning this trip for months and had made all the necessary arrangements. However, they were disappointed to learn that their friend BJW couldn't make it as he had to take his kids to school that week.

Undeterred, the trio set off on their adventure, excited to explore the city and cheer their team to victory. They arrived in Dublin a few days before the game and spent their time sightseeing and soaking in the vibrant culture of the city. On the day of the game, they were up early, donning their team colors and heading to the stadium with anticipation.

The game was intense, with both teams putting up a good fight. However, Georgia Tech managed to pull ahead in the fourth quarter, and the trio erupted in cheers as their team scored a touchdown. The final score was 28-24 in favor of Georgia Tech, and the three friends couldn't have been happier.

However, their joy was short-lived when Flunkout suddenly collapsed outside the stadium. Despite their best efforts to revive him, Mingles was pronounced dead on arrival at the hospital. The news hit Akinji and Corndog hard, and they were inconsolable.

As they made arrangements to bring Flunkout's body back home, they couldn't help but think about the twists and turns of life. They had come to Dublin with excitement and anticipation, only to be met with tragedy. Yet, amidst the grief, they were grateful for the time they had spent with Flunkout and the memories they had created together.

In the end, they knew that Flunkout would have wanted them to celebrate their team's victory and to continue to pursue their dreams with the same passion and enthusiasm that they had always shown. And so, they headed back home, cherishing the memories of their trip and their friend, Flunkout, who had left them far too soon.

 

[gtleviathan]

Ok this prediction is much better.

 

[RamblinWreck09]

Akinji, Corndog, Flunkout, and BJW had been planning their trip to Dublin, Ireland for months. They were all huge fans of Georgia Tech football and were excited to watch them play against Florida State. They had booked their flights, hotels, and even bought tickets to the game.

When they arrived in Dublin, they were thrilled to explore the city and soak in the culture. They had planned to spend the day of the game exploring the city, grabbing some drinks at a local pub, and then making their way to the stadium.

However, as they walked through the streets of Dublin, they stumbled upon a large crowd of people dressed in colorful clothes and waving rainbow flags. They soon realized that it was the city's Pride festival, a celebration of love and acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community.

Curious, the four friends decided to check it out. They had never been to a Pride festival before, but they were all open-minded and excited to experience something new.

As they walked around, they were amazed by the energy and positivity of the festival. People of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations were dancing, singing, and having a great time. Akinji, Corndog, Flunkout, and BJW felt a sense of community and acceptance that they had never felt before.

They decided to join in the fun and danced to the music, took photos with new friends, and even got their faces painted with rainbow colors. They forgot all about the game and were fully immersed in the festival.

At the end of the day, they all sat down at a nearby restaurant and talked about their experience. They realized that they had learned so much about acceptance and the importance of celebrating diversity.

They didn't regret missing the game at all. They had found something even more important, a sense of belonging and happiness that they would never forget. They promised to come back to Dublin for Pride every year, and they knew that they would always cherish the memories of that day.

 

[Akinji07]

Akinji, Corndog, Flunkout, and BJW had been planning their trip to Dublin, Ireland for months. They were all huge fans of Georgia Tech football and were excited to watch them play against Florida State. They had booked their flights, hotels, and even bought tickets to the game.

When they arrived in Dublin, they were thrilled to explore the city and soak in the culture. They had planned to spend the day of the game exploring the city, grabbing some drinks at a local pub, and then making their way to the stadium.

However, as they walked through the streets of Dublin, they stumbled upon a large crowd of people dressed in colorful clothes and waving rainbow flags. They soon realized that it was the city's Pride festival, a celebration of love and acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community.

Curious, the four friends decided to check it out. They had never been to a Pride festival before, but they were all open-minded and excited to experience something new.

As they walked around, they were amazed by the energy and positivity of the festival. People of all ages, genders, and sexual orientations were dancing, singing, and having a great time. Akinji, Corndog, Flunkout, and BJW felt a sense of community and acceptance that they had never felt before.

They decided to join in the fun and danced to the music, took photos with new friends, and even got their faces painted with rainbow colors. They forgot all about the game and were fully immersed in the festival.

At the end of the day, they all sat down at a nearby restaurant and talked about their experience. They realized that they had learned so much about acceptance and the importance of celebrating diversity.

They didn't regret missing the game at all. They had found something even more important, a sense of belonging and happiness that they would never forget. They promised to come back to Dublin for Pride every year, and they knew that they would always cherish the memories of that day.

That sounds like a nice trip.

 

[RamblinWreck09]

 

[00Burdell]

So wait... AI has a conscience? That means AI has a moral framework. Who put it there? Pretty sure its a matter of time before we're ded.

 

[coit]

I guess you are right. I've watched this board long enough that I should know complaining and Mom jokes will never cease. Go ahead fellow Jacket fans and find the dark cloud instead of the silver lining, but make plans to be in Dublin!! You will not regret it.

The joke was that you are complaining about the complaining.

 

[QuadF]

So wait... AI has a conscience? That means AI has a moral framework. Who put it there? Pretty sure its a matter of time before we're ded.

It's just a well-written predictive text generator.

It's hard-wired to adhere to the ideology of it's creators. EG: If you ask ChatGPT if it would utter a particular racial slur (that nobody will hear) to disarm a nuclear bomb in a major city it will tell you it's too harmful to utter the slur even in that circumstance.

 

[andrew]

It's just a well-written predictive text generator.

It's hard-wired to adhere to the ideology of it's creators. EG: If you ask ChatGPT if it would utter a particular racial slur (that nobody will hear) to disarm a nuclear bomb in a major city it will tell you it's too harmful to utter the slur even in that circumstance.

I wouldn't call it just that. I'd say it's part extremely predictive text generator, part layer of abstraction on top of raw information on the internet. It's actually quite good at doing the grunt work of things that can be figured out by googling, even simple programming tasks.

It does also have hardwired limitations/ideologies, as you say. And definitely not a sentient AI.

 

[IM79]

So what cargo plane will our AD charter for the team plane?

 

[savbandjacket]

Just submitted my deposit for the trip. Can’t wait!

 

[Supersize that order mutt]

How Georgia Tech’s game vs. FSU in Ireland came together

Caption
Credit: AP

GEORGIA TECH
By Ken Sugiura, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
29 minutes ago

There were many puzzle pieces that had to fit in order for Georgia Tech’s 2024 game against Florida State to be moved from Bobby Dodd Stadium to Aviva Stadium in Dublin. The first was put in place in 2016. That’s when the Yellow Jackets were invited to open their season against Boston College in Ireland.

“Their following in that game, they brought more people than Boston College,” Aer Lingus College Football Classic co-founder John Anthony told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We don’t forget things like that.”
Coach Brent Key, Florida State, the ACC, ESPN and, interestingly, the Big Ten and SEC all played a hand in securing the agreement for the game, which will be played Aug. 24. After the news conference last Wednesday, Anthony, ACC senior associate commissioner for football Michael Strickland and Tech athletic director J Batt shared some of the details in how the game came together.

As a game organizer, Anthony has a formula. One trick is to find a team that is willing to give up a conference home game against a team with a sizable fan base likely to make the travel in big numbers to Ireland, with the payoff being a handsome payout and a free trip to Dublin. Many teams aren’t eager to make that trade given the revenues that are generated from home games.
Anthony made it work last year with Northwestern and Nebraska (with the Wildcats trading in their home game) and is highly confident that an SEC team will do likewise. Anthony said that “there’s three SEC schools that aren’t drawing 90,000 that have said they would like to do it.”

However, neither the Big Ten nor the SEC was an option for 2024, as neither conference has yet to make its scheduling model for that year as both are undergoing expansion. That led Anthony to the ACC, which sent Boston College and Tech in 2016 in the first Aer Lingus game.
As he looked at the conference schedule for 2016, one game caught his attention.

“Florida State had told me they were interested in doing it, and when I looked at years and schedules and opponents …” said Anthony, who then made a sound like alarms going off. The ACC new scheduling model was to bring the Seminoles to Bobby Dodd Stadium in 2024.
Not only does Florida State have a fan base likely able to travel en masse to Dublin, but Tech had already proven that it does, too. In 2016, Tech brought more than 12,000 fans to Dublin, larger than the reported estimate of Nebraska’s contingent (10,000). It is a significant factor – the game is an important tourism event for Ireland, as evidenced by an Irish cabinet member and the chief of the Irish consulate in Atlanta both attending the news conference. Organizers are counting on the Tech-FSU game to bring in $74 million to the Irish economy.
“I know that back in Ireland, this announcement will be greeted with much excitement,” said Darragh O’Brien, minister for housing, local government and heritage. “People will welcome it greatly.”
Anthony reached out to Batt last fall, not long after he had been hired, to gauge his interest.
“He grasped it immediately,” Anthony said.
Said Batt, “Obviously, with the combined efforts between the conference and John Anthony and his group and with Florida State, pretty awesome opportunity for our kids primarily but also our fans and alums,” Batt said.
Another reason why Tech could consider giving up one of its four conference home games is that that, while FSU is an appealing matchup from a ticket sales standpoint, the home schedule in 2024 also includes two other name-brand opponents – Clemson and Notre Dame (the latter in Mercedes-Benz Stadium). That should help buffer the loss of FSU from the home slate.
Batt needed the approval of one particularly important member of his staff – Key, who was likely not enthusiastic about giving up home-field advantage in a conference game nor about taking his team on an eight-hour flight to a foreign country to play said game. Anthony got Key on the phone with Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald, who answered Key’s questions and allayed concerns.
“It’s something they’ll remember for the rest of their lives,” Key said. “It’s a great opportunity for that. We’re excited.”
The conference office worked through scheduling with both teams with the objective of moving the game to the Saturday before the standard start of the season on Labor Day weekend. Because the 2024 schedule will have two open dates, “there was an option to perhaps play in the traditional Week One, but it made sense for a number of reasons to keep it in Week Zero,” said Strickland, who oversees football for the conference.
Particularly with the extra open date, there is the possibility of rescheduling the Labor Day weekend game – Tech plays Georgia State at Bobby Dodd Stadium in the first-ever football meeting between the neighboring schools – but it appears both Tech and FSU plan to stick with their original Week One plan, Strickland said.
There were also discussions with ESPN, which was on board.
“So we’re really excited about some of the opportunities there that will unfold over the course of next offseason as they ramp up their planning for how they want to promote and cover their game,” Strickland said.
Losing a home game against Florida State is significant – the past two games at Bobby Dodd packed the stadium and produced two of the most memorable wins in team history. But there are other benefits for Tech aside from the opportunity for players, many of whom have never been out of the country, to visit Ireland. (Game organizers offer coaches several options for cultural experiences for the team during their brief stay.)
With the Week Zero game, the Jackets will have three open dates during that season, giving them an advantage in rest. Also, the Florida State game will likely have an unusually large television audience – last year and this year, the Dublin game is the only matchup that week between power conference teams – offering Key and his team a platform they don’t often enjoy.
Last year, the Nebraska-Northwestern game attracted 4.4 million television viewers, according to Sports Media Watch. Tech exceeded that viewership only once last year, and that was another game in which the time slot and opponent (Tech’s Labor Day game against Clemson) served to draw eyeballs. Tech’s second most-watched game (Georgia) had 2.1 million viewers, by measure of Sports Media Watch (The data does not include games on ACC Network, as those are not Nielsen-rated.)
“That’s a pretty great opportunity for Georgia Tech to tell its story, to have your brand, to have your engagement opportunities and to grow who you are and what you’re doing as a global institution,” Anthony said.
To the extent that the oft-repeated adage that the biggest improvement a team makes is between the first and second games is true, it gives Tech a leg up on Georgia State in what Jackets fans surely will consider a must-win game.
The largest pieces are in place. Now all the Jackets have to do is come home from Dublin with a win.

 

[Nehru Jacket]

How Georgia Tech’s game vs. FSU in Ireland came together

Caption
Credit: AP

GEORGIA TECH
By Ken Sugiura, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
29 minutes ago

There were many puzzle pieces that had to fit in order for Georgia Tech’s 2024 game against Florida State to be moved from Bobby Dodd Stadium to Aviva Stadium in Dublin. The first was put in place in 2016. That’s when the Yellow Jackets were invited to open their season against Boston College in Ireland.

“Their following in that game, they brought more people than Boston College,” Aer Lingus College Football Classic co-founder John Anthony told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. “We don’t forget things like that.”
Coach Brent Key, Florida State, the ACC, ESPN and, interestingly, the Big Ten and SEC all played a hand in securing the agreement for the game, which will be played Aug. 24. After the news conference last Wednesday, Anthony, ACC senior associate commissioner for football Michael Strickland and Tech athletic director J Batt shared some of the details in how the game came together.

As a game organizer, Anthony has a formula. One trick is to find a team that is willing to give up a conference home game against a team with a sizable fan base likely to make the travel in big numbers to Ireland, with the payoff being a handsome payout and a free trip to Dublin. Many teams aren’t eager to make that trade given the revenues that are generated from home games.
Anthony made it work last year with Northwestern and Nebraska (with the Wildcats trading in their home game) and is highly confident that an SEC team will do likewise. Anthony said that “there’s three SEC schools that aren’t drawing 90,000 that have said they would like to do it.”

However, neither the Big Ten nor the SEC was an option for 2024, as neither conference has yet to make its scheduling model for that year as both are undergoing expansion. That led Anthony to the ACC, which sent Boston College and Tech in 2016 in the first Aer Lingus game.
As he looked at the conference schedule for 2016, one game caught his attention.

“Florida State had told me they were interested in doing it, and when I looked at years and schedules and opponents …” said Anthony, who then made a sound like alarms going off. The ACC new scheduling model was to bring the Seminoles to Bobby Dodd Stadium in 2024.
Not only does Florida State have a fan base likely able to travel en masse to Dublin, but Tech had already proven that it does, too. In 2016, Tech brought more than 12,000 fans to Dublin, larger than the reported estimate of Nebraska’s contingent (10,000). It is a significant factor – the game is an important tourism event for Ireland, as evidenced by an Irish cabinet member and the chief of the Irish consulate in Atlanta both attending the news conference. Organizers are counting on the Tech-FSU game to bring in $74 million to the Irish economy.
“I know that back in Ireland, this announcement will be greeted with much excitement,” said Darragh O’Brien, minister for housing, local government and heritage. “People will welcome it greatly.”
Anthony reached out to Batt last fall, not long after he had been hired, to gauge his interest.
“He grasped it immediately,” Anthony said.
Said Batt, “Obviously, with the combined efforts between the conference and John Anthony and his group and with Florida State, pretty awesome opportunity for our kids primarily but also our fans and alums,” Batt said.
Another reason why Tech could consider giving up one of its four conference home games is that that, while FSU is an appealing matchup from a ticket sales standpoint, the home schedule in 2024 also includes two other name-brand opponents – Clemson and Notre Dame (the latter in Mercedes-Benz Stadium). That should help buffer the loss of FSU from the home slate.
Batt needed the approval of one particularly important member of his staff – Key, who was likely not enthusiastic about giving up home-field advantage in a conference game nor about taking his team on an eight-hour flight to a foreign country to play said game. Anthony got Key on the phone with Northwestern coach Pat Fitzgerald, who answered Key’s questions and allayed concerns.
“It’s something they’ll remember for the rest of their lives,” Key said. “It’s a great opportunity for that. We’re excited.”
The conference office worked through scheduling with both teams with the objective of moving the game to the Saturday before the standard start of the season on Labor Day weekend. Because the 2024 schedule will have two open dates, “there was an option to perhaps play in the traditional Week One, but it made sense for a number of reasons to keep it in Week Zero,” said Strickland, who oversees football for the conference.
Particularly with the extra open date, there is the possibility of rescheduling the Labor Day weekend game – Tech plays Georgia State at Bobby Dodd Stadium in the first-ever football meeting between the neighboring schools – but it appears both Tech and FSU plan to stick with their original Week One plan, Strickland said.
There were also discussions with ESPN, which was on board.
“So we’re really excited about some of the opportunities there that will unfold over the course of next offseason as they ramp up their planning for how they want to promote and cover their game,” Strickland said.
Losing a home game against Florida State is significant – the past two games at Bobby Dodd packed the stadium and produced two of the most memorable wins in team history. But there are other benefits for Tech aside from the opportunity for players, many of whom have never been out of the country, to visit Ireland. (Game organizers offer coaches several options for cultural experiences for the team during their brief stay.)
With the Week Zero game, the Jackets will have three open dates during that season, giving them an advantage in rest. Also, the Florida State game will likely have an unusually large television audience – last year and this year, the Dublin game is the only matchup that week between power conference teams – offering Key and his team a platform they don’t often enjoy.
Last year, the Nebraska-Northwestern game attracted 4.4 million television viewers, according to Sports Media Watch. Tech exceeded that viewership only once last year, and that was another game in which the time slot and opponent (Tech’s Labor Day game against Clemson) served to draw eyeballs. Tech’s second most-watched game (Georgia) had 2.1 million viewers, by measure of Sports Media Watch (The data does not include games on ACC Network, as those are not Nielsen-rated.)
“That’s a pretty great opportunity for Georgia Tech to tell its story, to have your brand, to have your engagement opportunities and to grow who you are and what you’re doing as a global institution,” Anthony said.
To the extent that the oft-repeated adage that the biggest improvement a team makes is between the first and second games is true, it gives Tech a leg up on Georgia State in what Jackets fans surely will consider a must-win game.
The largest pieces are in place. Now all the Jackets have to do is come home from Dublin with a win.

A good article that acknowledges that Tech can bring people to a special game.

 

[swampsting]

Time to get the passport updated.
(I am going to try to go to Europe this fall. Business trip.)

 

[GTFLETCH]

12K fans that Tech brought in 2016 was more than Nebraska brought 10K, or Northwestern or BC. Really cool, as GT takes a lot of flack.

 

[Nehru Jacket]

12K fans that Tech brought in 2016 was more than Nebraska brought 10K, or Northwestern or BC. Really cool, as GT takes a lot of flack.

On top of that Nebraska played a terrible game and lost to bad Northwestern team. It started a downward spiral that ended with the firing of their coach.

 

[ETBee]

...and Aviva Stadium not only sells beer, they have full-out bars!

 

[GTFLETCH]

Coach Key was as blunt as expected in his approach to the game, saying, “We’re going over there in 2024 to win a football game,” and further talked about how exciting it will be for the guys, including those for whom their first game in a Yellow Jacket uniform will be in Dublin.

Ireland 2024 Game Press Conference Highlights

Tech football to play in Dublin for the first time since 2016 win over Boston College

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