How we ended up at the Quick Lane Bowl

GT to AZ said:
Didn't see this posted yet. Pretty good explanation.

https://www.ajc.com/sports/college/how-georgia-tech-fell-the-quick-lane-bowl/j8F3RzX2rl8zj1K7Eu2F4I/
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The article was crap.

1) Military Bowl might have added some interest because it's at Navy, but it's a lateral move from Quick Lane anyway so who cares.

2) completely understand pinstripe taking Miami over us given their trash fanbase in Jersey.

3) totally understand Pitt going to the Sun. Coastal Champs.

4) we got completely royally ass raped by the Belk Bowl without much of an explanation at all. For all the words in that article trashing us for ticket sales it's spent about one sentence for why the Zima drinkers would be a better draw than Tech.

There you have it.
 
All these fifth rate nobody-gives-a-damn-about-watching-them loser bowls and the pitiful ACC with its brain dead and prejudiced commissioner can all go to hell.
It's too bad we didn't join the Big Ten when we had the chance.
Maybe we should join the Mountain West Conference, where most road trips are in more attractive locations than any ACC bowl.
I hope one day we'll be able to get out of the sorry ACC, with the worst attendance, worst atmosphere, worst road trips, worst bowls, worst officials, and worst football of any Power Five conference.
Until then, I hope we win so much and our attendance goes up so much that these dip-stick "bowls" will beg us to come, and we can say, "Hell, No!"
But for today, Detroit has a lot more to offer than tour-the-bank-buildings Charlotte, boring-dead-end-and-irrelevant Jacksonville, Mayberry-gets-the-Navy Annapolis, don't-look-for-a-bookstore Shreveport, war-zone El Paso, and freeze-your-ass-off -while-your-car-gets-stolen Yankee Stadium.
 
GT flunkout said:
The article was crap.
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The reasoning for Virginia over us isn't strong, but it at least explains the though process. Our lowest home attendance since 2001 and poor past ticket sales for better bowls (including 2014 Orange where we couldn't sell even 7,500). Basically the data said we wouldn't buy enough tickets. Virginia is unknown so they took the odds of a maybe over a probably not. Doesn't mean I like it, but I understand the reason now. The bowl director admitted that it's all about ticket sales and not necessarily what happened on the field.
 
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“We all have businesses to run, and we had to go with what we feel is right for our business,” Beck said. “A lot of times, that’s not the emotional thing or what happened on the football field.”
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Go öööö yourself and your shitty bowl Steven Beck.
 
Remember this when it's time for these teams to play these bowls. Remember it, fuel the hate in your gut before some meek little voice tells you you should root for your conference. I never root for my conference. I do not give a single öööö about Clemson, Pitt, Duke, Virginia, Virginia Tech, Miami, Boston College, Syracuse or the rest of them who didn't make a bowl. May they all lose their bowl games and their fans get beat up by their opponents.
 
GT flunkout said:
The article was crap.

1) Military Bowl might have added some interest because it's at Navy, but it's a lateral move from Quick Lane anyway so who cares.
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Military Bowl is a Monday New Years Eve game which is a much more attractive date than the day after Christmas. We would have been in Annapolis but can't make Detroit the day after Christmas and we're not alone.
 
GT flunkout said:
The article was crap.

1) Military Bowl might have added some interest because it's at Navy, but it's a lateral move from Quick Lane anyway so who cares.

2) completely understand pinstripe taking Miami over us given their trash fanbase in Jersey.

3) totally understand Pitt going to the Sun. Coastal Champs.

4) we got completely royally ass raped by the Belk Bowl without much of an explanation at all. For all the words in that article trashing us for ticket sales it's spent about one sentence for why the Zima drinkers would be a better draw than Tech.

There you have it.
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Pretty much nailed it.

Perhaps they thought UVA having a 'good' season for the first time in a while would have a more passionate fanbase than GT who, as noted, couldn't sell tickets to an Orange Bowl.

The cheap bastards on here who would rather pay $20 for bowl tickets than buy them from the school bear some responsibility for this. GT isn't attractive to bowls because our beta engineer fanbase can't pony up a few extra dollars to support the team.
 
The bowl spokesmen are all liars. They just say what is convenient and avoids triggering any fanbase. The most laughable comment was that Independence Bowl passed on Tech because Duke really wanted that bowl. Personally, I think Quick Lane is a better bowl anyway, but do they really want us to believe that the Duke fans were just dying to go to Shreveport?
 
05GTCorndog said:
Pretty much nailed it.

Perhaps they thought UVA having a 'good' season for the first time in a while would have a more passionate fanbase than GT who, as noted, couldn't sell tickets to an Orange Bowl.

The cheap bastards on here who would rather pay $20 for bowl tickets than buy them from the school bear some responsibility for this. GT isn't attractive to bowls because our beta engineer fanbase can't pony up a few extra dollars to support the team.
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05GTCorndog said:
The cheap bastards on here who would rather pay $20 for bowl tickets than buy them from the school bear some responsibility for this. GT isn't attractive to bowls because our beta engineer fanbase can't pony up a few extra dollars to support the team.
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GT had plenty of fans at the Orange Bowl, but those tickets were purchased through stubhub/etc as opposed to through the school. It's a hard sell (for cheap fans to being w/) to pay more for tickets through the school w/crappy seats to boot.

Regardless, UVA isn't taking more fans to the Belk than GT would have.
 
jacket67 said:
The bowl spokesmen are all liars. They just say what is convenient and avoids triggering any fanbase. The most laughable comment was that Independence Bowl passed on Tech because Duke really wanted that bowl. Personally, I think Quick Lane is a better bowl anyway, but do they really want us to believe that the Duke fans were just dying to go to Shreveport?
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It would have been fun watching Tech play Temple though. I wonder if CGC would have been invited to bowl practice, lol.
 
GT flunkout said:
The article was crap.

1) Military Bowl might have added some interest because it's at Navy, but it's a lateral move from Quick Lane anyway so who cares.

2) completely understand pinstripe taking Miami over us given their trash fanbase in Jersey.

3) totally understand Pitt going to the Sun. Coastal Champs.

4) we got completely royally ass raped by the Belk Bowl without much of an explanation at all. For all the words in that article trashing us for ticket sales it's spent about one sentence for why the Zima drinkers would be a better draw than Tech.

There you have it.
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I feel like a better article would be "How Ken Sugiura still has a job."
 
GT98 said:
GT had plenty of fans at the Orange Bowl, but those tickets were purchased through stubhub/etc as opposed to through the school. It's a hard sell (for cheap fans to being w/) to pay more for tickets through the school w/crappy seats to boot.

Regardless, UVA isn't taking more fans to the Belk than GT would have.
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Far less had we gotten a game with Auburn.
 
öööö Belk. öööö all the bowls. IMO, the ticket buying thing is a red herring, it is TV eyeballs and politics that are in play.

If the bowl assholes want to sell tickets, they need to make their ööööing bowl attractive to ticket buyers - affiliated and unaffiliated to the schools. That is how a market works.

Hosting an exhibition football game in sub-prime locations far from the participating team's fanbases during shitty time slots is not a recipe for success. Locals don't care and fans don't want to travel. Factor in that there are conservatively 10x the number of seats available to be sold versus the number of affiliated fans to buy them, the market depresses the price of the tickets well below the face value.

The fact that a bowl requires the teams to buy a block of tickets is proof that the model is not successful.

Remove the E$PN tv money and we are back to less than 10 bowls within one year - as God intended. Make it to where going to a bowl is a special event and a few non-playoff bowls in attractive locations will have successful ticket sales. Sure "consecutive bowl records" become a thing of the past, but were we, or any fanbase, really ever happy about going to Shreveport?

I am happy to see the Jackets play again this year, especially in light of the fact that this is CPJ's last game with us. But öööö all the bowl people - they are just another group of well connected rich ööööers making a buck on the backs of student athletes.
 
GT98 said:
GT had plenty of fans at the Orange Bowl, but those tickets were purchased through stubhub/etc as opposed to through the school. It's a hard sell (for cheap fans to being w/) to pay more for tickets through the school w/crappy seats to boot.

Regardless, UVA isn't taking more fans to the Belk than GT would have.
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Agreed -
1. I bought 4 stubhub tickets to the orange bowl because I wanted a good seat that I picked- not because I'm cheap and I will not apologize for my contributions to gt athletics - instead let's compare. I went and I can tell you GT had plenty of fans there.
2. This crap about UVA taking more fans to the Belk Bowl than GT in CPJ's last game is horse manure. It's just an excuse to get some free expensive bottles of wine from the UVA elite who they have a special relationship with.
 
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