Improving Georgia Tech Athletics - Crowdsourced Ideas

GTCrew4b said:
I want the ability to buy remote season tickets that are donated to military personnel, kid hospitals, maybe homeless shelters, GT dining hall and cleaning staff, and new alumni.

I want the Upper North to be torn down.

I want a streaming VR gameday experience.
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I think the Miami game turns up all the homeless shelter occupants
 
684Bee said:
If you’re forced to take a class of something you’ll never use again in your life, I’d say the practical choice is to take the watered down version. Now who’s the dummy?
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I didn’t say it was a bad thing. Calling it calculus though is a stretch
 
Since it's established the coach is going to recruit hard, and only bring in staff who will, the next thing is less obvious: GT needs to give him money to hire "background" staff as is the trend right now. Forgive me if I've missed a discussion of this--I don't read most of the threads here. But these days recruiting begin when a kid is in ninth or tenth grade (even earlier in extreme cases). It's stupid but it's the real world. Collins doesn't have time to be camped out on social media following JV football players. He needs analysts who break down film coming from everywhere; he needs people who stay on top of the recruiting so Tech doesn't get outworked. I'm sure this isn't news. But is GT committed to going there? Great to discuss the band and those things, but the recruiting operation is going to translate into winning football.
 
johncu said:
225 has gotten progressively lamer since I've been sitting there (over 15 years). There's one guy in 224 near me who kicks the öööö out of the wall to make noise, but other than that I feel like I'm the only one yelling on most 3rd downs.

I don't know what we need to do, but we need to do something. I used to feel like we were a solid 4th in the ACC in crowd noise/gameday experience (Clemson, FSU, VT, us) but I'm not so sure about that anymore.
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A team with a great D and garbage O is going to have louder fans than the opposite.

Shit got loud for Tenuta.
 
For recruiting, I'd add a bunch of subwoofers for bass and flatscreens in the walkup tunnel (under the North Stands) where we introduce recruits/players. They'd see their highlight tape on the jumbotron (and flatscreens in the tunnel) after they exited to the tune of whatever they to listen to on their Playlist as they walked on to The Flats for the first time.

edit* Player of The Week gets to choose pre-tunnel song the team gets hyped to the following week
 
Renumber the seats to give more room. If everyone on the row is at the game there is not enough room. A 10% increase in seat size would only decrease capacity by a few thousand. Better yet, make all of lower East and lower West chair seats. Make upper level between the thirties chair seats.
 
Have a mascot robot that kicks field goals at half time.

Or stadium wide mobile trivia at half time for concession points with a real time leader board on the jumbo tron.

Drones dropping Chick-fil-A cows with coupons.

Got a million bad ideas..
 
This google doc definitely has a ton of ideas that would turn the gameday experience into total, contrived, bullshit. Congrats.

The biggest way for us to improve the gameday experience is to eliminate all of the contrived bullshit that we do, not add to it.

We suck at white outs, and we can't fill our stadium so it just highlights all the visiting fans. Solution - stop with the white out crap.

We suck at video board chants, and the board asking us to do it send douchechills up my spine. When I went to school (99-03) we didn't have a video board and the entire stadium was doing the Yellow-Jackets thing. It either happens or it doesn't.

You know what we've never sucked at? Getting local songs to pump up the team and crowd like all the way turnt up and put on for my city. Funny how Atlanta type stuff doesn't feel contrived.

It all seems pretty basic and straight forward, no?
 
77GTFan said:
Renumber the seats to give more room. If everyone on the row is at the game there is not enough room. A 10% increase in seat size would only decrease capacity by a few thousand. Better yet, make all of lower East and lower West chair seats. Make upper level between the thirties chair seats.
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That's because everyone has expanded in size.
 
77GTFan said:
Renumber the seats to give more room. If everyone on the row is at the game there is not enough room. A 10% increase in seat size would only decrease capacity by a few thousand. Better yet, make all of lower East and lower West chair seats. Make upper level between the thirties chair seats.
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I would rather be a little snug with my neighbors once a year (or two) than give up all leg room by installing chair-backs. I haven't been to UNC's retrofitted chair-back stadium but word is there is insufficient leg room after the new seat install.
 
gtg970g said:
I would rather be a little snug with my neighbors once a year (or two) than give up all leg room by installing chair-backs. I haven't been to UNC's retrofitted chair-back stadium but word is there is insufficient leg room after the new seat install.
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I went to the UNC game this past year and didn't find the seats much worse than most other stadium seats (my knees were up against the seats in front of me, but that's par for the course). That said, I sit in the upper north at Bobby Dodd and love how roomy those seats are, and agree with you that I prefer the basic bench seating to crowding it with seat-backs (although I'm sure my wife would disagree). It's also just way easier to move around with bench seating.
 
gtg970g said:
I would rather be a little snug with my neighbors once a year (or two) than give up all leg room by installing chair-backs. I haven't been to UNC's retrofitted chair-back stadium but word is there is insufficient leg room after the new seat install.
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UNC’s bleachers with backs deal was the worst and most uncomfortable seating in the ACC. You had to stand on the bleachers to let people pass and couldn’t sit straight if you were tall.

The refitted individual seats (modern, thin seats a la MB Stadium) are maybe marginally better for leg room, but not a lot. They decreased the capacity, but at least the whole stadium is blue. For standing, jumping around, and standing on the bleachers when things get really serious, they kind of suck. (Not an issue for Carolina, but occasionally one for us.)

JRjr
 
We should have some sort of specific program, or perhaps stipulations, with the advertisers/Fortune 500 companies to take in student athlete interns/co-ops. There's people whose task already includes things along those lines, but there isn't a dedicated program that could be marketed to the athletes and parents of athletes. That program could also be marketed to those big companies as a way for them to "give back to the community" and could advertise as such. Win/Win for everyone involved.
 
Hey all, wanted to chime in as I am one of the ones putting this document together. All submissions, even those we don't agree with, that are able to be turned into some concrete idea are listed. Just wanted to encourage you to submit your own ideas and comments on those already listed. I haven't posted on this site before but since this was shared here I wanted to make my way over and aid in the participation. The more participation, the more ideas and the more refined the ideas become.

Thanks and Go Jackets!
 
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