Other than the actual game…

LibertyJacket said:
The fact that we couldn't get 40k Tech fans to this game is sad.
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None of this is on the fans. The school of Georgia Tech has created this mess. Give people hope and they’ll come but it has to be sustained hope and not just the gimmick hope. When GT decided to become an international school and relegate sports that is when we lost half the students and the local fan. Bottom line is we are lucky to still have 30,000 loyal fans after the past 4 years. But that number will continue to decline with each passing meaningless season.
 
OptionJacket said:
None of this is on the fans. The school of Georgia Tech has created this mess. Give people hope and they’ll come but it has to be sustained hope and not just the gimmick hope. When GT decided to become an international school and relegate sports that is when we lost half the students and the local fan. Bottom line is we are lucky to still have 30,000 loyal fans after the past 4 years. But that number will continue to decline with each passing meaningless season.
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The decision to become an international school is a KEY factor here, and it enabled the cesspool to add an engineering program they were not previously allowed to have. With less Georgia, in fact US in general, students, students who could have gotten in easily 20 years ago are now faced with going somewhere else, and that leads to less Georgia kids coming to Tech and at least potentially becoming life-long fans. I wish we had more land in the midtown so we could enlarge the campus and increase the student population, hopefully increasing the number of in-state students. That will probably never occur, because there just isn't more land to be had. Another option would be to build a satellite campus, and I wish someone at Tech would look into doing that.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
The decision to become an international school is a KEY factor here, and it enabled the cesspool to add an engineering program they were not previously allowed to have. With less Georgia, in fact US in general, students, students who could have gotten in easily 20 years ago are now faced with going somewhere else, and that leads to less Georgia kids coming to Tech and at least potentially becoming life-long fans. I wish we had more land in the midtown so we could enlarge the campus and increase the student population, hopefully increasing the number of in-state students. That will probably never occur, because there just isn't more land to be had. Another option would be to build a satellite campus, and I wish someone at Tech would look into doing that.
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Huh? Wut? GT has been expanding in land and in students for years. What's going on now has nothing to do with the size of the student body. As far as I know we are still at least ~65% in state enrollment.

Turns out you can't put up with losing seasons like we have and retain fans. That's it. We are enduring the worst era of GT football in forever. A whole undergrad class came and went without a single winning season. That is brutal. It is not normal.
 
36101 announced. Actual attendance probably less.

Season tickets to Folsom Field sold old many months ago.
 
Think about this - you just said 65% in state. Yet, you see no problem with that? There is nothing wrong with local people benefitting from local money and local institutions. Like, I posted before, my son is at GT right now and most of his out of state buddies all are fans of other schools and will be when they graduate. Sure, they go to games and have a fun, but they are not lifer fans. Which is why we are a 30,000 fanbase and shrinking.
 
OptionJacket said:
Think about this - you just said 65% in state. Yet, you see no problem with that? There is nothing wrong with local people benefitting from local money and local institutions. Like, I posted before, my son is at GT right now and most of his out of state buddies all are fans of other schools and will be when they graduate. Sure, they go to games and have a fun, but they are not lifer fans. Which is why we are a 30,000 fanbase and shrinking.
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So you are saying GT is being a prostitute for education? They never want to love us, they just want to use us for what they need and then leave us. Who would have ever thunk it?
 
GT flunkout said:
Huh? Wut? GT has been expanding in land and in students for years. What's going on now has nothing to do with the size of the student body. As far as I know we are still at least ~65% in state enrollment.

Turns out you can't put up with losing seasons like we have and retain fans. That's it. We are enduring the worst era of GT football in forever. A whole undergrad class came and went without a single winning season. That is brutal. It is not normal.
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I know personally or know of 3 4.0 HS students who were rejected at Tech.
 
OptionJacket said:
Think about this - you just said 65% in state. Yet, you see no problem with that? There is nothing wrong with local people benefitting from local money and local institutions. Like, I posted before, my son is at GT right now and most of his out of state buddies all are fans of other schools and will be when they graduate. Sure, they go to games and have a fun, but they are not lifer fans. Which is why we are a 30,000 fanbase and shrinking.
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I came to Tech from Florida. In the late 70s when Tech sucked pretty bad. I had been watching college football since I was seven years old. My first live game was the Orange Bowl with Pepper Rodgers coaching John Riggins and Kansas against Joe Paterno and the Nittany Lions.

I had allegiances. My uncle had played at Oklahoma State. My cousin played for the Volunteers. I was a fan of Tennessee and Florida.

But I went to all the games and became a lifelong Jackets fan. Tech over EVERYONE. That's my ööööing alma mater!

If you come to Tech from China or Korea, like so many these days, or just don't like American football for whatevcer reason . . . well, IIWII.

But if you go to Tech for four years, get your degree, and then root for some other school's team . . . I don't care, I have zero respect for you. öööö you and the horse you rode in on.

I'm glad your son is at Tech, and I'm sure you're proud. But he has ööööty taste in "buddies."
 
OptionJacket said:
Think about this - you just said 65% in state. Yet, you see no problem with that? There is nothing wrong with local people benefitting from local money and local institutions. Like, I posted before, my son is at GT right now and most of his out of state buddies all are fans of other schools and will be when they graduate. Sure, they go to games and have a fun, but they are not lifer fans. Which is why we are a 30,000 fanbase and shrinking.
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That has FAR more to do with with us continuously sucking. 4 seasons of losing, and games that just aren't fun, is an eternity when you are young. Most of the die hard fans have known over the years were originally from out-of-state ironically enough. I don't think there's much correlation over the last few decades, especially with the UGA saturation.
 
GT flunkout said:
Great. Bigcry. It's easy as hell to transfer in. But I realize mommy's and daddy's little golden children want their precious 4 year college experience. GT is a REALLY good school.
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Dude. I brought two families to the game last night. You only met one because the other was late. Also brought two other people that were late. We got to walk to our seats right when the team was running out.

Either way, (and I’ll only send flunkout pics). The family that was late has a daughter that is a junior from one of the Cherokee schools.. I forget. Perfect grades, extracurriculars. All worried because she wants to go to GT and it’s so hard to get in. I keep telling her dad, it’s easier to transfer in.
 
All my friends were from GA, FLA, MD, Ohio, New Jersey, Mass,. They all were Tech fans first. Some chose to do other things than go to a game… losing is what causes this.
 
midatlantech said:
All my friends were from GA, FLA, MD, Ohio, New Jersey, Mass,. They all were Tech fans first. Some chose to do other things than go to a game… losing is what causes this.
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So if the football team was successful and all of the SA’s had a choice if they wanted the education but they had to play ball. I’m guessing if we were successful in football they wouldn’t mind?
 
KrazieJacket said:
Dude. I brought two families to the game last night. You only met one because the other was late. Also brought two other people that were late. We got to walk to our seats right when the team was running out.

Either way, (and I’ll only send flunkout pics). The family that was late has a daughter that is a junior from one of the Cherokee schools.. I forget. Perfect grades, extracurriculars. All worried because she wants to go to GT and it’s so hard to get in. I keep telling her dad, it’s easier to transfer in.
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That's awesome. In an ideal world you will get admitted as a freshman. But if your heart is set on Georgia Tech, there is no holding back for any Georgia kid to not go to Georgia Tech. You can go to any backwater college in the state, take the right classes for 3 or 4 semesters, and transfer admission is practically automatic. But dumb rich parents will send their kids to Auburn or Clemson anyway. So much superficiality.
 
GT flunkout said:
Great. Bigcry. It's easy as hell to transfer in. But I realize mommy and daddy's little golden children want their precious 4 year college experience. GT is a REALLY good school.
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Yes, it is relatively easy to transfer in, at least compared to entering as a freshman. But I think referring to "mommy and daddy's golden children" is total BS.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
Yes, it is relatively easy to transfer in, at least compared to entering as a freshman. But I think referring to "mommy and daddy's golden children" is total BS.
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Oh my. You have pissed me off and I demand satisfaction. I suggest we have a duel. Let’s talk bourbon shots until one of us falls down. Loser leaves town.
 
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