Post game Discussion 9.30.2023

coit said:
I’ll be there. I don’t consider anyone who supports GT football by attending in person an idiot. I had a great time today, enjoyed the tailgating and the atmosphere. If I were as fair-weather a fan as a lot of people here I’d choose a team that wins more often, but I’m a GT man. Some folks here act like a bunch of whiny babies.
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Trust me, anyone still bothering to post here aren't fair weather fans. I doubt Tech has had many of those for years.
 
ThomsonJacket said:
Trust me, anyone still bothering to post here aren't fair weather fans. I doubt Tech has had many of those for years.
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The stand were empty. EMPTY. Student section half full.

WF had more butts in seats last week. Lots of folks whining here on Stingtalk during the game while sitting on their ass at home though.
 
coit said:
The stand were empty. EMPTY. Student section half full.

WF had more butts in seats last week. Lots of folks whining here on Stingtalk during the game while sitting on their ass at home though.
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That's definitely true.
 
I get four Sundays off a year and use three of them for Tech football trips. So far I have seen us blow a 15 point lead to Louisville and a 14 point lead to Bowling Green. Our drive is about 430 miles one way and my best friend and his wife have the same distance to cover from the Orlando area. The drive for my brother is only from Macon, but he bravely attends every game. At dinner tonight we all talked about finding a new way to get together and stay in touch rather than traveling fir Tech football.

The issue is not just losing seasons and bad losses to the likes of The Citadel, Northern Illinois and Bowling Green. The spaces reserved for tailgating are much fewer than in the 80’s and 90’s when you could drive up and get a spot in the Physics lot for $20. Now we end up in a deck across the downtown connector. So, we made band traditions for our family - the campanile, the library, the walk down to the stadium. So, that is gone. Tried the Helluva Block Party today. Totally lame. Tech makes the traditions and pageantry associated with college football less and less worthwhile while at the same time the product on the field declines.

I had season tickets for many years, until my son played varsity football and attending every game was impossible and Tech insisted on a scalpers fee fir my tickets called The Tech Fund. For awhile I had a ticket rep who called every summer and asked what games I needed and made sure I had my preferred lower West seats. Now, I hear nothing if I don’t buy season tickets, though I remain an annual AT contributor. In fact, calling the ticket office I was told Tech would not sell me a ticket for the Louisville game unless I bought season tickets. This is their strategy for off campus home games at Mercedes where the upper deck is intentionally kept empty.

Our fan base is as low as I have ever seen. Yet, looking at the Tech website you would believe almost every ticket fir every game has been sold. Tech puts tickets on the secondary market as opposed to serving existing fans and developing new ones.

What to do? Start with students, give them more and better seats. Quit calling our boosters the AT fund contributors. Have a Yellow Jacket Club. Get students involved for $25 to $50 a year in the Student Yellow Jacket Club, with officers, social events, good seats, road trips, and a tail gate area for students (I know Greeks don’t need this, but some of the most faithful alums will not have been Greeks if they are cultivated in a student club). Follow up with a $100 to $200 a year Young Grad Yellow Jacket Club with tailgating area, an area designated for them to buy season and single game tickets, road trips, etc. hopefully, you create a loyalty to Tech football and a new generation of reliable fan base is in place. Maybe in their late sixties they will be willing to drive long distances for just one more chance to see the Jackets play. Quit trying to upsell the small fan base you have and do the work to broaden that base with effective marketing and great customer service.

Go Jackets! God willing I’ll be back for Syracuse.
 
First chance this year for me to see a game in person.

It was a debacle all the way around. Whether Coach Key will get it fixed is unknown. But first step is to admit there is a problem. There was no Clown postgame interview or blowing smoke about great effort, biggest transition since the Roman empire, etc. He took responsibility and described it as it was - ugly and unacceptable.

Ok. Let's get to work. Too bad there are limits now. Should be a full pad practice at midnight tonight. Dang sure no one should be out at a party.
 
ThomsonJacket said:
Key, like the rest of his staff, doesn't have any answers. They obviously are in over their heads. It's 3 more years of 3-5 win seasons.

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This was a must win game, imo. Can't tell if Key is going to cry or puke. This man is is not ready for a HC position, but we are stuck with him for the foreseeable future. I'll give him credit for taking ownership and calling it like it is, but I don't think he's up for the challenge.
 
77GTFan said:
. Have a Yellow Jacket Club. Get students involved for $25 to $50 a year in the Student Yellow Jacket Club, with officers, social events, good seats, road trips, and a tail gate area for students
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Is the Ramblin Wreck Club no longer a thing? It did the things you mention when I was in school.
 
Big Bubba Ray said:
This was a must win game, imo. Can't tell if Key is going to cry or puke. This man is is not ready for a HC position, but we are stuck with him for the foreseeable future. I'll give him credit for taking ownership and calling it like it is, but I don't think he's up for the challenge.
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I mean what did you want him to say he said it as it is. I mean is he wrong saying if you can't get a inch you don't deserve to win. I'm not on the death ramp but we need to fix things. If this was clown we would hear how that was a better team than alabama and how we all love each other with some smirk. I see a different attitude so I'm not gonna jump ship yet don't forget we start bad more than good.
 
77GTFan said:
I get four Sundays off a year and use three of them for Tech football trips. So far I have seen us blow a 15 point lead to Louisville and a 14 point lead to Bowling Green. Our drive is about 430 miles one way and my best friend and his wife have the same distance to cover from the Orlando area. The drive for my brother is only from Macon, but he bravely attends every game. At dinner tonight we all talked about finding a new way to get together and stay in touch rather than traveling fir Tech football.

The issue is not just losing seasons and bad losses to the likes of The Citadel, Northern Illinois and Bowling Green. The spaces reserved for tailgating are much fewer than in the 80’s and 90’s when you could drive up and get a spot in the Physics lot for $20. Now we end up in a deck across the downtown connector. So, we made band traditions for our family - the campanile, the library, the walk down to the stadium. So, that is gone. Tried the Helluva Block Party today. Totally lame. Tech makes the traditions and pageantry associated with college football less and less worthwhile while at the same time the product on the field declines.

I had season tickets for many years, until my son played varsity football and attending every game was impossible and Tech insisted on a scalpers fee fir my tickets called The Tech Fund. For awhile I had a ticket rep who called every summer and asked what games I needed and made sure I had my preferred lower West seats. Now, I hear nothing if I don’t buy season tickets, though I remain an annual AT contributor. In fact, calling the ticket office I was told Tech would not sell me a ticket for the Louisville game unless I bought season tickets. This is their strategy for off campus home games at Mercedes where the upper deck is intentionally kept empty.

Our fan base is as low as I have ever seen. Yet, looking at the Tech website you would believe almost every ticket fir every game has been sold. Tech puts tickets on the secondary market as opposed to serving existing fans and developing new ones.

What to do? Start with students, give them more and better seats. Quit calling our boosters the AT fund contributors. Have a Yellow Jacket Club. Get students involved for $25 to $50 a year in the Student Yellow Jacket Club, with officers, social events, good seats, road trips, and a tail gate area for students (I know Greeks don’t need this, but some of the most faithful alums will not have been Greeks if they are cultivated in a student club). Follow up with a $100 to $200 a year Young Grad Yellow Jacket Club with tailgating area, an area designated for them to buy season and single game tickets, road trips, etc. hopefully, you create a loyalty to Tech football and a new generation of reliable fan base is in place. Maybe in their late sixties they will be willing to drive long distances for just one more chance to see the Jackets play. Quit trying to upsell the small fan base you have and do the work to broaden that base with effective marketing and great customer service.

Go Jackets! God willing I’ll be back for Syracuse.
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Quit giving stuff away period. I think that is the problem. This isn't a chicken or egg issue at this point. We were blaming this on lack of funds, or recruiting challenges, or coaching or whatever other existential bullshit excuse we can find, but a loss like today is squarely on the team itself.

Bowling Green players don't have access to more money, better facilities, trainers, technology, or anything else than we do. They just wanted to play and win more than we did.

At this point, forget the edge center, or fancy uniforms, or anything else. These kids need to experience rocky III and practice/lift weights everyday in the middle of the desert, play in fruit of the ööööing loom white t shirts with numbers in sharpie marker until they work hard enough and discover the desire to win. They just don't have it.

For the ones that can't find it, they need to go play football in their back yard and watch the Georgia Tech football team on TV, cause they don't have what it takes to be here or with any other program. Do you think bowling Green is trying to recruit any of our players after today?

It's bowling ööööing green we lost to. Time to dynamite the whole thing and start fresh. This may be worse than 1980.
 
thegtstunner08 said:
Thacker for sure has to go but Faulkner has been a big disappointment.
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He should take Coleman and Tillman with him. Maybe Sherrer too.

We have all these extra coaches, staff out the ass. Twice or 3x the staff we've ever had and are players are more clueless than at any time I can remember. öööö, give Paul a fraction of the support these clowns have been given and we wouldn't have doomed GT football to a decade of misery.
 
77GTFan said:
Those two QB sneaks with a wasted time out in between were awful. With the new rules allowing a push from behind, you use a big guy - tight end or FB if you have one to push you in. Don’t have a smaller RB have to come several steps to give the push.
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I was saying to the guy next to me we needed both TE's in on that play lined up behind the guards.
 
gtfan088 said:


While I appreciate the candor, this is the sort of admission that you'd have to torture me for several days straight at Gitmo to get out of me.
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You’re not good enough to overlook anybody, not while trying to remove the clown’s stench off you would have been my response.
 
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