So let me get this straight...

[CiraldoForever]

I believe that, during some of those years, the NCAA had a rule that the home team couldn't wear white jerseys at home. I remember how happy I was, when they changed it, and we went back to our traditional white jerseys and gold pants. Of course, I'd never quit being a Tech fan, no matter what color uniforms we wore. But, I do like it a lot better and get a lot more excited when I see Tech come onto the field wearing white jerseys and gold pants. That doesn't seem like too much for fans to ask for, and I think the fans' preference should mean a lot more than what the players want. After all, we're paying for their scholarships and uniforms. Now, if we were undefeated and won the national championship wearing all pink with purple helmets, or even red and black with s big "G" on the side, that might be OK. But wearing those atrocious blue pants on homecoming against Duke didn't seem to make us world beaters.

And attendance is down everywhere. LSU had empty seats, even though they were ranked number 5 and were playing neighboring rival Ole Miss; USC had less than a half full stadium for a conference game; Michigan State had empty seats for a rivalry game against Michigan; and 5-1 Duke played in relative privacy against Virginia; just to name a few.

It was also a good point about the fact that coaches used to spend their whole careers at one school, which they became identified with. While Dodd was at Tech, Bryant was at Alabama; Shug Jordan was at Auburn; Butts and, after Griffith, Dooley was at Georgia; Royal was at Texas; Broyles was at Arkansas; and Frank Howard was at Clemson, among many others. And most of these coaches ended up having the stadiums named for them. They all had some down years, even Bryant, but all their school's fans believed they were the walking, breathing embodiment of what they wanted their schools to stand for.

Even Frank Broyles said at a Heisman Trophy telecast, which you can still see on You Tube, that, "I learned everything I needed to know about how to coach and treat players from Bobby Dodd at Georgia Tech. And one of the most important things he taught me was to find a school you love and stay there."

It was another great point that, when the players and coaches are loyal to a school, it makes the fans feel more loyal (especially in lean seasons), too.

 

[zippyGT]

I believe that, during some of those years, the NCAA had a rule that the home team couldn't wear white jerseys at home.

Visiting team wears white and the home team wears a color that contrasts with white. This can be changed (either to allow the home team to wear white or both teams to wear contrasting colors) by written agreement signed by both teams prior to the game.

 

[BranMart]

Well this fan likes Navy, just like they wore in the 40s and other various eras. Guess it depends on which fans you want to please, if they even care at all what fans think.

 

[vapspwi]

Visiting team wears white and the home team wears a color that contrasts with white. This can be changed (either to allow the home team to wear white or both teams to wear contrasting colors) by written agreement signed by both teams prior to the game.

Yeah, but the NCAA rules didn't allow the home team to wear white from '83 to '94, apparently. Now, the home team can wear white if they have a written agreement with the visiting team in place prior to the SEASON (not the game).

JRjr

 

[andrew]

Not looking a uniform color is the one of the dumbest reasons I've ever heard for not buying season tickets. And this is from someone with a long history of participating in uniform threads.

 

[johncu]

This is exactly why, after 37 straight years, I will not be renewing my season tickets next year. I can handle the losing from time to time, but not the abandonment of Tech's traditions by the Tech administration. I do not understand this conversion of Tech to the blue jackets, with the blue uniforms, painting the field blue, etc. When I come to Bobby Dodd stadium, I expect Tech to be wearing the uniforms pictured below EVERY game, and the field painted White and Gold. This clearly is not what Tech officials want anymore, and if their goal is to drive away long time fans like me, they have succeeded.

I'm sorry that you feel that way, but this is the most big cry-deserving post I have read in a while. We wore blue pants once this season. ONCE. And it isn't the first time either, so why now? As far as traditions, do the new generations not get to create any?

 

[Diseqc]

I don’t like the new Pantone. I’m out.

 

[18in32]

As far as traditions, do the new generations not get to create any?

Not until they kick ass and take names for a few years. Losers' traditions aren't a thing.

(PS. Query whether 1990 made blue tops respectable, though.)

 

[BuzzLaw]

This is exactly why, after 37 straight years, I will not be renewing my season tickets next year. I can handle the losing from time to time, but not the abandonment of Tech's traditions by the Tech administration. I do not understand this conversion of Tech to the blue jackets, with the blue uniforms, painting the field blue, etc. When I come to Bobby Dodd stadium, I expect Tech to be wearing the uniforms pictured below EVERY game, and the field painted White and Gold. This clearly is not what Tech officials want anymore, and if their goal is to drive away long time fans like me, they have succeeded.

Really? You’re gonna quit going to games cause you see a little more blue from time to time?


I bet you’d learn how to deal with it if we were undefeated right now.

 

[ElCidBUZZingFAN]

For the LOLz

 

[FHstinger]

What is most frustrating to me is that Tech and Russell finally got the uniforms right the last two years, 2016 and 2017, and I was happy and pleased. Then they switch uniform providers and instruct Addidas to trash the classic, traditional Yellow Jacket look. What we got now is as bad as anything Russell did, save the bubble wrap stuff and chicken wire helmet, imho. This, in addition to the transformation of Tech to the blue jackets, with some beige. There will be more and more blue. I just don't understand.

All this makes me angry, and I am strongly against allowing the players to choose the uniforms. Clearly, uniforms, colors and traditions are more important to some than others. I just don't want to spend my time, energy and money on attending when I do not enjoy the game day experience anymore. Also, none of the big criers here mention the loud, ear splitting, annoying rap music piped in every other play, so loud I can't hear myself talk. Just doesn't make sense.

Start new traditions? Like Vandy, Wake and other losers? Tell that to Alabama, Oklahoma, Penn State, USC, Michigan, even Clemson and ugag.

Two ACC home games so far this year, both featuring the fumbling, always bad-luck-blue jackets. Three ACC away games, all three white outs. The official "white out" versus Miami hasn't even been played yet. Up with the blue and beige? Go blue jackets? No thanks, I'll just stay at home, and save my $1000.oo for season tickets every year. My 37 year season ticket string since 1982 is coming to an end.

I still love my Yellow Jackets, and I'll still watch every game, but at home on my HDTV. At least until the Tech administration sees things my way about all this...not holding my breath...

 

[BranMart]

 

[JJacket]

What is most frustrating to me is that Tech and Russell finally got the uniforms right the last two years, 2016 and 2017, and I was happy and pleased. Then they switch uniform providers and instruct Addidas to trash the classic, traditional Yellow Jacket look. What we got now is as bad as anything Russell did, save the bubble wrap stuff and chicken wire helmet, imho. This, in addition to the transformation of Tech to the blue jackets, with some beige. There will be more and more blue. I just don't understand.

All this makes me angry, and I am strongly against allowing the players to choose the uniforms. Clearly, uniforms, colors and traditions are more important to some than others. I just don't want to spend my time, energy and money on attending when I do not enjoy the game day experience anymore. Also, none of the big criers here mention the loud, ear splitting, annoying rap music piped in every other play, so loud I can't hear myself talk. Just doesn't make sense.

Start new traditions? Like Vandy, Wake and other losers? Tell that to Alabama, Oklahoma, Penn State, USC, Michigan, even Clemson and ugag.

Two ACC home games so far this year, both featuring the fumbling, always bad-luck-blue jackets. Three ACC away games, all three white outs. The official "white out" versus Miami hasn't even been played yet. Up with the blue and beige? Go blue jackets? No thanks, I'll just stay at home, and save my $1000.oo for season tickets every year. My 37 year season ticket string since 1982 is coming to an end.

I still love my Yellow Jackets, and I'll still watch every game, but at home on my HDTV. At least until the Tech administration sees things my way about all this...not holding my breath...

 

[18in32]

This, in addition to the transformation of Tech to the blue jackets, with some beige. There will be more and more blue. ... All this makes me angry, and I am strongly against allowing the players to choose the uniforms.

Hey, man, I'm right with you the unis: the 2014 GSU game unis in your sig are the best I've ever seen. They should be what we wear 90% of the time.

That said, it's a ridiculous reason to stop going to games.

And think about the position you're taking. If you don't like watching games in uniforms you don't like, imagine how kids feel playing in uniforms they don't like. But you don't want to give them any input?

 

[CiraldoForever]

Our players aren't typical "young men." They are athletes privileged to attend one of the world's premiere institutions of higher learning. Tech is a place where the applications of many highly qualified students from around the world, who are willing to pay tuition, are not accepted every year. But these athletes are given the privilege of attending Tech for free. In exchange for this very high privilege, theses athletes agree to give maximum effort and represent Tech with integrity and character on and off the field.

It is absurd to think that these players should get to overturn traditions that have been cherished since long before they were born, just because a coach thinks they might play better if they get to select the color of the uniforms they wear. White and gold are Tech's school colors. It is not acceptable for the coaches to let the players choose to abandon them.

Having the band play "Up With the White and Gold" and "The Rambling' Wreck from Georgia Tech" is a treasured tradition, and it is totally inappropriate for anybody to decide to pollute the air at Grant Field with head splitting rap music, which the people who pay the bills hate and which prevents them from enjoying the games.

What will these people do next? Replace the "Rambling Wreck" with a bright red BWM sports car? Well, it's like this. They can do whatever they want to do. I don't know how to stop them. But, if they keep ignoring our traditions, they will find themselves with some new traditions of their own, like looking for new jobs. Because a lot of the Tech supporters, who love Tech traditions, also contribute most of the money that pays the salaries, buys the uniforms, and pays for the scholarships. And they have about had it.

Who paid for the new locker room? Did the athletic association employee who decided to play the rap music, the coaches who decided to let the players select the uniform colors, and the players who picked the colors our team wore on Homecoming vote to start a "Go Fund Me" page and raise the money themselves? I don't think so.

A football program can survive losing seasons. But here's what it absolutely cannot survive: Losing the financial support of people who have been its major contributors for 30 or more years. When you watch a Tech game, you can't count on winning. But, you should be able to count on seeing the uniforms and hearing the songs that remind you of the days when Tech was winning. When you mess with Tech's traditions, you take away the one remaining reason for making it worth a lot of people's time, money and effort to come to the games and support the program.

It's so easy for young fans on this board to ridicule the feelings of people who were giving money to Tech before they were born. Well, go ahead and do it. It doesn't matter to me. But, when Tech needs money for the next big item on the athletic association's wish list, they should only call on people under thirty. If you don't care about our opinions on how things should be done, don't ask for our money.

And the funniest thing I read on here is young fans dismissing the feelings of old fans and saying we should "deal with it." That's only 100% wrong. The young fans should listen to the old fans and "deal with them." When the young fans start paying for everything and Tech quits calling the old fans for big money every time there's an emergency, then it might be time for us to "deal with it." But not before.