Tar heel fans

BuzzCzar said:
I AM YOUR MASTER

ok, who ordered the chicken wrap, and who had the roast beef?

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except those are clearly t-shirts.
 
BarrelORum said:
That said, typically its the alumni that has certain heart strings attached to their alma mater unlike the sidewalk fans, and for that reason, its more difficult for them to be overly critical of their team because utlimately GT sports, and the Institute are one in the same. Whereas for most sidewalk fans, its all about the sports team and only the sports team.
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Wow, that nicely summed up exactly how I feel better then I could have ever put it.
 
More BS from Kyle. The "professed GT student" (peedpad) that will run the world one day. Sure, buddy.

I don't like playing in Tarhole Stadium. I think that's relevant. We have bad luck there. We need to start kicking the Heel's cans every year as well as the Cavs. I'm talking slaughter. We're playing to their weakness right now and this is an extremely stupid notion. Goes for NCST as well although we've had their number.
 
gnats67 said:
More BS from Kyle. The "professed GT student" (peedpad) that will run the world one day. Sure, buddy.

I don't like playing in Tarhole Stadium. I think that's relevant. We have bad luck there. We need to start kicking the Heel's cans every year as well as the Cavs. I'm talking slaughter. We're playing to their weakness right now and this is an extremely stupid notion. Goes for NCST as well although we've had their number.
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We are 3 games under .500 at UNC, and won 3 of the last 5 meetings there, so we are not too bad off playing there.. Although, if we win in Charlottesville, I would almost be willing to go ahead and order ACC championship and National Championship tickets. It seems like that is the kind of team that Tech needs to win in Charlottesville.

On the sidebar though, I am not a Tech grad, I was never disciplined enough to get all of my classes in order to go to Tech. I have ended up getting my degree in Business from and will be working on my Master's in Comp Sci from Columbus State, because Tech's distance learning programs are extremely expensive. Why would I pay out of pocket if I can have the Navy completely pay for my degree? I have been a Tech fan since I was a kid though, and would go there for future studies if I ever go back to Atlanta.
 
I went to the drubbing in Chapel Hill last year and in all honesty their fans were pretty cool at the bars after the game, I had expected the worst... although in retrospect I did almost get into a brawl with a few 18 year olds in the stands before I moved myself over to the Tech section... guess it just depends on who you run into... Hell, I was 'that guy' at the miami game last year, but their fans just flat out suck so i didnt feel bad about bein a jerk.... 'Tha Whuuuuuuuuu????'... Jack Daniels does NOT like the 'canes
 
Wow I can tell the off season is here.

BTW I think BuzzCzar is hilarious. The joke with Damarius was really good.
 
I never went to Tech- I did go to baseball camps there as a kid in the mid 80's, I am FROM the "metro area", the rest of my family are dog fans..going there as a kid and getting the invites in the mail for the next year with buzz or the ramblin wreck got me hooked for good...I have gotten thrown out of dog fans' houses and kicked them out during our games against each other-
I love all sports Tech - I also have a great deal of respect for the school, I have not and will not change my alliance...ever-
 
There's a big difference between being a UNC sidewalk fan, and a GT sidewalk fan.

Most UNC sidewalk fans are "good-teamers". Most became UNC fans because they're the nation's most storied basketball program. More often than not in recent years UNC has been #1 in Collegiate Licensing sales.

Sidewalk Jackets aren't like that at all. They're not crowd-followers. They're die-hard and faithful. They're independent thinkers who don't just go along with the crowd. They have a certain type of mindset that is exactly the same as our students and alumni. GT alumni and fans alike are intelligent, independent and contrarian. It's that very spirit that allowed us to go out and do what no other school had the testicles to do, and hire Paul Johnson.

They deserve our respect because they're choosing of their free will to support a school for reasons other than just winning at all costs.

In my mind, sidewalk Jackets are part of "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." And I'm very grateful for them because without them we wouldn't have a program.

I believe in the next 5-10 years we're going to field a lot of top 10 teams and see a lot of new Georgia Tech fans. We'll start filling the stadium, and I'm glad of that, and I'll certainly welcome them.

But I'll also always remember the non-alumni fans I know who were around for the last 15 years, especially in the mid-1990's. Those fans are about to be rewarded for keeping the faith through a lot of heartache and something that was sometimes, for a supposed recreational activity, awfully akin to hard work.
 
GoldenTornado said:
There's a big difference between being a UNC sidewalk fan, and a GT sidewalk fan.

Most UNC sidewalk fans are "good-teamers". Most became UNC fans because they're the nation's most storied basketball program. More often than not in recent years UNC has been #1 in Collegiate Licensing sales.

Sidewalk Jackets aren't like that at all. They're not crowd-followers. They're die-hard and faithful. They're independent thinkers who don't just go along with the crowd. They have a certain type of mindset that is exactly the same as our students and alumni. GT alumni and fans alike are intelligent, independent and contrarian. It's that very spirit that allowed us to go out and do what no other school had the testicles to do, and hire Paul Johnson.

They deserve our respect because they're choosing of their free will to support a school for reasons other than just winning at all costs.

In my mind, sidewalk Jackets are part of "we few, we happy few, we band of brothers." And I'm very grateful for them because without them we wouldn't have a program.

I believe in the next 5-10 years we're going to field a lot of top 10 teams and see a lot of new Georgia Tech fans. We'll start filling the stadium, and I'm glad of that, and I'll certainly welcome them.

But I'll also always remember the non-alumni fans I know who were around for the last 15 years, especially in the mid-1990's. Those fans are about to be rewarded for keeping the faith through a lot of heartache and something that was sometimes, for a supposed recreational activity, awfully akin to hard work.
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Wow...Great Post!
 
I actually think it's harder to be a sidewalk fan than an alum. The reason is alum can at least flash their degrees - which no mutt fan can retaliate against.

That said, I, personally had planned to attend Tech after finishing the regional engineering program at Armstrong in Savannah. Unfortunately, my plans fell through, and I ended up getting an Associate's degree in Computer Network Engineering (had a couple of years experience in the field before switching degrees).
 
I agree to a certain extent about Tech fans, but most UNC fans pull for them because their family does. People around here are either UNC or State fans for the most part, with a sprinkling of ECU, App State, Wake Forest, etc. There's pretty much a division in the state between carolina blue and state red, win or lose...kind of like Auburn/Alabama on a less intense scale.
 
ncjacket said:
I agree to a certain extent about Tech fans, but most UNC fans pull for them because their family does. People around here are either UNC or State fans for the most part, with a sprinkling of ECU, App State, Wake Forest, etc. There's pretty much a division in the state between carolina blue and state red, win or lose...kind of like Auburn/Alabama on a less intense scale.
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Same in the Raleigh Durham area. You see a lot more UNC blue/State red than Duke blue. Duke might be the only program in the nation with a larger fanbase outside of its state than inside(and by that I mean people who would say Duke is their favorite team.)
 
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