Tech football is dead

Tech is not alone. As the conferences winnow down to 3 that matter and we aren't in one we will deemphasize it like about 80 other schools.
 
byteback said:
Here's the problem... let's cut to the chase: The Institute has a serious issue when it comes to athletics. Like George O'Leary said over 25 years ago, this school wants to be Harvard Monday through Friday and Florida State on Saturday.

The administration simply doesn't give a rat's ass... from the president down to the janitor. The alumni is fractured over what they want from the program....some are happy with 6-6 seasons because they "worry about the value of their degrees.". Others want to win just a couple more games a season and hopefully.......beat Georgia three times a decade. Nobody really wants to have a program like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, etc.

Only a complete, fundamental change in the attitude of the Institute will things ever improve.

I can't believe that 1997 to 2017 will be remembered as the last glory years of Georgia Tech football! It's really sad to think about it.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
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No alumni can be happy about Tech looking like öööö. Either say öööö it and go division 3 or actually try to win games. This in the middle thing just pisses off more people.
 
We’re GT football. We don’t just die. We drag it out in the most miserable way possible to drain you of all your hope or will to live. We’ve got a good 8 to 10 years left before we’ll be officially dead.
 
GT is completing the long march to becoming the Northwestern of the South. Unless we reverse course immediately.

They need to let in more kids watching football on Saturday and not in SAT prep class.
 
gtphd said:
No alumni can be happy about Tech looking like öööö. Either say öööö it and go division 3 or actually try to win games. This in the middle thing just pisses off more people.
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Some of those rich bastards need to donate a few million to the NIL fund or we ded
 
I really don't want to put a cherry on top of this öööö sundae but, take away the most boneheaded coaching move in college football history by duh-U and GT should legitimately be 2-5 right now. Take away the gift wrapped 5 turnovers from Wake and this team is 1-6.

I don't think this team is schizo, it's just a bad team that seems to get lucky more often than expected. And it isn't very well coached either.

Even still, you've got to give it time to be sure it can't get better. Anything less than 2 full years and with any signs of life, 3 years, you will pull the trigger too fast. We already tested the waters and no one better showed up.

It sucks. I'm pretty much sick of this öööö.
 
USCJacket said:
Somehow GT was UNC’s inexplicable loss the last few years. I don’t think Mack Brown lets that happen this year.
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I didn't think anyone on our team could possibly look ahead to the next game after BG but I'm hearing rumors that happened again this time. Anything is possible.
 
THWG247 said:
Some of those rich bastards need to donate a few million to the NIL fund or we ded
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I'm going to shoot the messenger here a bit, but here goes...

This attitude is the problem with our fanbase. We keep waiting for big donors like they're some godsend that's going to save the whole damn operation and we öööö on other fans that are millionaires for being frugal with their donations. Do you seriously think that's how these football factories operate? No, they're flush with cash because they get a ton of small donations from tens of thousands of people every year. We have ~170,000 living alumni, 50% of which are millionaires. If that group gave an average of $1,000/yr to the GTAA and everyone of you who isn't a millionaire averaged $100/yr to the Tech Way NIL collective, then we would be a factory ourselves. Instead, we're trying to raise $10 million in buyout money from the same group of 30-ish people that we use to raise money every time we've fired or hired a coach or done any football focused fundraising initiative. We had one of them try to offer matching donations to build the engagement I'm speaking of, but it wasn't a terribly successful initiative. I'll also be honest, this group gets way too much sway in decision making within the GTAA and that's part of our problem too. The whole thing needs to be run more professionally.

We need more donors, not to lean on the big money guys.
 
BainbridgeJacket said:
I'm going to shoot the messenger here a bit, but here goes...

This attitude is the problem with our fanbase. We keep waiting for big donors like they're some godsend that's going to save the whole damn operation and we öööö on other fans that are millionaires for being frugal with their donations. Do you seriously think that's how these football factories operate? No, they're flush with cash because they get a ton of small donations from tens of thousands of people every year. We have ~170,000 living alumni, 50% of which are millionaires. If that group gave an average of $1,000/yr to the GTAA and everyone of you who isn't a millionaire averaged $100/yr to the Tech Way NIL collective, then we would be a factory ourselves. Instead, we're trying to raise $10 million in buyout money from the same group of 30-ish people that we use to raise money every time we've fired or hired a coach or done any football focused fundraising initiative. We had one of them try to offer matching donations to build the engagement I'm speaking of, but it wasn't a terribly successful initiative. I'll also be honest, this group gets way too much sway in decision making within the GTAA and that's part of our problem too. The whole thing needs to be run more professionally.

We need more donors, not to lean on the big money guys.
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IPAHAY?
 
byteback said:
Here's the problem... let's cut to the chase: The Institute has a serious issue when it comes to athletics. Like George O'Leary said over 25 years ago, this school wants to be Harvard Monday through Friday and Florida State on Saturday.

The administration simply doesn't give a rat's ass... from the president down to the janitor. The alumni is fractured over what they want from the program....some are happy with 6-6 seasons because they "worry about the value of their degrees.". Others want to win just a couple more games a season and hopefully.......beat Georgia three times a decade. Nobody really wants to have a program like Georgia, Alabama, Ohio State, Clemson, etc.

Only a complete, fundamental change in the attitude of the Institute will things ever improve.

I can't believe that 1997 to 2017 will be remembered as the last glory years of Georgia Tech football! It's really sad to think about it.

GO JACKETS!!
byteback
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I could not agree more. I have had this in my mind all day. That's the reason the stands are half full. At some point, the coaches can't keep being blamed. GT has been declining for the past several years.
 
verdi said:
GT is completing the long march to becoming the Northwestern of the South. Unless we reverse course immediately.

They need to let in more kids watching football on Saturday and not in SAT prep class.
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Northwestern won their division a few years back
 
Buzzilla said:
I really don't want to put a cherry on top of this öööö sundae but, take away the most boneheaded coaching move in college football history by duh-U and GT should legitimately be 2-5 right now. Take away the gift wrapped 5 turnovers from Wake and this team is 1-6.

I don't think this team is schizo, it's just a bad team that seems to get lucky more often than expected. And it isn't very well coached either.

Even still, you've got to give it time to be sure it can't get better. Anything less than 2 full years and with any signs of life, 3 years, you will pull the trigger too fast. We already tested the waters and no one better showed up.

It sucks. I'm pretty much sick of this öööö.
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This man sees it, too.

We ded and no one truly cares. Just going through the motions.
 
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