Tech football is dead

GTRules said:
What seats did you sit in yesterday?
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I’m supposed to leave my wife and young kids and drive 9 hours on a Saturday to watch the current product in person? I guess I should then jump on a plane and fly to Los Angeles after that too by your logic. As a SW fan as I stated previously, until I moved out of Georgia in 2005, I attended at least 2 games a year and bought bowl tickets for donations. Haven’t had to worry about donating bowl tickets in a while, and probably won’t need to worry about that this year too.

My situation has nothing to do with the inability of a P5 school to even get 40,000 fans to attend a game with a metro population of 6.1 million and a state population of 10.1 million.
 
USCJacket said:
I’m supposed to leave my wife and young kids and drive 9 hours on a Saturday to watch the current product in person? I guess I should then jump on a plane and fly to Los Angeles after that too by your logic. As a SW fan as I stated previously, until I moved out of Georgia in 2005, I attended at least 2 games a year and bought bowl tickets for donations. Haven’t had to worry about donating bowl tickets in a while, and probably won’t need to worry about that this year too.

My situation has nothing to do with the inability of a P5 school to even get 40,000 fans to attend a game with a metro population of 6.1 million and a state population of 10.1 million.
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No. You aren’t supposed to do that. But you are a perfect example of why GT is not the same as any other school in the southeast.

Our grads leave town. They can’t easily go to games. There are zero other schools in our area that have that problem.

Zero.
 
GTRules said:
No. You aren’t supposed to do that. But you are a perfect example of why GT is not the same as any other school in the southeast.

Our grads leave town. They can’t easily go to games. There are zero other schools in our area that have that problem.

Zero.
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Fair enough. But none of the programs (Auburn, FSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Clemson, Alabama, uga) in GT’s area are in as bad of a situation as GT is in now. South Carolina is the only program close to GT. Shane Beamer is turning into a disaster.

This is on JBatt, CBK, etc to figure out how to turn it around. Hopefully the comment by an “anonymous” other coach before the season isn’t true in:

"It’s likely they hang on to Brent while the new AD figures out their long-term plans.”

Because it sounds like based on that thought, GT is just tryi to get by a few years and save up $$$ to spend on the next HC & assistants, because they missed last year.
 
RoanokeJacket said:
Who have you asked?
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Just listen to College Sports on XM Radio full of former coaches. GT is never even mentioned as it relates to schools with academic restrictions. Again, these are former coaches in the industry. That says it all.
 
USCJacket said:
Fair enough. But none of the programs (Auburn, FSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Clemson, Alabama, uga) in GT’s area are in as bad of a situation as GT is in now. South Carolina is the only program close to GT. Shane Beamer is turning into a disaster.

This is on JBatt, CBK, etc to figure out how to turn it around. Hopefully the comment by an “anonymous” other coach before the season isn’t true in:

"It’s likely they hang on to Brent while the new AD figures out their long-term plans.”

Because it sounds like based on that thought, GT is just tryi to get by a few years and save up $$$ to spend on the next HC & assistants, because they missed last year.
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You are correct. No school in the southeast is in as bad a situation as GT is. For the reason I explained before.

You are also correct that we will hang on to Key, win or lose, for a few years.
 
GTCrew4b said:
We do not have a large enough alumni base, nor do we have broad state appeal. We cannot compete on a money basis. Plus I have no problem with GT alumni properly valuing sports as it comes to their lives. It’s a ööööing game. The fact that we now are being asked to pay barely literate and in many cases morally bankrupt teenagers to play this game for our entertainment is…something.
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No one is asking them to build a GT altar and worship. They are asking for program support. Going from giving exactly zero to giving at all is the goal.
 
USCJacket said:
Fair enough. But none of the programs (Auburn, FSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Clemson, Alabama, uga) in GT’s area are in as bad of a situation as GT is in now. South Carolina is the only program close to GT. Shane Beamer is turning into a disaster.

This is on JBatt, CBK, etc to figure out how to turn it around. Hopefully the comment by an “anonymous” other coach before the season isn’t true in:

"It’s likely they hang on to Brent while the new AD figures out their long-term plans.”

Because it sounds like based on that thought, GT is just tryi to get by a few years and save up $$$ to spend on the next HC & assistants, because they couldn't or wouldn't pay for it last year.
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ftfy
 
BigDanT said:
No one is asking them to build a GT altar and worship. They are asking for program support. Going from giving exactly zero to giving at all is the goal.
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I was a donor until they pulled the stunt with the Handmaid’s Tale after the Supreme Court decision. Same as with MLB and the decision to move the all star game. I doubt I’m alone in that. They have to do quite a bit to win me back and unfortunately college football and the money involved disgusts me.
 
ElCidBUZZingFAN said:
Pack it up. It’s over.

Great memories though.
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Truth!! But lets give the AD some time. The booster problem on the Flats is a mess. the AD is going with corporate dollars! Going to take some time before he can hire a real head coach like Willie Fritz or Jamey Chadwell
 
USCJacket said:
The school could expand the curriculum for sports and also start taking in more in-state general population students to help boost themselves, but they won’t. They would rather focus elsewhere to fill the student population.
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I agree adding degree programs would be lowest hanging fruit to get more general population local students and alumni to show up to games and boost the program. but isn't there some argument that would need BOR approval which we probably would not get, or is the argument that the hill just doesn't want to do that?
 
My enjoyment of CFB depends greatly on how my alma mater is doing. Tech has never been this bad since I started following them (around 2000). The talent disparity that has always been present in CFB is amplified when your team is garbage. As a result, I've started to gravitate toward the NFL - even though I may not agree with their take on social issues. NFL does an excellent job of balancing talent, and that provides for the best American Football product of any league out there. I'm kind tired of the CFB blowouts ... even though I feel like they're just as frequent as always.
 
USCJacket said:
So drop football to FCS level and join the Ivy League since you’re being asked to in your words “in many cases morally bankrupt teenagers to play this game for our entertainment”. This is exactly the problem with why GT is in the position from a sports perspective that they are in. “Oh my prestigious degree will be devalued by having relevant sports programs….”

You do realize most people outside of Georgia think of Duke, UVA, ND, NW, BC, Stanford, etc before GT comes to mind when referring to academic restrictions when recruiting, right? I guess they are just naive, right? No. It’s because the school is HORRIBLE at marketing itself to prospective SA’s.

The school could expand the curriculum for sports and also start taking in more in-state general population students to help boost themselves, but they won’t. They would rather focus elsewhere to fill the student population.

GT being irrelevant in a metro area with 6.1 million people and a state population of 10.1 million is 100% the fault of the school. So stop blaming <fill in the blank here> for excuse #600,000.
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^ this.
 
USCJacket said:
The school could expand the curriculum for sports and also start taking in more in-state general population students to help boost themselves, but they won’t. They would rather focus elsewhere to fill the student population.
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This has been discussed to death and it's misleading at best. The BoR controls the curriculum and GT has expanded its offerings (CPJ tried to get a sports science major and only got a minor).
 
USCJacket said:
Fair enough. But none of the programs (Auburn, FSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Clemson, Alabama, uga) in GT’s area are in as bad of a situation as GT is in now. South Carolina is the only program close to GT. Shane Beamer is turning into a disaster.

This is on JBatt, CBK, etc to figure out how to turn it around. Hopefully the comment by an “anonymous” other coach before the season isn’t true in:

"It’s likely they hang on to Brent while the new AD figures out their long-term plans.”

Because it sounds like based on that thought, GT is just tryi to get by a few years and save up $$$ to spend on the next HC & assistants, because they missed last year.
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:fingersx::fingersx::fingersx::fingersx::fingersx::fingersx:
 
USCJacket said:
Fair enough. But none of the programs (Auburn, FSU, Tennessee, South Carolina, Clemson, Alabama, uga) in GT’s area are in as bad of a situation as GT is in now. South Carolina is the only program close to GT. Shane Beamer is turning into a disaster.

This is on JBatt, CBK, etc to figure out how to turn it around. Hopefully the comment by an “anonymous” other coach before the season isn’t true in:

"It’s likely they hang on to Brent while the new AD figures out their long-term plans.”

Because it sounds like based on that thought, GT is just tryi to get by a few years and save up $$$ to spend on the next HC & assistants, because they missed last year.
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Frankly, it's got to be worse to be a Gamecock fan rn. At least we have an excuse or 2. Conversely, they've got a tonof $$, fans & put 70k+ in seats every game and STILL suck.
 
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