White-out shirts canceled

My roommate's wife(yes, I'm currently a Dupree) just told me she heard about the white out on the radio today.
 
If the Reck club is in charge of marketing this, which I suspect they were, they did nearly as bad a job for this as they did for T-Night (which was tonight, by the way). Firstly, there were more band members there than students, secondly, they got several traditions wrong (RAT =/ RATS, nor does either of them stand for Recently Acquired Tech Student. Its Recruit At Tech, dammit).
 
fattyjackson said:
If the Reck club is in charge of marketing this, which I suspect they were, they did nearly as bad a job for this as they did for T-Night (which was tonight, by the way). Firstly, there were more band members there than students, secondly, they got several traditions wrong (RAT =/ RATS, nor does either of them stand for Recently Acquired Tech Student. Its Recruit At Tech, dammit).
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Trust me, they haven't had it right in a while...(the traditions, at least). I don't know who's to blame for the shirts, but screw them. The only reason I think we shouldn't do any future "color-outs", is because it just can't succeed. People worry too much about why we're doing it, and if we should be doing it, instead of...ya know...DOING IT.
 
GTSaxophone said:
Trust me, they haven't had it right in a while...(the traditions, at least). I don't know who's to blame for the shirts, but screw them. The only reason I think we shouldn't do any future "color-outs", is because it just can't succeed. People worry too much about why we're doing it, and if we should be doing it, instead of...ya know...DOING IT.
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On the traditions point...the tremendous amount of booing and yelling of the correct tradition coming from the band got them to correct themselves.

On the color-out point...I agree we spend an inordinate amount of time arguing whether or not we should be doing it, but I think that the destruction of Miami, combined with the upcoming flogging of climpsun will help bring people on board, and reduce the arguing for the future.
 
I know this is really out-there, but I give 100% credit to the players and coaching staff and zero credit to white clothing for the win against Miami last year and, hopefully for the win tonight. Getting pretty tired of hearing about how the whiteout "worked" last year because we beat Miami. This is SEC thinking.
 
Hell, they even know about the whiteout in San Francisco...

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I am sure the White Out did not necessarily make a difference with Miami. However, it does give an initial spark to our players coming out of that tunnel. The players have said so themselves.
 
GiveEmHellJackets said:
Surely everyone has a white shirt of some kind. It's not as if your white shirt has to have a GT logo or anything. Hell, I hate the white-out concept and I'm going to throw on a white shirt. I have considered going to a dollar store or something and buying twenty XL white tee shirts and offering them to folks who forgot or who didn't know. And I don't even LIKE the whiteout idea; I just want to avoid the embarrassment of having a half-ass-out.
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My sentiments. What moron doesn't already own a white shirt anyway?
 
I think a simple article in the AJC would go a long way to reaching out to the "older" fan base who may be attending the game, but may not follow the message boards or read their ticket closely. All old folks read the paper.
 
texstinger said:
Why in heck are we not wearing white to every game anyway?

A lot of long time supporters have raised the devil about the team not, in the past, wearing white shirts.

People are always complaining about how hard it is to match the gold.

We always seem to try and outwit ourselves.

Just wear white all the time, either shirts or sweatshirt when it turns cold.
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This has always been my belief as well. The team wears white jerseys at home, so shouldn't the fans wear white also. White is our home color. I wear white to all home games and gold to away games.
 
Nashville Jacket said:
My sentiments. What moron doesn't already own a white shirt anyway?
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Everyone seems to misunderstand the issue when they say things like this. Our fans will not go out and get white shirts on their own. They will not actively embrace and support the whiteout.

WE ARE

...not Penn State. If we don't hold everyone's hand and basically force this on them, it's not going to work. And yes, we can bitch about how they're morons or Yetmans or whatever, but if we want the whiteout to work, we have to cater to them, and we're very clearly not doing that.

Also, it's gameday, so...

GO JACKETS!!!!
 
To be honest, I don't care if half the stadium shows up in lime green shirts as long as we walk out with the win.
 
TechinItEasy said:
Nah...I think if we actually TRIED, it would work fine.

But adding one line of plain text that says something about the student body sponsoring something isn't "trying" in my book.


Hell, not to bring them into this, but the leghumper's AA marketed their "blackout" so well that ESPN was talking about it like a week before the game. People who don't even follow college football knew about it
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I'm not sure that it wasn't marketed at all. The AJC mentions it here: http://blogs.ajc.com/georgia-tech-sports/2009/09/08/what-to-wear-what-to-wear/

The SGA is promoting it here: http://www.cyberbuzz.gatech.edu/reck/whiteout/

The Facebook site for the "Georgia Tech Alumni Association" talks about it. (I can't link, because I can't see the page at work).

It's in the AJC today: http://www.ajc.com/sports/georgia-tech/gt-asking-fans-to-135300.html


Not a ton, but it's not like they aren't doing anything.
 
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