Why can't we fill up the stadium?

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There are still 11,000 tickets left for Virginia. I know we can't sell out all the time, but we could sure as hell try.

Plus, it's homecoming!:mad:

(I have also heard rumors about the jerseys on Saturday. Do you think CPJ will bring out a new set?)
 
I wouldn't worry about it, when game day rolls around we'll have a good crowd.
 
demjackets said:
11,000 is inaccurate. We will have a good crowd hopefully.
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Scott McLaren said attendance is expected to be around 45,000. 10,000 isn't much better than 11,000.

Let's face it. We have a small, fair weather fan base. This game would not have sold out if we were #1 in the country.
 
Does anybody know approximately how many seats are in the north stands --excluding the student section?

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never mind --found it: 15,000+, including student section.
 
I want to be there, but It's my family's yearly family reunion weekend. A weekend full of beer, golf and watching college football on TV with all of the distant cousins that we only see once per year.
 
Being a 3:30, it should be better. FSU is Sold Out and Miami is at 47K right now.
 
Get your ass to the game! The team's and the coach's efforts deserve to be rewarded with a sell out. So quit coming up with excuses and get your butts in the seats! Buy a season ticket why don't ya!
 
J_Back said:
There are still 11,000 tickets left for Virginia. I know we can't sell out all the time, but we could sure as hell try.

Plus, it's homecoming!:mad:

(I have also heard rumors about the jerseys on Saturday. Do you think CPJ will bring out a new set?)
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1. When you emphasize SAT and GPA on admissions, you admit a bunch of folks who, charitably, lack an interest in things that might require social interaction.

2. Our more social alumni have career opportunities all over the world and country. I live in Alaska. I also work 90-100 hours a week. Did I mention we also admit work-aholics?

3. A lot of our fanbase is cheap and doesn't know how to take risks. They want a football team that wins championships for free. On the opposite end we produce more entrepreneurs than average. Those folks fund the program.

The folks who live in Macon and won't drive to games because its too far, etc., or the attorney making over 160 K a year who won't buy tickets because he does not like the schedule and wants to play SC, Texas, etc.---those people are the biggest obstacle to having a great program.
 
Why can't we fill up the stadium?
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Because there aren't enough of us. The answer isn't "better" fans its more fans. It will take time before that happens but it will happen.

So for now the fans, much like the team, will have to STEP UP and do their part to make the Cavs feel like they are Lane Stadium. And yes, West Standers, that means put the freakin prunes down, stand up and yell your @sses off and no "down in front" calls.

We need to be so loud that we wake Bobby up.
 
Tech's enrollment has gone up consistently for the past 7 years or so. Hopefully this will start having returns in terms of more fans in the next decade or so.



asimperson,
should have enough money in a few years to go a couple of home games per year even if he stays out here
 
00Burdell said:
Alumni are not the answer. Atlanta is the answer.
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Um, yeah...you're like wrong...and stuff.

More Alumni interested in the program will lead to more non-affliated people coming to games as guests.
Which is the most likely pathway to NEW ST holders.

1. We have a pro football team in town; anything they do good will attract the un-educated and unaffliated. They are in no way good for GT.

2. We have a city full of people who graduated from other schools. Atlanta has every school in the South's largest alumni club. If their school has a big game, they're going to watch that. PSU alums are not coming to a GT game.

3. If they went to a small school(Rhodes, Sewanee) guess what, they probably don't care about big time sports in person or assume tickets are too difficult to get.

There are 48k Tech alumni in GA. 2/3 of those people should be expected/told/humilated/pressured into attending THEIR school's games. 1/2 of that group should be married with Kids.

It's a losing battle to try to get random Timmy Atlantan to come to a Tech game without knowing/meeting a Tech Alum or family.
 
GTg8r said:
Um, yeah...you're like wrong...and stuff.

More Alumni interested in the program will lead to more non-affliated people coming to games as guests.
Which is the most likely pathway to NEW ST holders.

1. We have a pro football team in town; anything they do good will attract the un-educated and unaffliated. They are in no way good for GT.

2. We have a city full of people who graduated from other schools. Atlanta has every school in the South's largest alumni club. If their school has a big game, they're going to watch that. PSU alums are not coming to a GT game.

3. If they went to a small school(Rhodes, Sewanee) guess what, they probably don't care about big time sports in person or assume tickets are too difficult to get.

There are 48k Tech alumni in GA. 2/3 of those people should be expected/told/humilated/pressured into attending THEIR school's games. 1/2 of that group should be married with Kids.

It's a losing battle to try to get random Timmy Atlantan to come to a Tech game without knowing/meeting a Tech Alum or family.
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I'm going to call you on that one. If we win, consistently and big, we will convert a vast majority of Atlanteans to Tech, at least as long as we are winning. Atlanta is the single biggest bandwagon sports town I have ever seen. You win, you get fans. Simple. Upping the number of alumni won't help, even if it was really possible. One, it cheapens my degree, and two, as has been pointed out, a large percentage of our students could care less about football. Go up to the library during the Miami game, which has the potential to be a huge, huge game, and look at the number of students who are completely oblivious to the fact that there is a sporting event happening.

Filling up Bobby Dodd is hard. We have a smaller, scattered alumni base. We live in a fickle, what-have-you-done-lately town, with way too many options for the casual fan. This isn't Athens, or Clemson, or Blacksburg. There's more options on a Saturday night other then a going to a college football game or having sex with your mule, again.
 
Allen Koholic said:
Go up to the library during the Miami game, which has the potential to be a huge, huge game, and look at the number of students who are completely oblivious to the fact that there is a sporting event happening.
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LOL, yeah. We haven't been on a streak of great seasons yet. We need to have an era of great winning seasons to build a fan-base. One winning season won't do anything for us on the fan-base front. Can CPJ do it? I am pretty darn sure. AND I know plenty of Georgia Southern fans who have been talking about becoming die-hard Tech fans because of CPJ. We can get to the point of selling them all out, but it will take time and winning seasons.
 
00Burdell said:
Alumni are not the answer. Atlanta is the answer.
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Atlanta isn't the answer. Nobody wants to go to a Tech game that isn't already a Tech fan. NOBODY. The only reason they'd go is if they had free tickets. People just have better stuff to do in Atlanta on a Saturday afternoon.

It's all about rallying the base and getting what few Alumni you have in the area to bring themselves and friends to the game.
 
GTKyle said:
Scott McLaren said attendance is expected to be around 45,000. 10,000 isn't much better than 11,000.

Let's face it. We have a small, fair weather fan base. This game would not have sold out if we were #1 in the country.
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Fair-weather would mean the fans only come when we're winning. If we were #1, I'd imagine we'd have been winning for a while.
 
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