re: Georgia Tech...just pitiful.

Don’t believe this guy. Tech fans in Atlanta -or for that matter the state of Georgia - are scarcer than hens teeth. Lived here most of my life so I’m in a position to know. Their fan base is so small their apparel providers hardly produce any GT merchandise since the market is so tiny. The nerds on the GT boards are always complaining about it when they aren’t whining that the company can’t get that ugly French mustard color on their uniforms right.

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You must not have gotten out of the house often. I live here and they're everywhere.

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They are not "everywhere". I lived ITP for 7 years prior to moving out of state and barely saw a tech fan anywhere.

You hardly ever see a GT fan. When you actually do see one wearing a GT hat or tee it gets your attention since they are so rare.

As a 35+ year resident of ATL, I'm the rare non alum fan of GaTech. Let's just all stipulate that it's location in Ga is the single biggest asset of the State on a national and international basis.

As far as football, it really needs a boost, and soon, since their older alumni base (who love Southern football) are dying out. Tech has a large portion of its alumni scatter all over the US and world, making it challenging to support the athletic program.

GT is NOT jealous of UGA. GT alums can assure this based off their banking accounts.

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As far as football, it really needs a boost, and soon, since their older alumni base (who love Southern football) are dying out.

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this is something that I rarely ever see get brought up but is a massive deal that I don't think people really grasp. Tech was decent for a while back in the post WWII era. There's a segment of older boomers that grew up tech fans and are still fans. In teh 90s they had another brief blip of success going through O'leary but their appeal to a wide audience pretty much stopped when gailey entered and they haven't done anythign in the 21st century to really atrract a new audience. Those original boomers had kids who are likely not very interested mainly due to tech's sucking, and that generation's kids aren't goign to care one single smidgen. Once that boomer generation dies off, the only people that are really going to be fans are likely alums, most of which leave ATL right after graduation to take higher paying and better jobs elsewhere.

Once all the aforementioned financial support dries up where are they going to get money? Unless they start winnign really big and really soon their program is going to be in serious financial trouble.

Last I checked they just stole an Alabama guy from Alabama who is now the new AD

Agree (25+ for me). Some good programs/teams in the 90's, but after Ross, Cremins and especially Homer Rice left, things started going downhill (jmho).

I remember talking to some old timers 45+ years ago and they were telling me about the way it used to be in Atlanta back at the height of the Dodd years. They were all Teck fans. Grant field on a Saturday was the place to be. The state's movers and shakers were all in attendance. Georgia struggled with them back then. I was a small boy when Georgia beat them in Atlanta to break the "drought." Georgia retired the jersey number of the player that scored the TD against Teck. Don't remember what the number was or if it is still retired.

That old fanbase has passed on and right now there aren't a lot of fans in Metro Atl that were around when they last had some success. They were good in 1990 but that was 33 years ago.

I would not be surprised if they eventually dropped football or maybe even start playing at the non-P5 level.

Years ago some football folks in charge made some bad decisions - when Dodd and Teck left the SEC and later on when Bowden and FSU elected to go to the ACC.