Fill up your own stadium before you make these comments...

by AuditDawg on Oct 6, 2008 2:13 PM EDT Comment 7 comments

I am so sick of seeing this comment by Tech fans out there about the fanbase of the 'Dawgs. I wish these Tech fans would just get off their high horse. Yes, I'm a Georgia alum so I take some offense to this statement. No doubt, the majority of supporters in Sanford Stadium have never set foot on campus other than to attend a football game or enjoy a beautiful downtown weekend in the Classic City. I wish the Techies would just look at this from a rational point of view. In the great history of the University of Georgia, there's approximately 250K+ alums. In the great state of Georgia, there resides approximately 9.4 million people. Being that UGA is the flagship university for the state, clearly not all of these people will have attended. The same could be said about Tech. From my hometown of Augusta, I've known many a Tech fan that never set foot on the campus except to go to football games. I just think this is a weak argument that needs to die a quick death, just like the "you'll be working for a Tech grad" argument. You would think people that claim to be the "finest engineers in the land" would be more rational and smarter than this. Apparently, the inferiority complex of losing seven years in a row trumps any sense of reason.

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Sense...

…that statement makes none.

Let me get this straight – you now have to have attended the school in order to pull for the team? Seriously? If you bleed red and black, you bleed red and black, period. I have to imagine that anywhere in the country a very similar situation is likely to exist. How many of the Notre Dame die hards actually attended the school? What about Southern Cal and their almost $50,000 a year tuition? Give me a break.

Another GT fan complaining about something, say old s**t, different day. Here’s to the techies getting worked over for an eigth consecutive year.

by Texan_Dawg on Oct 6, 2008 5:55 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Loyalties

Two years ago in Athens, I happened to wind up seated in the middle of the Tech section, and in front of me were a pack of rabid Tech fans who seemed to be from somewhere in LA (Lower Alabama). One of them I nicknamed Vodka Boy for his reeking breath. I am very confident none of these people attended the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Who knows how sports loyalties form? I was a Georgia fan from early childhood, for no apparent reason. I remained a Georgia fan despite attending college elsewhere. I didn’t spend a night at the UGA campus until law school.

I do think Tech’s traditionally narrow curriculum, and the snobbery exhibited by many if not all engineers, is a factor in its relatively small fan base; not that many kids over the years have envisioned themselves going to school there.

by donkeydawg on Oct 6, 2008 10:29 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Excellent points by all . . .

My allegiances were formed at an early age as well, largely as a result of my father’s influence. Interestingly, he went to West Georgia. Later, he went into a different field, went back to school, and attended Georgia. He became a Georgia fan at an early age because of my grandfather, who attended the University of Georgia and worked for the University system.

I think that they would both agree that when the Georgia General Assembly set out in 1785 to create an institution of higher learning, they wished to create one of which all Georgians could be proud. I tend to believe that it is called the University of Georgia for a reason. Even folks who went to Emory and ABAC, Stanford and SUNY-Buffalo who choose to live in the state of Georgia help support the University with their tax dollars. They should have a right to look upon that institution with a sense of ownership and pride, regardless of where they matriculated, even if they never went past the sixth grade. Because it is, truly Georgia’s university.

And I don’t say that as a slight to the Georgia Institute of Technology (or the University of Georgia Tech, as some of Coach Bobby Cremins charges would say). It is a fine school, with programs that are ranked internationally in its chosen areas of emphasis. But it’s not the University of Georgia.

by MaconDawg on Oct 7, 2008 9:29 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

The proper response to those comments

is to ask them what pro sports team(s) they cheer for, then ask them if they attended University of (Insert Pro Sports Team). Although I’m sure some crazed Red Sox and Yankee fans might actually claim to have attended The University of the Boston Red Sox or New York Yankees U, I do not believe they exist.

by UgaBulldog14 on Oct 7, 2008 10:16 AM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Why in the world does this bother you?

I would be more worried about the quality team that Tech appears to be fielding this season, along with the outstanding coach they have landed. In a year or tow, you’ll no longer have the easy win against the inferior opponent you have enjoyed the past 1/’2 decade.

by skigator93 on Oct 7, 2008 12:05 PM EDT reply actions 0 recs

Skigator93

I agree that there are things I should be more worried about such as their team. But you have to understand that Tech fans carry around this sense of arrogance that because they went to/root for Tech, they are inherently better than Georgia fans. They always use the same argument of “at least our fans attended our school, you’ll be working for me one day, rednecks, etc.”. It just gets a little old when you hear the same crap for years on in. It’d be like FSU fans constantly berating Florida merely on the basis that they have supporters that aren’t graduates of the University, which is just silly. I think UgaBulldog14 hit it on the head about the professional teams thing.

by AuditDawg on Oct 7, 2008 3:15 PM EDT up reply actions 0 recs