1 – The Fans
Arrogant. Ignorant. Insecure. Three words that most people do their best to avoid being remembered by, and yet three words that bring Tech fans to mind. A following who describe their team as “the dominant college football program in the state of Georgia,” Tech fans seem oblivious to the fact that since 2000, the jackets have dropped 5 in a row to Georgia with an average of a 17 point deficit per game. Even more blatant is the average Tech fan’s inherant need to reference other more successful football programs in their own defence when the jackets (inevitably) fall behind.Didn’t catch that? This explains it. Shouts of “Yea, well Florida tore you guys apart” and “Auburn sure handed it to you this year” are commonplace when hopes of victory begin to dwindle. Perhaps the best example, though, was when Tech’s fan site ran an article goading Georgia for losing to eventual national champion LSU in the 2003 SEC title game.
2 – The Students
As if hours of Dungeons and Dragons online didn’t provide enough entertainment for these kids, they also feel need to hop off the PC come game time and make their basic knowledges of tackle football painfully obvious to the rest of us in the crowd. Blurting out rediculous suggestions to the offense and hawking the refs for anything that isn’t called their way, the tenacious Techers don’t allow a moment’s peace or enjoyment to any fans unlucky enough to be stuck next to the student section.
3 – The School Itself
Shoved in between commercial zonings on sweltering North Avenue, Atlanta, Tech is truly the residence of the disparriaged. Ugly brick buildings dot the campus, complimented by the occasional attempt at landscaping and miles of wonderfully rusty chain-link fences.
4 – The Admissions Process
Work hard to succeed in high school, and you can guarantee it will go unnoticed by Tech. Tech’s admissions process takes your letter grades and runs them through a bizzare GPA conversion formula unbeknownst only to their admissions officers, who then tell you that the “B” you got in AP Physics is only worth 3 points and that the fact that it’s an AP class doesn’t matter. Of course, if you’re in a state that uses a 7-point grading scale and not a 10-point, you can count yourself disadvantaged as well. I can’t tell you how many of my “B”s would have been “A”s if I lived in a 10-point area.
5 – The Girls
What girls?