(10-01-2014 11:15 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 08:18 AM)Hallcity Wrote:  Last season Duke lost its first two conference games -- and then won the next six to win the Coastal championship. I don't mention this history in order to predict that Duke will once again win the Coastal championship. I mention it to remind everyone that it's the first day of October. No team has been eliminated from the Coastal chase. Any lead that any team has now or after this Saturday's games may turn out to be meaningless.

If GT wins the Coastal is over.

They will have a leg up, that is for sure. Don't think they will win though.

(10-01-2014 12:45 PM)samandrea Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 11:15 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  If GT wins the Coastal is over.

They will have a leg up, that is for sure. Don't think they will win though.

Sig bet that if GT wins the Miami game they win the Coastal?

(10-01-2014 01:30 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 12:45 PM)samandrea Wrote:  

(10-01-2014 11:15 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  If GT wins the Coastal is over.

They will have a leg up, that is for sure. Don't think they will win though.

Sig bet that if GT wins the Miami game they win the Coastal?

I don't think they will beat Miami is what I was saying. IF they do, then they will have a good chance of winning the Coastal.

Having already beaten VT, if GT also beats Miami, that's 2 of their 3 biggest hurdles already (GT does not play FSU in the regular season this year). GT has beaten UNC and Duke each of the last 5 years, and UVa 4 of the last 5. I didn't go back any further.

GT fan support sounds like ours from last year!!

(09-29-2014 10:44 PM)Hokie Mark Wrote:  GT will lose to Miami + Clemson
Miami will lose to VT + FSU
VT will not lose again until the ACC CG (and maybe not even then?)

All three of those teams are going go lose a minimum of one game prior to the cg

Based on the outstanding performances thus far, I believe UNC will run the table and win the Coastal.

(10-02-2014 10:22 AM)esayem Wrote:  Based on the outstanding performances thus far, I believe UNC will run the table and win the Coastal.

(09-29-2014 03:16 PM)ecuacc4ever Wrote:  Nope.

GT will beat Miami by 20. QB Justin Thomas, surprisingly, is more accurate than anything I saw out of Duke's Anthony Boone in the last 3 weeks, and as soon as Miami commits 9 players in the box (somewhere late in the 1st quarter), the chess match is over.

In fact, I'm pretty sure I'll have to resist the temptation to rename this thread, "Georgia Tech and the Coastal Division Title" at around 10:45 on Saturday night.

I couldn't resist the temptation...

(09-30-2014 08:47 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  GT is bringing out the honeycomb helmets for this game.

Those helmets didn't look that bad tonight. The honeycomb pattern was very subdued. Congrats on tonight's win.


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GT still has to beat UVA and Clemson. One loss = OK; two losses and VT could back in.

VT will lose another game. Don't worry.

I wouldn't say the rest of the Coastal has been asked to leave .... but they've certainly been handed their hat.

(09-30-2014 09:32 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  So I'm going to this game. The GTAA cold called me for more tickets yesterday. It has been a whiteout since before the season started. It is also faculty appreciation day where GT faculty can get stupid cheap tickets. And the GTAA did an e-blast today for family packs at $35/ticket with concession vouchers.

I looked and the upper north deck is still about half empty.

I'd guess the game will end around 50,000 in attendance despite the marketing full court press. Same attendance figure as Georgia Southern (which only hit 50K because Southern brought around 10K fans).

When PJ can't sell it out on a game that decides the division with a full court marketing press ... that tells you how deep his support eroded over the last four years. This is probably the most important game Paul Johnson has had at GT for his future.

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(10-05-2014 02:34 PM)green Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 09:32 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  So I'm going to this game. The GTAA cold called me for more tickets yesterday. It has been a whiteout since before the season started. It is also faculty appreciation day where GT faculty can get stupid cheap tickets. And the GTAA did an e-blast today for family packs at $35/ticket with concession vouchers.

I looked and the upper north deck is still about half empty.

I'd guess the game will end around 50,000 in attendance despite the marketing full court press. Same attendance figure as Georgia Southern (which only hit 50K because Southern brought around 10K fans).

When PJ can't sell it out on a game that decides the division with a full court marketing press ... that tells you how deep his support eroded over the last four years. This is probably the most important game Paul Johnson has had at GT for his future.

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The family packs actually sold out the upper north deck to my shock. At BDS, that corner where you see the Miami fans? The wedge in that corner is designated visiting team band all the way up. One to the left and right of that is visiting team (there are NCAA mandates for minimum seating to visiting fans at the lower level). The upper deck corner is also zoned visiting. The section TWO over on the left from the wedge in that corner is Miami fans buying on the secondary market for seats not zoned visitor. The main visitor section is the upper north endzone. It has like 6K+ zoned visitor. And there were almost ZERO Miami fans up there. Clemson and Georgia will bring 10K to BDS. Miami had about 3K. So don't get ahead of yourself. I have stadium panoramas I took while there if you want proof regarding the upper north.

(10-05-2014 02:57 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  

(10-05-2014 02:34 PM)green Wrote:  

(09-30-2014 09:32 AM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  So I'm going to this game. The GTAA cold called me for more tickets yesterday. It has been a whiteout since before the season started. It is also faculty appreciation day where GT faculty can get stupid cheap tickets. And the GTAA did an e-blast today for family packs at $35/ticket with concession vouchers.

I looked and the upper north deck is still about half empty.

I'd guess the game will end around 50,000 in attendance despite the marketing full court press. Same attendance figure as Georgia Southern (which only hit 50K because Southern brought around 10K fans).

When PJ can't sell it out on a game that decides the division with a full court marketing press ... that tells you how deep his support eroded over the last four years. This is probably the most important game Paul Johnson has had at GT for his future.

Lot of Orange & Green in the stands for a whiteout. #JustSaying
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The family packs actually sold out the upper north deck to my shock. At BDS, that corner where you see the Miami fans? The wedge in that corner is designated visiting team band all the way up. One to the left and right of that is visiting team (there are NCAA mandates for minimum seating to visiting fans at the lower level). The upper deck corner is also zoned visiting. The section TWO over on the left from the wedge in that corner is Miami fans buying on the secondary market for seats not zoned visitor. The main visitor section is the upper north endzone. It has like 6K+ zoned visitor. And there were almost ZERO Miami fans up there. Clemson and Georgia will bring 10K to BDS. Miami had about 3K. So don't get ahead of yourself. I have stadium panoramas I took while there if you want proof regarding the upper north.

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That was the Miami section; everywhere else was white.

Oh, yeah. Except all those other fans that weren't in white but in orange throughout the stadium. But hey! Miami doesn't travel well, right?

Haha. It's too bad GT never takes that many down to Sun Life. That'd be fun to actually have away crowds for once.

(10-05-2014 05:06 PM)Ole Blue Wrote:  Oh, yeah. Except all those other fans that weren't in white but in orange throughout the stadium. But hey! Miami doesn't travel well, right?

Haha. It's too bad GT never takes that many down to Sun Life. That'd be fun to actually have away crowds for once.

You had 3K. It isn't bad, but don't start acting like you're Notre Dame or something. The upper north -- the main visitor section -- was almost completely devoid of Miami fans. Tune in when Clemson or UGAg play at BDS if you want to see what full visitor sections look like.