Incoherently unsophisticated

Fight! Win! Drink! Get Naked!

So my friend called me up Friday and said he had obtained his companies season tickets to the Tech game for Saturday. He wanted to know if I wanted to go. Hmmmm, lemme think on that one.

Oh hell yeah.

These seats were his companies which means that they were in the club level, 10 rows from the field, stradling the 30 yard line. They're in the section where its like a minimum of $10,000 donation just to get in the drawing for season tickets. They had uniformed personel taking drink orders from the stands and going inside to get them for you. Fan fucking tastic!! So we got to watch the white and gold kick some as and actually not totally blow it in one of the WORST officiated games. Ever.

- As far as I know, and it could have changed, but holding is still a penalty. 10 yards. From the previous spot in college.
- A pass interference flag should probably be thrown, or NOT thrown, by the official that is standing 8 feet from the play. If you are on the sidelines on the opposite side of the field some 60 yards or so from the play, probably not your call.
- I understand wanting to limit hits out of bounds, but does incidental jersey contact 1 step out of bounds really constitute "Unnecessary roughness"? How about "Unnecessary flag throwing?"
- Why in the world do you run nothing but passing plays when you're up by two touchdowns in the last 6 minutes of the game?
- Like someone in the stands said, our band isn't much on the field, but they can really raise hell in the stands.
- Our fight song is about drinking and swearing. I think that's kinda cool.

Now, I've only been to campus a couple times since graduation, and only a handful of games. But in the 4 years since I graduated a few minor things have changed. My friend I was with left Tech after his freshman year to retain his sanity, so things have really changed for him. He was actually a bit angry I think, or maybe he felt cheated. Here are a few of the nifty things that have been done since I left.

- The old derelict Textile Engineering building that sat as a sort of ruinous monument to asbestos in the middle of campus has been torn down, and a park put in it's place.
- The bookstore has been moved, and the whole area has been revamped into a kind of high-tech lounge. The old nasty post office has been beautified and connected to the lounge. The post office even has HD-plasma TV's.
- The old baseball stadium which used to be just bleachers is now a nice brick structure.
- The health center is gone, and a brand new state of the art building is there.
- There is a whole group of buildings that are completely state of the art and brand new...I don't know what used to be there.
- While no longer applicable to me, the non-sororiety hotty factor has actually increased well past "Troll".
- The old freshman parking lot, that used to be ACROSS the highway, is now a hotel and conference center. To get to the old freshman lot you had to go under the highway (through a spooky tunnel), and turn left down They'll-Never-Hear-You-Scream Ave, and go back behind an Arby's, get asked for money about 17 times, then the lot is at the corner of Carjacking and Mugging. Now, you can get roomservice in the same spot.
- The burned out shell of a wearhouse across from the freshman lot is not the campus bookstore. It's actually a Barnes and Nobles, but highly customized for Tech. Textbooks are on the second story.
- The other burned out parking lot area is now a Marble Slab Creamery, a BBQ place, Asian Fusion Cuisine, A travel agency, and the small business incubator.
- The stadium now holds about 15,000 more people than it did when I was there.

So it's kinda like 2 different Techs. The Before-Rich-Graduated Tech and the Okay-He's-Gone-Quick-Lets-Expand-And-Update Tech.

posted by wrmblnwrck @ 9:51 PM