Georgia Tech Apologizes After Fans Are Ejected for Standing

Georgia Tech athletics apologized after two fans were escorted out of Bobby Dodd Stadium during the Yellow Jackets’ November 7 game against Louisville. The team lost 44-17, its fourth straight defeat.

A video shared on X showed stadium security escorting the fans away. The person recording asked an officer whether they were being ejected because they had been standing; the officer said they had been asked to sit down. The person filming also said the fans were university alumni.

Georgia Tech athletics said it had begun gathering information about the incident. A senior athletics staff member contacted the ejected fans on Sunday to apologize for their experience.

The department said the fans’ negative experience resulted from a misapplication of its process for handling complaints inside the stadium, and that fan experience was a priority. The video drew wide attention on social media before the apology was issued.

The fans appeared to be seated in the last row of their section, with no one directly behind them. Georgia Tech was 2-7 after the loss and at the bottom of the ACC standings.