re: VOLS will open up 2015 vs Bowling Green in Nashville

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Why in Nashville?

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The city of Knoxville is the only place in the SEC and nation that charges a tax on entertainment/sports held on a state campus - aka UT. It's an old tax that was weasled into the state legislature many years ago but it winds up meaning we're the only team that gets taxed on tickets.

The university has been trying to get the city to change this for years but the city won't (they're dependent). The solution for UT is to simply schedule neutral site games and avoid the tax until the city gets the message. And part of the deal with LP getting tax dollars long ago was that all the universities could use it - otherwise the state refused to allocate funding.