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re: VOLS with 72,680 season tickets sold
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:11 pm to Gradual_Stroke
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:11 pm to Gradual_Stroke
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Gradual_Stroke
Not your best work itt.
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Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:11 pm to bamawriter
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Maybe there was a difference between the package offered before the season and those offered during. I frequently got emails from UT offering me specials on 2 and 3 games packages at severely reduced rates. They always seemed to come after week 1 or 2.
Ding Ding Ding
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:11 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Stadium is awesome, atmosphere is great, but those seats are a shiteshow.
No doubt of that. Not only are quarters close; getting in and out means climbing over a lot of huge body parts of your friends and neighbors.
But! I was at the 2014 Kentucky game and a very nice couple from KY sat right in front of us. The lady said: "I finally made it to Neyland Stadium!"
I thought that was odd.
Walt
UT '81
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:11 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Some seats requiring $0 donations. Poors.
Wow.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:12 pm to WhiskeyPapa
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The lady said: "I finally made it to Neyland Stadium!"
It's a bucket list spot for any southern CFB fan for sure, or it should be.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:12 pm to volfan30
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Not your best work itt.
Can't disagree with you there
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:13 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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They weren't selling them just for face value, they were selling them at a discounted rate because the Alabama game is ALWAYS the last game they have any hope of making money off of when you are bad. If they still had boat loads of tickets available for the games post Alabama (South Carolina, Vanderbilt, Kentucky, North Texas, etc) then they were f'd.
Therefore, they used Alabama as a carrot to get people to also buy 1-2 of those remaining games and they took a small hit on them.
You can argue with me if you want, we did it for a decade. This is the first year there wasn't a pre-season option and made arrangements figuring there wouldn't be an in-season option because Tennessee would have sold tickets and would be good.
No, you didn't do it for a decade. The mini season ticket packages didn't come out until 2011-2014. They never sold the Alabama ticket as an individual ticket in any year.
2006 - Tennessee won 16-13 - you definitely didn't do it that year
2008 - Going into the season, Tennessee was coming off 2007 SEC E title and was preseason #3
You were able to get tickets easily from 2010-2014 though. Not for a whole decade.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:13 pm to tennfanatic
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I'm a Vol fan and I have to agree, our seating situation is terrible. I'm 6'3 260 and I can barely fit one arse cheek on my seat.
UT fans will defend the program on many fronts, but the tiny seats ain't one of them.
Walt
UT '81
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:14 pm to WhiskeyPapa
They're doing in this very thread you cracker arse hillbilly
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:14 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Stadium is awesome, atmosphere is great, but those seats are a shiteshow.
One of the biggest myths in college football is that Neyland Stadium is a true 100K stadium. It isn't. It's really a 90K stadium with 10K squeezed in through creative use of paint.
Just the facts.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:15 pm to Serraneaux
Surely, one of you has one of these "emails" that you got "all the time" with these great discount prices on Tennessee-Alabama tickets.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:15 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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- I get emails from the University of Tennessee to buy season tickets on a yearly basis because we used to easily buy our Alabama-Tennessee tickets through your University for the last 10 years without donating any money. Up until last year we got them every other week begging us to buy available tickets to pretty much every game other than Florida, Alabama or Georgia.
So true. I know a few Bama fans who did this
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:15 pm to Serraneaux
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No, you didn't do it for a decade. The mini season ticket packages didn't come out until 2011-2014. They never sold the Alabama ticket as an individual ticket in any year.
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- Tennessee won 16-13 - you definitely didn't do it that year
Nope, was a student, had student tickets in the upper deck.
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2008 - Going into the season, Tennessee was coming off 2007 SEC E title and was preseason #3
Nope, was a grad student, had tickets in roughly the same spot.
First year we did it was 2010, so you are right, more like half a decade. 2010, 2012, 2014. Quality catch.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:15 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
They literally can't afford to compete with the big money programs like A&M when it comes to stadium capacity/upkeep/renovations. Fact.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:16 pm to Serraneaux
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Surely, one of you has one of these "emails" that you got "all the time" with these great discount prices on Tennessee-Alabama tickets.
There are now 3 people in this thread who received or personally know of people who received them. And, if they are honest, the Tennessee season ticket holders/people who have purchased tickets through the University in those years, will tell you they got them as well.
They were auto-marketing emails to all the emails in their database.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:16 pm to TigersOfGeauxld
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Just the facts.
You don't have to come either, lardo
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:16 pm to Old Money
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Up until last year we got them every other week begging us to buy available tickets to pretty much every game other than Florida, Alabama or Georgia.
Yes, these were most likely the returned tickets from the schools we were playing.
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:17 pm to Serraneaux
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Yes, these were most likely the returned tickets from the schools we were playing.
Come on man
Posted on 8/31/16 at 2:17 pm to Serraneaux
That's what happens when you play nobodies like Austin fricking Peay
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