re: Tennessee Coaching Search - Updated list per the athletic dept.

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This year Alabama and UT had pretty similar seasons... and UT averaged about 6K more fans per game

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Well they do have an arena that seats about 5,000 more than Alabama so that's a contributing factor. The attendance is a bit understanding to. After all, Tennessee was coming off an Elite 8 run the year before with several starters back and a nice home OOC schedule. Meanwhile, Bama's coming off a losing season with an absolutely horrendous home OOC schedule. The circumstances for each team going into the season couldn't have possibly been more opposite.

Once Alabama started showing a pulse early in the SEC conference schedule, Alabama fans showed remarkable fan support. How many other SEC school's arenas were 93% full on average throughout the entire SEC schedule?