re: 100K Death Valley is on its way..

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i wouldnt put much stock in what the guy says at a rally, especially about something thats not his expertise.

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That's fine. I'm not trying to make you or anything, I'm just saying that he doesn't traditionally say anything like this when he doesn't want it getting out. And expertise? I mean it's not like his giving comment on the engineering of the structure. I think he can handle being told a number.

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i'm not saying he's straight up wrong but yall passing this off like its fact is also misleading.

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I'm not saying that it's definitely going to happen, I've just been told that the 103,500 number was the new mark before Miles said it in public and any type of TD posts. One of the times was from the owner of one of the new suites.

Tennessee's seats are measured at 11.75" as of last season. People just make a big deal about it because we moved decreased them .5" back in the 90's in our race with Michigan - who did it multiple times to stay ahead of Neyland. There's minimal difference - people are just getting bigger and fatter. Lose some weight IMO.

The width of the seats isn't be problem as they are pretty standard - it's IMO that they are too close to the rows in front or behind so you have knees in your back or vice versa if they are tall people.

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An average of 89,965 fans per game showed up for Vols games this year

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Does anyone know if UT reports paid (which includes no-shows) or actual attendance at their games? Most schools report paid attendance these days, but that would be a huge revenue drop for UT if that is their paid attendance.

For the 2012 Florida game, 10k people outside the stadium were left out with no ticket. I personally had a heck of a time trying to find tickets that day too. They will come back if UT starts winning. Stadium was always packed from the 90's to 2007.

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We had 104k since the mid 90's. Congrats on catching up 20 friggin years later.

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We were trying to wait for the Vol's to win another Natty before we did, but y'all were taking too long....

Just messsin' with you Cromp.

I know it was way over capacity for the UF game. Great environment, like the game should be!

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a part of it is a dick measuring contest though

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Not really. LSU had the largest stadium in the entire South in the mid-1930s before Tulane Stadium eventually outgrew it later in the 1940s. LSU didn't try to keep pace with expansion back then.

Ironically, the LSU-A&M series used to be played at LSU every single year for decades, because Tiger Stadium held tens of thousands more seats than A&M's stadium. Now, Kyle Field is surpassing Tiger Stadium in size.

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Ironically, the LSU-A&M series used to be played at LSU every single year for decades, because Tiger Stadium held tens of thousands more seats than A&M's stadium.

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How is it ironic?

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Bassmanbruno
100K Death Valley is on its way..



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TN doesn't need a stadium that big...60k is all y'all need. Went to the TN vs LSU game a couple years ago and I couldn't give away a couple extra tickets I had. I just placed them on the ground to see if anybody would pick them up after 30 min of trying to give them away and people would have rather picked up dog shite bare handed then pick up those tickets.

Riiiiigggght - because Corndog Valley would be packed to the brim if Derek Dooley was leading your school to the worst 3 years in program history.

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Welll, I don't know about Derek Dooley - you might be right about that. But we STILL sold out SEC and big OOC games during LSU's horrible stretch of 1991-93 under the Curley one.....

BTW, it's DEATH Valley.

Corndog is something an Auburn person copied and pasted off of NEBRASKA, IOWA, AND KANSAS web sites and message boards. It has about as much to do with LSU as losing seasons under Pat Summit.