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Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:11 pm to jb4
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So atlanta is tearing down the G dome and the Braves stadium while birmingham can't build an Arkon university type stadium for UAB?
Poors gotta poor
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:11 pm to SoGaFan
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I am pretty sure the total "attendance" is counting the thousands of tickets the bowl game gives to its corporate sponsors and the total ticket allotment that the bowl game forces the teams to buy whether or not they sell them to their fans.
Could be. The point remains that our last two bowl games drew 55k & 57k with Vandy bringing the bulk of the fans.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:12 pm to InThroughTheOutDore
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Total attendance: BBVA Compass Bowl 2011
UK vs. Pitt. 41,207
Pitt had no coach and UK had no starting QB.
Music City Bowl didn't have any problem taking Kentucky in multiple years.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:15 pm to BluegrassBelle
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Music City Bowl didn't have any problem taking Kentucky in multiple years.
Fair enough. Let's just say that I found a UK fan knocking Vandy over attendance to be humorous given their last bowl attendance figure.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:22 pm to Vandyrone
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Vandy easily sold out their allotment and then some each of the last 2 years and will be the case this year.
You mean the bowls that were in friggin Nashville? You don't say?
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:29 pm to Damn Good Dawg
Memphis.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:30 pm to Vandyrone
Ahhhhhh ok, one in memphis and one in Nashville
I'm not trying to shite on Vandy here, I think they got boned by this, but I also don't think the last 2 games are great indicators
Vandy Duke would've have like 40,000 max. I think the Music City should've gotten yall vs GT but that's me
I'm not trying to shite on Vandy here, I think they got boned by this, but I also don't think the last 2 games are great indicators
Vandy Duke would've have like 40,000 max. I think the Music City should've gotten yall vs GT but that's me
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:34 pm to Damn Good Dawg
Obvious Vandy has very little bowl history and we can only go where we are sent. No choice but to show up again in large numbers this year.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:35 pm to Damn Good Dawg
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Vandy Duke would've have like 40,000 max.
If you're talking about the Chicken bowl it sold out over a month ago.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:43 pm to KAVandy05
Doesn't mean all the seats would be filled
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:44 pm to Vandyrone
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Vandy easily sold out their allotment and then some each of the last 2 years and will be the case this year.
Yeah but y'all aren't drinking the stadium dry and boosting the economy through the roof.
In the last 3 bowl games Ole Miss has taken 40k+ to each game, literally drank the stadium dry (Yes, Jerry World didn't have any alcohol left on our side) and have the concessions only selling peanuts. That's why we got a better bowl than Vandy and so did State.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:48 pm to Mizz-SEC
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Problem is they don't travel well. Even to home games...
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:48 pm to Vandyrone
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Posted by Vandyrone Nope. We'll be there bringing 40K+ people with us.
that would be every person who ever graduated from Vandy since its inception. No way out economy could withstand that many CeO's off on the same dayPosted on 12/8/13 at 8:48 pm to Henry Jones Jr
I'll admit that maybe Vandy should've gotten the Liberty instead of us but oh well it's all about filling seats and the stadium sold out last time we went there.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:50 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Agreed. Ole miss and MSU are generally bowl game overachievers and that played a role. Vandy attends bowl games very well and will do so again this year.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:57 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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. Yeah but y'all aren't drinking the stadium dry and boosting the economy through the roof. In the last 3 bowl games Ole Miss has taken 40k+ to each game, literally drank the stadium dry (Yes, Jerry World didn't have any alcohol left on our side) and have the concessions only selling peanuts
Well, to be fair they don't sell scotch at the stadium and we're really not that big into concession cuisine.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 8:59 pm to genro
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The stadium is atrocious.
It was atrocious 30 years ago too.
Posted on 12/8/13 at 9:01 pm to anc
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I think the furor is they are an 8-4 team with a win over Georgia, but they are four spots below an 8-4 Georgia team that they beat.
I understand their grief, but they need to blame their lack of fans.... Or their lack of fan...
Posted on 12/8/13 at 9:27 pm to harmonics
It really bothers me when people characterize the Vanderbilt fanbase as apathetic. Not that it's happened in this thread, but I've seen it said fairly often, and it's just not true.
Vanderbilt has 127,000 living alumni, 21,000 of whom live in Nashville. For comparison, Georgia has 280,000 living alumni. Alabama? 340,000, and I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of them live within driving distance of Tuscaloosa. It's pretty unrealistic to expect Vanderbilt to sellout home games when there aren't even enough fans in Nashville to fill the stadium.
We also don't have the endemic fanbase which comes with being a large state school. That's fine. Vanderbilt is different from the rest of the SEC, and believe me, I'm glad of that. I also understand that money talks. It's just frustrating to have a system in which postseason berths are based on something other than what happens on the field. Especially when the Vanderbilt alumni scattered across the world are far more likely to travel for a bowl game.
/Rant
Vanderbilt has 127,000 living alumni, 21,000 of whom live in Nashville. For comparison, Georgia has 280,000 living alumni. Alabama? 340,000, and I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of them live within driving distance of Tuscaloosa. It's pretty unrealistic to expect Vanderbilt to sellout home games when there aren't even enough fans in Nashville to fill the stadium.
We also don't have the endemic fanbase which comes with being a large state school. That's fine. Vanderbilt is different from the rest of the SEC, and believe me, I'm glad of that. I also understand that money talks. It's just frustrating to have a system in which postseason berths are based on something other than what happens on the field. Especially when the Vanderbilt alumni scattered across the world are far more likely to travel for a bowl game.
/Rant
This post was edited on 12/8/13 at 9:28 pm
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