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Posted on 4/24/18 at 9:52 am to VFL1800FPD
To be fair the picture at BHG is taken several feet behind the last bleacher in the breezeway to the press boxes. No seats there have an obstructed view.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 11:03 am to rmnldr
quote:No. Just some fine Knoxville engineering.
Are there any seats like this in other SEC stadiums?
I mean, that is inexcusably bad.
If the tickets were $5, it could be forgiven. Anything more than that would be common as frick.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 11:05 am to bengalbait
quote:So you are saying the poster is being deceptive?
To be fair the picture at BHG is taken several feet behind the last bleacher in the breezeway to the press boxes. No seats there have an obstructed view.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 11:07 am to nicholastiger
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UGA is not much better than Tenn
UGA is one of, if not the best road trip to make in this conference. Sanford stadium isn't all that great but Athens is amazing, much better than Auburn. Oxford is great if you've never been before but I think it's rather overrated once you've been enough times. Tennessee is still a great road trip, regardless of the campus and stadium. There's a ton to do in the surrounding area if you like the outdoors.
This post was edited on 4/24/18 at 11:08 am
Posted on 4/24/18 at 11:10 am to TT9
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I'd rather watch from there if I was a Vol fan the last 20 years.
Have an upvote, sir
Posted on 4/24/18 at 11:29 am to rmnldr
Neyland reminds me of those folks who had plastic surgery in the 1970s and '80s right when it became an option... and now their skin looks terrible as a result. Had they waited until those procedures were perfected, they'd have better results today. Now they are stuck with the damage done.
Neyland grew large much earlier than the other big SEC Stadiums. Stadium capacity in 1976:
80,250- Tennessee
67,270- LSU
62,800- Florida
61,261- Auburn
60,210- Alabama
59,200- Georgia
Tennessee expanded so fast and they did it in the 1970s when fans didn't care about amenities. It's hard to go backwards and make it nice when the majority of the stands were built during an age when people didn't expect nice amenities or even for the stadium to look aesthetically pleasing.
Texas A&M's Kyle Field seated 48,000 during the 1976 season. Now they've expanded to be bigger than Neyland, but with state-of-the-art technology and fan amenities and club seating that are simply impossible at Neyland Stadium.
Neyland grew large much earlier than the other big SEC Stadiums. Stadium capacity in 1976:
80,250- Tennessee
67,270- LSU
62,800- Florida
61,261- Auburn
60,210- Alabama
59,200- Georgia
Tennessee expanded so fast and they did it in the 1970s when fans didn't care about amenities. It's hard to go backwards and make it nice when the majority of the stands were built during an age when people didn't expect nice amenities or even for the stadium to look aesthetically pleasing.
Texas A&M's Kyle Field seated 48,000 during the 1976 season. Now they've expanded to be bigger than Neyland, but with state-of-the-art technology and fan amenities and club seating that are simply impossible at Neyland Stadium.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:16 pm to rmnldr
Been twice and I think it looks like an erector set. Not to mention the tiny seats a 5 year old can barely fit in.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 12:23 pm to Farmer1906
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You know what isn't a dump?
Bryant-Denny for starters.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:03 pm to Mac
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Besides the shitty seats, Neyland is the worst SEC stadium that I have visited. DUMP.
Last time I was there, I had to pee in a trough with a half dozen other guys. When you get to be my age, you start to have performance issues in front of an audience.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:09 pm to Roaad
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No. Just some fine Knoxville engineering.
I mean, that is inexcusably bad.
Smack talk aside, here are more specifics. See the tunnels coming into the upper deck from the concourse? Just like any stadium, there are aisles on each side of the tunnel that merge above the tunnel into one aisle that goes to the top. Where the aisles merge at the corners on top of the tunnels, there are actually seats that require you to have your feet in the walkway. If you have those seats, you have to stand up or move your feet literally anytime anyone goes up or down the steps to enter or leave the stadium.
Check the orange guard rail in the lower right corner of the photo. Those seats right behind the guard rail...maybe two seats at the end of the row. Your legs are right in the aisle.
Add to that the fact that those aisles to the top are wide enough for one lane of traffic only, and there are no handrails. The upper deck is just one good injury lawsuit away from a nice renovation.
This post was edited on 4/24/18 at 1:13 pm
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:33 pm to Farmer1906
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You know what isn't a dump?
They had to make up for both College Station and the TxA&M campus being dumps
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:40 pm to AuburnPanic40
We had some4 rapid growth in the 602 and 70s. The buildings built during this time were not pretty. But I will say the ones before that and recently have been first class.
You should see the new engineering complex being built.
You should see the new engineering complex being built.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:42 pm to lsufball19
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UGA is one of, if not the best road trip to make in this conference.
That is complete bullshite
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Athens is amazing, much better than Auburn.
Athens is a good time for a weekend but anything longer than that is miserable. The only way it's better than Auburn is if you like trash covered streets and a campus located in one of the most dangerous cities in the state.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:48 pm to CapstoneGrad06
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You know what isn't a dump?
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Bryant-Denny for starters
BDS is the nicest stadium in the conference and its located on one of the nicer campuses behind only Auburn, Ole Miss, and Arkansas, but once you take a step off the UAT campus it goes downhill in a hurry.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:51 pm to momentoftruth87
quote:Came in here to post that I was surprised no one had drawn a dickbutt on that siding yet.
Probably where v&s posts dick butts from.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:53 pm to AuburnPanic40
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BDS is the nicest stadium in the conference
Nope.
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:57 pm to AuburnPanic40
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BDS is the nicest stadium in the conference and its located on one of the nicer campuses behind only Auburn, Ole Miss, and Arkansas, but once you take a step off the UAT campus it goes downhill in a hurry.
University BLVD BARS and restaurants says hello
Posted on 4/24/18 at 1:58 pm to Farmer1906
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BDS is the nicest stadium in the conference
Nope.
The ones it's definitely nicer than, that I have visited:
Ole Miss
Miss. State
Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Tennessee
Auburn
Arkansas
Posted on 4/24/18 at 2:04 pm to Farmer1906
Chandeliers in a football stadium
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