re: What SEC School Has the Worst Stadium/Football Experience?

I went during Covid so I didn't get the full Neyland experience, but they need a Kyle Field-style makeover. I see that they are doing that in places, but I think that when they are done, they will still have a lot of uncomfortable seats. Reminds me a whole lot of the Cotton Bowl.

Vaught-Hemingway is pretty bare bones, and also needs a big time makeover. We'll see if the currently planned project does the trick, but I wouldn't hold my breath.

Missouri is just a boring setting. If you go back and look at the historical photos, the original stadium is almost a carbon copy of Jordan-Hare. I don't know why they put the cameras down so low, but it definitely makes watching games played there a different experience on TV. But, other than being rather bland, it's an OK football venue.

I didn't love Brice-Williams, but it was hot as blazes when I went, and they were not playing well, so maybe its a better environment when they have something to cheer about.

Swamp was pretty neat to me, for so much of it being old, but I was fortunate in that we played a night game. I would imagine that it lives up to its name for most day games.

LSU has some really bad seats, and a real thrown together look, but it does usually have a good environment.

Bama, Auburn, State, UGA, and Arkansas are all OK by me.

I had a good time visiting Tennessee but Neyland was ugly as sin

Tennessee by a mile. Unless you’re emaciated and dying, no average adolescent would even fit in to their assigned seating. Worse, most of the people attending their games have a BMI north of 45 and the nightlife in Knoxville rivals that of Starkville. You’d have a better time out in Jackson, TN on a Tuesday night than Knoxville on a game day — and Jackson on a Tuesday is horrible.

Just an overall hell hole honestly.

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Vanderbilt easily.

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So much so that I actually forget to put them on my own list. They are utterly forgettable.

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Besides Vandy sadly it’s us

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This is true from a hostility/advantage factor for sure. And as much as I’d like things to be different I’ve realized over time it’s just not in the cards for us.

If the west is on the line we can have a great atmosphere but it takes something hardcore like that to get people truly loud. And fans are going to leave early to go to the grove. It just is what it is.

Now with that said you don’t typically get people of Walmart types in the stands at Oxford that make the crowd shots on ESPN. We have a good looking crowd, especially the women. So you are not going to get the good looking crowd and also a hostile crowd at the same time, because that is not how it works. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

At least we have room to move around though unlike Tennessee

No matter how much you work out you can’t shorten your femur

Neyland has its faults but anyone claiming it's "the worst" in the league has clearly not been to many stadiums. The fact is, in this league you pretty much have a group all lumped in together that are big/nice stadiums taht get loud and are historic to some degree with very little separating them from the others (bama/uga/lsu/AU/uf/atm/ut), then you have the next tier that are all decent but lacking something that prevents them from the top group (arkansas, ole miss, msu, carolina, kentucky), then you have tier 3 consisting solely of missouri, followed by vanderbilt alone at the bottom.

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We get extra special treatment at Neyland. It's fricking atrocious there.

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But at least you got to she Kentucky beat the Vols in Neyland in your lifetime