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10-07-2008, 01:17 PM
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| | VN's One and Only Duckman
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Originally Posted by dimera23  Students should have free tickets to UT home games. It is their University and their team, afterall. | agreed. it's definitely not helping the crowd any this season
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10-07-2008, 01:28 PM
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Originally Posted by dimera23 Students should have free tickets to UT home games. It is their University and their team, afterall. | I think that was a very lousy decision to charge students for their tickets and hope for sure that is stopped next season or Hamilton is gone, preferably both. Quote:
Originally Posted by Godfatha Probably a lot of folks outside waiting for desperate scalpers to give away their tickets at gametime. |  | |
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10-07-2008, 01:33 PM
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| | Go VOLS!!!!
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Originally Posted by Godfatha Probably a lot of folks outside waiting for desperate scalpers to give away their tickets at gametime. | We had 2 get two tickets for someone else before the game, but didn't want to pay more than $5 for them. We couldn't find anyone selling tickets for less than $20 and waited until about 20 min. before kickoff. We ended up paying $10 a piece for them. It seemed like there were more people wanting tickets than selling them. I think a lot of people that normally wouldn't get a chance to go to a game thought they could go to this one and get really cheap, if not free, tickets and that's the reason so many people were wanting tickets. They may have been a lot cheaper had we waited right up until kickoff or after, but don't know. | 
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10-07-2008, 01:39 PM
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| | It's GREAT to be a VOL!
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| "The student section is responsible for 70 percent of the drop so far, with poor turnout for the UAB and Northern Illinois games."
Meaning....the bigger spending, non-student fans were still mostly there. When you consider all the factors with the current economy, this is not a substantial number.
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10-07-2008, 01:39 PM
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| | Go VOLS!!!!
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| [quote=gsvol;1696804]I think that was a very lousy decision to charge students for their tickets and hope for sure that is stopped next season or Hamilton is gone, preferably both.
I don't see students ever getting free tickets again. UT, and one other SEC school were the only ones not charging students for tickets, so this was something that I'm surprised hadn't happened already. If the product on the field was better, and we had a winning record I don't think students would be complaining about having to pay for tickets. | |
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10-07-2008, 01:40 PM
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| What was the attendance number for Northern Ill, sorry if already posted. | |
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10-07-2008, 01:44 PM
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Originally Posted by doozer from Saturday's game, right before kickoff: | this looks like the uab game. | |
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10-07-2008, 01:47 PM
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| | Wave yo hands in the aiya
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Originally Posted by dimera23 Students should have free tickets to UT home games. It is their University and their team, afterall. | it's who's university? | |
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10-07-2008, 01:47 PM
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| | 2003 all over again.
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Originally Posted by Mid TN Vol Fan What was the attendance number for Northern Ill, sorry if already posted. | They announced a little over 99K | |
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10-07-2008, 01:49 PM
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| Sure didn't look like 99k | |
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10-07-2008, 02:08 PM
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Originally Posted by BigPapaVol it's who's university? | Jonathan Crompton's | |
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10-07-2008, 02:16 PM
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| | Wave yo hands in the aiya
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Originally Posted by timmy Jonathan Crompton's | that I'll buy. Students, no freaking way. They're simply in the midst of essentially a mercenary transaction. | |
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10-07-2008, 02:27 PM
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| You watch, Hamilton and the administration will just take away more student seats if they continue to not show. | |
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10-07-2008, 02:29 PM
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| | Still keeping VN honest..
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Originally Posted by TreeGreen You watch, Hamilton and the administration will just take away more student seats if they continue to not show. | if the people that REALLY pay for tickets continue to buy them, he'd be REALLY stupid not to.
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10-07-2008, 02:30 PM
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| | 2003 all over again.
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Originally Posted by jakez4ut if the people that REALLY pay for tickets continue to buy them, he'd be REALLY stupid not to. | What happened to selling the extra student tickets to the public? | |
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