9-1-16? (Vols' season opener moved to Thursday)

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OrangeMound said:
This will be great for the Program. This is a Primetime spot and the entire Nation will be hungry for some College football so it will attract a lot of viewers and potential recruits.
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Not really.

Maybe if it were a main network or ESPN network game, sure. But it's an SECN game.

Boca Vol said:
There are a lot of other games on around that time. It will attract UT fans, App State fans, & some SEC fans. Outside of that I doubt too many people will care. I don't know why a Thurs. game vs. App State will attract recruits. I don't see a 5* flipping to UT over this.
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Agree.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Yes. The SEC is obligated to fill a minimum of two Thursday night slots on opening night, one on SEC Network and one on another ESPN network. Typically, Vandy and South Carolina fill these slots and its a done issue. But because of a series of other events, the league had to schedule them to play each other on opening night, leaving a spot to fill.
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Since thats the case, everyone should plan on taking the Thursdays on opening day off from now on and just to be safe the whole damn week plus Labor Day BTW the other spot should have been filled by an SEC west team just to be fair about it. I have a feeling ESPN did this on purpose just to help the ratings of that stupid tennis tournament they overpaid for
 
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Boca Vol said:
There are a lot of other games on around that time. It will attract UT fans, App State fans, & some SEC fans. Outside of that I doubt too many people will care. I don't know why a Thurs. game vs. App State will attract recruits. I don't see a 5* flipping to UT over this.
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maybe some decommits if we lose the game
 
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The Crimson Cried said:
Positive: Tennessee football starts two days sooner (kind of like Christmas coming two days sooner)
Negative: I will now be unable to attend (kind of like having my best Christmas present ganked from under my nose by Krampus)
Not sure how to feel about this one.
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If all the Krampus did was take your present, then for a bad kid, you got off lucky.
 
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Last yrs Bowling Green game was never a home game. The game replaced the Tennessee-UAB game that the contract stated was a UAB home game but the Nashville Sports Council bought from UAB.
 
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cpavol said:
The city is not "hosing the university"--the tax is paid by the ticket buyer. If anyone is getting hosed, it is the ticket buyer.
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This is triue and hypocritical of the AD to bring it up. The athletic department has never paid this tax. Only the fans.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Really don't understand why this has to be so confrontational. For most people, it's not that big a deal. The stadium will still be full. But for many fans, it's a big problem, maybe even a dealbreaker. I don't know why it's so hard for the first group to just say "Wow, that sucks, hope you can work something out," rather than "Shut up and stop whining."
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I agree with this. Definitely sucks for people that had already made plans. I'm fine with the change. It will make for a long Friday as I will drive back 3 hours after the game. But, there will be a long weekend to look forward to and lots of ball to watch on Saturday. I think it was the correct decision to make as it is the best thing for our team.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
Really don't understand why this has to be so confrontational. For most people, it's not that big a deal. The stadium will still be full. But for many fans, it's a big problem, maybe even a dealbreaker. I don't know why it's so hard for the first group to just say "Wow, that sucks, hope you can work something out," rather than "Shut up and stop whining."
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Because you're in that second group. :)
 
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Evet Vols said:
The fans for the game being moved either live in or near Knoxville, don't have school age kids, don't have to work early Fri or were going to watch on TV anyways.

But - I see why Butch would want the night game along with a few more days rest before Va Tech. I think this will hurt the attendance though.
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This.
 
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bleedorange0037 said:
It won't hurt the announced attendance, because I think that just goes off tickets sold, but there will be empty seats. Probably not so much that it'll be noticeable on TV, but just enough that people can sit comfortably in the stadium. I'd say about 90k actually show up.
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I agree--I'd guess it costs us 10,000 in attendance.
 
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cpavol said:
The city is not "hosing the university"--the tax is paid by the ticket buyer. If anyone is getting hosed, it is the ticket buyer.
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You can make a point without using quotes. It doesn't give extra 'validity' to your post. You say that and you may be right. But unless you do the books for the athletic department there's no way to know for sure. Either way it's a ridiculous tax that doesn't occur at any other Power 5 university.
 
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Ez_Vol said:
Michigan laughed before playing App State too.
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And Utah State laughed after our game...to compensate for the pain and bleeding in their rectal region. :eek:lol:

Much lower quality Vols team two years ago btw. :rofl:
 
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butchna said:
And Utah State laughed after our game...to compensate for the pain and bleeding in their rectal region. :eek:lol:

Much lower quality Vols team two years ago btw. :rofl:
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Michigan was ranked # 5 though -- love those fans lol
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Is nothing sacred any longer? It's saturday, we play football on Saturdays and don't get started about moving games from Neyland..
 
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Manvol said:
Is nothing sacred any longer? It's saturday, we play football on Saturdays and don't get started about moving games from Neyland..
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2014 season opener was on Sunday. 2012 opener was on Friday. So why does it really matter that 2016 opener is on Thursday? Other than the travel plans and such
 
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UTK said:
2014 season opener was on Sunday. 2012 opener was on Friday. So why does it really matter that 2016 opener is on Thursday? Other than the travel plans and such
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Because both days after are non-work days for a lot of people.
 
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sanddune50 said:
You can make a point without using quotes. It doesn't give extra 'validity' to your post. You say that and you may be right. But unless you do the books for the athletic department there's no way to know for sure. Either way it's a ridiculous tax that doesn't occur at any other Power 5 university.
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Excellent points.

I'm starting to think people just expect UT to just eat the tax rather than pass it on in the cost of the ticket. I'm glad UT started breaking the cost out separately on the printed ticket so people can see it. So many people pay a tax and never have a clue.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Because both days after are non-work days for a lot of people.
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The National Championship game will be on a work day. Fans of the teams that will ultimately play in that game will know approximately 10 days in advance and folks that really want to go - figure it out. Fans for this game were told 3 plus months in advance. Plenty of time for those that really want to go to figure it out.
 
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