How many will not renew season tickets?

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DD4ME said:
This year was the worst attendance I can ever recall. It will get worse if the results don't get better. I know ticket owners of 20+ years turning multiples in for the first time ever. It is common now and it saddens me, but I respect each and everyone of them.
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This is the truth. I can't remember a season prior to this one where multiple games saw whole sections of the stadium nearly empty.
 
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ATC_VOL said:
I’ve had season tickets since I graduated in ‘08. Horrible stretch for UT football but I sit with my parents and get to see them in the fall more than any other time of the year. Also started taking my oldest son, who’s 4 to some games this year. Can’t replace memories with the people you love, especially when it’s something we all have a common interest in.

With that said, I completely understand people who are tired of going and watching a bad product.

I agree 100% on the Jumbotron ads and lack of replays. Even Vandy this past week showed a replay of every play, even if it was a positive UT play.
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You've had season tickets since 08? Then, it's your fault!! Please give your season tickets up. We were good before you started coming to all of the games!!
 
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Not renewing season tickets isn't really a surprise if/when the product on the field isn't very good, especially for an extended period of time. This isn't unique to UT, nor is it unique to football. Look at attendance at Lady Vols games as an example. Back in 2008, around the last time the team won an NCAA title, attendance was around 15-16 thousand. Now, after no NCAA title and few if any SEC titles in the last decade, sometimes being lucky to make a Sweet Sixteen appearance, attendance is down around 8 or 9 thousand.

It's especially tough if you're someone who might live more then an hour or so from the Knoxville area. If you live close by, you could go to a game and still have most of your day left. If you live say over in McMinnville or Manchester, where you're looking at a 2 or 3 hour drive one way, where going to a game pretty much means your whole day is shot, it might not be worth it to go sed them get their butts kicked.
 
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PulaskiVolFan said:
Donations are at an all-time high so I guess they must not be showing up yet, probably will pick up after the oc hire I guess! LoL
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Now I see the disconnect - the initial post was about ticket non-renewals, and then we changed to talking about donations, which certainly are closely related, but are not the same. The former specifically is tied to the football program, while the latter is the university as a whole. Not the same thing.
 
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Had 4 tickets with my parents in the upper bowl for 20 years. Around 1997 moved up to split a skybox with others. Held the skybox seats and donated lots of money till 2012. Relinquished the tickets before the 2013 season and stopped making donations. Have not been in the stadium since 2012 but all my friends tell me it's just gross and outdated. Live 6 hrs away now and doubt I ever step into the stadium again. Bring my son to the Grove and watch Ole Miss games for a fraction of the cost. Spent 2013-2017 glued to the TV watching my Vols play and recorded the game when the kids had sports conflicts. 2018 was the first year I stopped watching TN football. After the Florida loss, I just didn't care anymore. Guy asking if some regret missing the Auburn or KY wins, I for one do not.
 
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cmoneym21 said:
Had 4 tickets with my parents in the upper bowl for 20 years. Around 1997 moved up to split a skybox with others. Held the skybox seats and donated lots of money till 2012. Relinquished the tickets before the 2013 season and stopped making donations. Have not been in the stadium since 2012 but all my friends tell me it's just gross and outdated. Live 6 hrs away now and doubt I ever step into the stadium again. Bring my son to the Grove and watch Ole Miss games for a fraction of the cost. Spent 2013-2017 glued to the TV watching my Vols play and recorded the game when the kids had sports conflicts. 2018 was the first year I stopped watching TN football. After the Florida loss, I just didn't care anymore. Guy asking if some regret missing the Auburn or KY wins, I for one do not.
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I cannot help but ask why are you on this forum? Basically had a similar experience with season tickets but in lower bowl since the mid-eighties. Took my kids to numerous games but gave them up after 2016 as I simply couldn't take it any longer and conflicts were numerous.

However, I will take being a loser Vol over being an Ole Miss fan any day of the week and I have a hunting club in Mississippi and live in Birmingham which is an OM stronghold. I do still make it to at least one game a year and it happened to be Auburn so that worked out pretty well. It is not gross, just unchanged except for the exterior. Jordan Hare was no better but Bryant Denny is far and away superior.

I believe better times are coming and I will buy some Terrace or Skybox tickets after this year as when you get older comfort is a major issue.
 
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DC_Vol said:
I’ll bite since I was one of the first to answer.

We’re talking about it because it’s a community of Vol fans and there was a thread about it.

I believe Neyland will be rocking again one day.

I’ve never called for Pruitt’s head, though I saw limited improvement over the course of the year.
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Very, very few have called for his head and the only ones i remember were likely fueled by alcohol and blowout loss within the last hour.

However that makes such a wonderful straw-man to argue against.
 
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lifeisdeep said:
Now I see the disconnect - the initial post was about ticket non-renewals, and then we changed to talking about donations, which certainly are closely related, but are not the same. The former specifically is tied to the football program, while the latter is the university as a whole. Not the same thing.
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The university does not define donations as academic or athletic. Ticket sales are a revenue stream, not a donation. Ticket sales may be down but there is little evidence that it is effecting the bottom line
 
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Many donors, other than donations tied to ticket sales, choose where their money goes. Those funds go in to restricted accounts till the funds are dispersed. The link provided appears to be donations on the academia side and have to be used for that purpose. But, make no mistake about it, TN football isn't hurting for money.
 
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I will go out on a limb and venture that, just to pull numbers out of the air, should academic donations go up 6% next year, and ticket and other football-related revenue dip 30%, the bozos in charge might be forced to take notice.
 
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Sara Clark said:
Many donors, other than donations tied to ticket sales, choose where their money goes. Those funds go in to restricted accounts till the funds are dispersed. The link provided appears to be donations on the academia side and have to be used for that purpose. But, make no mistake about it, TN football isn't hurting for money.
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The report states that 330 million has been spent on athletics since the billion dollar goal was set. I'm pretty sure the academic side is NOT giving 300+ million to athletics. I understand how donors give separately to academics and athletics, what I'm saying is all donations are totaled as one, their is no athletic or academic form you fill out when you donate. Certain plans like the VASF program or whatever that is go specifically to athletics as does ticket sales but only the donation money goes under the donation total and ticket sales go to earned income from the football program.
 
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