Neyland Full Capacity Reduced?

#51
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MAUSERWERKE said:
I do think a study would be in order. JMHO, but I am not sure, going forward, college football games anywhere will regularly draw the kinds of crowds they used to. The TV experience has just gotten so good, for one thing. Ticket prices continue to escalate. Parking is a chore. Concessions are absurdly overpriced. Covid has changed attitudes toward mass events too.

Cramming 105,000 people into a stadium, where they get a 12" by 12" section of aluminum bench to sit on, and someone else's knees in their back for 3 or 4 hours, is not appealing to a lot of people.

Lowering the capacity but providing a more comfortable, quality experience, would be a good thing.
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Did you see the stands when florida played bama and tennessee. When Tennessee starts winning big your can bet on 100,000 at least on big games. But I could see them making more room and reducing to around 94-95 thousand. The south end of the stadium for sure needs the upgrade and could use more room. I think we could lose a little seating and still make more room. We need more room while not giving away too many seats. This place will still pack 90-95 easy on average if we start winning big time.GBO!!!!
 
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Not knowing the time of the games until a week or two before game day has hampered my attending more games.

That’s awfully short notice for me in West TN, for taking off work, reserving hotels, coordinating with friends and family.

Now, folks see what the product looks like on the field, and if it sucks, which it mostly does these days, and decide to pass on the money and hassle of it all.
 
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#56
The Neyland experience has not been the same since the day they installed the Jumbotron. Commercialization killed a great product. They are lucky that they have as many people that they do to show up.
 
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Lots of good points here. I agree with the point about all games now being on TV and crowd sizes dwindling. I prefer dropping several thousand seats, maybe 20K, and putting in chair back seating with legroom. This is #1 for me regardless of the number of wins and loses. The only games I would have gone to this year were Pitt and upcoming Ga game. Next year Fl and Bama. I would prefer to see Neyland on TV with a sold out 80K than having 80K and seeing the upper deck basically empty. Bad look. Very few games will sell out even if Tenn was the defending NCs. TV has changed everything. Folks now need more comfort.
 
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cobbwebb0710 said:
“When we were good”😂
I hope his football players don’t hear or read his statement.🤦‍♂️
GBO!!
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I was actually very refreshed to hear those words come from the mouth of an AD! He rolled the truth that EVERYONE already knows. He didn't use corporate B$ speech. He actually told the truth. I think he should be rewarded for it.

Plus, his players know the expectations here. And that ain't hoping to make the Music City Bowl to be considered a successful season!
 
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The thing about bigger seats and chair backs is totally irrelevant if we ever get good again.

The only sitting done is when we stink.
 
#65
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Times have changed. What good is it having 100k if half are empty or filled with bamers.
 
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I’ll gladly squeeze on a bleacher next to some buffet buster if it means we win again. Until that happens, I can’t justify spending the money to go to a game being that I live out of state. Plus, I want my kids’ first Tennessee game to be a good one. No interest in trucking them down to see Georgia mop us.
 
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I know this is tantamount to utter blasphemy. And nobody, I mean nobody at UT wants to be responsible for this. But, there are reasons that classic stadiums are destroyed to make way for new ones. Dallas Cowboy Stadium comes to mind.

Y'all know where I'm going here, but I can't type the words. Fulmer and the 2 ADs before him literally would have made a lot better decision to do renovations and just start with a clean slate. In the end the final product would be twice as good and a whole lot cheaper. Tons a memorials could have been placed into a total redesign to honor tradition and keep it alive for the next generation.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and show myself out now.
 
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I’ve been working on this study for years. my findings are:

My study began in 1989 at an Ole Miss game In Knoxville. I was a little kid and my cousins took me to the game. At that game I learned that young adults stuffed half pints of Jack Daniels into their clothes to drink. Everyone had fun.


Findings - Danny should serve Jack at the games.

Next study was 1992 at a Florida game. It was a downpour, Tennessee was an underdog but stomped the dog shart out of the Gators. This was before the north end zone expansion. The fans were crazy. It was amazing.

Findings - We needed more seats!

Next study case, 1998 Arkansas. Seating was around 105,000. The stadium shook. I was in the student section. I was old enough to take Jack Daniels.

Findings - We needed more seats and more Jack Daniels.

Next, 2006, Alabama at Tennessee. Unbelievably, this was the last time we beat Bama. The stadium was packed, Jack Daniels was flowing. Many Bama fans were ridiculed and mocked. The strip was packed before and after…shoulder to shoulder.

Findings - It’s fun to make fun of Bama fans, drink Jack Daniels and party on the strip. We could have used more seats. (Side note - this was the first and last time I saw a midget take his shirt off and dance on table tops at a regular bar.). White may want to add that - very entertaining.

I’ve been to many other games and many over the last decade that sucked.

Conclusion - If we are good, I’ll proudly take my 12” spot on an aluminum bleacher, drink my JD and cheer my ash off. So will over 100k other fans.
 
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I would like to see them keep Neyland above 100K. They can drop the extra 2000 or so, but should stay at 100,001 or above. While no recruit is going to go to a school just because they have a stadium with 100K capacity, the 100K stadium just might sell a recruit who was on the fence between UT and another school whose stadium was only perhaps 88K or 90K or so. Just has a nice sound to it, and nice to be noted in a list of top stadiums in college football.
 
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livefaith said:
I know this is tantamount to utter blasphemy. And nobody, I mean nobody at UT wants to be responsible for this. But, there are reasons that classic stadiums are destroyed to make way for new ones. Dallas Cowboy Stadium comes to mind.

Y'all know where I'm going here, but I can't type the words. Fulmer and the 2 ADs before him literally would have made a lot better decision to do renovations and just start with a clean slate. In the end the final product would be twice as good and a whole lot cheaper. Tons a memorials could have been placed into a total redesign to honor tradition and keep it alive for the next generation.

Anyway, I'll go ahead and show myself out now.
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How many college stadiums are fully demolished and replaced? Pro stadiums currently have a lifespan of 20-30 years because the teams don't pay for them, gullible governments do.
 
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I go to the games not to be comfortable but to raise cane and support my vols to win, destroy and dismantle our opponents! Comfort is the last thing on my mind. If u want comfort stay home. I support adding seats or keeping capacity above 100,000. All this woke game day experience means nothing look at the crappy light show. Its Absolutely laughable I could do better with a dollar tree flashlight. Winning fixes all not some cheesy walkways and so called GameDay enhancements.
 
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The structure is a dump in some places and the width and legroom of some seats is a joke. Got to renovate or fall behind.
 
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What I hear from Danny White is how do we maximize dollars and improve the experience.

That shuts a lot of families out, doesn’t mean I won’t follow and support the team, but I just can’t afford it and haven’t been able to in a long time. That’s okay, but not at the expense of the band, canned music needs to be…well…canned.

Tradition is a thing, and we’re lucky to have some long running traditions. I don’t think that giving those up is worth losing seats to a skybox, but I understand the dilemma.

Maybe it would serve the administration well to sit in the upper deck, go to concessions, bathrooms, etc…
 
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