Recruiting Forum Football Talk IX

#11,926
#11,926
TN-POSSUM said:
Big rant incoming:

I meant like Amazon Prime, Netflix, ESPN+, ect. Basically you'll have to have a subscription to some streaming service to watch the games. My dad has a TV antenna and doesn't have internet. He gets CBS, FOX, ABC, NBC. So if wants to watch the VOLS, he's out of luck watching it at his house.

That's what's getting lost in all this, the older crowd that has supported the VOLS for 40, 50, 60, even 70 years, is getting left behind. The ones that have sit through a lot of bad football, basketball, and baseball games are being told to pony up or get out. Pushing the locals out is right. We're not florida or georgia or kentucky where this type of behavior is expected. This is happening in Knoxville TN and it's not sitting ok with me. I'm not that excited for the season because of the greed of college athletics as a whole. It's too much.

*Much like with the Knox/Anderson County housing market and how my 20 yr old son is not able to afford a place of his own. It's not the locals driving prices up, it's all these yankees and west coasters coming in. The housing market they're coming from is twice as high as what East Tennessee has been. The locals are getting screwed. The salaries of the blue collar crowd are not keeping up with local/national inflation. Don't get me started on the infrastructure.

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I get it, but the TV stuff has been that way for a while now. If you want to see every game on TV, you get a streaming platform or a cable service and buy the ESPN+ package. I have to go over to my mom's house a week or so before the season and double check to make sure she still remembers how to find the games and/or record them for later. It sucks, but the older generations are having to experience the exponential technology growth and it is tough on them most of the time.

Now, I am with you on the west coasters and the dang yankees driving up our COL. If you want to give them your pussum rabies and scare em all off, you have my blessing. Between you and mangy purple sascrunch @Weezer, I would think y'all could at least drive them out of East Tennessee.
 
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#11,927
#11,927
TN-POSSUM said:
Big rant incoming:

I meant like Amazon Prime, Netflix, ESPN+, ect. Basically you'll have to have a subscription to some streaming service to watch the games. My dad has a TV antenna and doesn't have internet. He gets CBS, FOX, ABC, NBC. So if wants to watch the VOLS, he's out of luck watching it at his house.

That's what's getting lost in all this, the older crowd that has supported the VOLS for 40, 50, 60, even 70 years, is getting left behind. The ones that have sit through a lot of bad football, basketball, and baseball games are being told to pony up or get out. Pushing the locals out is right. We're not florida or georgia or kentucky where this type of behavior is expected. This is happening in Knoxville TN and it's not sitting ok with me. I'm not that excited for the season because of the greed of college athletics as a whole. It's too much.

*Much like with the Knox/Anderson County housing market and how my 20 yr old son is not able to afford a place of his own. It's not the locals driving prices up, it's all these yankees and west coasters coming in. The housing market they're coming from is twice as high as what East Tennessee has been. The locals are getting screwed. The salaries of the blue collar crowd are not keeping up with local/national inflation. Don't get me started on the infrastructure.

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I applaud people living frugally. We do so in many areas. However, in the areas that we choose to live frugally, we generally don't bemoan the things we can't get for free. Pretty much the ONLY reason I have YTTV is to watch Vols football. It's been that way for years. It's nothing new and no surprise.

It kind of feels like the criticism has morphed from "more expensive" to "not free".
 
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#11,928
#11,928
Glitch said:
I get it, but the TV stuff has been that way for a while now. If you want to see every game on TV, you get a streaming platform or a cable service and buy the ESPN+ package. I have to go over to my mom's house a week or so before the season and double check to make sure she still remembers how to find the games and/or record them for later. It sucks, but the older generations are having to experience the exponential technology growth and it is tough on them most of the time.

Now, I am with you on the west coasters and the dang yankees driving up our COL. If you want to give them your pussum rabies and scare em all off, you have my blessing. Between you and mangy purple sascrunch @Weezer, I would think y'all could at least drive them out of East Tennessee.
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That was my thought as well. There are few people alive today that have been left behind by cable television (technology--price is a different thing, lol).
 
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#11,930
#11,930
As a kid in the 80s I can remember going from 3 local stations, to my parents splurging for 30 cable channels, to my dad coming home with a cable box. That magical flea market cable box got ALL of the channels including non stop Pay-Per-View.

My mom told me that people were so resistant to paying for TV stations back then because they had been conditioned to watch free TV for decades. In her memory they didn’t want to pay the exorbitant fee of $10 to $12 per month for cable.
 
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#11,931
#11,931
I up my Hulu sub to the level needed to watch any and all UT football games starting at the end of Aug. After our season is complete, I drop it back down to $19/mo or whatever it is for the non-live version of the platform. I understand if some folks don't have the understanding or resources to do that though. Just have to find a neighbor or a local place they can go and watch the games if it really is important. Sucks, but that is reality and we don't get to live in fantasy land.
 
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#11,932
#11,932
Jack Burton said:
As a kid in the 80s I can remember going from 3 local stations, to my parents splurging for 30 cable channels, to my dad coming home with a cable box. That magical flea market cable box got ALL of the channels including non stop Pay-Per-View.

My mom told me that people were so resistant to paying for TV stations back then because they had been conditioned to watch free TV for decades. In her memory they didn’t want to pay the exorbitant fee of $10 to $12 per month for cable.
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You had a TV!?!?
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#11,934
#11,934
Glitch said:
I up my Hulu sub to the level needed to watch any and all UT football games starting at the end of Aug. After our season is complete, I drop it back down to $19/mo or whatever it is for the non-live version of the platform. I understand if some folks don't have the understanding or resources to do that though. Just have to find a neighbor or a local place they can go and watch the games if it really is important. Sucks, but that is reality and we don't get to live in fantasy land.
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Or just watch an off-brand stream on youtube for free. . .
 
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#11,935
#11,935
Glitch said:
I get it, but the TV stuff has been that way for a while now. If you want to see every game on TV, you get a streaming platform or a cable service and buy the ESPN+ package. I have to go over to my mom's house a week or so before the season and double check to make sure she still remembers how to find the games and/or record them for later. It sucks, but the older generations are having to experience the exponential technology growth and it is tough on them most of the time.

Now, I am with you on the west coasters and the dang yankees driving up our COL. If you want to give them your pussum rabies and scare em all off, you have my blessing. Between you and mangy purple sascrunch @Weezer, I would think y'all could at least drive them out of East Tennessee.
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As a teenager, I remember Ron Franklin and Mike Gottfried calling ESPN night games, and we were on there quite a bit. That was probably 30 years ago.

My parents are 80 and have Youtube TV and can watch almost anything they want. Almost. They just probably aren't going to be watching some of our non conference basketball and baseball games on SEC+ streaming. But they will see every football game. Those basketball and baseball games were never on before anyway.
 
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#11,937
#11,937


"We're fortunate," Vols football coach Josh Heupel told the media. "Had a partner that wanted to make us their flagship school. That's going to happen in a lot of different ways. It's going to be a benefit to our football program, but this athletic department as a whole, too."

The release added that once the partnership begins, every student-athlete will be eligible to participate in Adidas' NIL Ambassador Network, "which gives all student-athletes at Adidas-partnered Division I schools the chance to benefit from their Name, Image and Likeness."

These opportunities for Tennessee were not going to exist had it stuck with Nike.

"(Adidas) had an opportunity to come talk to some of our guys," Heupel said. "I think everybody's really excited that, again, we're going to be a flagship school for them, and it's going to provide a lot of unique opportunities for our players on and off the field."
 
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#11,939
#11,939
TheRain said:


"We're fortunate," Vols football coach Josh Heupel told the media. "Had a partner that wanted to make us their flagship school. That's going to happen in a lot of different ways. It's going to be a benefit to our football program, but this athletic department as a whole, too."

The release added that once the partnership begins, every student-athlete will be eligible to participate in Adidas' NIL Ambassador Network, "which gives all student-athletes at Adidas-partnered Division I schools the chance to benefit from their Name, Image and Likeness."

These opportunities for Tennessee were not going to exist had it stuck with Nike.

"(Adidas) had an opportunity to come talk to some of our guys," Heupel said. "I think everybody's really excited that, again, we're going to be a flagship school for them, and it's going to provide a lot of unique opportunities for our players on and off the field."
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#11,941
#11,941
Jack Burton said:
As a kid in the 80s I can remember going from 3 local stations, to my parents splurging for 30 cable channels, to my dad coming home with a cable box. That magical flea market cable box got ALL of the channels including non stop Pay-Per-View.

My mom told me that people were so resistant to paying for TV stations back then because they had been conditioned to watch free TV for decades. In her memory they didn’t want to pay the exorbitant fee of $10 to $12 per month for cable.
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My first and second, and third TV's were a Quasar 8" B&W TV with rotary knobs & aluminum foil antenna.

In college upgraded to a 10" Color TV with lost remote.
 
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#11,944
#11,944
I like going to the games. The experience of watching a game in Neyland and celebrating with complete strangers is awesome because you can forget everything for 4 hours. I'd love to go to the ETSU game that will not be televised (ESPN+) but for $100 in the nosebleeds I will stay home and hate that I can't watch my 2 favorite college teams on the field together because someone who can afford the season tickets decides he wants to make money off those tickets
 
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#11,950
#11,950
Jackcrevol said:
My first and second, and third TV's were a Quasar 8" B&W TV with rotary knobs & aluminum foil antenna.

In college upgraded to a 10" Color TV with lost remote.
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I remember when we broke the color TV and had to spend what seemed like eternity watching an old black and white until my parents would get a new color. No cable for me until maybe HS?
 
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