The heat needs to be put on the athletic department

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Pricing is based on secondary market.

Bama can’t get these prices because TN fans just have more money due to pulling from Nashville instead of Birmingham.

My issue is they need a hotel attached or within very close walking distance. I’m 50 next year and getting lazier every year. I want to drive in. Use the restroom in my hotel and then walk over to the game and then just walk back grab a meal in the hotel and go to bed.
 
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Chad Powers said:
😂 Amen! We’ve done that, too, but decided to hotel it after one ill-fated late very late night trip home when we accidentally took the I-75 split and were about 20 minutes down the line with the kids before my husband and I were like, ummm…why are we seeing signs for Cleveland? Never again! 😂 If game time is anything 4:30 or before EST, we’ll drive back. We’ve just been picking games lately that wind up being scheduled later. I know….we’re soft. 😜
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You went left at the split when you should have veered right! Fortunately, where I live it is about the same distance regardless of what we do at that split.
 
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What I have noticed is that it depends upon who we are playing and what is happening. If the noise is working and disrupting the other team's offense, then everyone stays engaged. If it is not working and it is not a "must stop now" situation - folks do become disengaged except the students and they always seem to be engaged. It is just the nature of game momentum to me.
 
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NEO said:
Pricing is based on secondary market.

Bama can’t get these prices because TN fans just have more money due to pulling from Nashville instead of Birmingham.

My issue is they need a hotel attached or within very close walking distance. I’m 50 next year and getting lazier every year. I want to drive in. Use the restroom in my hotel and then walk over to the game and then just walk back grab a meal in the hotel and go to bed.
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There are plenty of hotels within walking distance, just be ready to pay. The Graduate and Cumberland House are both essentially on Campus. Lots more choices towards Market Square and Gay St.
 
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adam.vol said:
Everything.

Putting wealth above all else is economics. It’s the science of removing morality from commerce.
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Ok that just makes zero sense. This isn't about wealth above anything it's about people being able to afford a ticket. Something that happens at any event in the world. You understand there's no way everyone can attend every game right? You understand that the program doesn't run on hopes and dreams right?

I mean, what's your solution to beating the law of supply and demand to properly allocate ticket resources?
 
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adam.vol said:
Everything.

Putting wealth above all else is economics. It’s the science of removing morality from commerce.
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News flash, it’s not just sports that’s dealing with this.

High demand means higher prices.

It has nothing to do with “morality”.
 
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maryvillenative said:
There are plenty of hotels within walking distance, just be ready to pay. The Graduate and Cumberland House are both essentially on Campus. Lots more choices towards Market Square and Gay St.
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Didn’t know that. Everyone I have ever stayed at is atleast a mile away. I want 500 feet lol. Thanks! I will check out the ones on campus.
 
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I’m on the fence about this. Swain mentioned it in one of his podcasts so I’ve kinda been paying attention to it. I haven’t been to a game since 2000. I listen to the radio call while I work in the garage and tend the smoker. I run inside to watch big plays on the tv. But to me, 25 years of listening to the radio call I’ve noticed it does seem different. I can remember even in the dark days them going to Priest on the sideline and barely being able to understand what he was saying because the stadium was so loud. I haven’t had that feeling in the last couple years.
 
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nuclearjunky said:
I’m on the fence about this. Swain mentioned it in one of his podcasts so I’ve kinda been paying attention to it. I haven’t been to a game since 2000. I listen to the radio call while I work in the garage and tend the smoker. I run inside to watch big plays on the tv. But to me, 25 years of listening to the radio call I’ve noticed it does seem different. I can remember even in the dark days them going to Priest on the sideline and barely being able to understand what he was saying because the stadium was so loud. I haven’t had that feeling in the last couple years.
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So you have zero frame of reference for the last 2+ decades other than the "radio" lol. GTFO

You know something that has improved over the last, I don't know, 4 decades? Microphones. They don't want the "background" noise anymore.
 
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utvolpj said:
Ok that just makes zero sense. This isn't about wealth above anything it's about people being able to afford a ticket. Something that happens at any event in the world. You understand there's no way everyone can attend every game right? You understand that the program doesn't run on hopes and dreams right?

I mean, what's your solution to beating the law of supply and demand to properly allocate ticket resources?
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I’m calling it for what it is. I haven’t said that there isn’t sound logic behind it.
 
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VolFreakJosh said:
News flash, it’s not just sports that’s dealing with this.

High demand means higher prices.

It has nothing to do with “morality”.
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I’m going to turn the channel if that’s a news flash. 😅

Higher demand is just that. You can lower demand by raising prices, if that’s your desire. Walmart and Amazon didn’t become the biggest retailers by having the highest prices. They expanded to meet demand and sold cheaper than everyone else to snuff out competition.

Anyhow, I don’t see how one can miss that morality is the trade off to price gouging.
 
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adam.vol said:
I’m going to turn the channel if that’s a news flash. 😅

Higher demand is just that. You can lower demand by raising prices, if that’s your desire. Walmart and Amazon didn’t become the biggest retailers by having the highest prices. They expanded to meet demand and sold cheaper than everyone else to snuff out competition.

Anyhow, I don’t see how one can miss that morality is the trade off to price gouging.
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You are comparing apples and watermelons. UT football is a finite number of tickets and a finite number of home games. UT has raised raised prices and increased seat licensing and the 3rd party sellers sure haven’t lowered their prices and the high demand is still there. Until the demand ceases, the prices will not go down. Morality has nothing to do with it. As they say in Texas: “It’s just bidness.”
 
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Delmar said:
Oh I get it perfectly. It’s you that doesn’t understand the way this works. It is supply and demand. If the demand wasn’t there, they couldn’t sell them for the highest dollar possible. Yes, Vol fans AND the university sell them for the highest dollar possible because they can. Some folks fund their season tickets by reselling the tickets for a couple of games. Got friends who do that now.

Sorry but they aren’t going to take the average fan’s wallet into account and that includes mine. It’s among the reasons why I’ve pretty much stopped going to games. The cost is the weekend is prohibitive on a retirement budget. But it’s just business and I understand that.
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no, why would they? are you gonna sell your house to someone for half the price because they can't afford it otherwise or are you gonna find someone that will pay your asking price?

I hate to tell you but the days of Derek Dooley and Butch Jones are over. the Vols are relevant again and UT tickets now cost what Alabama tickets cost because everyone in the world wants to see the Vols play at Neyland. that's the way this works. you can't blame the AD or the university because fans are all reselling tickets for high prices, that's the way the world works.
 
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Rocky Top T said:
The Neyland effect is not much of a effect anymore. I was there yesterday and the crowd noise wasn't good. It's been that way for the last 5 years.
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I was at the Georgia game and I was at the Florida game last year. the crowd noise was as loud as I've ever heard it.

yesterday doesn't surprise me. Arkansas was probably the easiest conference game on our schedule outside of a road game at kentucky and they just fired their damn coach. it was basically an OOC level game played during the day.
 
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UTFranklinVol said:
I was at the Georgia game and I was at the Florida game last year. the crowd noise was as loud as I've ever heard it.

yesterday doesn't surprise me. Arkansas was probably the easiest conference game on our schedule outside of a road game at kentucky and they just fired their damn coach. it was basically an OOC level game played during the day.
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I was at the Florida and Alabama game last year, neither came close to 22 bama game or Oklahoma 15 game.
 
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Delmar said:
You are comparing apples and watermelons. UT football is a finite number of tickets and a finite number of home games. UT has raised raised prices and increased seat licensing and the 3rd party sellers sure haven’t lowered their prices and the high demand is still there. Until the demand ceases, the prices will not go down. Morality has nothing to do with it. As they say in Texas: “It’s just bidness.”
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demand will go down only when Tennessee sucks again. Tennessee football means too much to too many people, for every person that gets a ticket there's 10,000 that wishes they had a ticket and would pay anything to go.

here's what I think, there's a certain class of fans that got by for years when the team was mediocre and they could get tickets relatively cheap, not realizing how things were in the rest of college football for the teams that competed for titles. now the tide has turned and they realized they don't get to have next-to-free tickets to games anymore and they aren't happy with it.
 
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