Arena Club Donor

[WaywardVol]

I’m an Original Arena Club donor(1980s). With my donation to help build the arena, I was given the ability to select my seats and have documents stating that I had them for life. In UTs grab for more money, they completely eliminated the Original Arena Donors. To do this they plan to remove our seats and replace them with new ones and call it Riverside Club. We were given the option to stay in Riverside club at 8 times our current seat cost or select other available seats. This was called Opting Out. When Opting Out, we were given 2 options. We could pay ticket price plus taxes and fees and not get donor points or we could pay ticket price plus taxes and fees and a substantial donation and receive donor points. When the time came to select new seats, the first option was not available. The seat cost would be almost 4 times what I had been paying. This is the second time they lied to us about seats. We no longer have basketball tickets.

I’m sure folks will be along to defend Danny. He’s a despicable money grabber. Despite the wretched leadership that proceeded, him he still inherited Barnes, Vitello and Weakley. That’s pretty dang amazing.
I like his hire for lady’s basketball: His track coach hire has been a disaster. He lies about waiting list for season tickets.

 

[MrOoltewah]

Here's what the Athletic Department advertised in newspaper..... seems like both Lifetime and Forever means exactly 38 years....must have been the life expectancy at the time....

 

[Milehigh_Vol]

For those who were original donors, I get it, it sucks…in reality there’s not many of those left though and they’d been passed down to another generation, which I get sucks for those folks, but I feel slightly less sorry for.

You’ve got 1% of Vol fans who hate this and are effected by it, but you’ve got 99% of Vol fans who are now thankful those seats are available for a reasonable price, and that they aren’t sitting next to a teenager paying 1/10 the price just because his great grandfather made a big donation many years ago.

I get both sides, but I hardly fault Danny White on the decision to upset that 1%

Thoughts on Food City Center that was supposed to say TBA name... Now they just say Food City Center... I haven't heard TBA in forever from official sources.

 

[dobre_shunka]

I’m sure folks will be along to defend Danny. He’s a despicable money grabber. Despite the wretched leadership that proceeded, him he still inherited Barnes, Vitello and Weakley. That’s pretty dang amazing.
I like his hire for lady’s basketball: His track coach hire has been a disaster. He lies about waiting list for season tickets.

UGA, Bama and Texas all require an annual fee or donation to be on the waiting list for football season tickets, Tennessee doea not. Maybe that's why there's that big of a list

 

[WaywardVol]

UGA, Bama and Texas all require an annual fee or donation to be on the waiting list for football season tickets, Tennessee doea not. Maybe that's why there's that big of a list

No idea, I just know Danny isn’t half the AD people
Make him out to be. I think getting the President and Chancellor Situation resolved was key, as weak as having all the UT system understanding that athletics is the straw that stirs the drink.
How the hell the elitist, anti-athletics, academic crowd ever ran the show is beyond me.

 

[SEC__Headgear]

For those who were original donors, I get it, it sucks…in reality there’s not many of those left though and they’d been passed down to another generation, which I get sucks for those folks, but I feel slightly less sorry for.

You’ve got 1% of Vol fans who hate this and are effected by it, but you’ve got 99% of Vol fans who are now thankful those seats are available for a reasonable price, and that they aren’t sitting next to a teenager paying 1/10 the price just because his great grandfather made a big donation many years ago.

I get both sides, but I hardly fault Danny White on the decision to upset that 1%

It smells bad, looks bad and could have accommodated the few folks placed on the situation. I wager it's far less than 1% of season ticket holders who have held for 45 years. That level of loyalty deserves respect and appreciation not demonstrated by UT.

 

[Huff0117]