Attendance was over 100,000 for the second straight year

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Tin Man said:
During the past three decades, I've been more often a part of the Vols fans' traveling caravan than an attendee at Neyland. I love Neyland and Knoxburg, but that's just how it's shaken out. The traveling caravan of Vols fans manifest the best in us - affable, good-natured, generous, accommodating, and easily parted from our money without remorse - the qualities which endear us to chambers of commerce everywhere.

While away from home, I've not witnessed the worst in us, nor the boorish Bohemian Hillbilly referenced in an earlier post. We cheer. We roar with approval. We sing Rocky Top loud enough to drown out stadium announcements. We don't dye foreign fountains orange. We don't curse around small children. We don't pick fights in the stands.

I have witnessed traveling Vols fans pitch in to move a malfunctioning vehicle, pick up the tab for an opponents' fans at the concession stand, and empty an entire row to make easy an elderly couple's way to their seats. I've seen a middle-aged man bedecked in orange & white get hit in the side of the face by a thrown hotdog, walk it back to the hometown tailgaters, and ask, "Is this for me? If it is, will you put a little more mustard on it, please?"

This is the milieu. These are my people, and I am privileged, proud, and pleased to be counted among them. GBO.
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This!^

Do you RV?
 
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I live in Knoxville and get to see Neyland every day. I still get butterflies in my stomach every single time I drive by it. I just smile knowing that's where the Vols play football and think about all the legends that have played there, the great games, and memories I have made there. It is truly a blessing to be a Vol. I can only imagine what recruits and other teams think when they see it for the first time.
 
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Attendance never dropped out of the top 10, even under Dooley.

The true fan police can whine all they want about the fans being the problem but they aren't and haven't been.
 
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JonGrudensAgent said:
Attendance never dropped out of the top 10, even under Dooley.

The true fan police can whine all they want about the fans being the problem but they aren't and haven't been.
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"The problem" implies we only have one problem, creating yet more problems with our program.

Over simplification of what is going on,finger pointing and denial.

We have many problems impacting the play on the field the least is the fan base.

Unless you choose to believe current players, previous players, coaches, or recruits that the fan base can impact decisions and play on the field.

Now if you choose to ignore current players, previous players, coaches and recruits then fans have zero impact on anything.

Draw your own opinions but try to use the information available to form your opinion.
 
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SmokinBob said:
This!^

Do you RV?
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No, I do not RV. You'd think after years of traveling to skydive boogies, loop bike rides, and Vols games in "foreign" places, I'd have acquired an RV by now, but, the missus and I like to tent camp, cabin & B&B.
 
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MWAVolfan said:
Sure attendance was up because they hype train was rolling. But I'm sure 100,000 didn't actually show up every game, and especially after the Bama embarrassment. Tickets were flooding the ticket markets.
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You would be correct. The game against Tenn Tech (oddly enough, homecoming) only had an attendance of 98,343.


I would actually like to know how many left during the UT-Missouri game, after everyone found out the Florida had beaten LSU.
 
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UT Hill Man said:
I don't remember there being a thread about this, so I think it's OK to pat our fans on the back for buying a lot of tickets and supporting the team as much as we do considering the somewhat disappointing season.

UT averaged 100,968 for six home games, with Neyland Stadium and it's capacity of 102,455 being the fifth largest facility in college football.

I know not all tickets were used, but still it was a great turnout in 2016 and shows once again that we have great fans - fans that deserve to be treated to championship level football.

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FWIW, just because you have the hottest avatar on VolNation does not make your continuous veiled whining about the state of the program more tolerable.
 
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kentucky sucks said:
I've got a 50" tv, a hot wife, and a recliner. I like to watch from home instead of sitting behind, in front of, or beside a bohemian hillbilly screaming his drunk head off on 3rd down when we've got the ball.

I did, however, make it to the bowl game. The bohemian was there immediately to my right.
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Where was your wife?
 
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TrueOrange said:
You would be correct. The game against Tenn Tech (oddly enough, homecoming) only had an attendance of 98,343.


I would actually like to know how many left during the UT-Missouri game, after everyone found out the Florida had beaten LSU.
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Not a chance that 98k actually showed up to the tech game. If you are referencing the announced attendance of the game please understand that that's how many tickets were sold, not how many people actually came through the gate.
 
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TrueOrange said:
You would be correct. The game against Tenn Tech (oddly enough, homecoming) only had an attendance of 98,343.


I would actually like to know how many left during the UT-Missouri game, after everyone found out the Florida had beaten LSU.
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Guess I'm confused on what "average" means.
 
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Behr said:
Guess I'm confused on what "average" means.
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some where between above and below....about how we played this year !

Oh wait....I justed blew the title of an interesting thread...."Was the Big Orange above or below average this year"....what a new and interesting thread that would be :ermm:
 
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VolzMan53 said:
some where between above and below....about how we played this year !

Oh wait....I justed blew the title of an interesting thread...."Was the Big Orange above or below average this year"....what a new and interesting thread that would be :ermm:
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I was just curious if True and MWA read the OP or just the thread title before posting, or am I missing something.
 
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Behr said:
I was just curious if True and MWA read the OP or just the thread title before posting, or am I missing something.
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I was just responding to his comment, in that, yeah, technically he's right...there was a game where 100,000 or more people didn't show up.

I do know that this thread is about how the attendance across all UT's home games this season averaged to a number above 100k on the year. :p

I mean, I get how statistics work. :)
 
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TrueOrange said:
I was just responding to his comment, in that, yeah, technically he's right...there was a game where 100,000 or more people didn't show up.

I do know that this thread is about how the attendance across all UT's home games this season averaged to a number above 100k on the year. :p

I mean, I get how statistics work. :)
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Didn't mean to insinuate you didn't. Just his post was confusing, if the average was 100,000, isn't it obvious that there was at least 1 game under that?
 
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JonGrudensAgent said:
Attendance never dropped out of the top 10, even under Dooley.

The true fan police can whine all they want about the fans being the problem but they aren't and haven't been.
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Yes and no. Towards its capacity, Dooley's last year saw UT only fill about 88% (87.8%) of the stadium...which is still a pretty big drop for a stadium of that size (pretty much across all 7 of UT's home games that year, a total of 87,433 seats weren't filled / tickets weren't sold).



But sheer numbers-wise, yes...though a lot of that is due to Neyland being such a large stadium that 75% for it is a bigger number than say, 75% of Arkansas's or Nebraska's stadiums (heck, 67% of the seating in Neyland is larger than 85% of the absolute maximum in Arkansas's stadium).
 
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Behr said:
Didn't mean to insinuate you didn't. Just his post was confusing, if the average was 100,000, isn't it obvious that there was at least 1 game under that?
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Heh, no worries.

More than likely, yes. That or it would require a bunch of games /more of them being right at or near that line of 100,000.
 
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