Clay Travis tweeting UT students to return to campus this Fall

[KnoxRealtorVOL]

Exciting... but I’m not seeing it anywhere else. Anyone have insight?

 

[allvol123]

I thought UT was meeting May 15 to decide. I hope he is correct though.

 

[KnoxRealtorVOL]

Here it is

University of Tennessee Campuses Plan for Fall Semester - UT System News

 

[volfaninky]

Good sign!!!!

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

It's time for everything to open, I full expect classes to open in the fall. GBO!!!!!!

 

[dobre_shunka]

I'm impressed that the press release mentioned the virus originated in Wuhan, China. I thought UT had officially gone off the PC deep end especially with the recent survey about renaming the alumni magazine "Tennessee Alumnus" to a gender neutral title.

 

[gunner]

UT is trying to increase football season ticket sales.

 

[dcm3w]

Honestly, I don't care if there aren't any fans in the stadium. I just wanna watch foozeball

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

 

[mitzustu]

There is going to be football. They are going to put thousands of kids in dormitories but not have fans in an open air stadium?

 

[HalfullVol]

 

[turnuptheVOLtage]

This is huge news to the local small businesses surrounding campus. Good for them. Now lets focus on getting a plan in for football to return in Neyland.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

This is huge news to the local small businesses surrounding campus. Good for them. Now lets focus on getting a plan in for football to return in Neyland.

I’m hearing that there might be a plan that includes partial attendance in different spots of the stadium. Maybe a 15 to 20% capacity. I’m wondering if there could be piped in crowd noise from student sections set up outside the stadium? Stupid idea maybe , but I’ll take whatever competitive advantage I can get by cutting a few corners.

 

[turnuptheVOLtage]

Regardless of what happens prepare for the liberal pearl clutching at the south's yearly embrace of SEC football in stadiums... I can hear the article headlines now...

 

[EZE]

I’m hearing that there might be a plan that includes partial attendance in different spots of the stadium. Maybe a 15 to 20% capacity. I’m wondering if there could be piped in crowd noise from student sections set up outside the stadium? Stupid idea maybe , but I’ll take whatever competitive advantage I can get by cutting a few corners.

A lot can happen between now and then. I’m more on the optimistic side.

 

[bamawriter]

There is going to be football. They are going to put thousands of kids in dormitories but not have fans in an open air stadium?

There is a bit of a difference between 30k kids and staff scattered in small combinations throughout campus and packing 100k shoulder-to-shoulder.

 

[spyfish007]

UT is trying to increase football season ticket sales.

It works

 

[peyton=legend]

Of course Tennessee "plans" to bring all students back to campus this fall.

 

[feathersax]

Regardless of what happens prepare for the liberal pearl clutching at the south's yearly embrace of SEC football in stadiums... I can hear the article headlines now...

Let 'em eat Tofu. Good for Clay Travis (a few years ago. I'd have NEVER said that_.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

Honestly, I don't care if there aren't any fans in the stadium. I just wanna watch foozeball

No, we need fans in the stadium and to be honest there is no reason for there not to be. I am sick of tired of seeing grocery stores and hardware stores with folks hog wild and other places can't even open. Georgia is doing well so far and their policies were looser. It's time to open up and let people that want to go to games go, we cannot handcuff our economy and our freedoms much longer. It's time to OPEN UP! GBO!!!!

 

[Tennesseefan2019]

Regardless of what happens prepare for the liberal pearl clutching at the south's yearly embrace of SEC football in stadiums... I can hear the article headlines now...

Screw them!

 

[dcm3w]

No, we need fans in the stadium and to be honest there is no reason for there not to be. I am sick of tired of seeing grocery stores and hardware stores with folks hog wild and other places can't even open. Georgia is doing well so far and their policies were looser. It's time to open up and let people that want to go to games go, we cannot handcuff our economy and our freedoms much longer. It's time to OPEN UP! GBO!!!!

I don't care. I'd rather watch football than no football. If that means no fans then okay.

 

[VolsSince78]

I’m hearing that there might be a plan that includes partial attendance in different spots of the stadium. Maybe a 15 to 20% capacity. I’m wondering if there could be piped in crowd noise from student sections set up outside the stadium? Stupid idea maybe , but I’ll take whatever competitive advantage I can get by cutting a few corners.

15% to 20% of capacity? Vandy is all set to host home games now! Just have Vandy fans (all 3 of them) wear paper bags over the heads so they don’t spread droplets while booing, and also to reduce their embarrassment. Dynamite!

 

[mitzustu]

There is a bit of a difference between 30k kids and staff scattered in small combinations throughout campus and packing 100k shoulder-to-shoulder.

Clearly. But if they are willing to shoulder liability risk in the one situation I don’t think it’s much of a leap to the other.

 

[RDU VOL#14]

15% to 20% of capacity? Vandy is all set to host home games now! Just have Vandy fans (all 3 of them) wear paper bags over the heads so they don’t spread droplets while booing, and also to reduce their embarrassment. Dynamite!

We need to investigate Vandy to see if they had prior knowledge of this COVID-19 stuff. They’ve been way out in front of this. Hell at Vandy they could call it COVID-21 because their attendance has been social distancing for the entire 21st century.