Facilities upgrade updates?

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Anyone know what was on the schedule this year to be finished prior to Season?
 
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"Fans around Neyland Stadium can purchase new concession items throughout the venue, including buffalo chicken mac and cheese, new Knoxville flavored chicken tenders..."

What exactly does new Knoxville taste like? Can I get Classic Knoxville flavor anywhere?
 
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dobre_shunka said:
"Fans around Neyland Stadium can purchase new concession items throughout the venue, including buffalo chicken mac and cheese, new Knoxville flavored chicken tenders..."

What exactly does new Knoxville taste like? Can I get Classic Knoxville flavor anywhere?
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🐔 🐥 🍗 🐤 🐣 🐓 🐔 😁 Is it available Doordash or Uber Eats?
 
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Knox News has a an article with the completed upgrades. 17 photos. Most of new concession areas and upgrades to the skyboxes. Here are the new bathrooms replacing the troughs:


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There is also a new student entry:
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The new Lower West Club (Now called Transcard Premiere Club):

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This renovation is more what you don't see. Plumbing replaced. Better Wifi. Better speakers around the stadium.
 
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Anyone have any pictures of the new gate 9 and Truly tailgating area with the new choices for eating?? They are increasing the area and putting metal detectors further out.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
It’s been completely redone inside twice since it was completed in 2011. This current expansion will do so again.

Has someone else posted, if this current NIL environment had existed five years ago, this expansion would never have been done.
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Players will still want top notch facilities and amenities. Not an either/or. It a both/and.
I think TDOT must be in charge of the latest upgrade at Anderson. Seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time.
 
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BigOrange15 said:
That sucks, they used to do individual tours of the stadium at least because I went on one in 2013.

And it was awesome, worth every penny.
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When I was in school there in the early 2000s, Neyland was open all day. Word was that it had to be because it was a university building. I used to go in there and wander around, trying doors and elevators just to see if they’d open/work. They did. To my credit, I’ve been on top of the light tower on the west side, and to my shame, I figured out that Tuesdays were the days they cleaned boxes, so all of them were open so I went up and stole a handle of Jack out of one of them and walked right out. I even tried the locker room door once, it was open, and I asked the dude vacuuming to take my picture next to the Maxims…and he did!

More recently, the summer they were doing construction on the party deck and luxury seating, I was able to get in again. I wasn’t bold enough to shenanigan around, but I did take a couple pics.

Fortune favors the bold, I guess.
 

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WaywardVol said:
Players will still want top notch facilities and amenities. Not an either/or. It a both/and.
I think TDOT must be in charge of the latest upgrade at Anderson. Seems to be taking an inordinate amount of time.
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Going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one. There’s a reason why you haven’t seen many announcements on football facility upgrades around the country the last couple years. Players still want a nice facility that meets their needs, but nobody’s going to build a waterfall or a slide ever again.

The project has taken much longer than anticipated, because workers were pulled off of it to prioritize baseball and the football stadium renovations.
 
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DeerPark12 said:
Going to have to go ahead and disagree with you on that one. There’s a reason why you haven’t seen many announcements on football facility upgrades around the country the last couple years. Players still want a nice facility that meets their needs, but nobody’s going to build a waterfall or a slide ever again.

The project has taken much longer than anticipated, because workers were pulled off of it to prioritize baseball and the football stadium renovations.
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Sure, if you’re talking about extravagant frills, I agree. I still think athletes are going to want the best locker room, weight room, nutrition, and recovery facilities available. I think we see what those facilities can do for a guy like Star Thomas.

I don’t think we’ve seen much announced because the university is in near the end with this latest project and just not much else you could add at this juncture.
 
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WaywardVol said:
Sure, if you’re talking about extravagant frills, I agree. I still think athletes are going to want the best locker room, weight room, nutrition, and recovery facilities available. I think we see what those facilities can do for a guy like Star Thomas.

I don’t think we’ve seen much announced because the university is in near the end with this latest project and just not much else you could add at this juncture.
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I wasn’t talking about UT, I was talking about nationwide. You’re going to see things built to a pro standard, which most schools already have. Past that, they’re not going to be building something new every 10 years, like schools have for the last 30. They’re going to focus that money on revenue sharing, which is only going to grow.
 
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