How important is 100,000+ seats to you?

#28
#28
Big Orange #1 said:
Very important I want to add on so we can be the biggest!! I have been to the Big House and it gets rockin, I want UT to be bigger than the big house!
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So we can have 10,000 empty seats at every game? We don't even sell it out as it is now.
 
#29
#29
Does the sardine effect have anything to do with the empty seats. I know it affects my decision. I would love to have 100k individual seats, but I know thats just crazy talk.
 
#30
#30
Having over 100,000 is important....it's part of what makes Neyland so freakin' awesome. However, not being at capacity hurts....recruits see the empty seats during games.
 
#31
#31
We're hovering just over 100k right now. I think we're at 100,011 or something like that. We're #6 if my memory serves me correctly.
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#32
#32
VolDad said:
Didn’t I read somewhere that Hamilton said that there were plans in place to add an additional level in an end zone should ticket sales warrant it?
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Yes, IIRC he said a third level in the north endzone, and an additional jumbotron were both possibilities for down the road.
 
#36
#36
no way Titans is as loud as Neyland. I've been to both, Titans atmosphere is fairly boring IMO. i grew up going to every single TN home game. '98 florida, and the '01 georgia game were so loud there is no way possible that LP field could ever match it
 
#37
#37
volcrazi said:
I'd say the reason why you believe Titan's stadium and Neyland Stadium has the same noise level is probably because UT is filled with a bunch of elderly people on the sidelines who aren't as vocal as some other venues. For instance I think the student section should change from the sections E, EE, F, FF, G, GG, H, HH to sections B,C,D,E like other sec schools. Put the people are who going to be extremely vocal closer to the field.
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Are the students gonna pay the money donors pay for those seats? No.
 
#38
#38
Grandiosity in all things is part of the Tennessee tradition that attracts the high caliber recruits. No stadium in the land comes with the guarantee of a capacity crowd for every game. I'm willing to suffer the ignominy of a few empty seats until the Vol football program is back on track.

To paraphrase Robert Browning, "Man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a metaphor?"
 
#39
#39
The reason Neyland Stadium hasn't been that loud is because of all the old people in the stands. They just sit there like a bunch of knots on a log.
 
#43
#43
KnoxVillain said:
Are the students gonna pay the money donors pay for those seats? No.
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As a student myself, we already pay a "sports activity fee". So don't worry because either way UT is getting it's money regardless if it were to be students or others sitting in those seats.
 
#44
#44
Here's what you have now. Sections A-D & V-T elderly people who won't get up and scream. Your loudest fans are going to be the students who are in the lower corner & upper corner level and people who's in the endzone or up in the upper lvl just because they can't afford the outrageous prices of those who sit in the (A-D or V-T) sections. Your suites or skyboxes are already for the rich and famous or whatever.... to me Neyland Stadium is becoming nothing more than a place for the rich. Need to lower ticket prices & change the students seating arrangement.
 
#46
#46
Yankee_Vol said:
Having over 100,000 is important....it's part of what makes Neyland so freakin' awesome. However, not being at capacity hurts....recruits see the empty seats during games.
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This, but like they say "winning cures all". We get back to being a top 20 program again, those empty seats will disappear quickly.
 
#49
#49
Hopefully, UT starts a new building plan soon to make neyland the biggest in the u.s.
 
#50
#50
It's probably more impressive to recruits to see 20k empty seats in a mammoth legendary stadium than a full house in Williams-Brice Stadium. All it says is the program is obviously down, but has a history of mad attendance numbers.
 
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