How many will not renew season tickets?

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DaUndergroundMan said:
Maybe I missed it in this thread. But this bullying you are referring to, no one is doing that.

A pre-emptive strike maybe, a false flag of sorts so you can call out the ones making a personal decision on what they consider a smart economic play based on the diminishing returns and erosion of a once satisfactory product.
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Call it what you want, but yes I’m trying to get the fans that are deciding to stop supporting the program during hard times with intent to resume their support when we start winning again to see the type of fan they seem to be due to the actions they are taking.

I wonder how many die hard Vol fans chose not to go watch us beat Auburn?

It’s not that often than we play Auburn, even less often we play at their place.

I’ve always thought you fire coaches over wins and loses, not that the fans stop supporting the team over wins and losses.
 
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Just admit the truth. Basically fans, and even donars, do not matter. As long as the SEC TV money keeps coming in, they are nonentities. Look at Vandy, no donars, no fans, enough money to hire a coach.....and...yeah, beat us. Just a few years ago they were posting about losing and still getting millions. None of that money came from Vandy people. Don’t thnk purchasing or not purchasing tickets impacts UTAD at all. They will just keep on doing what they want and to heck with the fans.
 
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Just think about this. I predict that next year, we will be lucky to have 70,000 at average a game at Neyland while Vandy will likely sell out most games at Vanderbilt Stadium. How the World turns.
 
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Samuellbronkowitz said:
Just think about this. I predict that next year, we will be lucky to have 70,000 at average a game at Neyland while Vandy will likely sell out most games at Vanderbilt Stadium. How the World turns.
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Maybe, but that 70,000 is still almost double their sold out capacity.
 
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Samuellbronkowitz said:
Just think about this. I predict that next year, we will be lucky to have 70,000 at average a game at Neyland while Vandy will likely sell out most games at Vanderbilt Stadium. How the World turns.
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Guess you have not been to Vandy Stadium or watched them on TV much. They will be lucky to average 30,000 fans next year and that includes more than half the crowd coming from the opposing schools. They have home games against Northern Illinois, UNLV and ETSU. They will have about 20,000 fans at those games.
Tennessee will still average 90,000 by the way.
 
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Malivol said:
I’m not interested in my money going to overpaid AD, coaches, and agents for a crap product. I assure you if everyone quits buying tickets, they will get much cheaper but as long as tn is making bank on home games they don’t care about product
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I will renew mine. Over the last 8-9 years, if one was going to let their tickets lapse, they would have already done it.Just because you are a fair-weather fan dosen't mean all of us are. That is your privileged to not renew, so it if that is what rings your chime, ring it..
 
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GTBATV said:
I have a family of six. If a lot of people don't renew their tickets, maybe the price will come down. I might could move up to terrace level!
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The price for season tickets will not go down. They have noly increased since I first start going to Tennessee football games in 1946.
 
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So this is the bandwagon fan thread? I hear a lot of people saying they are fans but also saying they don’t even watch the games at home and certainly wouldn’t spend any money to go in person. They also say they won’t until we start winning but then try to act like they are real fans and not just bandwagon fans.
 
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Samuellbronkowitz said:
Just think about this. I predict that next year, we will be lucky to have 70,000 at average a game at Neyland while Vandy will likely sell out most games at Vanderbilt Stadium. How the World turns.
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A good high school game will outsell Vandy's crowd. Last week end it was not sold out and about half of the fans were from Tennessee. It should be easy for Vandy to sell out their 40,000 something stadium, but they don't.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
It’s a shame the ones that call out the fans that say they will wait till we are winning again before they watch or will go to games are the bad guys.

When will the fans that turn their back on the Vols when they are needed the most be considered the bad guys?
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They are not calling out Vol fans, for they will be there until health or other factors make them make a tough decision. Any mass exodus will be done by those who should best be classified as sports consumers. I am with you win or win is not the mantra of honest to goodness FANS.... that said, we gave up our season tickets a few years back after the wife's second new knee. I catch games when I am in town, but have family commitments that have me 300 miles NE or 300 miles SW of Neyland on lots of weekends.... But I may reconsider buying them again even if I have to sell a bunch off if there is really a big dip in sales next cycle.... they won't be in the high roller sections but so be it.... kind of prefer the N endzone upper deck anyway...
 
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I’ll be the guy to tell you what to do with your money... anything but renew your tickets.

Renewing tells the admin “Sure, I’m satisfied enough with this crap sandwich and I’d love another heaping serving please. Also, can you kick me in the bathing suit area? I’ll pay extra for that.”

I honestly believe the only way the UTAD gets serious about football again is when those seats go empty more and more each season.
 
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Samuellbronkowitz said:
1946? Damn. My folks weren't even born yet.
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Yep.I was 8 years old when my two older brothers returned from WW11 and enrolled in UT. Back in those days, Vandy and Kentucky were very hard fought games. When I was a Freshman at UT in 1956, student season tickets were free if you asked for them during registration.
 
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nope, haven't for past 2 years. not looking to until a better product shows up. can't see spending the money til things improve
 
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#143
It's funny all you all quit your season tickets and don't go to games, but you still come here to complain. Either your a fan or not, you don't even have to have season tickets to be a fan. But I can't see the point of coming on here complaining about why you gave em up at this point. Tennessee will start winning again at some point and Neyland will be rocking again at some point. For those that choose not to believe that fine, but why complain so bad on here and keep preaching negative if you if your not going. Why worry about it now, just wait to they start winning again and change your handle and get right back on the train. Many of you predicted the season we had or worse. We knew we were paper thin of depth going in, now suddenly after 1 year some want Pruitt gone like we expected us to have a terrible record yet look better. Actually we did improve, with a lot of Jones players still around when we had no choice but to keep them this year or we would not have been able to practice. Give Pruitt 2-3 more recruiting classes and if we aren't winning a lot more than losing then you can call for his head. GBO!!!!!
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
Yep.I was 8 years old when my two older brothers returned from WW11 and enrolled in UT. Back in those days, Vandy and Kentucky were very hard fought games. When I was a Freshman at UT in 1956, student season tickets were free if you asked for them during registration.
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Cool. Both of my grandfathers were also Veterans that served in the Korean War, and my step-grandfather on my Mother's side served under General Patton in WW2. Never got to meet him as he died before I was even born, but still loved to hear stories of when he served.

Today, I have a nephew (My sister's boy) who is serving overseas in the Military right now. Very proud Uncle.
 
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I have NEVER had season tickets. And attend 8 out of 10 home games a year. We live in a STATE where Scalping tickets is legal. You want to go to a sporting event, concert, etc. NO Problemo……….just pony up the going rate skewed by where you want to sit. Amureeka is a great place.
 
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#146
If it weren't for the basketball team, I wouldn't be making the donation and getting football tickets too.
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
They are not calling out Vol fans, for they will be there until health or other factors make them make a tough decision. Any mass exodus will be done by those who should best be classified as sports consumers. I am with you win or win is not the mantra of honest to goodness FANS.... that said, we gave up our season tickets a few years back after the wife's second new knee. I catch games when I am in town, but have family commitments that have me 300 miles NE or 300 miles SW of Neyland on lots of weekends.... But I may reconsider buying them again even if I have to sell a bunch off if there is really a big dip in sales next cycle.... they won't be in the high roller sections but so be it.... kind of prefer the N endzone upper deck anyway...
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Sports consumer is an accurate description.

I get the can’t make the games so I’m not going to by season tickets. My circumstances have changed recently. In the past I was fortunate enough to attend 3-5 games each year, last year only 2 Fl and Bama and this year only Fl. My plans fell thru for Auburn, Ky and Vandy due to kids.

Maybe you’ll get fortunate and be able to attend more games. I wish you the best.
 
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Tickets will be super cheap on the street again next year, and if it's more of the same crap next season, the cheap tickets will continue. It blows my mind ANYONE would pay more than they have to for this.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
5yr old twins and and a 1 year old. Circumstances change for people that make it where once they could but now, let’s say it’s much more expensive and more difficult for me. Travel time doesn’t help being 5-6 hrs from Knoxville.
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So why do you stand eager to judge other for the decisions they make with their time / money?
 
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