How many will not renew season tickets?

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VOLINVONORE said:
Agood h9gh 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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Not really, vandys alumni base is pretty small compared to ut. Most people that attend are propbably fans of another team but attend Vandy for academic reason. A large number of their students are medical students that move to their intern assignment(forget the actual medical term for it). I heard a couple of folks that cover vandy talking about it, pretty interesting.
 
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volfannbama said:
Not really, vandys alumni base is pretty small compared to ut. Most people that attend are propbably fans of another team but attend Vandy for academic reason. A large number of their students are medical students that move to their intern assignment(forget the actual medical term for it). I heard a couple of folks that cover vandy talking about it, pretty interesting.
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In other words, the Vandy alumni are smart enough to not become overly excited for a mediocre 6 win season.
 
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volfannbama said:
So why do you stand eager to judge other for the decisions they make with their time / money?
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What is there to judge?
A fan that stops supporting the team because we are losing and readily says they will start back their support when we start winning again, it kind of speaks for itself the type of fan they really are.

My advice to others is to attend every game you can because you never know when circumstances will change and then you can’t.

Similar to the fan that wears orange after a win but after a loss they don’t.
 
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Dream has always been to buy season tickets before 30. 30th is in January. Had we hired Mullen, would have definitely bought in. But with the past season, I’m gonna wait and it is looking like a smart move cause others are selling and the stadium is getting less and less full each season it seems.

Liked the Pruitt hire all year until the opening drive of the second half for our offense.

Hiring someone other than Freeze or a Kingsbury will Be strike 2 for me.
 
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Brave Volunteer said:
I think Long-Suffering is more accurate.
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At least now they don’t have to suffer. Don’t worry about them until they start winning again.

At least try not to concern themselves. I think it will be easier said than done and most likely they will wish they were at the games even for a loss.
 
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volfannbama said:
Not really, vandys alumni base is pretty small compared to ut. Most people that attend are propbably fans of another team but attend Vandy for academic reason. A large number of their students are medical students that move to their intern assignment(forget the actual medical term for it). I heard a couple of folks that cover vandy talking about it, pretty interesting.
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I doubt that many non Vandy fans attend games at Vanderbilt unless those people's teams are playing Vandy. One can watch much better games on TV, watch more games per day, and rest in their nice comfortable chair with their family and favoriate beverage.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
What is there to judge?
A fan that stops supporting the team because we are losing and readily says they will start back their support when we start winning again, it kind of speaks for itself the type of fan they really are.

My advice to others is to attend every game you can because you never know when circumstances will change and then you can’t.

Similar to the fan that wears orange after a win but after a loss they don’t.
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You go too far without listening. You and I were posting on this earlier. Let’s review:
1. I am not renewing my season tickets
2. I will be watching every game at home
3. I hang my Tennessee flag outside and it stays there from September through at least Thanksgiving.
4. I wear my Tennessee polo to work every Friday during football season
5. I have more Tennessee memoriability in my theater then you likely own.
6. I have one child graduated from UT
7. I have two children still at UT (Junior and a Senior)

If you want to say that I am a fair-weather fan, where the heck has the fair weather been? A 4-8 season and a 5-7 season are not fair weather. Yet, after sitting through these past 10 years, because I now stop and rethink my financial expenditures, I am somehow a fair-weather fan?

Man, why don’t you worry about yourself and quit labeling others or telling them what to do. I support this team win or lose and still do—every year, every week. It doesn’t take being a season ticket holder to be a fan the last time I checked.
 
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615vols said:
Tennessee doesn't have fair weather, bandwagon fans. Have you been in a coma the past 20 years? We're garbage. Real fans are the only ones left.
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But fans are not the only ones that buy tickets.... I attend and have attended a lot of middle school, junior high and high school games because my grandkids were on the court or field just like I attended Neyland because guys in orange were on the field... should not take more than that for DEDICATED fans to get there whenever possible.
 
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GUNTERSVOL said:
But fans are not the only ones that buy tickets.... I attend and have attended a lot of middle school, junior high and high school games because my grandkids were on the court or field just like I attended Neyland because guys in orange were on the field... should not take more than that for DEDICATED fans to get there whenever possible.
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Saying people are fair weathered or non dedicated because they choose not to renew season tickets is absurd. If you are a fan of Tennessee and have suffered through our last 20 years, then you are dedicated. It takes dedication to suffer through getting owned by vandy and the likes.

And as I said earlier, I've already given thousands and thousands, spent thousands more on travel and all the associated costs, dealt with ticket price increases when the product on Saturday is historically bad.. to me and my family it's not worth it anymore. I'm choosing to take all that money and use it on my family instead. Don't like it? Tough s&^*.
 
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I always laugh when the bandwagon fan term is used. With the exception of a little streak under Butch, the past 10-12 years have been one nightmare after another. You cannot blame a person for deciding to push back against the University as they spend money like a drunken fool, all while expecting you to pick up the tab. As for our players, how many games did it appear that they didn't even want to be there?
 
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willinhf said:
You go too far without listening. You and I were posting on this earlier. Let’s review:
1. I am not renewing my season tickets
2. I will be watching every game at home
3. I hang my Tennessee flag outside and it stays there from September through at least Thanksgiving.
4. I wear my Tennessee polo to work every Friday during football season
5. I have more Tennessee memoriability in my theater then you likely own.
6. I have one child graduated from UT
7. I have two children still at UT (Junior and a Senior)

If you want to say that I am a fair-weather fan, where the heck has the fair weather been? A 4-8 season and a 5-7 season are not fair weather. Yet, after sitting through these past 10 years, because I now stop and rethink my financial expenditures, I am somehow a fair-weather fan?

Man, why don’t you worry about yourself and quit labeling others or telling them what to do. I support this team win or lose and still do—every year, every week. It doesn’t take being a season ticket holder to be a fan the last time I checked.
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I am a donor but still approve of this post.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
Agood h9gh 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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volfannbama said:
Not really, vandys alumni base is pretty small compared to ut. Most people that attend are propbably fans of another team but attend Vandy for academic reason. A large number of their students are medical students that move to their intern assignment(forget the actual medical term for it). I heard a couple of folks that cover vandy talking about it, pretty interesting.
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LosingFaithVol said:
In other words, the Vandy alumni are smart enough to not become overly excited for a mediocre 6 win season.
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volfannbama said:
They are not.going to get excited period, there are not enough of them..
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I went to every Vandy home game this year except Florida and go to most of their home games every fall and I can assure you that there are only about 15-18,000 there every game cheering for Vandy. MOST SEC opponents bring more fans than they do, and our crowd Saturday was the largest all year, by far.

It SHOULD be easy for them to sell out 40,000 every game, with some good marketing, given the Nashville area's huge population surge. The city and suburbs are full of people who have moved here from across the South and California and the Midwest -- and even though they support other college teams, Vanderbilt should be able to persuade them to check out the college team in their newly adopted hometown -- but they don't seem to try and if they do, they're certainly not successful at it.

AND if they're lucky enough to get people to come once, they don't come back because it's a crappy experience for a college game. How many of you noticed any ON-CAMPUS tailgating, other than along the Natchez Trace asphalt and the narrow grassy strip along the Natchez Trace parking lots? All the UT fans I saw tailgating were on private property and obviously either paid or got permission to be there.

I deal with these people on a daily basis and I assure you that whatever fans they do have are excited as hell about beating us. They hate us with a passion -- mostly for our previous dominance. They could go 1-11 and be happy as long as that "1" is UT.
 
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I have not been to a UT football home game in 33 years and I enjoy watching the basketball teams play in person on occassion at Thompson Boling where the seats are much better.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
At least now they don’t have to suffer. Don’t worry about them until they start winning again.

At least try not to concern themselves. I think it will be easier said than done and most likely they will wish they were at the games even for a loss.
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Nobody in their right mind wants to see the team they love lose constantly!
 
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willinhf said:
You go too far without listening. You and I were posting on this earlier. Let’s review:
1. I am not renewing my season tickets
2. I will be watching every game at home
3. I hang my Tennessee flag outside and it stays there from September through at least Thanksgiving.
4. I wear my Tennessee polo to work every Friday during football season
5. I have more Tennessee memoriability in my theater then you likely own.
6. I have one child graduated from UT
7. I have two children still at UT (Junior and a Senior)

If you want to say that I am a fair-weather fan, where the heck has the fair weather been? A 4-8 season and a 5-7 season are not fair weather. Yet, after sitting through these past 10 years, because I now stop and rethink my financial expenditures, I am somehow a fair-weather fan?

Man, why don’t you worry about yourself and quit labeling others or telling them what to do. I support this team win or lose and still do—every year, every week. It doesn’t take being a season ticket holder to be a fan the last time I checked.
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Fine don’t go.
 
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Reality: Ticket sales and profit to UT will be just fine next year. If you doubt this, look at how they were under boy butch (worst coach in TN History). The games have become more about a social experience than team support, again remember how they were under boy butch. I don't really see any long time season ticket holders (no more than the average/year loss) deciding to give up their tickets; however, we shall see. And as a stop gap, if there is a large number of season ticket holders ready to give up their tickets, I believe there are plenty of "fans in waiting" that will happily purchase these seats.
 
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Iam4utalways said:
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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Do you want to buy mine next year?
 
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