Neyland needs to be louder this season.

#32
#32
The only times the students sit is during timeouts or during a 20 point blowout, atleast in my experiences in TBA for the past 3 years with BP
 
#33
#33
Ummmm, if you read the title of the thread they're talking about the football stadium.... :whistling:
 
#36
#36
VolInFlorida said:
Cal was ok. Florida ended up being terrible in 2004 (great finish to that game). Arkansas was hardly a great team last year. They were above average.
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The Cal players said they could not hear themselves standing right next to each other. What more do you want, bleeding eardrums??
 
#38
#38
I was referring to their team being "ok." I actually didn't know they said that about Neyland. Good to know.
 
#39
#39
GAVol said:
I'd just settle for going to a game where somebody doesn't try to start the wave . . . while we've got the ball.
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LOL..... I couldn't agree more. How annoying is that?

As far as the stadium not being loud enough, I have to agree with that also. I have been to some really loud games there, but here lately the fans seem to be a little more dead. However, I thought the UGA game was pretty loud last year and the 2006 CAL game was definitely rocking!
 
#40
#40
I agree VolinFL. The Swamp has a rabid student section as do most SEC schools. Something Neyland doesn't have and with the new ticket prices for students, our student section might even get smaller. The last thing we need is our student section being replaced by more senior citizen alumni. No offense to them but Neyland has, by far, the oldest crowd of any stadium I've been to and the atmosphere is less electric bc of it. Still the greatest place to tailgate and watch a game, though!
 
#41
#41
Neyland can seem a little silent, but having lived away from it for a few years (and having visited a few other stadiums) I can vouch for it being intimidating against the right teams. Sometimes our older fans could do a better job of getting involved, but depending on where you are sitting the stadium can seem deafening or really silent and I noticed the same thing is true of the Swamp.
 
#42
#42
We have young and old fans who are dead during games. Hell I tell my parents dont go to the games if your just gonna sit there. They dont make a peep the whole game, while im about to have an aneurism. How do you go to a Tennessee game and not be loud.
 
#43
#43
I grew up going to home games with my grandfather. We sat in section R, Row 26, Seats 26 and 27. The average age in our section had to 70! LOL Great people but not very lively(even when drunk). Luckily, 110,000 people even if they are older make a lot of noise. Me, I leave every game without a voice! I know here in Gainesville, the student section makes up a good chunk of the swamp and you see very few people over 50 at Gator games. Youth definitely is the biggest diff between the Swamp and Neyland. The Swamp's odd angles and acoustics help too but not as much as 50,000 drunken, screaming 20 year olds.
 
#44
#44
Ohiovol09 said:
And if the students in the corner would actually stand up and cheer instead of being lazy and sitting the whole game.
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Making them pay more for their tickets should help winnow out the purely social attendees in the crowd.
 
#46
#46
gainesvol82 said:
I grew up going to home games with my grandfather. We sat in section R, Row 26, Seats 26 and 27. The average age in our section had to 70! LOL Great people but not very lively(even when drunk). Luckily, 110,000 people even if they are older make a lot of noise. Me, I leave every game without a voice! I know here in Gainesville, the student section makes up a good chunk of the swamp and you see very few people over 50 at Gator games. Youth definitely is the biggest diff between the Swamp and Neyland. The Swamp's odd angles and acoustics help too but not as much as 50,000 drunken, screaming 20 year olds.
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That's because football only started at UF in the last 15 years. Give them 70 years to build a tradition and those 20 year old fans will be 90.
 
#47
#47
Very true about the recent success but UF reloads every couple of years on fans. They have dedicated alumni all across the country but the home games will always have a young crowd. Between UF and Santa Fe CC you always have 75,000 college kids cycling through G-ville. FSU and Miami lower the fan-base but UF's recent success and FSU/Miami's lack of recent success make the Gators the trendy choice for most of the young people. There's a strong contingent of older, local Gator fans but Gainesville caters to youth which is the sole reason that I live here.
 
#48
#48
TreeGreen said:
Neyland can seem a little silent, but having lived away from it for a few years (and having visited a few other stadiums) I can vouch for it being intimidating against the right teams. Sometimes our older fans could do a better job of getting involved, but depending on where you are sitting the stadium can seem deafening or really silent and I noticed the same thing is true of the Swamp.
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I agree. I was at the S.C. game last year and it was pretty dang loud around me. I left that game without a voice and with my ears ringing from the noise level. Maybe it was quiet as a mouse in the rest of the stadium, but it sure seemed loud where I was. *Though I'll have to admit I may be remembering more toware the end of the game and the OT.
 
#50
#50
I couldn't tell you how many games I have been to in NS where, when yelling, the old couple that always seems to be in front of me turn around in their lady vols denim shirts and tell me to sit down and be quiet....lets start an age requirement
 
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