No Vols Fan @ UGA

#27
#27
I was there and there were quite a few Tenn fans, we were stuck way up on the third level in sections 600-611.
There were only a small group down in the lower section by the band.
 
#28
#28
I was in 609. Sanford Stadium is definitely a more comfortable place to watch a game than Neyland, but the upper deck is really set back from the field and you are a long way from the action.
 
#29
#29
I was in 306, lots of UT fans around me. Couldn't see upper deck but there was a lot of orange around me. Maybe UGA allocated more of the road teams' tickets to the middle and upper decks like UT did.
 
#31
#31
VolDad said:
I went to the game 2 years ago and I went to the game this year.

There was maybe 1/4th as many Vol fans there this year as 2 years ago. I am being generous when I say 1/4th.

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i was at the game 2 years ago and you could see a large orange section in the corner. this year it was nowhere near that amount. i don't think it was 1/4, more like 1/8. it was really low. the tv showed an arial view of the stadium, there was no orange to be seen.
 
#32
#32
Volmania said:
I was there also and the turnout wasn't too bad. At Georgia most of the visiting fans are stuck in that third level deck which never gets seen on TV.
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i dont think so, i have been to the Ga game down there and we always start halfway around the end zone to about the 17 or 18 yard line. This year we didnt have half of that. In 1996 we had over 15K fans there this year we were lucky to have 2 to 3K.
 
#33
#33
Agreed lots of orange there. Most of the big stadiums in the SEC have sent the larger portion of the 10,000+/- visitors way up high. UGA, Bama, South Carolina have done it. And we certainly have.

Think how many fans used to be in the lower north end zone at Neyland. We used to give about 8,000 visitors tickets (to the big games--UF, UGA, Bama, etc.) down there and send the rest up. Now it's the reverse. The visitors get their band and maybe 1500 others--at most. The rest are spread out across the upper reaches of the south end zone. You see them more on TV during our broadcasts because it's friendlier to the TV cameras--they show the jumbotron, the fireworks (if/when we scrore), etc.

At UGA there's no way you see the upper level (which they added a few years back) unless the blimp is flying over.

The worst I've seen since the schools started this trend sending everybody up is in Tuscaloosa. It's really a joke. They added a new tier in the "visitor" end zone a couple of years ago and send 95% of the visitors up there. Don't ever let anyone tell you being way up in Neyland is higher than anywhere else. You could look down on planes from this section at Bryant-Denny. Then you look down below and see they've given us enough room for the band and I swear no more than 500 tickets for fans.
 
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