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This isn't directly a Tennessee tickets question, so I'm not putting the thread there. My question is what do UT alum typically pay for tickets to the big games at Neyland?

I got tix last year to LSU at Florida. End zone nose bleeders at $300 a pop. You can't even line up for season tix unless you donate a minimum $12,000 and I am not going to do that for tickets to 3 worthy opponents every year.

I am looking online now and see Florida-UT tix for as low as $200 each, but those are in the student section (yuck). Do you guys have an alumni section and, if you do, what's it typically cost to buy some after-market ticekts for the big games?
 
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By the way, do you realize its almost July? And what comes after that? AUGUST!! We've almost made it. Just a little more to go.
 
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lawgator1 said:
My question is what do UT alum typically pay for tickets to the big games at Neyland?
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You must contribute to the Volunteer Athletics & Scholarship Fund (VASF). I think the minimum is $500. Prices per ticket were $40-44 this year.

lawgator1 said:
Do you guys have an alumni section and, if you do, what's it typically cost to buy some after-market ticekts for the big games?
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You can purchase away game tickets in addition to your season ticket renewal. I don't recall the specific prices but they were reasonable - in the $40-$80 range. To purchase after-market, you will pay whatever the market bears at that time.
 
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UT IE 95 said:
You must contribute to the Volunteer Athletics & Scholarship Fund (VASF). I think the minimum is $500. Prices per ticket were $40-44 this year.



You can purchase away game tickets in addition to your season ticket renewal. I don't recall the specific prices but they were reasonable - in the $40-$80 range. To purchase after-market, you will pay whatever the market bears at that time.
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That's my question. What does the market typically bear for a pair of tickets to the Florida-UT game at UT?
 
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lawgator1 said:
That's my question. What does the market typically bear for a pair of tickets to the Florida-UT game at UT?
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In between my years of being enrolled at UT and being a season ticket holder, I had to scalp many a ticket. I rarely paid over face value, but you do have to work for it sometimes. I think the 2002 UT/UF game I paid face value to a kind gentleman.
 
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allvol123 said:
In between my years of being enrolled at UT and being a season ticket holder, I had to scalp many a ticket. I rarely paid over face value, but you do have to work for it sometimes. I think the 2002 UT/UF game I paid face value to a kind gentleman.
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Wow.

Since I started going to UF as a Freshman in undergrad in 1982, it has never been that way. For a game like UT or FSU or Auburn or LSU, it has always been at least a few hundred for good seats.
 
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LG - season tickets are distributed on a "points system," based on dollars and consecutive years of giving. The formula can be found on the VASF website. I think face value on the tickets is around $50, and there's a minimum yearly contribution based on seat location. For example: the 4 that a buddy and I have purchased from a friend for the past 3 seasons cost us around $3000 total. Those are at the front of the upper deck on about the 40. Nice seats.

HOWEVER, if you are looking to buy individual game tickets, prices from scalpers around campus are usually MUCH, MUCH lower than from online and retail-store ticket agents, and would cost much less overall, if you were to go to all the games. As a reference, crappy games (Marshall, et al) could be $10/ticket, LSU was face value or less last year, and Florida would be in the $50-150 range, depending on seat location. So. . . . a fan could realistically go to all the games on scalped tickets and pay an average of face value or less, with no yearly contribution to the VASF.

Now, of course, there are drawbacks to that. You don't have permanent seat locations, you have to go through the trouble of looking and negotiating for tickets (which can seriously cut in to tailgating time), and you don't get an always-coveted parking pass.

Too much info?
 
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lawgator1 said:
Wow.

Since I started going to UF as a Freshman in undergrad in 1982, it has never been that way. For a game like UT or FSU or Auburn or LSU, it has always been at least a few hundred for good seats.
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Yeah, tickets in Gainesville (and Athens) seem to always be expensive. Not so in K-town.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
LG - season tickets are distributed on a "points system," based on dollars and consecutive years of giving. The formula can be found on the VASF website. I think face value on the tickets is around $50, and there's a minimum yearly contribution based on seat location. For example: the 4 that a buddy and I have purchased from a friend for the past 3 seasons cost us around $3000 total. Those are at the front of the upper deck on about the 40. Nice seats.

HOWEVER, if you are looking to buy individual game tickets, prices from scalpers around campus are usually MUCH, MUCH lower than from online and retail-store ticket agents, and would cost much less overall, if you were to go to all the games. As a reference, crappy games (Marshall, et al) could be $10/ticket, LSU was face value or less last year, and Florida would be in the $50-150 range, depending on seat location. So. . . . a fan could realistically go to all the games on scalped tickets and pay an average of face value or less, with no yearly contribution to the VASF.

Now, of course, there are drawbacks to that. You don't have permanent seat locations, you have to go through the trouble of looking and negotiating for tickets (which can seriously cut in to tailgating time), and you don't get an always-coveted parking pass.

Too much info?
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No, that's what I was asking. What do you pay a scalper for tix?

One additional question is whether those tix for $150 are in an alumni section (saner, armrests at Florida) or are those in pretty much a free-for-all environment?
 
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lawgator1 said:
That's my question. What does the market typically bear for a pair of tickets to the Florida-UT game at UT?
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I think this depends on whether you require the security of having tickets in hand prior to your arrival, or if you are willing to gamble a little. There are always lots of people selling tickets but as someone else said, you'd probably have to work at it to get a deal. Another big component in the prices is where you want/are willing to sit. If I'm not in the dry/shade I'd just assume watch the game in a nice climate controlled environment unless we are talking game of a lifetime situations. Thankfully, my employer provides me with tickets to most every game I want to attend between the 45s in the dry for face value, and I get to use the 3rd Street parking pass for free.
 
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lawgator1 said:
That's my question. What does the market typically bear for a pair of tickets to the Florida-UT game at UT?
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Great seats - 200 per
Good seats - 100 per
OK seats - 50 per

This is rough though. The earlier you buy, the more you pay. I have been walking (staggering) to the stadium just before kickoff and seen tickets going cheap. But I have also seen none available and the price of the few still around be astronomical.
 
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On an unrelated side note, but not worthy of its own thread, a federal appellate court just ruled that a guy going to Tampa Bay Bucs games could be pat-down searched each time he went to a game. Apparently, the NFL stadiums had pretty much all enacted an above-the-waist pat down search and this guy got an injunction. The federal appellate court ruled that, by presenting a ticket, he consented to the searches.
 
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Based solely on what I have seen and heard from others, it seems that if you want a shot a good seats for close to face value you should probably hit the Volwalk and head to the stadium early. This is where it seems you are more likely to run into people who are just dumping extras and not looking to make a big profit. The last time I did scalp tickets for a UTK game was Bama in 2004 (Bama is about the only home game I cannot get from the boss) and I paid $225 for two seats near the 30 just in front of the visiting student section.

The only amenity in Neyland (other than being covered from rain, which requires seats in lower level about 50 rows or more back) is seatbacks and it's probably going to be a stretch to get one if you are buying off th street.
 
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I always thought it was better (price-wise) to wait until right before kickoff or even just a bit after kickoff. Of course, then you miss the pregame show, which I really enjoy. You get what you pay for.
 
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My experience has been that if you are willing to wait right up until or even after kickoff, you can almost always get tickets for face value or less. There's always someone standing out there who's desperate to unload.

I don't like doing that, though; I'd rather be sitting somewhere relaxing and enjoying a beverage instead of walking around outside the stadium haggling. For the convenience and security of tickets in hand ahead of time, at least $200 per.

My uncle is the god of this little game. He always shows up about three hours before game time, buys and swaps tickets at least five or six times right until game time, and usually ends up with good seats and more money than he walked up with. I don't know how he does it.
 
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UT IE 95 said:
Great seats - 200 per
Good seats - 100 per
OK seats - 50 per

This is rough though. The earlier you buy, the more you pay. I have been walking (staggering) to the stadium just before kickoff and seen tickets going cheap. But I have also seen none available and the price of the few still around be astronomical.
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True enough. The most I have ever paid for a ticket was $115(2nd deck) to last years Tenn/Bama. That was the going price from every scalper I talked to before I bought. Around 100-150 for 2nd deck. Bought it about 3 hours before kickoff. I wanted to find seats on the lower level, but my friends didn't want to spend much money.

My buddy, on the other hand, bought his about 15 minutes before kickoff for around $60 and was sitting on the field level around row 30 on the 35 yd line.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Based solely on what I have seen and heard from others, it seems that if you want a shot a good seats for close to face value you should probably hit the Volwalk and head to the stadium early. This is where it seems you are more likely to run into people who are just dumping extras and not looking to make a big profit. The last time I did scalp tickets for a UTK game was Bama in 2004 (Bama is about the only home game I cannot get from the boss) and I paid $225 for two seats near the 30 just in front of the visiting student section.

The only amenity in Neyland (other than being covered from rain, which requires seats in lower level about 50 rows or more back) is seatbacks and it's probably going to be a stretch to get one if you are buying off th street.
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Okay, that's really the kind I'm talking about. The problem at UF is running into the situation where you buy a ticket in the student section and have to then show a student ID, which of course I don't have. My alternatives are then to scalp a ticket in the visitor's section, which can often mean very rowdy surroundings, only fair seats, and usually in the sun with no seat backs.

To get a ticket with a seatback at UF, in and amongst UF fans, for a game like FSU or Auburn or UT, that's just really hard to find.
 
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kptvol said:
I always thought it was better (price-wise) to wait until right before kickoff or even just a bit after kickoff. Of course, then you miss the pregame show, which I really enjoy. You get what you pay for.
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The theory that I have heard on that is the people who are just getting rid of tickets will by and large want to be in the stadium to see pre-game and not loiter around outside waiting for top price. I guess if you wait long enough you might reach the point where the scalpers get desperate? Heck, when I was a kid they let you walk into Dudley Field (Vandy) without a ticket after halftime.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
The theory that I have heard on that is the people who are just getting rid of tickets will by and large want to be in the stadium to see pre-game and not loiter around outside waiting for top price. I guess if you wait long enough you might reach the point where the scalpers get desperate? Heck, when I was a kid they let you walk into Dudley Field (Vandy) without a ticket after halftime.
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That's the idea. It's always worked OK for me. I have never really tried your strategy, though.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
The theory that I have heard on that is the people who are just getting rid of tickets will by and large want to be in the stadium to see pre-game and not loiter around outside waiting for top price. I guess if you wait long enough you might reach the point where the scalpers get desperate? Heck, when I was a kid they let you walk into Dudley Field (Vandy) without a ticket after halftime.
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I think it's the scalpers that get desperate then; the fans are already in the stadium. I bought some tickets one year for five bucks apiece about halfway through the first quarter. At that point they're just looking to get anything.
 
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Vercingetorix said:
I don't like doing that, though; I'd rather be sitting somewhere relaxing and enjoying a beverage instead of walking around outside the stadium haggling. For the convenience and security of tickets in hand ahead of time, at least $200 per.
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Same here. I like to be sitting in Neyland well before kickoff so I can relax, talk, and watch the players warm up.

I usually try to get tickets about an hour to hour 1/2 before kickoff.
 
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lawgator1 said:
That's my question. What does the market typically bear for a pair of tickets to the Florida-UT game at UT?
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I bought two lower level tickets (35 rows up) at about the 10 yard line for last years UT vs. UF game at $60 a pop.
 
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lawgator1 said:
On an unrelated side note, but not worthy of its own thread, a federal appellate court just ruled that a guy going to Tampa Bay Bucs games could be pat-down searched each time he went to a game. Apparently, the NFL stadiums had pretty much all enacted an above-the-waist pat down search and this guy got an injunction. The federal appellate court ruled that, by presenting a ticket, he consented to the searches.
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Interesting. What is the cite?
 
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I bought tickets on ebay last year for Cal, Bama and Ky. The seats for all 3 games were lower level in Y-6 and Y-9. Most I paid was 120 apiece for Cal.
 
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The most I paid for tix last year was $100 a piece for four together vs. LSU.

I've never paid over $100 for tix. I think that is a function of willing to wait until right before or after kickoff.

It is also probably a function of having 107,000 available seats.

The most expensive I recall was 1996 UT-UF, Manning v. Wuerffel, 1 vs. 3. I saw a pair on the 30 go for $500.
 
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