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Just curious, how did this end up shaking out?

1) I know several thousand of the student season tickets were not purchased. So did the UTAD put these out for sale to the general public?

2) The season tickets that a student buys, can they decide to sell them to a non-student and no ID or anything else is required to get in using one?
 
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i have no idea but the upper deck off the student section was empty so i guess they didnt sell them to the public
 
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I wish they would make tickets free for students again. The Vols need all the support they can get.
 
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LadyinOrange said:
I wish they would make tickets free for students again. The Vols need all the support they can get.
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I think instead of making that million dollar donation to the athletic department, Fulmer should have used that money to pay students to attend the games.
 
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it's ridiculous that the students are having to pay to get in this year. paying for all the other stuff just to attend there should at least give you the opportunity to experience a ut home game for free.
 
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duckman398686 said:
it's ridiculous that the students are having to pay to get in this year. paying for all the other stuff just to attend there should at least give you the opportunity to experience a ut home game for free.
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I agree. School spirit should be free.
 
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LadyinOrange said:
I agree. School spirit should be free.
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I agree also. School spirit should be unwavering... even if the coach is underpaid, the team has won nothing of significance in the last decade, there is no life in the program and tuition rates are increasing higher than the rate of inflation.
 
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I guess coming from a very poor background skews my outlook some. Heck, I remember one Saturday night in college when I was excited about having 50 cents to buy a coke. :lol:

I'm just saying that kids (or their parents) shell out enough as it is. Free school events seem like the LEAST they could do.
 
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most schools you have to pay for your ticket if you're a student, but you don't have an athletic fee. at UT, you have to pay for both. it is complete crap
 
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I gave my UAB ticket to another student and opted to go whitewater rafting on the Ocoee instead. :)

I'll definitely be there next weekend, but I can't say that I'm too disappointed about missing yesterday's game.
 
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Just curious, what is the athletic fee now? I know when I attended we had an activities fee around 130 a semester that covered our football tickets. So the tickets were never "free". I see no issue with paying for the tickets and If they don't want them, sell them to those that do. What is the fee for an entire season of tickets for a student, 75$? That is not even the cost of two tickets face value.
 
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A millon dollars of the student activities fee goes to the women's athletic department and I believe the rest goes to fund other activities around campus such as intramurals, the t-rec facility, etc. Someone correct me if I'm wrong...
 
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bigdaddy said:
Just curious, what is the athletic fee now? I know when I attended we had an activities fee around 130 a semester that covered our football tickets. So the tickets were never "free". I see no issue with paying for the tickets and If they don't want them, sell them to those that do. What is the fee for an entire season of tickets for a student, 75$? That is not even the cost of two tickets face value.
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$90 for season tickets, $15 for single-game tickets.
 
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Making students pay kinda seems slimey. Somebody has their priority's all wrong. Any other schools doing this?
 
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Cartervol said:
Making students pay kinda seems slimey. Somebody has their priority's all wrong. Any other schools doing this?
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Most other schools do this. Nothing is free...I would venture to guess that most schools with free tickets are either terrible or are getting the money from atletic fees. None of the athletic fee money went to the men's AD.
 
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most other schools make you pay for tickets but they don't have an activity fee unlike UT. What UT should've done is just added 90 to the activity fee and no one would be complaining and probably wouldn't even notice if it were raised.
 
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sportsnut624 said:
most other schools make you pay for tickets but they don't have an activity fee unlike UT. What UT should've done is just added 90 to the activity fee and no one would be complaining and probably wouldn't even notice if it were raised.
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exactly.
 
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jwells said:
Most other schools do this. Nothing is free...I would venture to guess that most schools with free tickets are either terrible or are getting the money from atletic fees. None of the athletic fee money went to the men's AD.
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Again, it is the principle. You give an underachieving coach a raise and extension in the same year that you throw this new fee in. Not to mention that the university went $3 million dollars in the hole because they had counted their chickens before they hatched when they lost out on the $3 million from the AAFL...
 
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TennTom said:
Only Vandy and USCe allow students the freebies now

Tennessee to charge students for football - USATODAY.com
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This is only for the SEC. I know, for instance, that students got free tickets at UVA and several other ACC schools.

There's just something incredibly cheap about making students pay to attend their own football games. It's just the act of it. Increase the student fees if you need to, but shelling out $15 for a ticket... it's kind of greasy.
 
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