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#352
HH Vol said:
The process of distributing student tickets has become too sanitized, IMHO. When I attended in the early 90's we had to stand in line and if it was a home SEC game (or I think once when we played Notre Dame?) we usually camped out the night before the tickets were available.

The process of getting your game tickets was an event and an experience that you shared with your friends over a nasty, cheap "KILLER" pizza shared on the sidewalk in front of the UC while you froze to death at 4:00 AM. If you were brave (or stupid enough) you'd take a small bottle of liquor to help keep you warm (just hide it from the campus cops).

Have you ever seen a line out the door of a bar or restaurant and then gotten inside only to find out there are twenty people inside? The bar is building anticipation and creating demand. You're inside and pi**ed off that you had to stand in line, but people driving or walking by think "This must be the place to be", so they wait in line like everyone else just to be a part of something great.

UT needs to make the ticket issuance process an event again instead of just a mouse click, regardless of whether or not a student has to pay $20 for a ticket.
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I find it quite interesting that you would suggest our University revert to a system that encouraged kids to camp out on the sidewalk, drink, and skip classes.

Neither this nor the $20 charge is keeping kids from going. Just like a lot of the alumni and older crowd, they don't care much about going to watch a sputtering offense implode and us either barely beat an inferior program or lose to another SEC rival.

When we put a good team on the field and return to exciting football, people will come.
 
#354
#354
I didn't come to brag. The guy was trashing greek life. I'm just telling him why he is wrong. Belonging to a fraternity has huge benefits that will continue for the rest of my life. It is not paying for friends. It is the experience and the future networking that you could only understand if you where a part of it. To bad for you that you are ignorant and trash something that you have never experienced.
 
#355
#355
Who needs networking? Just choose a math/science/engineering major and you're set.

This is the reason why greek stereotypes are formed.
 
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#356
#356
John_Doe said:
I didn't come to brag. The guy was trashing greek life. I'm just telling him why he is wrong. Belonging to a fraternity has huge benefits that will continue for the rest of my life. It is not paying for friends. It is the experience and the future networking that you could only understand if you where a part of it. To bad for you that you are ignorant and trash something that you have never experienced.
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Ahh, the ignorance of youth!
 
#357
#357
John_Doe said:
I didn't come to brag. The guy was trashing greek life. I'm just telling him why he is wrong. Belonging to a fraternity has huge benefits that will continue for the rest of my life. It is not paying for friends. It is the experience and the future networking that you could only understand if you where a part of it. To bad for you that you are ignorant and trash something that you have never experienced.
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Never mind......I was going to say something, but, nahh. I don't wanna get banned.
 
#358
#358
Bassmanbruno said:
lol, greeks.
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I love it when this debate breaks out. The frat guys are pegged as besotten rapists who have to pay for companionship. Then, the Greeks act as if being in a fraternity at UT is somehow equivalent to membership in Skull and Bones. It's rather amusing.
 
#359
#359
hatvol96 said:
I love it when this debate breaks out. The frat guys are pegged as besotten rapists who have to pay for companionship. Then, the Greeks act as if being in a fraternity at UT is somehow equivalent to membership in Skull and Bones. It's rather amusing.
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I have great friends and colleagues that were in fraternities, and I have others that were not. My experience is that those that were Greek spent a little more money in school, had a good time and gained lifelong friends, but gained very little from a professional aspect. The "networking" idea is contrived and untrue.

It's a personal choice and I respect both. But, to claim that one or the other is a better fan or gets some sort of advantage in later life is ridiculous.
 
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kiddiedoc said:
Neither this nor the $20 charge is keeping kids from going. Just like a lot of the alumni and older crowd, they don't care much about going to watch a sputtering offense implode and us either barely beat an inferior program or lose to another SEC rival.

When we put a good team on the field and return to exciting football, people will come.
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Wait...so you're saying that winning football teams make for rowdy crowds? I thought, judging from the tenor of this board, that it must be the other way around. Are you sure you don't have that backwards?
 
#364
#364
Obviously if UT was 5-0 instead of 2-3 this wouldn't have happened.
FWIW a decline in attendance is probably going to follow.
Economy didn't help.
 
#366
#366
Winning will cure all problems. Once kiffin gets top talent on roster and starts winning big games, the stadium will be packed like the old days!
 
#367
#367
VolsRule said:
Winning will cure all problems. Once kiffin gets top talent on roster and starts winning big games, the stadium will be packed like the old days!
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Agreed, but it will take time. I don't think it will happen for the next two years
 
#369
#369
THe selling of extra SEC game student returns is more unlikely since they are $70 a pop now...Thanks Hammy~~~
 
#371
#371
I heard something in passing today on the radio about CLK offering students a chance to come watch practice and then a get together with Coach Summit. I wasn't really paying attention, so I could be wrong. I think something like that would be a good idea, if true.
 
#372
#372
vol66 said:
I heard something in passing today on the radio about CLK offering students a chance to come watch practice and then a get together with Coach Summit. I wasn't really paying attention, so I could be wrong. I think something like that would be a good idea, if true.
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A few days before school started this year CLK was in Presidential basically begging students to come see practice.
 
#373
#373
Where is the Lord of Fandom? We need his guidence.....pray to the Lord Vader!
 
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