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VOLINVONORE said:
What do you mean? I bought the ticket for the Georgia Tech tickets at the ticket office.at face value They were not student tickets. Student tickets back then were a piece of cardboard and did not have seat numbers on them. You had to get there early if you wanted a specific area to sit. The Greeks always had pledges get there really early to reserve seats for their group.
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My mistake if I misread your post. You said you registered for classes then went to the ticket office to buy tickets and flipped them for a profit. I assumed you meant student tickets
 
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#28
Neyland is quiet compared to my childhood in the 90s I have bad hearing from it and now I hear fine 90% of the game

Thanks AD for removing students with barrier to entry, gatekeeping ticket prices
 
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lastlapuncle said:
When I started to UT in the fall of 66,we could get into a game with a ticket using our student id to obtain.With all the vast amounts of money flowing around all college athletics,why cannot this be reinstated for students everywhere?The prices added on to those who want season tickets and private boxes.Greed has its end also.
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How many students were there in 1966? There are 40,000 today.
 
#31
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kckempf,I believe there were about22-24 thousand students.Not sure.Why would that have anything to do with the charge on the student tickets?Neyland was 64 -72 thousand at 1966.Add 35,000 seas.107,000.Take away 5,000 seats for sky boxes ,you have102,000 seats.
 
#32
#32
Man, reading this thread really made me think back to my own college days. Getting tickets felt so much simpler and cheaper back then, but it’s a totally different world now. I remember hustling to the student center to get my spot and feeling like I lucked out if I got a seat for a big rivalry game. Even a decade ago prices were nothing like they are now, and honestly, it’s wild how quickly things changed. Now if I want to catch a sold-out game or a big concert in my area, I usually look at resale and broker sites for last-minute availability or a better seat. I’ve ended up using StarTickets a few times when I was looking for a legit way to get premium or hard-to-find tickets. They handled the delivery super smoothly and I liked not worrying about getting scammed, so that’s something I keep in mind if all the regular channels are already wiped out.
 
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#36
I've done this math before.
say 1/4 of the students on campus attend the game...that's roughly 10K.
Leaving 90K of non-students attending.

If UT gets say $40 profit off each ticket (meaning the true cost to the school is $40 as well), then you have to make up 400K in sales.
400K divided by 90K = $4.45.
So the question becomes, would each one of the 90K be willing to pay $5 more per ticket so the 10K students could attend for free?

To me, that's a no brainer to pack out your student section with rabid, high energy spectators.
It's one of the things that makes Neyland a forbidding place to play as a visiting team.
 
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kckempf said:
40k is on campus students, 32k of which are undergrad. Including the online students drives the total over 60k.
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There are not 40k students who live on campus. That is the total university enrollment. In fact, the 2024-25 academic year saw total enrollment of 38,728 (30,564 undergrads and 8,164 grad students). Of that total, 3,169 take all of their classes online.

The number of students who live on campus is approximately 9,000.
 
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VolCalls said:
There are not 40k students who live on campus. That is the total university enrollment. In fact, the 2024-25 academic year saw total enrollment of 38,728 (30,564 undergrads and 8,164 grad students). Of that total, 3,169 take all of their classes online.

The number of students who live on campus is approximately 9,000.
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Even when there were no online classes more students lived off campus than on campus. I lived off campus for about as long as I lived on campus. They have more on campus housing now than they did when I went to school, and we had over 20k undergrads even then. Keep in mind that about as many students live off campus but within walking distance as live on campus.

When I was at school, we had 26k total students and all of them could get free student tickets. With nearly 40k in Knoxville now (not counting some online students who live in Knoxville) that's enough that free tickets isn't going to be a thing, especially with resale hitting over $300 on so many football games.
 
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dobre_shunka said:
If you want students really interested in attending and being active at games, it's better to charge. If tickets are free, you will attract more types to the games as a social event and looking for instagram moments.

Plus the price of a season's worth of football games is about 1% of the typical annual cost to attend UT. It"s not sizable expense comparatively.
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I agree. Plus, free tix will tend to have people not show since they didn't have to pay anything at all. You may end up with the opposite effect or it will balance out and be the same.

My daughter will be going to UT in the fall. To get those $25 tickets, I believe they told us that they also must go to some lady vols games (basketball or volleyball usually) or other games almost nobody wants to see. So, they are doing 2 things there. Making a tiny bit of $$ and getting students together, less popular, athletic events.

I think the current situation is fine.
 
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