UT students return tickets

#101
#101
VFL10 said:
A lot of you on this board bashing students for not buying tickets are not coming either and for the exact same reasons.
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what % of students are not attending because they aren't allowed to walk and their son's 1st bday party is on Sunday? :p
 
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#102
#102
Im a student and think it's stupid to complain about paying $10 for a football ticket. I even pay my own tuition and housing (well, eventually thanks to loans). So that argument is null and irrelevant IMO. Especially when the ones griping will go to Tin Roof or some other bar and drop a student season ticket amount ($60) at one sitting.
 
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jamoke19 said:
Im a student and think it's stupid to complain about paying $10 for a football ticket. I even pay my own tuition and housing (well, eventually thanks to loans). So that argument is null and irrelevant IMO. Especially when the ones griping will go to Tin Roof or some other bar and drop a student season ticket amount ($60) at one sitting.
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Some people don't use loaned money to pay for football.

Just saying.
 
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If the opinion that "UT will get killed" is the reason you don't go to the game, you are not a true fan. IMO JMO TIFWIW
 
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emzeeee said:
And for anyone that didn't live on campus, going to the game was not 3-4 hours. Say goodbye to Saturday.

And that's not the point. A lot of people, including myself, worked during the week and had to balance a lot of things. Sometimes football got pushed out of the way so I could dedicate the time to some class.

That's just how the time management worked. If I thought football was the most important thing to me, then I would have been there every single week. But, it's not.
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:good!:
 
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#107
This is just an effect of how UT operates now. As a junior this year, UT has continued their goal to be a top 25 school, thus they bring in kids with 4.0s, etc and I know it sounds crazy but you can just tell on campus. Kids aren't excited about Tennessee football and they usually take the weekends to go home or do homework rather than go to the game. I know I am always at Neyland with my 102,000 friends trying to root for this team to pull the upset every weekend, even this one. How many people can say that Neyland stadium is in their back yard and they can pay 10$ to go to a game, not very many. However, you have to win for people to start wanting to come and getting in the frenzy of excitement. It just pisses me off when I am walking around campus and see people wearing Florida, Oregon, LSU, South Carolina and even Alabama gear around campus.
 
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Orange&White said:
This is just an effect of how UT operates now. As a junior this year, UT has continued their goal to be a top 25 school, thus they bring in kids with 4.0s, etc and I know it sounds crazy but you can just tell on campus. Kids aren't excited about Tennessee football and they usually take the weekends to go home or do homework rather than go to the game. I know I am always at Neyland with my 102,000 friends trying to root for this team to pull the upset every weekend, even this one. How many people can say that Neyland stadium is in their back yard and they can pay 10$ to go to a game, not very many. However, you have to win for people to start wanting to come and getting in the frenzy of excitement. It just pisses me off when I am walking around campus and see people wearing Florida, Oregon, LSU, South Carolina and even Alabama gear around campus.
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That's because UT isn't just a school for kids from Tennessee. There's nothing wrong with the school trying to be better academically. The football team suffers 0 from that. If they win, the games will be sold out.
 
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Orange&White said:
This is just an effect of how UT operates now. As a junior this year, UT has continued their goal to be a top 25 school, thus they bring in kids with 4.0s, etc and I know it sounds crazy but you can just tell on campus. Kids aren't excited about Tennessee football and they usually take the weekends to go home or do homework rather than go to the game. I know I am always at Neyland with my 102,000 friends trying to root for this team to pull the upset every weekend, even this one. How many people can say that Neyland stadium is in their back yard and they can pay 10$ to go to a game, not very many. However, you have to win for people to start wanting to come and getting in the frenzy of excitement. It just pisses me off when I am walking around campus and see people wearing Florida, Oregon, LSU, South Carolina and even Alabama gear around campus.
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This is simply not true. And I, for one, am very glad that my alma mater is focusing on academics.
 
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X2row34 said:
Per UT AD text I just recieved. In thirty years, not sure i ever remember this happening.
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Well this girl says she doesn't want the hope she has in here body to be sucked out of her cheek with a blinding ball of light....just like last time during the Florida home loss.

Crying-Tennessee-Fan.jpeg
 
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Thrasher865 said:
This is simply not true. And I, for one, am very glad that my alma mater is focusing on academics.
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agreed, I'm fine with it getting tougher. Makes the degree UT somehow gave me worth more. I appreciate the students of today making me look better :hi:
 
#114
#114
Tennessee does not win. People not going to spend hard earned money on this stuff. Alabama pays a good coach to coach them. They win. They sellout their games at home. See the difference. When the only SEC team you beat in this being the 3rd year is Ole Miss,Vandy, and Kentucky. People are tired of it.
 
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FLVOL_79 said:
We had to camp out for Bama/Florida tickets when I was at UT in the late 90's.
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For big games in the 70s too, albeit a much smaller stadium and the student tickets were free. The big, every-year games in those days were Auburn and Bama. We infrequently played Florida or Georgia.
 
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I am good friends with eddie george. I have known him for 6 years. we were working out today, and he told me he is picking the upset over alabama. he mentioned that he had a very funny feeling about this game that he couldnt pinpoint. Watch fox on saturday morning, that is his show with erin andrews. He will pick it then. I been having a weird feeling about this game too. I dont know what it is....oh one more thing. He also mentioned that he has cordarrelle patterson on his watchlist. No other expert has him on their watchlist, but he said that this guy is a beast and is a once every decade player.
 
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crazyguy said:
some people are majoring in things other than basket weaving or psychology.
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I graduated with a degree that wasn't basket weaving and structured my schedule where I could be at Neyland those 7 Satudays a year. If you are in school 15 hours a week then that leaves a lot of hours to work on the pressing assignments and enjoy the college experience at Neyland. If you just don't want to go that is fine but homework is really not an excuse.
 
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thebjd said:
I graduated with a degree that wasn't basket weaving and structured my schedule where I could be at Neyland those 7 Satudays a year. If you are in school 15 hours a week then that leaves a lot of hours to work on the pressing assignments and enjoy the college experience at Neyland. If you just don't want to go that is fine but homework is really not an excuse.
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It is an excuse for people who take more than 15 hours. I had 19 hours with a 15 hour practicum plus working during the week.

Many people are in similar situations. The whole 'I did <x> so everyone else can do <x> the same as me' is a stupid argument that holds no water.
 
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emzeeee said:
It is an excuse for people who take more than 15 hours. I had 19 hours with a 15 hour practicum plus working during the week.

Many people are in similar situations. The whole 'I did <x> so everyone else can do <x> the same as me' is a stupid argument that holds no water.
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Many people..........How many? I bet way more take 12 hours than have the schedule you are speaking about. There are outliers in every distribution.
 
#122
#122
Regardless of what are record is, I get excited and pumped up to watch the team play each week. I'm hoping that the stadium isn't mostly crimson in color.
 
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thebjd said:
Many people..........How many? I bet way more take 12 hours than have the schedule you are speaking about. There are outliers in every distribution.
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80% of the people I talked to and hung out with worked their asses off in school.

I don't know, something about paying tens of thousands of dollars got them focused on school rather than football. Weird, right?
 
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BigOrangeTailgate said:
I think tickets were covered by the activity fee when I was there in the late 80's/early 90's. At least that's what I think I remember, but we didn't pay per ticket and there was always more demand than supply especially for games like Florida, Bama and Notre Dame back in those days...
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This ^

I was there '94-00 and everything was covered under the catch-all activity fee. I believe that fee also granted accesss to the library and computer labs. There was no "technology fee" at that time. I'm pretty sure every student paid this fee.

I can remember gathering IDs from students that had zero interest in football so that we could get their tickets from the box-office located in the bottom of the UC. When I got there in '94 you could sell student tickets on the strip since you weren't required to swipe a student ID to enter the stadium. Peyton's rise in ~'96 saw the introduction of the "student-only" ticket.
 
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