Zero False Starts. People if you’re gonna

[UTK]

sit on your hands in a close ****ing ball game, give your tickets to someone else. Sitting like a deer in headlights looking like a nervous wreck instead of making noise ain’t helping anything. It was loud early but that was short lived. A normal neyland environment and I believe we squeak this one out. I’ll be the first to boast that Neyland is the best home environment in the country by a mile, but today it was a shell of its normal self. Gotta get over your stupid BVS people. Make an impact.

 

[rjd970]

Yeah, crowd failed miserably in this one.

 

[RockyTop140]

Weak crowd I agree. Seriously unimpressed.

 

[deezvols]

Popcorn vendors were struggling too!

 

[TrojanorVol]

I think we tossed the game when we didnt go for an orange out and went to the checkerboard look. Maybe next time it is finally time to try something different against Georgia. What do I know though?

 

[Berry4Heisman14]

This is what happens when nosebleed tickets go for 300-500$. Only the old geezers with lots of money can afford to go.

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

What happens when hardcore fans are priced out

 

[AlwaysOrangeNeverBlue]

You have no idea how many fans we were screaming at just to stand up, much less yell. Fire them all.

 

[UTK]

I will say if the refs call a clean game we win by multiple scores too. lol but still not gonna put it all on that sec refs are what they are. You gotta win despite them usually.

 

[ChrisOnRockyTop]

If they ain't gonna scream for the VOLS at least scream for your wallets while you are there.

 

[BigOrangeLoyalist]

This is what happens when nosebleed tickets go for 300-500$. Only the old geezers with lots of money can afford to go.

Spot on. It makes no sense to me why a crappy seat costs $400. So instead of profiting maybe $150-200 on that ticket plus adding a rabid fan that wants to contribute to “home field advantage,” instead the seats are 80% full of primarily “older / wealthy” folks that hardly get off their asses, let alone make a ton of noise. The noise in these games should be deafening almost nonstop.

 

[walkenvol]

I was in P section and the folks around me were standing and loud the whole game - I was impressed with the extended enthusiasm.

 

[jp1]

I was in P section and the folks around me were standing and loud the whole game - I was impressed with the extended enthusiasm.

Same in Y9.

 

[Other_Guy]

This isnt a crowd thing, its a tenn thing. Really good teams dont get shaken and rattled at neyland as much as some of these other places. Not saying its not effective in general. I think of when baker lead the comeback. Tenn just isnt one of those schools that has all those big upsets. Somehow other teams have dont have as long of a streak against really great teams. Tenn fans arent so lucky.

 

[wmcovol]

Credit to Georgia. Crowd was no factor to them.

 

[volbound1700]

This isnt a crowd thing, its a tenn thing. Really good teams dont get shaken and rattled at neyland as much as some of these other places. Not saying its not effective in general. I think of when baker lead the comeback. Tenn just isnt one of those schools that has all those big upsets. Somehow other teams have dont have as long of a streak against really great teams. Tenn fans arent so lucky.

Alabama did in 2022

 

[UTK]

Credit to Georgia. Crowd was no factor to them.

Nah. No team is full proof against neyland at its peak. Zero false starts means the crowd didn’t just bring it as much as they needed.

 

[UTK]

This isnt a crowd thing, its a tenn thing. Really good teams dont get shaken and rattled at neyland as much as some of these other places. Not saying its not effective in general. I think of when baker lead the comeback. Tenn just isnt one of those schools that has all those big upsets. Somehow other teams have dont have as long of a streak against really great teams. Tenn fans arent so lucky.

There’s no team in college that ain’t at least getting a couple false starts if Neyland is at its peak. It’s just impossible to have zero flase starts if you can’t hear ****. The fans were awful today by our normal standards.

 

[Other_Guy]

Alabama did in 2022

And scored a million points anyway

 

[Other_Guy]

There’s no team in college that ain’t at least getting a couple false starts if Neyland is at its peak. It’s just impossible to have zero flase starts if you can’t hear ****. The fans were awful today by our normal standards.

I wasn't there and don't go to the games. So clearly I'm not one to speak on it

 

[Rocky Top T]

What happens when hardcore fans are priced out

Exactly!

 

[Rocky Top T]

The crowd was terrible!!!

 

[UTK]

I wasn't there and don't go to the games. So clearly I'm not one to speak on it

I wasn’t either but by all accounts I’ve heard, really disappointing stuff. Fans having to try to get the fans to be loud. Don’t get me wrong at times it was LOUD by accounts. 1st quarter, the series we got the fumble. But other than that just wasn’t the standard. The problem was it wasn’t consistent. Too many lulls.

 

[Other_Guy]

I wasn’t either but by all accounts I’ve heard, really disappointing stuff. Fans having to try to get the fans to be loud. Don’t get me wrong at times it was LOUD by accounts. 1st quarter, the series we got the fumble. But other than that just wasn’t the standard. The problem was it wasn’t consistent. Too many lulls.

They had the bad stretch and then maybe BVS set in at the end?

 

[RockyTop140]

I wasn’t either but by all accounts I’ve heard, really disappointing stuff. Fans having to try to get the fans to be loud. Don’t get me wrong at times it was LOUD by accounts. 1st quarter, the series we got the fumble. But other than that just wasn’t the standard. The problem was it wasn’t consistent. Too many lulls.

I agree. 2022 bama was loud all the way through. Even after we gave up the scoop and score.