We have to make some changes to be competitive again. We were there once and can get back again.
Cowbells need to go. No ring responsibly, just be done with them. Watching a home game on TV is awful. You think Gameday is ever going to come back? Nope. We ***** and moan about the Vandy Whistler...the cowbells are just as annoying, if not more. You know I'm right. We ring those bells when were honoring people on the field during timeouts and you can't even hear whats going on. Its embarrassing. Not that we're worthy of any sort of primetime game, but I promise you ESPN/ABC thinks about that stuff. For the casual fan tuning in, its painful. If you guys prefer 11am games then we should keep them.
Davis Wade sucks. The north endzone is fantastic. Keep it, tear down the rest. Our front row is so far away from the field we will never have an atmosphere like a big time program. Watching on TV sometimes the first row of the fans is not even in the camera shot. I sit in the 200 level on the west side. Without really doing some research I'd be willing to bet the front row of the 200 level is further away than most seats in the upper deck at Neyland, or most other stadium upper decks. I was just at the super dome in the 500 level...that was so much closer to the action than our 200 level. I'd even be willing to bet the 40th row in the lower level is as far away from the field as some seats in the upper decks at other stadiums. You architect dogs can probably pull slopes and angles and **** easier than I ever could.
All of our lower levels are awful. You guys know what I'm talking about so I wont go into details. Lets just redo them both.
Whatever it takes...tear down the entire west side and redo it. Build that **** full of luxury seating, club level, etc but put that thing on top of the field. I don't know why, but it drives me crazy seeing how far away our seats are from the field. While we rebuild one side, everyone can sit on the other. Theres plenty of room. Then do the other side next. We need a tight *** stadium thats on top of the field. 50-55k is plenty. Finish bowling in the south endzone. That hotel idea would be awesome. Just like the Lofts at Dudy Noble.
2 humungous video boards are stupid. Maybe it was cool in 2008? If some seats weren't so far away from the field those wouldn't be needed. We could have a reasonable sized board in every corner.
NIL - someone has to step up and get creative. The university needs to get creative. They are the ones with the money. I know Tenn charges and extra $10 on their tickets that go to their NIL. We need to figure out something similar. We will always have a core that buys tickets whether they go or not. Figure out what our break even costs are on game day operations and then the rest of our ticket sales go to NIL. So if a ticket is $100 and $50 of that is the break even costs.....$50 goes to the NIL. Its not gonna work with Bill from Noxapater auto drafting $25 a month.
I just want to be competitive again and at least have a fun game day atmosphere. This is an investment, but they have the money.
Cowbells need to go. No ring responsibly, just be done with them. Watching a home game on TV is awful. You think Gameday is ever going to come back? Nope. We ***** and moan about the Vandy Whistler...the cowbells are just as annoying, if not more. You know I'm right. We ring those bells when were honoring people on the field during timeouts and you can't even hear whats going on. Its embarrassing. Not that we're worthy of any sort of primetime game, but I promise you ESPN/ABC thinks about that stuff. For the casual fan tuning in, its painful. If you guys prefer 11am games then we should keep them.
Davis Wade sucks. The north endzone is fantastic. Keep it, tear down the rest. Our front row is so far away from the field we will never have an atmosphere like a big time program. Watching on TV sometimes the first row of the fans is not even in the camera shot. I sit in the 200 level on the west side. Without really doing some research I'd be willing to bet the front row of the 200 level is further away than most seats in the upper deck at Neyland, or most other stadium upper decks. I was just at the super dome in the 500 level...that was so much closer to the action than our 200 level. I'd even be willing to bet the 40th row in the lower level is as far away from the field as some seats in the upper decks at other stadiums. You architect dogs can probably pull slopes and angles and **** easier than I ever could.
All of our lower levels are awful. You guys know what I'm talking about so I wont go into details. Lets just redo them both.
Whatever it takes...tear down the entire west side and redo it. Build that **** full of luxury seating, club level, etc but put that thing on top of the field. I don't know why, but it drives me crazy seeing how far away our seats are from the field. While we rebuild one side, everyone can sit on the other. Theres plenty of room. Then do the other side next. We need a tight *** stadium thats on top of the field. 50-55k is plenty. Finish bowling in the south endzone. That hotel idea would be awesome. Just like the Lofts at Dudy Noble.
2 humungous video boards are stupid. Maybe it was cool in 2008? If some seats weren't so far away from the field those wouldn't be needed. We could have a reasonable sized board in every corner.
NIL - someone has to step up and get creative. The university needs to get creative. They are the ones with the money. I know Tenn charges and extra $10 on their tickets that go to their NIL. We need to figure out something similar. We will always have a core that buys tickets whether they go or not. Figure out what our break even costs are on game day operations and then the rest of our ticket sales go to NIL. So if a ticket is $100 and $50 of that is the break even costs.....$50 goes to the NIL. Its not gonna work with Bill from Noxapater auto drafting $25 a month.
I just want to be competitive again and at least have a fun game day atmosphere. This is an investment, but they have the money.
