10% "Talent Fee" added to ticket prices in 2025

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Woodlawn VOL said:
I agree on that and I love our AD. I think he is a great AD. But I hope at some point they realize they need to be careful to not out price the general public. Maybe buy adding some seats like they are looking at they lower prices a little overall. With the new outdoor district you are going to have some folks come up for the atmosphere and party without going to the game. But I agree the house is still going to be packed, with 10-15 thousand waiting on season tickets that is very obvious. GBO
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The problem I see is that there is no end to it. If that $20 million a year (to pay athletes) is accurate, schools will have to scramble every year to generate it. They will be coming hat in hand every year for more. As one poster said, what happens when a program is down? Are folks going to be happy about paying surcharges for players that suck? I think not.
 
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sportsnut624 said:
I’m fine with this but I hope they start rewarding the fans again with doing home and homes on the schedule. Paying 14% more and losing the only non conference game worth a damn every year to play in a boring neutral site game sucks for the fans. Basketball is guilty of this too.
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Idk. I mean honestly the product on the field is much better than even just a few years ago. I’m not just a talking about the team either. When do you remember having a packed house with all the bells and whistles for a team like Kent State?

The boring neutral site game had several North Carolina recruits that were looking at the program. That region is very important for our future success. We’re getting kids from some local power house programs in the seats there to see Tennessee. I’m not saying you should feel differently or anything NC State to me was a meh opponent. Just saying there’s a method to the madness so to speak. We’re going to hit up the region with neutral site game some.
 
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Vol865 said:
Some more perspective. It costs more to go watch us play Mississippi St than it costed to go watch UT vs Florida in 2016. Also, almost every other team in the SEC with similar demand has cheaper ticket prices than UT. It's not just inflation, we're charging more than most
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And yet every season ticket was sold and the only remaining single game tickets are for UTEP.

I'm curious what other schools with similar demand (i.e., sold all season tickets before start of the season) charge. Can you list the cheapest season ticket for those? UT's cheapest season ticket is $375 and you're saying UGA, Bama, etc. have cheaper season tickets than that?
 
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LittleVol said:
I donate $2,500 every year to the university and I haven’t been to a game in Years.

Also I bought Volunteers Club $5 option.

I say that to say this; everyone who is already supporting Tennessee by showing up to games can more than afford a 10% increase.

Pay these boys!
All the rest of us (me included) just keep watching the game on TV.

Remember: you can always cancel your $5 Volunteer Club membership if you don’t like it.
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EVERYBODY, really?
 
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There has to be some kind of cut off. I mean some people tithe so that's a lot more than tickets donations whatever I'm just saying some don't want to be handcuffed and just like how Tennessee keeps pumping thousands of dollars onto education through lottery use some of that money a lot of that money wasted anyways cause they don't return to school they should have to go at least a second year to receive money just throwing that out there.
 
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EZE said:
This reminds me of this gem by the great Yogi Berra, “nobody goes to that place anymore because it is too crowded.”

When I show up for the Florida game and see a completely packed house, you’re claim of “unaffordability” goes out the window.

With that said, this is my first trip back in around 8 years. I am shocked at what it costs for hotel and tickets. But I am paying it.
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Everything is fine as long as Tennessee is in the top 10-15 & competitive in the SEC. Let tough times come again and the empty seats will come back even greater than in the worst years of Jones-Pruitt
 
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sportsnut624 said:
I’m fine with this but I hope they start rewarding the fans again with doing home and homes on the schedule. Paying 14% more and losing the only non conference game worth a damn every year to play in a boring neutral site game sucks for the fans. Basketball is guilty of this too.
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EZE said:
This reminds me of this gem by the great Yogi Berra, “nobody goes to that place anymore because it is too crowded.”

When I show up for the Florida game and see a completely packed house, you’re claim of “unaffordability” goes out the window.

With that said, this is my first trip back in around 8 years. I am shocked at what it costs for hotel and tickets. But I am paying it.
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One of many great Yogi-isms!
 
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volfan2024 said:
There has to be some kind of cut off. I mean some people tithe so that's a lot more than tickets donations whatever I'm just saying some don't want to be handcuffed and just like how Tennessee keeps pumping thousands of dollars onto education through lottery use some of that money a lot of that money wasted anyways cause they don't return to school they should have to go at least a second year to receive money just throwing that out there.
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Right now the cut off is 20 million in NIL per school based on the lawsuit settlement. Don’t know if that will be adjusted for inflation. Probably.
When the settlement was reached, I figured this was coming. The top sports colleges (like UT) will be able to get the money from fans. Not sure how other schools will do it. Probably just lose their top players to teams like UT that can afford them.
 
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EZE said:
This reminds me of this gem by the great Yogi Berra, “nobody goes to that place anymore because it is too crowded.”

When I show up for the Florida game and see a completely packed house, you’re claim of “unaffordability” goes out the window.

With that said, this is my first trip back in around 8 years. I am shocked at what it costs for hotel and tickets. But I am paying it.
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Well if you come to one game every several years, of course it's not a big deal. We are talking about season ticket holders.
 
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Delmar said:
The problem I see is that there is no end to it. If that $20 million a year (to pay athletes) is accurate, schools will have to scramble every year to generate it. They will be coming hat in hand every year for more. As one poster said, what happens when a program is down? Are folks going to be happy about paying surcharges for players that suck? I think not.
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Are the collectives going to continue to beg for donations or do they become obsolete now?
 
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whm324 said:
I agree with you except in 1982, when I graduated high school, my dad had a Fiat Spider convertible and I got to drive it to school. Certainly felt like a Ferrari at that time!

Unfortunately, that does not compute to modern times. As others have said, DW is a forward thinker and seems to be consistently staying ahead of the curve!
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Forward thinking was not required for this. It was known that UT doesn't generate enough profit (Only 5 million for 2022-23) to pay 650-700 athletes. They knew a year or two ago if revenue sharing became reality, revenue had to be generated to do that. This will not be the last increase in tickets targeted to revenue sharing.
 
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onevol74 said:
It is not only UT, but every major competitive program in the future. This is the game now. It is going to cost you if you want great players and coaches. You asked for it, you got it.

The future of college football now is not if you are going to pay, but how much is it going to cost? And unlike the NFL, there is no spending cap.
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TN had to recruit a coach rather than to promote from within because LSU, Bama, Florida, Ole Miss, A&M, Miss St, Auburn.. basically everyone else was hiring a contractor. They didn’t have enough pride in their own programs to hire their own alumni, so we had to abandon our once successful model to stay relevant.

Now here we are.. Paying players to use our platform to try to make the NFL.
 
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Volbrando said:

Tennessee to add 10 percent 'talent fee' to ticket prices to raise money to give to players​


Tennessee to add 10 percent 'talent fee' to ticket prices to raise money to give to players
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So another $80/$100 added to tickets which already have $400 added for mandatory assent for a donation to the Athletic Department. I wonder why the State doesn't appropriate some money to the athletic Department. For years, the Athletic Department contributed $millions to the State Treasury. It appears it is time for some of the State surplus moneys be added to something which brings pride and additional sales taxes to the state every year. I have already spent 3-400 thousand dollars to educate my children at UT and they still want to drain more money from a 86 years old graduate..
 
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Berry4Heisman14 said:
I mean I’m glad it’ll benefit the players but tickets are already unaffordable. Nosebleeds for the Florida game are going for 350$-400$ a piece. That’s insane
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The people getting them direct from the University, and thus the ones paying this fee, aren’t paying anywhere near that much.
 
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VOLINVONORE said:
So another $80/$100 added to tickets which already have $400 added for mandatory assent for a donation to the Athletic Department. I wonder why the State doesn't appropriate some money to the athletic Department. For years, the Athletic Department contributed $millions to the State Treasury. It appears it is time for some of the State surplus moneys be added to something which brings pride and additional sales taxes to the state every year. I have already spent 3-400 thousand dollars to educate my children at UT and they still want to drain more money from a 86 years old graduate..
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1. Millions of people in the state would protest using tax dollars for athletics.

2. If the state did that for UT-Knoxville, then all public universities would have to have it.
 
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