Danny White "exploring all options" to expand Neyland capacity

[lukeneyland]

We could always take out chair backs and put in bleachers. That would give us a modest increase. No reason to sit down at Neyland anyway

 

[VOLfrombama]

Its like some of you think the man can't chew gum and walk at the same time. He can finish renovations and still look into expansion. We cry about everything

Most of the complaints itt are actually being addressed during the current renovation process. Its gonna be 2025 before most are done.

 

[volinsd]

Dan, ole man, focus on making Neyland the most appealing stadium, college or pro. Convert all seating to waterproof plush butt buckets. With slide out knee level cup and plate holders. Make the restrooms something less than pig stys. Put in a drone drop system where a phone app lets you order and pay for concessionary foods, and a hovering drone lowers the boxed meal to you. The app also identifies the specific seat that originated the order. Put in a retractable dome over Neyland. Dig an underground that's open only on game days. Have POTS integrate some good ole Charley Daniel music into their marching routines.

I like your style, old man

 

[loservol]

 

[VOLtaism]

I can't imagine being any higher up than you are at the top of either upper deck. I don't know where else you can put them. Anybody?

2 person swings hanging from the upper deck.

 

[Volador]

I understand that Danny White, being ahead of his time, is exploring iClouds Boxes

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[Batman1948]

Just stop. Renovate the parts of the stadium that need it. Why add more? It may fall down. Our West side was renovated roughly a decade ago. Now it's all under construction again for some reason, while they continue to not make improvements in other neglected areas. Some of the men's rooms still have the feeding troughs in the bathrooms, no joke. Also, very outdated concession areas and tight pathways.

How about stop taking people's seats just to add "club seats" that no one can afford to buy and the people that used to sit in said seats, have been displaced into terrible seating options in the end zones, or nose bleeds?......what a better way to say thank you to your fans.....

Before I get called out for being bitter....we are still in our long-standing seats, but no one else around us is. It sucks for them. Now just new faces each and every game and most could care less to watch the game and many are fans of the opposing team. All for what? Few extra bucks?

Just leave **** alone and continue to focus on winning. Because, if winning dries up, you'll have tons of empty seats like Dooley, Jones, Pruitt eras. Just stop already and enjoy the ride, enjoy the current situation. All the damn construction makes it hard to park, enter the stadium, and move about. Just chill out.

Can't stop progress bud

 

[adam.vol]

Shouldn’t have shrunk it as much as they have over the last 20 years.

Stark contrast between Fulmer’s “the days of 110,000 fans is over” to “we’re exploring all options to expand”. Anyone still think the AD position doesn’t matter? I once did.

 

[Delmar]

Dan, ole man, focus on making Neyland the most appealing stadium, college or pro. Convert all seating to waterproof plush butt buckets. With slide out knee level cup and plate holders. Make the restrooms something less than pig stys. Put in a drone drop system where a phone app lets you order and pay for concessionary foods, and a hovering drone lowers the boxed meal to you. The app also identifies the specific seat that originated the order. Put in a retractable dome over Neyland. Dig an underground that's open only on game days. Have POTS integrate some good ole Charley Daniel music into their marching routines.

If I attended regularly (which I don’t anymore), I’d prefer they give the seats a little more width. If you get a two ton or two on your row, everyone is basically SOL. It’s bad enough if everyone looked like Stringbean but they don’t.

 

[Hulavol]

If they were truly serious about this - and there is no practical reason to do this- but the ultimate solution is to rip the upper decks and boxes completely off. Then build out the lower bowl substantially and put a whole new upper deck and press boxes all the way around- with two jumbo trons on each end in between the press boxes. Put VOLS on both ends above that. You could get 140k in there and not be as far away from the field as with places like LSU and UGA.
It would only cost about a billion dollars and take at least a year to do. You’d have to play the whole season in Nashville and maybe a home game or two in Georgia Dome during construction. That money would be better spent on a whole pile of left tackles…..

 

[WoodsmanVol]

If I attended regularly (which I don’t anymore), I’d prefer they give the seats a little more width. If you get a two ton or two on your row, everyone is basically SOL. It’s bad enough if everyone looked like Stringbean but they don’t.

Yep. Bipedal whales, I call them.

 

[Delmar]

Yep. Bipedal whales, I call them.

Or the 1000 pound sisters

 

[Voltopia]

They are not expanding the stadium capacity to any significant degree. They aren't doing it. There's no argument for it. It's hideously expensive, impractical from a construction perspective, and most stadiums don't worry or care about having 100,000 fans anymore. Getting to 100k was a pissing contest and Tennessee wanted to be involved. Same as when they built Thompson-Boling Arena at Food City Center Preserved By Pilot and Supported by Fanduel.

Anyone with any degree of connection to the AD has always suggested that the math just doesn't add up to make the change, not from an expense perspective, nor from the perspective of need. Every time they do discuss changing the seating capacity, it's to look at what would happen if they removed or replaced the bleacher seating with modern stadium seating -- and trust me, you do not want to know how many fewer seats Neyland would have if they made that change. I don't recall the number off the top of my head but I think it was suggested to be under 90,000. Now that, no one will abide by, so ... we'll just have to continue to sit on our one cheek and like it.

Danny White is just playing the game. You don't tell people no, especially when it comes from a place of excitement and engagement. "We're looking into it." The PR equivalent of don't call us, we'll call you.

 

[Wireless1]

We DON'T need to expand. We've been there and done that. Renovate what is there now and make it a show piece stadium with amenities and comfort. Expanding is stoopid.

le'me guess, you either already have season tickets or never go to a game, as a longtime season ticket holder of 4, with an expanding (adult) family, I'd like for them to at least add 5K seats.

 

[WoodsmanVol]

Or the 1000 pound sisters

Yeah, but not all the whales are female.

 

[Swiftybaby]

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This is the million rendition... Might as well go for it lol

Damn quidditch World Cup stadium

 

[Flipdaddy]

What would be nice is if everybody had their own seats like at a MLB baseball game. I know it would reduce capacity but the flat bleachers are hard on us old fellers . Y’all will be there one day. Going to bring a better cushion this year.

 

[Volbrando]

I think they’ll reduce capacity and enhance comfort before they ever expand it.

 

[ftsandersvol]

I haven't seen any conversations about this so figured I would share.

I haven't seen any talk of increased seating capacity in a long, long time. I figured we were past that phase of Neyland Stadium's development, but with 15,000 people on the waiting list and demand for tickets extremely high I suppose it makes sense.

What could this look like? I can't see them adding more traditional seating capacity or a third concourse like that one ai meme images that always circulates, but maybe expanded skyboxes the length of the field? This would be similar to what Michigan did at the big house several years ago.

They’ve already priced me out of attending games, so if they want to shrink the seat width another six-to-eight inches so my fat *ss can’t fit in them, more power to them.

 

[ptcarter]

Gotta weigh in. Couple of things - went to twitter and read the comments. I didn't know that UT sold 13,000 tickets to ticket brokers when there is a backlog for season tickets. Also people are saying get rid of ticket master, might not be bad. lastly, bigger isn't always better. Hotels, parking, eating, traffic. The infrastructure for all that seems about capacity now.

 

[CAVPUT]

If I attended regularly (which I don’t anymore), I’d prefer they give the seats a little more width. If you get a two ton or two on your row, everyone is basically SOL. It’s bad enough if everyone looked like Stringbean but they don’t.

Just need to stand or sit in a new way. Are you a real fan or not?

 

[ATC_VOL]

What would be nice is if everybody had their own seats like at a MLB baseball game. I know it would reduce capacity but the flat bleachers are hard on us old fellers . Y’all will be there one day. Going to bring a better cushion this year.

I’d settle for bleacher seats with backs, amazing what a difference those make. The newer endzone upper deck at Bama has them.

 

[greenbacknative]

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This is the million rendition... Might as well go for it lol

That would be like watching ants run around on a matchbox LOL !

 

[Volfan1000]

I haven't seen any conversations about this so figured I would share.

I haven't seen any talk of increased seating capacity in a long, long time. I figured we were past that phase of Neyland Stadium's development, but with 15,000 people on the waiting list and demand for tickets extremely high I suppose it makes sense.

What could this look like? I can't see them adding more traditional seating capacity or a third concourse like that one ai meme images that always circulates, but maybe expanded skyboxes the length of the field? This would be similar to what Michigan did at the big house several years ago.

I could see them try to expand Neyland to 125,000 seating capacity to try and take advantage of the entertainment district.

 

[Volfan1000]

As someone once said, "If you build it, they will come."

RIP James Earl Jones.