Expand Neyland

[greenbacknative]

200,000 capacity would be crazy

Go on You Tube and check out Josh Pray and his video on the fan experience at the Florida game.. It's hilarious ! He said he felt like there was 200Kat the game it was so loud..

 

[TrueOrange]

The seats are small enough as it is

But bigger number better!!

 

[lukeneyland]

View attachment 499278Probably just in jest but I’d love to see a big project like this. Imagine getting so good that we have to expand our 100k seat stadium (…after reducing it but that’s not the point).

Feels good to be winning again. #GBO

I’d like to return the west upper deck to regular bleachers. The Tennessee terrace is lame as hell

 

[ThreatLevelOrange]

I’d rather sell out the stadium with the loudest crowd in the country.

 

[TennVols12]

200,000 capacity would be crazy

Dang right, build a triple deck!

 

[Smokey7]

Let's show the country we have the best fans and best stadium second to none!

 

[SpaceCoastVol]

The seats are small enough as it is

Boeing consultants have been hired and say 'hold my beer'.

 

[Holys#!tVol1979]

Make them smaller

Tear the seats out and put in 300,000 beanbags!

 

[ArmchairQB]

Boeing consultants have been hired and say 'hold my beer'.

Coming soon, the $35 clear bag upsell.

 

[GulfCoasterVol]

Make them smaller

Exactly ... If we are truly back and competing with the big boys... we want need seats... we will be standing and making things hostile !!!

 

[OrangeTsar]

Unpopular opinion, but I’d hate to see us expand too fast. Look at what happened to Bristol motor speedway—expanded like crazy to support peak interest, and then when interest started to wane slightly, it just means more empty seats, which negates the rule of scarcity, which means the product seems less appealing.

If you build it, they will come

 

[OrangeTsar]

Keep building higher until you have to supply Oxygen masks

 

[WoodsmanVol]

Don't do it. Modern technology is already encouraging people to enjoy games from the comfort of home. Expanding the stadium is a waste of money. The very next step in home entertainment is virtual reality projection that will let you virtually walk onto the field and watch plans unfold as if you were physically there on the field. Rather than expand the stadium, redesign for some traditional physical seatings, and some VR stations in lieu of traditional seats.

However, if the UT is going to expand, do a complete renovation. Tear out benches, install weatherproof, comfortable individual seats. Design a four spoke maglev system to haul fans from locations as far as maybe 100 miles, and as close as downtown Knoxville. That would reduce traffic and vehicle generated pollution, plus serve as a high speed employees commuting system. Cost can be shared by cities, counties, and the state, perhaps businesses as well that want special boarding and departure stations for their employees.

Yes, I know, these are wild and crazy ideas, but then I am wild and crazy. Shamelessly so, I'm afraid.

 

[clarencepeabody]

If you build it, they will come

Until they don’t! Haha

 

[VOLfrombama]

Take out the bench seats in the south upper deck, add seatback chairs like the north endzone, then add party decks above them on each side of the Jumbotron. You could easily get it back up around 102K+

 

[volfeeva]

If they want to add seats at Neyland, I saw a bunch of empty ones at the LSU game they could probably get on the cheap.

 

[ptcarter]

We need those towers like in harry potter. Sticking out over the top of the 2nd deck at six different places, people crammed in vertically all the way up. So tall Goodyear has to modify its blimp to fly an extra 500' higher when they come to us.

You could probably get another 50,000 people in those if they do it right.

Go Vols!

Or a glass dome (flat) over the stadium. New season ticket holders could lay on their stomachs and look straight down. Dead over the 50 and the Power T would be expensive.

Kidding aside and from an engineering standpoint, it'd be hard to expand the stadium beyond what it currently is, (without tearing down an existing part of the stadium, watch the youtube on Kyle field stadium demolition). I'd LOVE to see an architects rendering on where they would put more seats. I can't picture it.

edit 1: Adding link to TAM demolition

edit 2: I think I'd cry if this happened to Neyland.

 

[Hank Bukowski]

The seats are small enough as it is

This!

 

[Manchester Vol]

Make them smaller

I could lose about 10 pounds for this particular mile stone but I’m not willing to lose 75 for a smaller seat.

 

[37620VOL]

Bleacher seats on top of the skyboxes

 

[SGMVols]

He was only kidding, and there isn’t any space to fit an expansion anyway

 

[SGMVols]

Ticket prices need to come down …. To hell with the crazy prices

It’s just supply and demand, so you might as well get used to it as long as Heupel keeps lighting up scoreboards like Christmas trees.

 

[youcancallmeAl]

At great expense, the stadium is the revenue generator that the AD wants, and seats over 100K. Leave well enough alone.

 

[youcancallmeAl]

Don't do it. Modern technology is already encouraging people to enjoy games from the comfort of home. Expanding the stadium is a waste of money. The very next step in home entertainment is virtual reality projection that will let you virtually walk onto the field and watch plans unfold as if you were physically there on the field. Rather than expand the stadium, redesign for some traditional physical seatings, and some VR stations in lieu of traditional seats.

However, if the UT is going to expand, do a complete renovation. Tear out benches, install weatherproof, comfortable individual seats. Design a four spoke maglev system to haul fans from locations as far as maybe 100 miles, and as close as downtown Knoxville. That would reduce traffic and vehicle generated pollution, plus serve as a high speed employees commuting system. Cost can be shared by cities, counties, and the state, perhaps businesses as well that want special boarding and departure stations for their employees.

Yes, I know, these are wild and crazy ideas, but then I am wild and crazy. Shamelessly so, I'm afraid.

Maglevs are very, very expensive, and you have to have the land for it, which is hard to assemble, not to mention expensive. Better to use existing rail lines or existing roads with buses and satellite parking lots. But the idea is right.

 

[Adam Sandler]

3rd bowl! Let’s get to 120k largest stadium in country by a lot!