Fan Attendance

#26
#26
Remember KY is a basketball school- only 18-19000 of their fans can have season tickets at Rupp. There is no visitor allotment for basketball games, so if you aren't a KY season ticket holder, you can forget going to a home game. Their only chance to see their team is to travel to away games and tournaments. So, that's where they choose to spend their money.
The other SEC schools, except maybe Vandy, are primarily football schools where 50-60000 have season tickets and there is a large required allotment of visitor seats. When we play a weak or distant football opponent, tickets are available for our non season ticket holder fans to go to Neyland. So, most TN fans get the chance to go to a home football game at least once in a while and a lot of us go all the time and travel every weekend to do so. Some add in an away game or 2 and a bowl game. Folks who live in the Knox area can have bball tkts, too, and some of us out of towners go for a game or 2 each year. That's how most of us TN fans spend our money.
For us, an away game (either sport) or a tournament is an EXTRA opportunity to see our team. For most KY fans it is the ONLY opportunity, and since most of them haven't paid for season tickets, they use their money to get into these tournament games at any cost.
I assume most basketball schools with weak football programs are in the same situation.
 
#27
#27
orangec said:
Remember KY is a basketball school- only 18-19000 of their fans can have season tickets at Rupp. There is no visitor allotment for basketball games, so if you aren't a KY season ticket holder, you can forget going to a home game. Their only chance to see their team is to travel to away games and tournaments. So, that's where they choose to spend their money.
The other SEC schools, except maybe Vandy, are primarily football schools where 50-60000 have season tickets and there is a large required allotment of visitor seats. When we play a weak or distant football opponent, tickets are available for our non season ticket holder fans to go to Neyland. So, most TN fans get the chance to go to a home football game at least once in a while and a lot of us go all the time and travel every weekend to do so. Some add in an away game or 2 and a bowl game. Folks who live in the Knox area can have bball tkts, too, and some of us out of towners go for a game or 2 each year. That's how most of us TN fans spend our money.
For us, an away game (either sport) or a tournament is an EXTRA opportunity to see our team. For most KY fans it is the ONLY opportunity, and since most of them haven't paid for season tickets, they use their money to get into these tournament games at any cost.
I assume most basketball schools with weak football programs are in the same situation.
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This is probably the best explanation I have seen, Makes sense. I'm still saddened by the fact though.
 
#29
#29
ut has one of the worst fan base. we would rather do the wave and laugh at the kiss cam. we don't cheer at home so why would we travel?
 
#30
#30
I'm a huge UT bball fan. I have a connection to a season-ticket holder, so I got the tournament book at face value. So, I was there today. But, if I didn't have a ticket, I wouldn't have gone. I'm not paying hundreds of dollars to see that basketball game.
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#31
#31
It's pretty simple. Basketball is Kentucky's main sport, just as Football is our main sport. If they start to out travel us in Football, then I would start to worry.
 
#34
#34
kidbourbon said:
For teams that already have a solid at-large, we can bring down those borders.
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Yes. A few are playing for something, but very few. It's just extra games by which to make incremental seeding changes.
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#35
#35
I really enjoy going to the games when they're in Atlanta but I certainly wouldn't pay big bucks for a ticket, let alone it being in nashville. I always love it when UK loses, tickets go dirt cheap.
 
#36
#36
Talked with a Vandy season ticket holder before the game and he said Vandy didn't even get an allotment of SEC tourney tickets because they were told by SEC office because they have such a poor history of selling SEC tourney tickets. He had to get his tickets through the Nashville Sports Council. I wouldn't be surprised to see that some KY fans joined the Sports Council just to buy SEC tourney tickets no matter what the price. The usher in our area yesterday said KY fans would go up to other SEC fans during games trying to buy tickets if it looked like they were losing. Said tickets were not supposed to be sold anywhere in the arena but KY fans blantanly ignored rules the whole time. This is their life and passion and if it's that important to them they have earned the right the turn every SEC arena into their home court.
 
#38
#38
Check how many UK fans travel for football games--very few, since they save all their money for BB season.
 
#40
#40
A few corrections.

Lexington is 3 hours from Nashville..... just like Knoxville.

It's not difficult to go see a UK home game....there are tickets for MOST of the home games if you want to go. You can almost always get one before the game by paying just a bit over face value. Won't be a great seat, but UK fans do have the ability to see a game even if they aren't season ticket holders.

UK fans sell out their football games and travel like crazy for football just like basketball. Certainly, UK is a basketball school, but the support for the football program has ALWAYS been very very high....even when UK was horrible. With the improvements over the past few years, there is even more support.

While there are a lot of UK fans living in Nashville and the border is only 30 some miles north, you would expect that there are more UT fans living close to Nashville than UK fans......

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#42
#42
I just hope we have a decent amount of fans attend the game/(games:crossfingers:) in RI this weekend. Wish I could be one of them...Anyway, it was pathetic to see the amount of UK fans in Nashville, and it was the same as a home game for UK.
 
#43
#43
I was there with intentions of going to at least one game over the weekend. Didn't happen. There were easily 3,000 more UK fans there than the ones that filled the arena. The local story in the bars was that UK fans swarmed the arena and bought tickets inside from the losing teams on their way out on Thursday and Friday. Although illegal, it was allowed. And thus you had 19,000 tickets for UK fans and the remaining few so overpriced by scalpers it was ridiculous.

On one hand it sucked that UK took over the town. But on the other, their fans were friendly and the scalpers got their knees cut out from under them.
 
#45
#45
onevolfan said:
I just hope we have a decent amount of fans attend the game/(games:crossfingers:) in RI this weekend. Wish I could be one of them...Anyway, it was pathetic to see the amount of UK fans in Nashville, and it was the same as a home game for UK.
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I have tickets for Thursday and Saturday (the Vol ticket office will refund Saturday's tickets should we lose Thursday). I hope lots of other New England Vols to join me! The Boston Alumni association is trying to arrange transportation. The tickets are running $153.
 
#46
#46
UT IE 95 said:
I was there with intentions of going to at least one game over the weekend. Didn't happen. There were easily 3,000 more UK fans there than the ones that filled the arena. The local story in the bars was that UK fans swarmed the arena and bought tickets inside from the losing teams on their way out on Thursday and Friday. Although illegal, it was allowed. And thus you had 19,000 tickets for UK fans and the remaining few so overpriced by scalpers it was ridiculous.

On one hand it sucked that UK took over the town. But on the other, their fans were friendly and the scalpers got their knees cut out from under them.
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1. I think you missed a zero on the number of UK fans outside that never got in.

2. You are wrong about the scalpers; they were printing money on Saturday and Sunday.
 
#48
#48
Kentucky could have a game in East Timor, and the arena there would still be filled to the brim with Kentucky fans.
 
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