For those in attendance

#77
#77
I was at the game Saturday. First of all, there was not a Vandy side in the stadium. The east sideline was around 80/20 Orange. The west side was closer to 70/30 Orange. The visible folks in the newly constucted end zone was around 50/50. I suppose there were more Vandy fans in the boxes, but who really knows, or cares? Surprisingly, there were more empty seats than expected given the resale ticket prices.

For those that asked about the music level. The clown in charge had turned it up to 11 (ode to Spinal Tap). There was a concerted effort to drown out the UT band any time they started playing. They never played piped in music over the Vandy band.

The funny thing, is the they tried to interject themselves into the game by playing the loudest music they could find deep into the play clock on any 3rd down play. Haha, what a fail, UT was 11/15 on 3rd down. That had to be the best percentage the Vols had all year on 3rd down conversions.

Seriously though I would think the SEC office would fine Vandy if UT were to file a report. They regularly ran the music until the clock got below 10 seconds. I heard Holly Rowe on the TX-A&M telecast that night report that the Aggies were trying the same tactic. Perhaps there was a Music Bro's chat group that thought they could become famous for their antics to influence the games?

Lastly, the Anchor Drop celebrity was not a retired military officer, he was a new Vandy faculty member that was head of some Center for Security I think. It's still the dumbest slogan in all of football. You drop anchor so you won't go anywhere. That's got to fire up your fan base! We are stuck here, and we aren't moving, let's go!
 
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#78
#78
BJSforVols said:
What did the other side look like? TV said the stadium was 80% orange, but some Vandy fans are saying it was 50/50 and the other side was all Vandy.
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I sat on the other side with 7 other TN fans. There was a couple in front of me- The lady wore orange and the gentleman wore his Vandy hat. There was a father and son behind me - the father had his Vandy gear on and the son was wearing orange. There was one guy behind me wearing his Kentucky gear, but he was not all that excited about TN winning.

It was at least 60% TN on the Vanderbilt side. 85% Tn on the Vandy student section side, with about half the student section empty.

Mind you, many of us were wearing winter coats and a lot of those were TN fans.
 
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adam.vol said:
I sat on the other side with 7 other TN fans. There was a couple in front of me- The lady wore orange and the gentleman wore his Vandy hat. There was a father and son behind me - the father had his Vandy gear on and the son was wearing orange. There was one guy behind me wearing his Kentucky gear, but he was not all that excited about TN winning.

It was at least 60% TN on the Vanderbilt side. 85% Tn on the Vandy student section side, with about half the student section empty.

Mind you, many of us were wearing winter coats and a lot of those were TN fans.
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I was on what you call the "vandy side", and there were a lot of vandy fans around me. They got really cocky five minutes in. That changed though. :p
 
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#80
I was also onVandy side and everyone was ok around us. There were a couple of Vandy guys in their 30s behind and complained about having to stand up so much. We told them we couldn't see unless we stood up once the play started and we were on row 44. They were fine about it since we were several decades older than them.
 
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#81
I didn't see any fights - but wanted to punch the snot nosed Vandy student who yelled "stop killing people" right before the national anthem and then sat down during it. He was 1 row down and about 10 people from me - but fortunately, the UT fan (young lady) behind him, cupped her hands and sang the National Anthem as loud as she could in his ear :)
 
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madbamahater said:
We should all buy season tickets to Vandie games and then sell them at a premium to opposing fans
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Years ago, I think it was Hawaii, would not sell single game tickets vs Notre Dame. People had to buy season tickets. The Notre Dame cult bought up thousands of season tickets. I also remember when they played at Rutgers years ago and hundreds of students sold their paper tickets to Notre Dame fans in the parking lots at high prices before the game. The ND fans got to the gates and weren’t allowed in because students had to show IDs. Hilarious situation !—Did I mention I really, really don’t like their fans lol.
 
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