Midnight Madness??

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I remember hearing back in August Cuonzo was pushing to have a Midnight Madness in Knoxville. Ive seen Memphis and Kentucky have had theirs, just wondering if anyone knows the status on ours, and if it will even happen.
 
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The issue this year was that the week colleges did this coincided with fall break for our students. There's no way we could do a midnight madness with the students on fall break, it would be horrendous.

Just my opinion, but I think the first practice that was streamed was actually almost a test. They wanted to see what kind of audience and interest it drew, and that would give them and idea on what they may be able to expect from a midnight madness.

Just speciation on my part, if we have a good year, ranked majority of the season, make the dance and win a couple....interest will be high and they'll try to do one next year.
 
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There are a lot of factors involved for a successful Midnight Madness at UT. First, if the Football team continues to build momentum into next season and starts the year off with a couple big wins, basketball will take a back seat in October. Second, TBA is way too big for a midnight madness at UT. KY, Memphis, Duke, NC, Kansas could come close to filling it up. UT would have trouble filling up the lower level IMO. Need another arena that holds less people to create the atmosphere needed. I suggested renovating Stokely for such an event at one point. Third, Men's and Women's will have to be a combined event to bring in the crowd. I don't think either coach has the car salesmanship attitude to push an event to make it successful. That's not a knock on either coach, it's just not their personality. If there was ever a midnight madness at UT, I would be in attendance, but IMO, it would be too hard to have a successful one at UT.
 
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You guys will never give me credit for this 5* idea, but put Butch in a pickup game, and we will sell as many tickets as we want. End of story.
 
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Chris4Vols22 said:
You guys will never give me credit for this 5* idea, but put Butch in a pickup game, and we will sell as many tickets as we want. End of story.
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Never thought about that. Good idea. I'm sure there are some really good basketball players on the football team. A pick up game between the 2 would be fun. I doubt that would happen though the night before a game on Saturday. Maybe an off week.
 
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Have a UFC match between Tiny and AJ during halftime of the scrimmage, I'd love to see that lol. But for real, bring Tobias and Candice Parker back and let them have a 1 v 1. Bring Lofton back for a 3pt contest. Have a dunk contest, etc

I'm sure everything I listed is against the rules though. Just makes me sick that UK has fans outside camping for tickets...when you could give out 10 dollars bills as you walk in (for free) and TBA still wouldn't be sold out...
 
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Also we can get 60,000 for an O & W game but can't get a 3rd of those people to come to a basketball scrimmage? I know we are a football school, but dang.
 
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As I stated back when this was discussed originally it would all depend on marketing IMO. If the AD was committed to it and wanted it to be a great atmosphere they could make it happen. You bring in a big name rapper and you'll have most of the students in attendance. As mentioned you do a Vols/Lady Vols joint production, and tie the football team in somehow. Have Butch be a judge during the dunk contest or something, if done properly they could get 15k, no doubt in my mind.
 
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johnnybravo said:
There are a lot of factors involved for a successful Midnight Madness at UT. First, if the Football team continues to build momentum into next season and starts the year off with a couple big wins, basketball will take a back seat in October. Second, TBA is way too big for a midnight madness at UT. KY, Memphis, Duke, NC, Kansas could come close to filling it up. UT would have trouble filling up the lower level IMO. Need another arena that holds less people to create the atmosphere needed. I suggested renovating Stokely for such an event at one point. Third, Men's and Women's will have to be a combined event to bring in the crowd. I don't think either coach has the car salesmanship attitude to push an event to make it successful. That's not a knock on either coach, it's just not their personality. If there was ever a midnight madness at UT, I would be in attendance, but IMO, it would be too hard to have a successful one at UT.
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agree 100% here.

But we have had a successful one in the past. It was right after a Bulls and Hawks pre-season game.(it was one of Jerry Green's teams) Now obviously getting an NBA pre-season game may not be a possibility. But if they could schedule a decent concert or something b4 midnight madness, and just let the people already in attendance stay for the madness, I think we could draw a pretty good crowd.

We gotta have it when classes are in tho... my :twocents:
 
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I like the idea of a preseason NBA game better than a concert and do think that could work. Bring Todias, McRae, or Stokes back and the people would come.
 
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