Neyland Stadium to be “preserved” by Pilot

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the "preserving" branding around this is so fing disingenuous and frankly insulting. Preserve it from what? The administration from turning it into "Food City Stadium?" All the while tickets have a "20,000 person waiting list" and UT Athletics is dropping infographics about record revenues, and the record profit from "Parking and Concessions." like just fing kill me. Can't wait to see what convenience store is going to have naming rights for the baseball stadium once it's done with renos.
 
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FBtime said:
Agree! If you don't like this and cannot see how this benefits the University you are just an old man yelling at clouds.
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Get off my lawn!

Everyone might as well get used to corporate help in the bold new NIL world. This is about the best outcome that could happen. Folks that bitch about this will bitch about anything.
 
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ButchPlz said:
Putting Pilot ads all over the field and stadium seems an awful lot like taking over the venue to me, but you do you.
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It’s not on every stadium seat or urinal stall. Tastefully distributed throughout the venue. White and Boyd wouldn’t have signed up for a garish display.
 
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I heard this in Dave Hooker’s show. What happens when The Haslams no longer run Pilot and they decide we’re just going to be Pilot Stadium, since they own the naming rights? Selling out to a corporation is bound to backfire eventually. Corporations ruined capitalism, so let’s sell our universities to them..
 
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adam.vol said:
I heard this in Dave Hooker’s show. What happens when The Haslams no longer run Pilot and they decide we’re just going to be Pilot Stadium, since they own the naming rights? Selling out to a corporation is bound to backfire eventually. Corporations ruined capitalism, so let’s sell our universities to them..
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They don't. Berkshire Hathaway owns Pilot
 
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adam.vol said:
I heard this in Dave Hooker’s show. What happens when The Haslams no longer run Pilot and they decide we’re just going to be Pilot Stadium, since they own the naming rights? Selling out to a corporation is bound to backfire eventually. Corporations ruined capitalism, so let’s sell our universities to them..
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Consider the SOURCE of that theory. 😴 When’s he going to reveal the “off-field trouble” that James Pearce is involved in?
 
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griffdog14 said:
the "preserving" branding around this is so fing disingenuous and frankly insulting. Preserve it from what? The administration from turning it into "Food City Stadium?" All the while tickets have a "20,000 person waiting list" and UT Athletics is dropping infographics about record revenues, and the record profit from "Parking and Concessions." like just fing kill me. Can't wait to see what convenience store is going to have naming rights for the baseball stadium once it's done with renos.
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There actually is a legitimate need for "preserving" public as well as private assets in this predatory corporate, no-rule-of-law environment.

Blackrock, Vanguard, and State Street have the financial holdings and power to tell every government on earth what to do (except the CCP's China, and Putin's Russia--but only because they already pillaged it after the wall fell). And they do.

Just a spot illustration of how predatory it is today...
A favorite practice of private equity firms over the past few decades has been to buy controlling interests in chain restaurants and chain drugstores which own the property on which their stores are built.

Then the equity firms reorganize the chain, establishing a separate company within the company to manage the real estate, and then demand the restaurants and stores pay rent to it. Then they bleed all the money and assets out of the restaurants or pharmacies, drive them into bankruptcy, and sell the property (with building) for an even greater immediate profit.

Sounds crazy, but it brings in fresh capital immediately. It's terribly destructive to the communities around them, to the people who were employed, but that's what private equity firms do--they pillage.

So hopefully, HOPEFULLY, there are actual relationships between the state, the university, the Knoxville community and East Tennessee and Pilot, which will keep the pillagers at bay for awhile.

But everyone has to be diligent! Warren Buffet has a nice, homespun charm, but he's 93. And Berkshire-Hathaway, just for illustration, has already "been given" immanent domain powers by some midwestern governors, to take farmland wherever needed in order to build pipelines from ethanol plants to a common waste area in the Dakotas. Whoever heard of immanent domain powers being given to private corporations???

This isn't a left wing/right wing issue. We're all in this together. Who would you trust? Global corporations? Politicians? The least powerful people in Washington seem to be the ones who are elected by the people. They get told what they can and can't do by the permanent government, which seems to be in link step with the biggest money.

Not saying this to be political, but to encourage all of us to keep an eye on every powerful entity--not just the NCAA.
 
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Tennessee made this move to solidify their NIL dollars for the future. They now have a cash cow which will help obtain the best players, so don’t complain everyone loves a winner especially Vol Nation. The downside is that a person working hard day to day making 60 grand a year will never be able to set foot in Neyland Stadium unless someone gives them a ticket. I can remember when 60 bucks was high for a UT ticket,
now you will be lucky to park for 60. Go Vols!
 
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griffdog14 said:
the "preserving" branding around this is so fing disingenuous and frankly insulting. Preserve it from what? The administration from turning it into "Food City Stadium?" All the while tickets have a "20,000 person waiting list" and UT Athletics is dropping infographics about record revenues, and the record profit from "Parking and Concessions." like just fing kill me. Can't wait to see what convenience store is going to have naming rights for the baseball stadium once it's done with renos.
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You'll be alright.
 
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Orangeslide said:
Tennessee made this move to solidify their NIL dollars for the future. They now have a cash cow which will help obtain the best players, so don’t complain everyone loves a winner especially Vol Nation. The downside is that a person working hard day to day making 60 grand a year will never be able to set foot in Neyland Stadium unless someone gives them a ticket. I can remember when 60 bucks was high for a UT ticket,
now you will be lucky to park for 60. Go Vols!
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People will afford what they want to afford. The median household (not individual) income in this country is around 45k a year! I seriously doubt of all the 100+K people sitting in Neyland each Saturday, every single person is a high wage earner. People who really want to go will find a way.
 
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griffdog14 said:
the "preserving" branding around this is so fing disingenuous and frankly insulting. Preserve it from what? The administration from turning it into "Food City Stadium?" All the while tickets have a "20,000 person waiting list" and UT Athletics is dropping infographics about record revenues, and the record profit from "Parking and Concessions." like just fing kill me. Can't wait to see what convenience store is going to have naming rights for the baseball stadium once it's done with renos.
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Right there with you.

Some of us have the decency not to want to be slammed with ads everywhere we turn. I went to the University of Tennessee, not the University of Tennessee preserved by FedEx.
 
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Thankful I have a big screen on the deck overlooking the lake and ESPN/SECN/ABC etc. are affordable. It used to cost less than $50 for gas there and back, tickets on the street, Tennessee Smokey Mountain hot dog, sneak in a bottle, coke, and a souvenir program. Now I have to take out a loan. Always a VOL FAN. Whatever it takes until you start talking about selling somebody's soul.
 
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