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The days of Tim Brando and Spencer Tillman doing CBS halftime show are over.not only that but the SEC is leaving CBS all together. The BCS is done and Neyland no longer regularly has 107k show up. College football was so much fun. Now we are expanding a playoff and making Neyland more “NFL like” while reducing capacity. Just a few things that I don’t like. Very sad.
 
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Not your Father’s Volunteers.
People will not admit it but the game changed the day they put the Jumbotron in, and not in a good way. Fan participation was much better before that.
 
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While I certainly don’t like a lot of the changes, college football has constantly been evolving since it was created. For better or worse things will continue to change. Our only choice is to adapt and keep up with modern trends.
 
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The game evolves, has been since it started, and every generation that gets older complains that it's not as good as it used to be. Back in the 90s people complained about the Bowl Coalition, and then the BCS, then about conference expansion, then the CFP and now the expansion of it. And my bet is the vast majority of those complaining will keep right on watching.

I will agree though that I don't care for the stadium experience turning into more NFL with playing of "Welcome to the Jungle" on 3rd down and stuff like that. I don't mind NFL doing it because NFL teams for the most part don't have marching bands and all. College I like it more when the band is playing the music. I thought 3rd down for What was interesting for about 5 minutes.
 
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sunnyvol79 said:
I miss the Neyland Stadium experience in the 80’s and 90’s going to games when I was a kid
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We all do man. Problem being, it was better for two reasons-
1. We were winning. Big time. I would sit in Vandys stadium if we were top 5 in the nation again.

2. We were kids. We had never seen anything like that before. That many people The excitement. You can't get as "pumped" about anything at 40 as you can do when you're 8. Hell, I'm sure there are kids out there who will one day rave about the Neyland experience in 2018.
 
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stolitonic said:
We all do man. Problem being, it was better for two reasons-
1. We were winning. Big time. I would sit in Vandys stadium if we were top 5 in the nation again.

2. We were kids. We had never seen anything like that before. That many people The excitement. You can't get as "pumped" about anything at 40 as you can do when you're 8. Hell, I'm sure there are kids out there who will one day rave about the Neyland experience in 2018.
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You hit the nail on the head man. Your exactly right. My dad took me to my first game in 1986 I was just 7 years old to Neyland stadium I was blown away as a kid to see that many people in orange and white and see the VOLS letters. It was a amazing first introduction to Tennessee football and I was hooked for life on it and sadly I can’t replicate that experience again at my age now. And yes it helped that Tennessee football was a much better product in the 80’s and 90’s.
 
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Nationdom said:
The days of Tim Brando and Spencer Tillman doing CBS halftime show are over.not only that but the SEC is leaving CBS all together. The BCS is done and Neyland no longer regularly has 107k show up. College football was so much fun. Now we are expanding a playoff and making Neyland more “NFL like” while reducing capacity. Just a few things that I don’t like. Very sad.
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Ironically, those things we miss are due to television. Part of those things are intended consequences and part of them are not. I don’t blame the university for reducing the capacity because the cost of traveling to a game has skyrocketed, while the quality of home viewing has been incredible w/ affordable 4K television and your concessions available right in your fridge or on the grill. I haven’t been to Neyland in 9 years, but I intend to change that in the next year or 2.
 
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RDU VOL#14 said:
Ironically, those things we miss are due to television. Part of those things are intended consequences and part of them are not. I don’t blame the university for reducing the capacity because the cost of traveling to a game has skyrocketed, while the quality of home viewing has been incredible w/ affordable 4K television and your concessions available right in your fridge or on the grill. I haven’t been to Neyland in 9 years, but I intend to change that in the next year or 2.
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Yep. I'm barely old enough to remember when it was actually a bit of a big deal if a UT game was televised nationally, and some weeks if you wanted to watch the game live you had to go to the game. As a kid I would record UT games on VHS so I could watch them again.

It used to be that we dreamed of the day that we could get every game on TV and now we have it and the consequence is that it makes going to the game less important (as a viewer). Plus "back in the day" not only did you hardly ever get to see your team on TV, you probably never got to see many teams not in your geographical area and in a way it's like they barely existed.
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Yep. I'm barely old enough to remember when it was actually a bit of a big deal if a UT game was televised nationally, and some weeks if you wanted to watch the game live you had to go to the game. As a kid I would record UT games on VHS so I could watch them again.

It used to be that we dreamed of the day that we could get every game on TV and now we have it and the consequence is that it makes going to the game less important (as a viewer). Plus "back in the day" not only did you hardly ever get to see your team on TV, you probably never got to see many teams not in your geographical area and in a way it's like they barely existed.
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It wasn’t that long ago they were charging the cost of one month of cable to watch Tennessee play someone like Tennessee Tech on pay per view
 
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WestTennesseeVol said:
It wasn’t that long ago they were charging the cost of one month of cable to watch Tennessee play someone like Tennessee Tech on pay per view
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Yep. and actually it used to be teams that while weren't great were still at least known teams and FBS. The Memphis game was on PPV quite a few times, UAB, Duke, Rutgers. In 2006 both the Air Force and Marshall games were PPV. Heck I think like 2007 Vanderbilt was PPV. Now having any games like that on PPV seems insane to me.
 
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