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InVOLuntary said:
That ticket won't be in demand until we have a legitimate chance of beating Georgia and Florida. If you go back and look at my post after each firing, I said then that with each hire it was more important than the last. They took UT fans for granted. You keep taking someone, something for granted it will eventually disappear. Well, it's pretty much gone. In any business, once you lose customers it's extremely difficult to get them back. It is often times very expensive to get them back too. It's difficult to overcome a trust issue.
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Yep. It's harder and more costly to replace a customer than to retain one. UT fans and donors have been incredibly loyal and held the line MUCH longer than the average fanbase. I've agreed every time that UT needed to get the hire right. Fans and donors swallowed their doubts and got behind Dooley, hung in for Butch, even took a leap of faith for the completely unlikable Pruitt. Admin knew people were fed up so they gave this staff longer-term contracts, knowing it would be a battle.

For decades, UT has enjoyed generational donors that were loyal for multiple generations. Tix sales passed down and kept stability in the donor base. Now there are breaks in the chain. UT is losing the younger generations, even in big booster families. COVID covered the gap last year, and ticket sales are propped up with COVID deferrals this year.

Winning the right games matters. Every win counts, but lose to Vandy, SCAR or UK and watch it get uglier.
 
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LA Vol said:
Yep. It's harder and more costly to replace a customer than to retain one. UT fans and donors have been incredibly loyal and held the line MUCH longer than the average fanbase. I've agreed every time that UT needed to get the hire right. Fans and donors swallowed their doubts and got behind Dooley, hung in for Butch, even took a leap of faith for the completely unlikable Pruitt. Admin knew people were fed up so they gave this staff longer-term contracts, knowing it would be a battle.

For decades, UT has enjoyed generational donors that were loyal for multiple generations. Tix sales passed down and kept stability in the donor base. Now there are breaks in the chain. UT is losing the younger generations, even in big booster families. COVID covered the gap last year, and ticket sales are propped up with COVID deferrals this year.

Winning the right games matters. Every win counts, but lose to Vandy, SCAR or UK and watch it get uglier.
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It can get uglier?
 
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In a bit of a mood today, with honey do's. Lol, just saw what can best be described as an area woman wearing roman sandals, straps all way up to knees. to each her own, but, where are we as a society ? we bringin' bat dat Bronze age mayn! FYI she was not Venus
 
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drvenner said:
I personally am not attending in person because of COVID (@ me if you must). But, I agree. People are much more reluctant to invest the time and money for football right now.
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I'm not @anybody for not being at games. I think fans can fan however they want. And it's always nice to see people who don't normally get to be in Neyland have an opportunity to score free (or cheap) tix.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Calloway and Holiday can't take the top off of it? Or just a lack of experience being new to the WR position.
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They aren’t the linear striders like Hyatt is imo. I think they can do it but not at the level Hyatt can when he’s getting clean/free releases.

The thing about most college football and the SEC especially is everyone is just copy cats & does things that other teams did well against you, even if it’s not really their true identity. That’s the biggest difference I’ve learned from being around both levels.

Teams are going play UT the same ways BG and Pitt did much like how teams did exactly what Florida did to Pruitt. (If you watch arkansas 2020 and compare to Florida games you will see what i mean)

Teams are goin Bc to press and get hands on our WRs until they prove they can beat it. Teams are going to max protect vs us and just wait til guys eventually come on until we prove that we can bust through it.
 
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InVOLuntary said:
That ticket won't be in demand until we have a legitimate chance of beating Georgia and Florida. If you go back and look at my post after each firing, I said then that with each hire it was more important than the last. They took UT fans for granted. You keep taking someone, something for granted it will eventually disappear. Well, it's pretty much gone. In any business, once you lose customers it's extremely difficult to get them back. It is often times very expensive to get them back too. It's difficult to overcome a trust issue.
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You’re seeing this happen with the NBA as we speak. They’re having to walk back a lot of the political insertions because they’ve realized 50% of their fans weren’t for them.

We’re currently watching it happen in video games. Call of Duty is an afterthought this year. Saints Row revived themselves from the dead just to get demolished by their fans for the direction they’ve taken.
 
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HankHill said:
That’s a reasonable # imo. It’s just hard Bc Hyatt is our only guy who can take the top off but he has such a hard time getting into his route unless he’s covered up or stacked.

I loved the way we started attacking mof tho with the TEs. WRs we’re having issues creating separation and our staff adjusted. Props to them. I also liked some of the designed runs they did with Hooker.
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That began with Hooker. Noticed Milton doesn’t go to the TE’s much.
 
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Despite his immense shortcomings, JG excelled on deep balls. Helton had it right - keep it simple and either short screen passes or deep shots with him. And now we have an offensive guy that wants to do exactly that and he's gone and we apparently now have 3 QBs that can't throw deep for their lives. And yeah I get people were beyond tired of him, but he could actually do well in this deep shot offense.

It's like a sick joke from the universe honestly.
 
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Devo182 said:
Despite his immense shortcomings, JG excelled on deep balls. Helton had it right - keep it simple and either short screen passes or deep shots with him. And now we have an offensive guy that wants to do exactly that and he's gone and we apparently now have 3 QBs that can't throw deep for their lives. And yeah I get people were beyond tired of him, but he could actually do well in this deep shot offense.

It's like a sick joke from the universe honestly.
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Yeah, no
 
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cHiZzLeVOL said:
I don’t think Milton will be out. I think Milton could of come back yesterday but Coach Huepel stayed with the hot hand.
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Could be right. Either way, if all 3 don't get in vs Tech...that'd be weird. Should be up 20+ at half. Give HH Q3 and HB Q4. But if JM starts, we absolutely need to give him 10 more deep shots. He has to prove to himself and everyone else he can hit those if he wants to start vs UF.
 
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