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#27
#27
Maybe I just don't have a life, but to me there's nothing I'd rather do on a Saturday than go to a game in Neyland. Life is too short to miss any opportunity to go, especially when it only costs 10 bucks and the stadium is within walking distance. I really don't understand those who say they are tired of losing and consequently refuse to go to games as a student. Whether we win or lose, it sure beats the hell out of just sitting in your dorm winding your watch.
 
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#29
#29
vol in dixie said:
i understand we suck. and yea, it's no fun to watch us loose. i hate loosing more than anything. but when i was a student, and even now as a donor, i feel like i owe support to the team because they are the team ive loved my whole life and will continue to support in the bad times and the good times. i guess it troubles me that not every "fan" feels the same way.

also some of my fondest memories from college were saturdays tailgating and going to the games - win or loose. what do our students do instead on gamedays? video games? library? sleep? i dont get it.
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Maybe they brush up on their spelling and grammar.
 
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#30
#30
Maybe the students are just waiting until the end of the season to evaluate and make their decision about whether they should go or not?
 
#31
#31
A lot of the student you are talking too aren't on Volnation. But when I ask my friends to go this is their response: "Why would I want to mess up my Saturday and waste my money?" and I can't respond cause that is the truth. It's not that they are fair weather fans they are just tired of wasting money to watch the games. Also A LOT of student don't support Dooley.
 
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#32
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Shaun1985 said:
@ OP, Students and others have supported UT through these tough times and are fed up so I don't see how you can ask someone to support something they don't agree with. I'll never attend another game as long as Dooley is coaching and I doubt I'll even watch it on TV. If the AD don't care then why should they???
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^This
 
#33
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bleedorange0037 said:
Yes, the team spent last year plummeting down to rock bottom and then promptly brought in a jackhammer this year to drill themselves even lower. That's what's happened in the past year or two.
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All the way to China....and there response was....

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#35
#35
vol in dixie said:
seriously? $10 is "good money?"

geez, if you're that bad off, send me your address and ill mail you a care package
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Do you know what I can get for 10 dollars?
I can get a lot of beer Natty Light of course and get meals for 3 days from taco bell
 
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#36
#36
I'll be honest..if I lived in TN still I'd go to every game no matter what. I go to UCF and Magic games all the time..they are horrible. Its just a fun experience. I thoroughly enjoy the young kids at the games who can't hold their liquor and get arrested afterwards. It's always the best part..here in Florida.
 
#37
#37
drodvol said:
Dont buy into this. The seats will be full of ORANGE. Vols fans will come out and support UT. I Was at the Troy game and it was not as empty as some on here would lead you to believe. Support our VOLS no matter what :rock:
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Approximately 84,000 people showed up, according to the official attendance record. But Erik Ainge said it was as empty is he's ever seen it. Empty seats everywhere.
 
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Neylandsmaxims said:
Approximately 84,000 people showed up, according to the official attendance record. But Erik Ainge said it was as empty is he's ever seen it. Empty seats everywhere.
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According to a few people I know who went said it was so empty they didn't have to even ask anyone to get out of their seats. She said she was on the first row and wasn't crowed at all.
 
#39
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I heard on the radio that the count of people coming into the stadium for the Troy game was 61,000
 
#40
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vol in dixie said:
according to Hubbs from volquest, Mizzou has sold over 5,000 tickets for the 9 hour road trip to knoxville.

at the same time, the students had bought roughly 2,700 tickets as of thursday.

that's pretty sad. what else is there to do at noon this saturday in knoxville? if you guys dont like college football more than that then maybe being mediocre in the SEC is all you deserve.

i understand the argument of "lets send a message to the AD" theory, but why would you not go to the home games and support your university's players, classmates, friends? i think it is a total slap in the face to the players who sacrifice so much time and effort as student athletes to not give them your full support as fans.

allowing Mizzou to have more fans than our entire student section is embarrassing. you students need to do something about that. i am an alumni and i wouldn't miss a home game for anything when i was a student because now im in the position where it is not possible for me to make it back to every home game. your gonna wish one day you would have went to all those games.
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Yes I can get a $10 dollar student ticket, but I am tired of feeling like I am wasting my Saturday by going to the games and always leaving disappointed. You honestly can not expect people to keep showing up to be "entertained" and they are consistently let down by the product on the field. Can you? What is the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results?
 
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vol in dixie said:
according to Hubbs from volquest, Mizzou has sold over 5,000 tickets for the 9 hour road trip to knoxville.

at the same time, the students had bought roughly 2,700 tickets as of thursday.

that's pretty sad. what else is there to do at noon this saturday in knoxville? if you guys dont like college football more than that then maybe being mediocre in the SEC is all you deserve.

i understand the argument of "lets send a message to the AD" theory, but why would you not go to the home games and support your university's players, classmates, friends? i think it is a total slap in the face to the players who sacrifice so much time and effort as student athletes to not give them your full support as fans.

allowing Mizzou to have more fans than our entire student section is embarrassing. you students need to do something about that. i am an alumni and i wouldn't miss a home game for anything when i was a student because now im in the position where it is not possible for me to make it back to every home game. your gonna wish one day you would have went to all those games.
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Celebrate the basketball team's victory.
 
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#44
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vol in dixie said:
according to Hubbs from volquest, Mizzou has sold over 5,000 tickets for the 9 hour road trip to knoxville.

at the same time, the students had bought roughly 2,700 tickets as of thursday.

that's pretty sad. what else is there to do at noon this saturday in knoxville? if you guys dont like college football more than that then maybe being mediocre in the SEC is all you deserve.

i understand the argument of "lets send a message to the AD" theory, but why would you not go to the home games and support your university's players, classmates, friends? i think it is a total slap in the face to the players who sacrifice so much time and effort as student athletes to not give them your full support as fans.

allowing Mizzou to have more fans than our entire student section is embarrassing. you students need to do something about that. i am an alumni and i wouldn't miss a home game for anything when i was a student because now im in the position where it is not possible for me to make it back to every home game. your gonna wish one day you would have went to all those games.
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Leave them alone and quit being a pompous arse about it. They have to pay for those lousy tickets ON TOP of the activity fee they are forced to pay before even buying the frickin things. My friends and I were talking the other day even during the 1989 campaign (11-1) we STILL would not have went - we would never sacrifice beer money for a game! Especially if the team was a sick little pathetic joke like it is now. And especially with a sorry little pathetic bufoon like Doolander at the helm.
 
#45
#45
I'll try to help you some since I became an alum a couple years ago. First if you entered UT before 2008 you got into games for FREE as a student. I remember those days. The long lines, the getting my friends VOL card so we could all sit together. Now games cost money. Money for students is precious. We don't want to waste money on a product that is not worth it to us. In my final years there is was acceptable to say we were a bad football team, hardly anybody refuted that. Back in 2006, 2007 that didn't happen and the games were completely FREE. As for the guy with the care package I know a few people that would take you up on that!
 
#49
#49
carpbc said:
I'm stuck in Gulfport, MS. The closest college football action is either Southern Mississippi (horrid program) or William Carey University (great school, but less than division 3 football program). I sure do wish I could come to a UT home game again, but right now I'm unemployed due to the economy here!
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I thought , you was a preacher . My mistake I guess , Preachers are never out of work in Tennessee .
 
#50
#50
I wouldn't go watch these dudes for free. And hell yeah I want Dooley gone and that's why I don't go. You got a problem with it OP? Why go over there and spend all this money on concessions and watch them suck? When I can sit at home and eat a steak and watch them suck.
 
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