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LV renaissance said:
Part of attendance is from higher season tickets sales per report and part is from more students due to an incentive program for students to get higher likelihood to get higher in demand tickets such as football if they have gone to less in demand UT sports.
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Yes. And weekday games make more sense to get more students. Lots of student go home weekends or focus on parties.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
This is looking like a big year for attendance as 19303 for these two non conference foes is far more than we've seen in many past season. I would expect MTSU to be a better crowd than the first two games.
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Many years ago, Pat challenged the fans to make a game with La Tech at TBA a sellout. It was. My father and I had to sit in the VERY top row near the roof. 20,000. So when you’re estimating attendance watching the games, remember that TBA is one enormous cavern, and it’s hard to see the folks that end up in the 300-level seats.
 
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Volfan2012 said:
One thing for certain is that Coach Caldwell says we are far from what she is expecting come the end of the regular season. Not much praise for total team play just some praise for a few for their individual play. Hate to say we need better offense when were scoring 95 a game, but the truth is were 43 percent as a team overall and 26 percent from the three. Think she would like to see something up there to at least 47 percent overall and definitely 33 percent at least from the three. If we had those numbers we'd be averaging over 100 per game.

On defense letting opponents make a good pass out of our traps seems to be something she wants to see improvement on. Also to much fouling defend without fouling has to get a lot better. Good things that have happened. When have we ever had 45 steals in two games? We had 159 all last season in 33 games. 35 turnovers while forcing 68. I know the competition has been minimal thus far, but we played some of these type teams last year and never came close to this type of steals and turnover production. Usually we had more turnovers than those teams did and won by 20 by shooting better.
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Remember. She said she’s never happy! 😂😂
 
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chuckiepoo said:
Yeah ya don’t tell before hand. It’s just for the day. That’s how I wound up with the hauk Tua girl following the Mets/astros series.
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…we can get a little sophomoric in the Dugout. 😉🤙🏼
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uh oh,,,I think I remember a rule of one avatar change per year,,,better look into it
I think thats why Earl had to keep his
 
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Volfan2012 said:
This is looking like a big year for attendance as 19303 for these two non conference foes is far more than we've seen in many past season. I would expect MTSU to be a better crowd than the first two games.
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LV renaissance said:
Part of attendance is from higher season tickets sales per report and part is from more students due to an incentive program for students to get higher likelihood to get higher in demand tickets such as football if they have gone to less in demand UT sports.
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Mafiaboss said:
Yes. And weekday games make more sense to get more students. Lots of student go home weekends or focus on parties.
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From my experience attending games at TBA for yrs:

19,000 is def season tickets or total tickets sold. I'd put butts in seats attendance for each of those games at 5-6K. Even fm tv you can see lots of empty seats in the sections behind both benches. With a 9 or 10K crowd, that part is full.

Weekday games might arguably be better for students, though having class the next day and homework might be a drag. But weekday games have always drawn significantly less than the Sunday afternoon games. Esp when they start at 6:30 which makes it really hard for working families.

Any student attendance would be a plus bc it's been awful to nonexistent for yrs. A couple of big games last yr they pleaded and bribed and had a fairly decent student turnout. Ordinarily the "student section" is the pep band, a few of the men's bball players looking at their phones, and a scattering of general admission ticket holders.

In general, early season attendance at SEC games remains embarrassing. Def haven't caught the WBB fever except at SC and LSU. KY, Aub, Miss St, and Vandy all played to near empty gyms last week.
 
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glv98 said:
From my experience attending games at TBA for yrs:

19,000 is def season tickets or total tickets sold. I'd put butts in seats attendance for each of those games at 5-6K. Even fm tv you can see lots of empty seats in the sections behind both benches. With a 9 or 10K crowd, that part is full.
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Yes, and my fear is that all of those same prime tickets in the sections behind the benches, and in those same areas on the other side as well, will remain mostly empty except for maybe two games. These are the prime seats scarfed up by people who don't really care about Lady Vols basketball and who only need to actually sell them for one or two big games to make their money back and then a nice profit. As I've said before, seeing huge swaths of the best seats sit empty after having to buy upper-deck seats is another reason a lot of folks are staying home.

I doesn't appear to me that there has been a true 9,500 fans-in-seats for a game yet. It makes me sick because I know our players would love nothing more than for those lower-deck seats to be filled with fans. Sure, the fact that those seats were sold in chunks to resellers obviously helps the program financially, but as far as giving the games and the team the attention they deserve by having people sitting and cheering from those seats, we're not gonna get that. And that's a shame.
 
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Voluble2 said:
That explains why you have only had three this year... ;o)

Of course, I don't even have an avatar! 😲
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You do you, boo! They aren’t required. I found mine years ago, B.V. (Before VolNation) and have used it forever. Have never seen any other Doonesberry characters.
 
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Is it just me, but I can no longer find the 2025 recruiting message link on this site. I was particularly interested today in that either Prawl or Civil was going to make an announcement today (you remember the 1111 speculation). I think it was Prawl. Any news? Also, where oh where is the link to the 2025 thread?

By the way, Prawl is #6 on 247 sports national recruits. No new Instagrams. On top of her Instagram is that she is a "child of God" with a cross. Other two finalists-Notre Dame and Baylor- are Christian schools.
 
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