The Official #5 Tennessee @ Georgia Game Thread, 12:00 PM ET, ESPN2

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joevols89 said:
Yep. In those smaller arenas, those court side seats that they allocate to students are even more valuable than ones in the larger arenas. Somehow they are able to make it work.
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Hey, I am all in on getting some courtside student sections. Navigating that change isn't as easy as you think. It would almost need to include an extra benefit for those being displaced 20 rows up.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
Hey, I am all in on getting some courtside student sections. Navigating that change isn't as easy as you think. It would almost need to include an extra benefit for those being displaced 20 rows up.
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Honest question, because I have no idea, did we do anything for the people that got displaced in Neyland for recent renovations? Specially those in the lower sideline for the box seats?
 
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Just finished the game. 6 minutes to go I would have bet the house on us losing. Credit to DK and ZZ leading the charge, they were simply not going to be denied on offense, and played lockdown D. Santi hit a HUGE 3 off a FT offensive rebound. I doubt a team hits that many 3s against us the rest of the year. Can't say enough good things about DK. What a win, a real gut punch to the Dawgs.
 
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joevols89 said:
Yep. In those smaller arenas, those court side seats that they allocate to students are even more valuable than ones in the larger arenas. Somehow they are able to make it work.
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Not necessarily. Those arenas are small because there's not so much demand for seats. If their boosters were paying what our boosters paid for basketball seats their arenas would not be so small to start with.
 
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kckempf said:
Not necessarily. Those arenas are small because there's not so much demand for seats. If their boosters were paying what our boosters paid for basketball seats their arenas would not be so small to start with.
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Check out ticket prices at Neville arena. $$$. Cameron Indoor as well. A lot of money lost on those seats sacrificed for an elite environment. We have the luxury of filling out a large arena since we aren’t located in a cow pasture like some schools.

Kentucky/UNC have the same issue. Arkansas is the one I haven’t figured out. Large arena but their whole crowd is hostile without placing to students close.
 
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K-town Vol Fan said:
Just finished the game. 6 minutes to go I would have bet the house on us losing. Credit to DK and ZZ leading the charge, they were simply not going to be denied on offense, and played lockdown D. Santi hit a HUGE 3 off a FT offensive rebound. I doubt a team hits that many 3s against us the rest of the year. Can't say enough good things about DK. What a win, a real gut punch to the Dawgs.
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Careful with that prediction on 3s. We still have Bama. I bet they shoot more 3s than 2s against us.
 
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joevols89 said:
Check out ticket prices at Neville arena. $$$. Cameron Indoor as well. A lot of money lost on those seats sacrificed for an elite environment. We have the luxury of filling out a large arena since we aren’t located in a cow pasture like some schools.

Kentucky/UNC have the same issue. Arkansas is the one I haven’t figured out. Large arena but their whole crowd is hostile without placing to students close.
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Neville Arena is a pretty good example. Auburn couldn't sell the seats in their arena, so for their new arena, they gave those seats to the students and reduced the capacity to 9121, thinking they'd fill the place. Naturally they didn't, averaging just 6324 their first year and finally selling out their tickets last year. They could give those seats to the students because when they built the arena, there was no demand for them and they couldn't be used to finance its construction. Cameron Indoor Stadium predated the financing schemes that are used in modern arena building and had a dedicated student section from the start. It wasn't built as a small, intimate venue, though -- it was the largest arena south of Philadelphia at the time.
 
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kckempf said:
Neville Arena is a pretty good example. Auburn couldn't sell the seats in their arena, so for their new arena, they gave those seats to the students and reduced the capacity to 9121, thinking they'd fill the place. Naturally they didn't, averaging just 6324 their first year and finally selling out their tickets last year. They could give those seats to the students because when they built the arena, there was no demand for them and they couldn't be used to finance its construction. Cameron Indoor Stadium predated the financing schemes that are used in modern arena building and had a dedicated student section from the start. It wasn't built as a small, intimate venue, though -- it was the largest arena south of Philadelphia at the time.
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That is not why they gave those seats to the students, they literally designed the arena around students sitting there in an effort to create a hostile environment. It’s a separate section so they don’t piss off the old people behind them who want them to sit down. Sight lines aren’t impacted.

If you suddenly made Auburn, Alabama the size of Knoxville, they wouldn’t be taking those seats away from students for a few hundred thousand a year more in revenue.
 
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