Thompson Boling Arena at Food City Center

[05_never_again]

Money talks and Neyland Stadium is next. It sucks.

I wonder if we'll be a trailblazer on that front, or wait until someone else does it first. Maybe I'm forgetting one but I don't think a big time program has done it yet to their stadium.

 

[JohnWardForever]

I honestly can't believe this is happening.

As if Food Prices weren't already through the roof.... We have to pay for this too.

 

[JohnWardForever]

Maybe they can’t. I drove by both Neyland and TBA everyday for my job before I moved for 8 months and it literally made me shake my head every time I see TBA. It’s so ugly on the outside. Maybe @Thunder Good-Oil or one of the old timers can tell me what they were thinking.

Oh yeah. My best buddy.....

 

[BigBadVol]

First L of Danny White's tenure

I doubt this is the AD’s decision lol.

 

[cncchris33]

I don’t think that will happen. But Louisville, a much more prestigious basketball school, is named the Yum! Center. It just is what it is.

It's a slightly different situation than that of the KFC Yum! Center. Unlike TBA, it is an off-campus facility, more similar to Rupp Arena. The teams are merely tenants of the arena. The University of Tennessee owns and operates TBA. The city of Louisville, like Lexington and Rupp Arena, owns and operates The KFC Yum! Center.

 

[cncchris33]

I wonder if we'll be a trailblazer on that front, or wait until someone else does it first. Maybe I'm forgetting one but I don't think a big time program has done it yet to their stadium.

You're probably not considering Kentucky a big time program, and I'd certainly agree, but in terms of SEC teams, they sold their naming rights to Kroger. Vandy did to FirstBank.

USCw, Washington, Washington St., Arizona St., Maryland, Texas Tech, Minnesota, Houston, San Diego State, Rutgers, Syracuse, UCF, have all sold naming rights to their football stadiums.

 

[05_never_again]

You're probably not considering Kentucky a big time program, and I'd certainly agree, but in terms of SEC teams, they sold their naming rights to Kroger. Vandy did to FirstBank.

USCw, Washington, Washington St., Arizona St., Maryland, Texas Tech, Minnesota, Houston, San Diego State, Rutgers, Syracuse, UCF, have all sold naming rights to their football stadiums.

USC named the playing field, not the stadium, so the media can refer to the stadium as just the "LA Coliseum" and technically be correct.

I forgot about Washington; they would seem to be the biggest program that has done it.

 

[cncchris33]

USC named the playing field, not the stadium, so the media can refer to the stadium as just the "LA Coliseum" and technically be correct.

I forgot about Washington; they would seem to be the biggest program that has done it.

Fair point on USC.

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Cool. I have no problems with it. UT and UT bball will carry on.

 

[zjcvols]

I would have liked to see Rick’s reaction when Danny told him he needed a statement on renaming TBA though

 

[Tennessee Golfer]

DCJW

 

[Freak]

dislike

 

[berryvol]

 

[K-town Vol Fan]

Don't love it

 

[lostsheep]

I'll change my legal name to Food City if they'll give me a few mill.

 

[joevols89]

You betrayed us Danny, for 2 million a year?

 

[Hoosier_Vol]

 

[joevols89]

If it makes TBA look like an actual arena and not a warehouse built in 1983 then I’m all for it. It’s embarrassing how majestic Neyland looks on the outside and how bland TBA does on the outside.

At best it’s like slapping lipstick on a pig. It would take a huge amount to make the outside architecture look nice. Not $20 mill (which a lot of that is going towards things inside).

 

[joevols89]

I doubt this is the AD’s decision lol.

What?

 

[THEONLYTENISEE]

I'll be in the corner crying.

Food City prices will be higher in stores.

 

[zjcvols]

I doubt this is the AD’s decision lol.

There are two things Danny cares about

1) Winning
2) Money

If he didn’t want this deal it wouldn’t have happened

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Sports are revolved around money now.

Fans will still continue to purchase tickets regardless what the name of the stadium is.

Seems kind of a pointless thing to get upset about but that’s just me.

 

[Chris4Vols22]

Sports are revolved around money now.

Fans will still continue to purchase tickets regardless what the name of the stadium is.

Seems kind of a pointless thing to get upset about but that’s just me.

This

 

[OrangeVolMan]

It looked bad in the design plans. It looked bad while being built. And it looked bad the second it was completed.

The original plan for TBA did not have the tin siding. I believe it was going to be brick (or something other than the siding). They cheaper out at the end and did the siding.

 

[ENGRVOL]

Sounds about as cool as Kroger Field

At the end of the day vols will still call it TBA while big blue nation will still call their football stadium Kroger Field where Vanderbilt hasn’t lost at since the covid year.