Ticket Prices, shame on you Danny White

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OrngeJuiceJones said:
Has anyone noticed the prices on these tickets this year? This is absolute garbage. 70-90 face value on lower level SEC games, and i saw a Kentucky and Auburn ticket face value lower level 200 damn dollars and 170 for Texas?!?! Screw ticketmaster too by the way. I guess im not buying basketball anymore. Maybe road games they will be much cheaper.
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I paid 1200 for 2 tickets for the bama game a month ago on ticketmaster for section S. Brutal but had to do it
 
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Quit your whining. If you want to play with the big boys and have great teams, it takes money. You can still get into high school games for $5.00. This is big time sports and the way of the world. I for one love watching great teams. With that said, I don’t mind the prices. Better than buying cheap tickets and watching bad teams. Go watch high school if you want to bitch about higher ticket prices at UT games. Danny White is doing a great job across the board. I’d say the best job done at UT in 25 years. Give the man a raise.
 
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OrngeJuiceJones said:
Has anyone noticed the prices on these tickets this year? This is absolute garbage. 70-90 face value on lower level SEC games, and i saw a Kentucky and Auburn ticket face value lower level 200 damn dollars and 170 for Texas?!?! Screw ticketmaster too by the way. I guess im not buying basketball anymore. Maybe road games they will be much cheaper.
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You know why ticket prices are so high? Because people are willing to pay that much. Don't blame Danny, he's doing his job and he's doing EXCELLENT at it
 
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Wow! I paid hundreds for the entire season this year and next year! The Attached picture of Lee Corso’s backside is from my seat. A few hundred for the entire year. Just a few hundred dollars for all the excitement and fun I could possibly tolerate during the Tennessee Volunteers season. Woe is me.

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I don’t get season tix anymore, but I do buy tix to two or three home games each year. Started buying the tickets in the sections with your own chair (chair backs and arm rests). Far more enjoyable than sitting next to some of these guys that take up two and a half numbers on the bleachers. I wish Neyland Stadium would be totally converted to individual chairs throughout the whole stadium. Comfort is far more important to me than ticket prices. If I don’t like the price, I can always watch it in my man cave with everything I want and a clean bathroom just steps away. JMO.
 
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SalVolinus said:
Supply and demand. You can have successful sports teams, or you can have cheap tickets. Take your pick.

(By the way, I still think that's ridiculously cheap considering what I pay to go to dinner and a movie and the comparative experiences).
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Great post!
 
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sunnyvol79 said:
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You have almost my exact mirror seat. I have four in N, row 47

Out of the sun/rain. Good perspective on plays developing

My dad has had these same seats since '64. They keep offering to move us to the sideline. He says, 'Nope; this is where I have always watched the VOLS'
 
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ReadCT said:
You have almost my exact mirror seat. I have four in N, row 47



Out of the sun/rain. Good perspective on plays developing



My dad has had these same seats since '64. They keep offering to move us to the sideline. He says, 'Nope; this is where I have always watched the VOLS'
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That’s great I really like those seats for that reason your out of the sun and rain the only drawback is we couldn’t see the Jumbo Tron
 
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GoVols15 said:
Priced me out of,going to games! Football is the same. If everyone would quit buying tickets maybe DH would get the message. Especially in these times! Shame on you DW indeed!
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Prices go up for a reason. People buy, and the entertainment is pretty darn good.
 
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GoVols15 said:
You are correct it is supply and demand. Problem is DW is DEMANDING too much!
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Their was season tickets available this year for $600 a seat in the lower bowl. That’s $600 for 7 home games, which comes out to about $86 a ticket. The Florida, Bama and Kentucky games only would have made you a profit. It’s best to bye season tickets now and pick the games you want to go to and sell the rest.
 
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Danny White striking while the iron is hot. It’s nothing any other AD at any institution doesn’t do when circumstances permit. It’s painful to the wallet right now, but that feeling you get when you witness a game like LSU is amazing.
 
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Can we get a count on how many times “supply and demand” was posted in this thread. Gotta be a record.
 
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So, literally the price of everything in the world has gone up. Combine that in and eta where the demand for all UT men’s sports is through the roof. But Danny White is the bad guy?
 
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I get it, and I'm happy that the team is getting the love that they deserve. Thompson Boling SHOULD be sold out every night. That said, I'm really bummed there is no VolPass for bball this year. $300 got me 2 tickets to every single home game last year and it was some of the most fun I've ever had with my kids. We rotated every game and I would take a different person. We loved how we could pick our own seats and got to experience the games from all over the stadium. We were 3 rows from the court few times and at the very top row a few times but we had a blast every time. $2k for 2 upper level tickets is just more than we can do. We'll do some single games and watch the rest from the house, but we will be clad in orange no matter what!
 
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OrangeYouGlad said:
I get it, and I'm happy that the team is getting the love that they deserve. Thompson Boling SHOULD be sold out every night. That said, I'm really bummed there is no VolPass for bball this year. $300 got me 2 tickets to every single home game last year and it was some of the most fun I've ever had with my kids. We rotated every game and I would take a different person. We loved how we could pick our own seats and got to experience the games from all over the stadium. We were 3 rows from the court few times and at the very top row a few times but we had a blast every time. $2k for 2 upper level tickets is just more than we can do. We'll do some single games and watch the rest from the house, but we will be clad in orange no matter what!
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Uppers are $500/ticket, not $1,000?
 
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ColinS said:
It is the common sense answer. If we show up to the games and half the seats are empty then DW is charging too much.
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The thing is the seats are full NOW, but those include a lot of fans that won’t support TN in the down years. It’s a short term focused money grab. But all of college sports could resemble NASCAR within a decade anyway
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
The thing is the seats are full NOW, but those include a lot of fans that won’t support TN in the down years. It’s a short term focused money grab. But all of college sports could resemble NASCAR within a decade anyway
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College sports will never resemble NASCAR in attendance.
 
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Plenty of people bashed the football model and how they were handling sales for the party deck, suggesting ticket sales would drop and blue hairs would be pissed off and attendance suffer…not sure ticket demand has ever been higher than it is right now.
 
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