Ticket Prices, shame on you Danny White

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bleedingTNorange said:
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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We haven’t been ranked #3 right after more than 15 years of mediocrity either. A lot of the fair weather fans will show their true selfs when TN has several 2, 3, 4 loss seasons in a row without being included in major bowls or the playoff. Squeezing every dollar out of the fan base when times are good isn’t a great long term philosophy.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
We haven’t been ranked #3 right after more than 15 years of mediocrity either. A lot of the fair weather fans will show their true selfs when TN has several 2, 3, 4 loss seasons in a row without being included in major bowls or the playoff. Squeezing every buckle out of the fan base when times are good isn’t a great long term philosophy.
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Continue winning, that’s the solution, and you sell season tickets…2023 season tickets sales will be massive and will be sold before a single game is played, you starting getting ahead of it.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
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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Very much the product of a 6-0 team ranked in the top-3, too, though. You have to admit that if this were Jeremy Pruitt's third season, ticket demand wouldn't be near what it is, and a move to increase prices would be received with collective laughter for the product on the field. An outstanding product produces demand almost regardless of ticket price increase.
 
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cardvolfan said:
Great statement there.
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And blatantly incorrect for why NASCAR attendance has taken a dive. IMO the biggest reason is that there is nothing “stock” about the cars anymore and also that they assumed redirecting from their loyal fan base for the money grab of a national audience was short sighted. That’s the analogy with UT squeezing their loyal, long term fan base that was developed over many decades. But immediate gratification of raising (and spending) as much money as possible instead of building long term loyalty is the usual approach of transient administrations. There is no incentive anymore other than the quick money grab. Danny White gets about $10 million if he fails. Several million while he blows up the goodwill year after year.
 
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cncchris33 said:
Very much the product of a 6-0 team ranked in the top-3, too, though. You have to admit that if this were Jeremy Pruitt's third season, ticket demand wouldn't be near what it is, and a move to increase prices would be received with collective laughter for the product on the field. An outstanding product produces demand almost regardless of ticket price increase.
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Absolutely, and that is what I said at the time was that Danny White was betting on the program taking a step forward and that winning would cure all. Many folks said I was wrong and that the new model would price out the older generation and there likely wasn’t a wave of younger generation behind them that would want tickets, now you’ve got everyone wanting tickets.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
And blatantly incorrect for why NASCAR attendance has taken a dive. IMO the biggest reason is that there is nothing “stock” about the cars anymore and also that they assumed redirecting from their loyal fan base for the money grab of a national audience was short sighted. That’s the analogy with UT squeezing their loyal, long term fan base that was developed over many decades. But immediate gratification of raising (and spending) as much money as possible instead of building long term loyalty is the usual approach of transient administrations. There is no incentive anymore other than the quick money grab. Danny White gets about $10 million if he fails. Several million while he blows up the goodwill year after year.
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Yes, I know that. It was humor.
 
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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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Buy season tickets and you can watched only the ones you want. then sell the others to pay for all the tickets.
 
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These people complaining are the same ones who will pay 4 dollars for gas and 6 dollars for cigarettes and not say a word about it
 
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dhb92 said:
Sorry you poors can't keep up - obviously didn't get a degree from THE University of Tennessee if you're not already making 6 figures.
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Spent 22 years in the Navy...Viet Nam and Persian Gulf vet. Never even got close to making 6 figures. But I didn't join and make a career of it for the money! I might get to go to 1 football game and 1 or 2 basketball games if I am lucky!
 
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knoxchief said:
Spent 22 years in the Navy...Viet Nam and Persian Gulf vet. Never even got close to making 6 figures. But I didn't join and make a career of it for the money! I might get to go to 1 football game and 1 or 2 basketball games if I am lucky!
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He’s just being funny. You “poors”.
 
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Its the universities job to try and price tickets where they meet demand. If people are paying those prices, the product must be really enticing. But it would be foolish for the university to sell tickets, only for the scalpers to make a killing marking them up on the secondhand market.
 
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