🏈 Question for 2016

[riz]

Oxford.

 

[Che Boludo]

If true the conference office should censure them for that.

I believe ADs have the right to manipulate the pricing as they see fit. Some are even charging visiting bands a ticket price.

LSUs published ticket policy states that visiting teams tickets may be a higher cost within a loosely established guideline, so they aren't really hiding it.

See page 6, paragraph 1.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggeMAA&usg=AFQjCNEFe6skaCyyl25xj75TI02Ix0uJUQ

 

[bamachine]

I don't know what the charge is for anyone else, but my ticket order form from Alabama gives the $125 price. I know Alabama will charge varying prices depending on the game. A while back, LSU stated that Alabama fans were going to be placed high and far from the action at a premium price.

I dunno, I don't think I qualified for any road games except maybe UT this year. It almost seems like they took away some of my Tide Pride points.

 

[OldPlayer]

I believe ADs have the right to manipulate the pricing as they see fit. Some are even charging visiting bands a ticket price.

LSUs published ticket policy states that visiting teams tickets may be a higher cost within a loosely established guideline, so they aren't really hiding it.

See page 6, paragraph 1.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sou...ggeMAA&usg=AFQjCNEFe6skaCyyl25xj75TI02Ix0uJUQ

Visiting bands have always been charged. It's up to the visiting school how much of the band they want to send. The home school has seats to sell. How the visiting school wants to use their allotment is up to them.

 

[Che Boludo]

Visiting bands have always been charged. It's up to the visiting school how much of the band they want to send. The home school has seats to sell. How the visiting school wants to use their allotment is up to them.

I wasn't aware it was common practice. I just remembered some minor stink about it last fall with texas charging another Big 12 school for their band.

 

[OldPlayer]

I wasn't aware it was common practice. I just remembered some minor stink about it last fall with texas charging another Big 12 school for their band.

Think about it. If a school (Alabama) allocates 5,000 seats for the visiting team (a number I just made up), it's the visiting team's decision how to use those seats. If the band is 300 people (with support staff, dance squad, etc), why would Alabama say, "Okay, pay for 4,700 tickets and we'll let the band in for free." That's 300 tickets that can't be sold to Alabama fans (that could easily be sold). The visiting team's band will probably get to play a few songs at halftime. Any of that performance that is televised is free exposure that is worth more to the school than the price of the tickets.

Neutral site games or playoff/bowl games may operate a little different as part of the contract. Teams are given X amount of tickets, but also have the responsibility to sell many more.

 

[TerryP]

I'd say Oxford simply b/c I'd get sick from all the puke orange....

That was actually what I told my wife when she asked! She wants Knoxville because it will be cooler than that mid September trip.

Something to consider:

IF the pre-season expectations for the Vols end up anywhere close to being true there's a chance they'll give us the best game we've seen since '09. IF that's the case, there's something you need—no must—consider:

Rocky Top played what seems like hundreds of times in a matter of a few hours.

 

[bamachine]

Something to consider:

IF the pre-season expectations for the Vols end up anywhere close to being true there's a chance they'll give us the best game we've seen since '09. IF that's the case, there's something you need—no must—consider:

Rocky Top played what seems like hundreds of times in a matter of a few hours.

Hell, they do that anyway. They play it if they get a first down, if they stop you on 3rd down, if the waterboy fills the bottles fast enough. Also annoying is the last few years, the Third Down For What BS. Although I kinda liked it the last time I was there, as every time they played it, it seemed we got a first down. They had the best 3rd down defense percentage in the country before that game, we knocked them down about 10 places in that game. I hate that they started playing that song in BDS last year. I kept screaming at them to stop it, they did not hear me.

 

[BamaFan334]

Something to consider:

IF the pre-season expectations for the Vols end up anywhere close to being true there's a chance they'll give us the best game we've seen since '09. IF that's the case, there's something you need—no must—consider:

Rocky Top played what seems like hundreds of times in a matter of a few hours.

I feel as if last year they gave us a hell of a game, a legit game.

 

[PurlJam]

Thanks to everyone for the input. I believe we will be in Knoxville in October.

If you change your mind and decide to go to Oxford let me know. I know the area pretty well (lived there for 4 years), I can hook you up to all the good eatin' places, unless you want BBQ, then you'll have to hit Memphis. It remains a mystery to my why Oxford doesn't have a good BBQ place, but if you want a good steak, catfish or arguably one of the best brick oven pizza's ever, I can steer you in the right direction.