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Vols-Wolfpack highest rated ESPNU game ever!
Topic Started: Sep 6 2012, 04:12 PM (114 Views)
LonzoVol


Not only did Tennessee deliver a crucial win in its season-opener against N.C. State at the Georgia Dome last Friday, but the Vols were a hit in the ratings as well.

The game averaged 1,491,000 viewers (based on a 1.3 average rating and 945,000 households) and now stands as ESPNU's most-viewed college football game ever.

Behind 524 total yards of offense, UT rolled to a 35-21 victory in Atlanta.

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LonzoVol
Sep 6 2012, 04:12 PM
Not only did Tennessee deliver a crucial win in its season-opener against N.C. State at the Georgia Dome last Friday, but the Vols were a hit in the ratings as well.

The game averaged 1,491,000 viewers (based on a 1.3 average rating and 945,000 households) and now stands as ESPNU's most-viewed college football game ever.

Behind 524 total yards of offense, UT rolled to a 35-21 victory in Atlanta.

Clay Travis was trying to make a case that the Vols could not muster the TV ratings that Vanderbilt had in it's ESPN game with South Carolina and what the Titans did on CBS.

What Travis left out was that Vandy played n ESPN and and the Vols NC State game was only on ESPN. Most people who have ESPN have it as a regular part of their cable service. ESPNU is an upgrade in tier service that costs more, so a majority of people do not have it.

On the Titans thing, he was trying to drive a wedge in the fan base. First the Titans and UT are not competition with one another. They play at different levels, in separate leagues, and on different days. Then you have the fact that the NFL is broadcast on CBS, FOX, and NBC, which are on everyone's TV service.
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Sep 6 2012, 04:46 PM
LonzoVol
Sep 6 2012, 04:12 PM
Not only did Tennessee deliver a crucial win in its season-opener against N.C. State at the Georgia Dome last Friday, but the Vols were a hit in the ratings as well.

The game averaged 1,491,000 viewers (based on a 1.3 average rating and 945,000 households) and now stands as ESPNU's most-viewed college football game ever.

Behind 524 total yards of offense, UT rolled to a 35-21 victory in Atlanta.

Clay Travis was trying to make a case that the Vols could not muster the TV ratings that Vanderbilt had in it's ESPN game with South Carolina and what the Titans did on CBS.

What Travis left out was that Vandy played n ESPN and and the Vols NC State game was only on ESPN. Most people who have ESPN have it as a regular part of their cable service. ESPNU is an upgrade in tier service that costs more, so a majority of people do not have it.

On the Titans thing, he was trying to drive a wedge in the fan base. First the Titans and UT are not competition with one another. They play at different levels, in separate leagues, and on different days. Then you have the fact that the NFL is broadcast on CBS, FOX, and NBC, which are on everyone's TV service.
Good points. I know some folks that don't have ESPNU on their cable systems plus the game was played on Friday night going against high school football games across the country. Claymation Travisty has turned into a real a-hole and the better this team does, the worst he looks.
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Where did you find that info Lonzo, ESPN.com?
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I'm shaking my head more that there were 17,000 empty seats in the Georgia Dome ... but, times are changing.
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Sep 6 2012, 05:03 PM
I'm shaking my head more that there were 17,000 empty seats in the Georgia Dome ... but, times are changing.
I'm kind of shocked they sell as many tickets as they do. Really. And I dont think this is something that's going to get better. Technology is just kicking their ass.

Personally, I really just dont care about going to worthless games. It's a pain in the ass for me to get up to Knoxville for games now, just have so much going on at home all the time I really have to pick and choose when we get out of town. Since we have the place at the beach, when we can get away we get away to the water. Years ago...my wife would lose that battle. I wasnt going to miss a game. But today? No. I have a TV that takes up a whole damn wall now so I'm basically watching life sized versions running around. Clear view...with the added bonus of instant replay, my kitchen and more importantly my refrigerator filled with MY DAMN BEER. Plus, my couch. And my bathroom. Considering how much it costs to get out of town nowdays, gas...rooms, etc...it's just not worth the effort. I'd rather sit at home....and I'm not alone in that thought. Now..once we are in the top 10 again, and playing other top 10 teams I'm in the car. But that's about the only way.

College football is no different than any other industry. Technology is advancing at such a fast rate you have to be very proactive to keep up. This is another part of the problem we are having with employment. I mean really, we are just so much more radically efficient now that a GREAT many jobs from even just a couple of decades ago are just gone. Shit's automated. Bye bye into the nether. Think of something else. Look at what auto manufacturers are doing now with cars. Significant numbers of autos today parallel park by themselves. They have onboard 'smart' breaking systems that automatically slow you down if you are not paying attention to keep you from rear ending people. Then there's google. They have a completely automated car that they have logged something like 250k miles on...where it's completely driven itself (they have a guy sitting in the drivers seat, but he's not driving). We are probably 10, maybe 15 years out from basically having no more auto accidents. Think of what THAT's going to do to the economy and several industries... think about it a few years from now when you are figuring out where your money in your 401k is going...

College football has to adapt just like the rest of us. Jerry Jones is trying with that technological monstrosity of a dome he built. Probably not the solution, but at least hes working on the right problem.
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Zip is right. I used to hold season tickets to the Titans and went to a lot of UT games. The demands of having a young son and technology pushed seeing those live events weekly, onto the back burner. I have a big screen TV, a comfortable sofa and ottoman, snacks and drinks in my refrigerator, and multiple bathrooms that allow me free access.

Now, NFL teams are working on bringing some elements to the games. On the stadium radio broadcast, you can hear some of the coaches talking on the sideline and there is a microphone that allows you to pick up the sound of the action on the field. They are trying to make coming to the game a bit more realistic for the fans.
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Agree Zip....I had season ticket for years but gave them up in 1995. My son played college football and I knew I would be following him for 4 years so I gave up my tickets with the intent of getting them again. After my son finished college ball I said screw it and have never looked back.

I made that trip to K-Town for many a years...as I got older it became more of a hassell that I didn't look forward to any longer. Love the Vols as much today as I did almost 60 years ago....Just way to easy to keep my azz at home and have everything 20 feet away.
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I'm not talking about entertainment value. If you guys want to compare sitting in a leather recliner in front of a 120" 3D plasma with a stocked fridge and catheter <TO> the hassles, pricing, and congestion of getting to a UT football game, then there's no debate. There's a lot of change that the Vols need to make (among them, in my opinion, is reducing the barriers to student admission).

So, no, I'm not talking about entertainment value. I'm talking about being a fan and supporting a team, and being part of that energy that can help lift and encourage the Vols toward winning more. Listen, I only get to one game a year because of distance and other weekend commitments I have. I don't have the luxury of owning a chain of Pilots so that I can give gabillions to the Vols, I don't have the luxury of having weekends off, and I don't have the proximity to attend games in Knoxville.

But, as a fan, I do try to support the team with more than a few bb posts a day. And, I use the game as a bonding time with the boys.

Granted, it is a major pain to drive 10 hours each way, pay for 2 nights at a hotel, deal with overpriced tickets, parking, concessions, and annoying Chick-fil-a cows ... just to be able to sit so high up that I can see the rafters of the Georgia Dome more clearly than the numbers on the back of players.

But I'm a Vol fan ... which, in case some have forgotten ... comes from "fanatic", which means that one does things that logic defines as idiotic. I show the support that I can. And, for supposedly being part of one of the largest fan-bases in college football, I'm surprised that there isn't more passion for the Vols that is willing to overcome far lower barriers than I had to. That's all.
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Apathy + technology Rev. If/when UT is a top 10 team again things will change somewhat.

But considering the current environment as well as what's likely to happen in the future (i.e. it's going to get even more difficult), I'm inclined to agree that the age of the mega-stadium is probably about to jump the shark ... or has already.

Depends on what UT wants to do. If they just want to put more asses in the seats, they need to reduce ticket prices across the board and open up the floodgates for students. As for financial support, watching on TV serves a similar purpose. ESPN does pay the SEC & UT, after all. That's just reality going forward, fanatics or not.

But as for supporting the TEAM, the players I mean, in person? Like I said: open the floodgates to the students and the locals, because I doubt very seriously fans are going to start traveling medium to large distances to attend games regularly in larger numbers going forward. It's going to drop.
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Clay Travis and the Dooley haters will talk about how few people were in the crowd the Georgia State game. A cupcake team coupled with rain.
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Zip, I think we can agree on much here, but I think that the mega stadium of UT can survive, but it really needs to have two things:

(1) It needs to get students at way reduced prices into the stands.
(2) For softies and deep pockets, they need to "Tennessee Terrace" much more of the stadium. Yes, it will reduce seats and it will probably be cost-prohibitive, but those bench seats are just not worth the price ... seriously, they got to give a bone to the high ticket fans.

Still, we need fans.
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I have seats in the Terrace (w/ a friend)*. Yes, they need to add more of them. It's pretty awesome. Actually have some room and dedicated concessions (which are still awful and horribly overpriced, but at least you dont have to wait so long to overpay for crap). My daughter is spoiled rotten by them, but it's also about the only way I can get her and her mother to go. They could use some tweaking, though....and they are pretty stupid expensive.

But, they also need to add value to the cheaper seats, or at least make them CHEAPER. Improve the damn food...and for goodness sakes get more students into the games already. It's their school, it's their team...they should be the primary on-site support.




*the parking pass is WAY more important than the Terrace seats, for me. Parking in the deck right by Neyland is ... yeah, it's worth the money.
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Sep 7 2012, 03:33 PM
*the parking pass is WAY more important than the Terrace seats, for me. Parking in the deck right by Neyland is ... yeah, it's worth the money.
I pay $5 less and park 1/2 a mile away ... so ... ummm ... yeah .. you're right.

By the way, the XX to ZZ seats are actually pretty good and they are much more cost effective than the Terrace (but, of course they are still off to the side). I try to get in XX1 to XX3 when I go.
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