It was announced on local TV news that Tennessee has received deposits on 35,000 tickets for the Battle at Bristol in 2016 and has put their remaining 5,000 tickets aside to give to students. They have asked Bristol Motor Speedway for additional tickets. The game is expected to have attendance of over 150,000. It was also mentioned that Virginia Tech has not begun to sell their 40,000 tickets. What's our plan and what are we waiting for? I realize this game is still two years ago, but I hope we fill our half of the speedway. The last time we played Tennessee at the Chick Fil A Bowl, they dominated the stands, but we dominated the game.
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Yeah I was talking to a guy at work about that today..I think it's kind of pathetic that our athletic department hasn't made them available yet. Tennessee is making us look bad and that irks me. I hope the new AD knows how the move by TN makes us look and reacts accordingly. I'll be disappointed if we don't sell our allotment..but I can tell you this..I'm going to be there..no matter what..come hell or high water.
I'd love to know. I would buy mine yesterday if they were on sale.
It just says ticket information coming soon....
http://www.hokiesports.com/football/battleatbristol/
It has said that the whole time, nothing new.
Already got dibbs on tickets with a good friend who happens to be a Tennessee alum.
He asked me how many I wanted 3 weeks after game was announced.
We've got confirmed 14 tickets.
No date given by Hokie club.
If this doesn't highlight some of what's wrong with athletic dept.......
This would be a good way to make a splash for the new A.D.
I guess interim A.D. means "Don't do anything"...
Gee wiz, get with the picture VT, start selling tickets!
I understand how BristolHokie feels since I too live in Bristol and work with many (worthless) UT grads. It's embarassing that they already have their tickets. I'm dying to get these tickets and lock them away until 2016. This game could be great with how UT has been getting better and how young our team is now. We should have experience all over the offensive side of the ball for once. And Bud and Gray always has it covered on the defensive side.
I just hope that before the speedway gives away any more tickets to UT, they wait for us to sell ours. That also means that VT has to step up and give them a timeline in the next 3 months tickets will be available to Hokie Club members, etc.
With only 9.7k members in the Hokie Club, they might as well open up tickets to everyone at the same time, with the specifically good ones set aside for the HC.
We have to sell 40k tickets. We'd need every single Hokie Club member to request 4 tickets for us to reach this goal. Tennessee has already asked for more.
With that said, this needs to happen soon, or else we're going to be looking at a situation where we're outnumbered at that venue something like 100,000 to 50,000.
Well, I have had about 8 friends ask me to get them tickets already. So I hope they lift the cap on the 4 tickets per member.
For neutral field games like this in the past, when ticket applications for that season go out to HC members, it has a separate section for games like this. Boise State and Cincy at FedEx. Bama in Atlanta. Etc. For a game like this with so many seats available, we need to go ahead and change it up and do a deposit system like UT is doing for this game. We need to do something like this even more now that UT is already requesting more. This game is supposed to be a big stage for VT to really shine. If 80% of the stadium is the wrong shade of orange, it could potentially be embarrassing. Our fans will buy these tickets because this is a once in a lifetime game, they just need to be made available. Come on, Whit! Make a great first impression on Hokie Nation!
Don't fret. It's not that there's no demand for the tickets within Hokie Nation. If you think we can't sell 40k + tickets to this game, you seriously underestimate our fan base. This isn't a bowl game just south of Tennessee where Hokie fans have less access and ability to get to the game (particularly last minute, and at a venue we had been multiple times and Tennessee hadn't). This is a big deal, and 2 years away. VT could hold the tickets until prepping for the 2016 season and probably sell all of them, and then some.
The worry is if the Hokies hold on selling, the raceway will give more tickets to UT now and there will be less available for the Hokies when they start trying to sell. If UT sells 80,000 tickets, that means there will only be 30,000 available to the general public after the Hokie Club gets their 40,000 tickets.
Except the raceway won't because that's part of the agreement made.
Great comments all of these. I bet AB jumps on this and does an article. The new AD will pay attention. Just shows why TKP is a needed commodity for VT Sports. Keep it up!
I don't think Bristol will do anything to upset either side with tickets for this game. It's big for them too.
You forget that Tennessee fills 100,000 every single time they play. Neyland is one of the largest stadiums in the country and full every game. If Tennessee has any momentum coming into this game, they would EASILY fill 150,00 by themselves.
Ever met Bruton Smith?
The new AD can't do anything until March 1 I believe. I don't think Bristol will be handing them extra tickets soon. There are 2 years and 8 months still. No need to panic yet.
Yeah, I'm getting quite frustrated about this. All of our friends who have BMS season tickets down here plan on using their whole ticket allowance. We tried to get tickets that way. The Battle at Bristol website said general ticket information was supposed to be available at the end of the 2013 calendar year and it obviously wasn't. Has anyone tried asking the ticket office when they're going to sell? Unfortunately, knowing the Tennessee idiots here, the stadium will be more full of them... And they'll take cocky pride in it. Bristol ALWAYS tries to please the Tennessee fans. Always have. Tennessee's marching band preformed at the race this past year. If you watch the news (channel 11, channel 5, etc) they always show bias to Tennessee over Tech. It's thrown in our faces here and that's one of the reasons I can't stand their fans.
VT's ticket office needs to get on the ball. I want there to AT LEAST be 66,233 people jumping to Enter Sandman at the start of that game. It's a SUPER easy drive from Blacksburg to Bristol up I-81 and everyone who can come, needs to.
If I ever hear anything about tickets from anyone here in Bristol I'll let everyone know on here.
I am getting more and more pissed off about this myself. I think ALL tickets should have been
available at the same time. What in the world are they waiting for??!?!?! Sorry. Rant over. LOL
Someone on TSL pointed out that the UT Athletic Department has a big time budget problem and by taking deposits on the Battle at Bristol they're helping make ends meet this year. It's not a positive for anyone, its an act of desperation. They are basically selling tickets to a 2016 game to pay the bills in 2014.
Ask and you shall receive
http://www.hokiesports.com/football/recaps/20140130aab.html
In my opinion, this is a good example of one of the shortcomings of the current Hokie Club system. As a recent grad who isn't a member of the Hokie Club, I have no idea what all the point system mumbo jumbo means. By the time I got through all that, I wasn't sure if I even cared any more.
But what about the non-season ticket holders???
So how about non season ticket holders?
For everyone asking about non-season ticket holders, at the moment it appears that you won't be able to reserve anything until 2016 based upon this document http://www.hokiesports.com/football/battleatbristol/ticketinfo.pdf.
Ahh figures. Thanks for the info. Gonna see about going through a season ticket holder friend.
Ticket tiers are 80/100/120/140 per ticket with $25 per ticket deposit required. Now I need to start assembling the list of who wants to go.
Holy hell, that game is going to rack in some serious dough.
I do! I do!! haha
Does anyone have a link to the different ticket prices by tier so I can determine which price point I want to purchase? I'm thinking at Bristol there will be such a thing as "too far away" and "too close" because of the weird angle you'll be watching from.
I also have to make list of people wanting to go. Living near Bristol, your either a VT fan or a UT fan. I put a simple post on facebook about the game and tickets. My phone blew up with people wanting me to order tickets for them. I understand people from 757 not understanding how big this is for SWVA, but this the Southwest Virginia-Northeast Tennessee Super Bowl.
Oh believe me, I fully understand. It's going to be wild. Tennessee fans are vicious here.
i like to picture heaven as a 160,000 fans split right down the middle on a warm late summer night. tennessee in all orange and us in all marroon. and i'm front row center. and i'm hammered drunk.
I just can't wait to go into work the next day and hear all the Michigan fans crying foul and claiming we cheated to beat their CFB single game attendance record.
They'll all be like, "well we would have packed 160,000 seats by ourselves if our stadium was that big. Lets see you try and do that alone!" Well, Michigan fan, go ahead and schedule your own game at a speedway then we'll see. The record board doesn't lie! It shall be ours!