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There doesn't need to be a big threat in it, more of a "we'd appreciate it if you did the right thing" quality.

There should be some equity, given the likely success of VT basketball and football in the coming years.

It's underhanded on Nike's part to have that big a discrepancy in the deal, and certainly an opportunity for Under Armour. Not my preference, but if I were Whit I'd be a little pissed at Nike right now.

They can always plus it up and make it a 10 or 12 year deal.

Judging from the picture, that would end up being #AllMaroonEverythingExceptTheHelmet

that's their security guards who yell at you to calm down and sit down and stop cheering loudly..

It's okay. Every time I see "#Whitness" I think it says "#whiteness" and get uncomfortable with the racial undertones.

Yes, you can screen capture anything and almost nothing electronic ever disappears. Snapchat has changed a lot from it's original form and it no longer is primarily a private photo share app. It's now officially a part of social media.

I also don't see the rush to lock up 100-200 of my dollars in reservation deposits when seats are going to be assigned by point priority anyway.

I think this is a great point.

My opinion is that maybe they'd have been better off having an initial sales period last year, and having a second one this year. Because of the way they did it, there was little incentive to reserve before this October, as reserving earlier didn't buy people anything in terms of better tickets or anything.

I can't be too critical, as it's a big undertaking.

wrong thread...too early for me I guess

Whit said something in an interview and I'll need to go find it, but it almost sounded like he approved the deal also. Something to the effect, "it came across my desk" he might have just meant he just saw and found out about I guess, but I can't see an outgoing AD signing a deal.

I watched the interview with Whit where he was asked the question, he and tallied them up as 440 separate seats.

you'd think a AD on the way out wouldn't even sign something this big without having the next one in line meet with nike ect ect.

and also take this into account. UT is in a city of one million (give or take) people with no pro sports team. They fill their 100,000 seat stadium with a lot of people from Knoxville along with the rest of the fan base which is as big and spread out as you'd expect for a school like that. 40K tickets is a joke for them when you consider it's a game within 2 hours of campus (which is also their biggest concentration of fans). In our case, being close to campus isn't as much of a plus location wise. When your largest concentration of fans/alumni is 4 hours north of campus, playing 2 hours south makes it even worse for certain fans. Honestly, I think a DC game would have surpassed 40K tickets even with the restrictions in place.

then throw in the potential drawbacks of seeing a game at Bristol (sight lines, distance from field, UT fans) and it doesn't surprise me that they've only sold 20K so far. There's no sense of urgency since the game is still over a year away. That said, I would much rather all 40K of our allotment go to Hokie fans than sell out as fast as UT, but risk giving them our tickets. I'm not worried about us getting stuck with extra tickets. They will be sold, just a question of how we can make sure they go to hokies. I wonder if they could somehow distribute them through alumni association chapters (not that all tech fans are alumni) to reach a larger pool of potential purchasers while still limiting access.

Heck, baseball is my favorite sport and you won't catch me watching a regular season game on TV at home. I can't sit still for long enough. If I'm at home, then there's something that needs to be done, fixed, maintained, or cleaned.
And baseball on TV is boring. I love the sport but I have to be there live. Same goes for hockey.

Postseason games are different, of course.