The campus has been buzzing since UT's student newspaper, the Beacon, broke this story on Friday:UT students will have to pay to attend football games beginning next year.
Although it's not uncommon for SEC schools to charge students for football tickets, its unprecedented at Tennessee.
And it's not going over well.
The decision to charge students $15 per game or $90 per semester has prompted at least one Facebook group that boasts nearly 6,000 irate members. Students already are threatening to boycott games next year, as seen painted on the Rock — a large boulder on campus devoted to student announcements and other random graffiti. (Photo above from the Facebook group.)
I guess I'm leaving UT at the right time.
6 comments:
An angry Facebook group. Now *there's* a scary protest movement.
We always had to pay at Mizzou and when I was there we were pretty darn terrible I will tell you. At least Tenn is a good football team! :)
We have heard that the uproar is getting bigger...Aaron's mamaw even heard about it and called us....does that mean that all the ticket prices are going up? If we start saving now maybe we can afford a game before Parker starts school!!
At least you don't have to pay at Harding!!
Do you think they'd really actually boycott?
I don't.
When you think about it, that's pretty good entertainment for $15.
If the students don't want to pay it, I'm betting those tickets would go quickly ... especially if they charged $15 for them.
I agree with Rick. $15 isn't a bad price at all to pay for seats. Do they not know how much you have to pay for the other seats???!!!
I can understand them being upset but they'll get over it. These college kids need to realize you can't get everything free in life.
we would pay $15 or $90 for tickets/season passes. we have joked about enrolling just for the tickets :) oh well all free things come to an end at sometime, right?
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