TALENT FEE
PostPosted:Thu Sep 19, 2024 12:01 am
Tennessee just anniunced starting in 2025 they will be adding a 10 percent talent fee to all tickets to help pay players. So we get to contribute to the UT payroll in 2026. That’s nice.
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Talent includes the Tennessee team as well as the opposing teams coming to Neyland.
The “talent” lies in an athletic department that is able to bamboozle people into parting with thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of their dollars to pay to watch rental players (who may spend only 1 semester residing near “their” campus) be lavishly paid to go .500 and play in the Gasparilla Bowl, and for the privilege of fighting hours of snarled traffic, park a country mile from the stadium, then jostle elbows with 100,000 (other) rednecks for 3 hours, pay $15 for a warm beer, before making the endless trek back to their vehicle, and sitting in snarled traffic for another hour…and then subject themselves to that same extortional punishment as little as 7 days later, 7 or 8 times each Fall.Affirm wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:12 amTalent includes the Tennessee team as well as the opposing teams coming to Neyland.
ETSU's 2025 contract to play at Neyland, and Furman's 2026 contract to play at Neyland, should be adjusted upwards according the the additional amounts Tennessee will be charging on their tickets for Talent.
Thank you, and I agree.FUBeAR wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:24 amThe “talent” lies in an athletic department that is able to bamboozle people into parting with thousands (or hundreds of thousands) of their dollars to pay to watch rental players (who may spend only 1 semester residing near “their” campus) be lavishly paid to go .500 and play in the Gasparilla Bowl, and for the privilege of fighting hours of snarled traffic, park a country mile from the stadium, then jostle elbows with 100,000 (other) rednecks for 3 hours, pay $15 for a warm beer, before making the endless trek back to their vehicle, and sitting in snarled traffic for another hour…and then subject themselves to that same extortional punishment as little as 7 days later, 7 or 8 times each Fall.Affirm wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2024 10:12 amTalent includes the Tennessee team as well as the opposing teams coming to Neyland.
ETSU's 2025 contract to play at Neyland, and Furman's 2026 contract to play at Neyland, should be adjusted upwards according the the additional amounts Tennessee will be charging on their tickets for Talent.
NO THANK YOU!
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