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- kyjoe - 08-29-2002 12:38 PM
It's this Saturday against Wyoming at the Titan's house, is that right? Was just curious was all.
- Vandy Dandy - 08-29-2002 12:57 PM
That is actually a home game for Wyoming. The Vols paid a ton of money to get Wyoming to play in Nashville instead of having the game out in Laramie.
- calling_the_hogs - 08-29-2002 03:51 PM
Wyoming is playing it mostly though because they don't average 15,000 per game at their stadium in Laramie. Having the 'home' game in Nashville keeps them easily within Div. 1-A guidelines.
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- grossman_to_the_Er - 08-29-2002 06:44 PM
yep this Saturday, you can catch it on ESPN 2 @ 5:30 EST
- orangetd88 - 08-30-2002 01:00 AM
</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Vandy Dandy:
That is actually a home game for Wyoming. The Vols paid a ton of money to get Wyoming to play in Nashville instead of having the game out in Laramie.</font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Acutally, that is not correct. Wyoming sold it's home game to the Nashville Sports Council. If it had sold the game to UT, it would be in Knoxville.
I heard somewhere that Wyoming is looking to pay offa bout 15 years worth of debt with this game. The Coliseum holds about twice as many as War Memorial, so they are gonna make quite a bit of money off us UT fans. Anyway, that is why we are playing in Nashville.
- grossman_to_the_Er - 08-31-2002 04:10 AM
i heard somewhere we paid Wyoming $60,000 to move the game to Nashville. I like to think of Nahville as our 2nd home. We can pack 60,000 Vol fans in when we play Vandy every other year.
- grossman_to_the_Er - 08-31-2002 04:12 AM
Also ESPN wouldnt agree to televise the game in Wyoming so we got some additional TV coverage. I hope we look better than the other 2 teams in the top 5 that have played already. oklahoma looked weak. Swallows and coughs. Roll Tide!