Vandy’s football stadium

[JHB4UK]

Nashville and surrounding region are booming in population and industry as well as becoming a big destination town for travel. Having that market is going to start paying off for the SEC.

All those people are going to look for a team to support, all those businesses are going to look for advertising/sponsorship opportunities.

Vandy is the sleeping giant. They have the alum wealth, they have the SEC brand/money, they have the city, they have entertainment industry/pop culture, big star power/brands right next door...

Good theory, but IMO NashVegas is growing & booming with people who are going to maintain their Fandom of wherever they came from & will not adopt Vandy. People from East Tenn or Kentucky or Georgia or Alabama are not gonna say "welp i live here, time to dump the school me & my family have always cheered for!".

Ive spent time in growing southern cities, Charlotte, ATL, Orlando. The new people don't become fans of the local teams, they generally stay attached to the teams/schools where they came from. Does Georgia Tech have a great fanbase, hello!?!? And their teams have been a helluvalot more respectable on the field than Vandy. ATL remains a hodgepodge of fanbases, UGA, lots of Big 10 folks, other ACC schools. UCF has very very slowly built a little bit of a fanbase in Orlando.

would be a nice story if Vanderbilt became a winning football program with a full excited stadium of folks mostly wearing black & gold. I just don't see it happening soon.

 

[UKBrassowTipIN]

Stanford wasn't good enough for the big10 or big12....and they've played in ny6 bowls, so

 

[TucsonCat]

Good theory, but IMO NashVegas is growing & booming with people who are going to maintain their Fandom of wherever they came from & will not adopt Vandy. People from East Tenn or Kentucky or Georgia or Alabama are not gonna say "welp i live here, time to dump the school me & my family have always cheered for!".

Ive spent time in growing southern cities, Charlotte, ATL, Orlando. The new people don't become fans of the local teams, they generally stay attached to the teams/schools where they came from. Does Georgia Tech have a great fanbase, hello!?!? And their teams have been a helluvalot more respectable on the field than Vandy. ATL remains a hodgepodge of fanbases, UGA, lots of Big 10 folks, other ACC schools. UCF has very very slowly built a little bit of a fanbase in Orlando.

would be a nice story if Vanderbilt became a winning football program with a full excited stadium of folks mostly wearing black & gold. I just don't see it happening soon.

Agree. If they do change allegiances, it will be to pro teams. Titans and predators. Big cities don't care about college sports. Other than USC and Ucla, what big city leads to collegiate success.Phoenix, Chicago, New York, Atlanta, Dallas, Houston, Denver, Detroit, San Francisco. The local college might catch lightning in a bottle once, but never sustained greatness.

 

[rye48]

Just bought 4 tickets on 30 yard line row20 for 55 bucks apiece. LOTS of great seats available cheap. Although it is easily the worst staduim in SEC there will be a BUNCH of UK fans there, and Nashville is a great place to stay

Shouldn't be a bad seat in the house