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<blockquote data-quote="MWBATL" data-source="post: 95105" data-attributes="member: 944"><p>Really? Seriously? Let us count the ways....:</p><p>(1) they have (and always have had) half again as many students as GT has. The most recent figures show UT-Knoxville with 21,033 versus 14,558 for GT (Undergrads only....grad students everywhere are historically not interested in football)</p><p>(2) That leads to a huge advantage in living alumni. For UT-Knoxville, they have about 225.000 living alumni while GT has 126,000 living alumni</p><p>(3) while figures are not as east to gather, it is also quite clear that UT's alumni live much closer to Knoxville than GT's alumni do. There are fewer than 50,000 living GT alumni in the entire state of Georgia, as GT grads tend to go all over the country, and the world because of the technical fields they work in. UT grads tend to stay closer to home and become local bankers or lawyers or businesspeople. I am going to guess that only 50% of their living alumni live within 4 hours of Knoxville, which would mean over 110,000.</p><p>(4) Conclusion...these FACTS would suggest that UT SHOULD draw over twice as many fans to a football game as GT does, even with identical levels of student and alumni support.</p><p></p><p>(Note: This type of analysis also holds for most big SEC schools, including Athens, and should relieve a bit of the stadium envy many GT fans seem to have.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MWBATL, post: 95105, member: 944"] Really? Seriously? Let us count the ways....: (1) they have (and always have had) half again as many students as GT has. The most recent figures show UT-Knoxville with 21,033 versus 14,558 for GT (Undergrads only....grad students everywhere are historically not interested in football) (2) That leads to a huge advantage in living alumni. For UT-Knoxville, they have about 225.000 living alumni while GT has 126,000 living alumni (3) while figures are not as east to gather, it is also quite clear that UT's alumni live much closer to Knoxville than GT's alumni do. There are fewer than 50,000 living GT alumni in the entire state of Georgia, as GT grads tend to go all over the country, and the world because of the technical fields they work in. UT grads tend to stay closer to home and become local bankers or lawyers or businesspeople. I am going to guess that only 50% of their living alumni live within 4 hours of Knoxville, which would mean over 110,000. (4) Conclusion...these FACTS would suggest that UT SHOULD draw over twice as many fans to a football game as GT does, even with identical levels of student and alumni support. (Note: This type of analysis also holds for most big SEC schools, including Athens, and should relieve a bit of the stadium envy many GT fans seem to have.) [/QUOTE]
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