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Smashcat said:
It’s convenient but folks there know you can gouge and rip off UK fans.
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Yep. It's why they pay so much to get it. Gouge the hell out of fans. Tiny arena so scalpers make a killing. If they're going to have a monopoly on the site at least make them build a bigger arena.

St Louis was way better. Needs to rotate between Nashville St Louis Atlanta and Nola.

Btw if you haven't been to Nashville in awhile, it's changed a ton for the worse. Won't be the same city you saw last time.
 
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bigblueinsanity said:
Yep. It's why they pay so much to get it. Gouge the hell out of fans. Tiny arena so scalpers make a killing. If they're going to have a monopoly on the site at least make them build a bigger arena.

St Louis was way better. Needs to rotate between Nashville St Louis Atlanta and Nola.

Btw if you haven't been to Nashville in awhile, it's changed a ton for the worse. Won't be the same city you saw last time.
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What’s happened to it?
 
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What’s happened to it?
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107 people moving there daily. Mostly from NYC and other large cities. Turns out they prefer where they came from enough that tons of mediocre over priced bars and restaurants popped up to suit them.

The honky tonk and southern themed restaurants are on their way out except Broadway. Hotels are as expensive as anywhere in the world probably due to low inventory and rising real estate.

It's just a matter of taste. Personally if I want a large metro experience and prices, I go to one. Nashville turned into a rip off of a metro experience but with exorbitant prices. And it all happened over the course of about two years, it seems

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rolaid said:
Hate Nashville - highest price hotel rooms in USA - crappy little arena - No thanks - Should be in dome in ATL
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Highest priced hotels for sure. Broadway is ridiculous. Overcrowded and overpriced drinks. Arena is far from crappy though. Much better experience then watching in a dome. Airbnb outside of downtown in East Nashville or The Gulch and uber in. Much better restaurants and bars outside of downtown anyway. Great places and food all over Nashville
 
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rolaid said:
Hate Nashville - highest price hotel rooms in USA - crappy little arena - No thanks - Should be in dome in ATL
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Absolutely. More rooms at cheaper prices, UK fans can get tickets, and it gets the team ready for the NCAA tournament by playing in a dome. Nashville sucks.
 
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107 people moving there daily. Mostly from NYC and other large cities. Turns out they prefer where they came from enough that tons of mediocre over priced bars and restaurants popped up to suit them.

The honky tonk and southern themed restaurants are on their way out except Broadway. Hotels are as expensive as anywhere in the world probably due to low inventory and rising real estate.

It's just a matter of taste. Personally if I want a large metro experience and prices, I go to one. Nashville turned into a rip off of a metro experience but with exorbitant prices. And it all happened over the course of about two years, it seems

Jmo
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That's a shame. Used to be in my top three favorite cities in the country. Everything nice gets ruined, it seems.
 
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From a logistical standpoint it’s great for UK fans. We typically stay a few miles away from the arena so hotel room cost isn’t that bad.
 
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Nashville is so much more than Broadway, and if you plan ahead, you can escape the high priced hotels near the arena. The location is perfect for most teams, especially UK fans, who probably played a 75% or greater role in this decision. Money talks and UK fans will spend.....insert Maui, Bahamas, Alaska, etc...and watch what happens when the bowl game is announced. People will come, Ray.

Sure, you have your select pretentious few, who like to think their voice means more because they spout off on a message board, but they are the 2% who care more about issues like this and where they can be seen, vs. what is logical.
 
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Nashville is so much more than Broadway, and if you plan ahead, you can escape the high priced hotels near the arena. The location is perfect for most teams, especially UK fans, who probably played a 75% or greater role in this decision. Money talks and UK fans will spend.....insert Maui, Bahamas, Alaska, etc...and watch what happens when the bowl game is announced. People will come, Ray.

Sure, you have your select pretentious few, who like to think their voice means more because they spout off on a message board, but they are the 2% who care more about issues like this and where they can be seen, vs. what is logical.
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Atlanta is almost as close and fans don't get killed on price. Ticket prices are insane even if you don't consider anything else. The only exception is if you get books through a school somehow.

You're right Nashville is more than Broadway. In fact I don't really even like Broadway. I just know most fans do. I much prefer the gulch.

Nashville should absolutely be a site. But it should rotate. Again, there's a reason that city pays alot of money to host it. Because they're pros at fleecing fans (mostly in blue) of everything they can before the weekend is over
 
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bigblueinsanity said:
Yep. It's why they pay so much to get it. Gouge the hell out of fans. Tiny arena so scalpers make a killing. If they're going to have a monopoly on the site at least make them build a bigger arena.

St Louis was way better. Needs to rotate between Nashville St Louis Atlanta and Nola.

Btw if you haven't been to Nashville in awhile, it's changed a ton for the worse. Won't be the same city you saw last time.
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You are spot on. I made the trek to Nashville every year for about 20 years straight for the music and downtown scene. About 5-6 years ago the hotel rooms doubled in price, the bars started charging 6 bucks for a Bud Light bottle, there were way more tourists than locals, traffic is terrible, and the sidewalks got so crowded they have to use barricades in the streets. It feels like country music Disney World now.
This is year round, not just summer time. The whole experience sucks now compared to what it used to be. Bigger is not always better. I miss the old, less popular Nashville.
 
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I’ve been attending for decades. Nashville is an excellent host city for a lot of lot of logistical/business reasons that have little to do with the fans. That said, it has always been a great city, but is absolutely growing too fast. I’d prefer if it rotated, but eliminate St. Louis and Tampa.
A three city rotation of Nashville, Atlanta and NO would be perfect, imo.
 
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zannmann said:
Not good news at all. Playing in a cracker box arena. Move it back to Atlanta.
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Scalpers paradise. A few hundred per ticket for uks games. It's horrible.

I don't even mind if they keep it in Nashville forever if they just force a bigger venue. Cramming that event into that crackerbox is absurd
 
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I wonder if the SEC did this without input from their member schools? You would think the schools would rather play somewhere with an NCAA Tournament feel to it and to also have the extra seating to allow all schools to have plenty of their fans able to attend. The Nashville location is only more convenient to like 4 or 5 schools and 1 of them will buy up most of the tickets. Atlanta is more centrally located and not a bad drive overall for the majority of the schools.

If the state of Kentucky were smart, they would build up the area near the border of Tennessee by Nashville and try to get things like resorts, casinos, hotels, theme parks, etc. Then they could make it a nice tourist attraction similar to like Gatlinburg and only a short drive to Nashville. That would attract tourists to the state and make it a great destination for anyone visiting Nashville. They could undercut the hell out of Nashville's pricing.
 
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bigblueinsanity said:
Yep. It's why they pay so much to get it. Gouge the hell out of fans. Tiny arena so scalpers make a killing. If they're going to have a monopoly on the site at least make them build a bigger arena.

St Louis was way better. Needs to rotate between Nashville St Louis Atlanta and Nola.

Btw if you haven't been to Nashville in awhile, it's changed a ton for the worse. Won't be the same city you saw last time.
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Lol, you are in the minority.
 
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Other than UK games, they probably don't need a bigger arena. Nashville is nice because you can actually make it a day trip and avoid hotel prices all together.if you can't attend the whole SEC tournament.
 
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KyCatFan said:
I wonder if the SEC did this without input from their member schools? You would think the schools would rather play somewhere with an NCAA Tournament feel to it and to also have the extra seating to allow all schools to have plenty of their fans able to attend. The Nashville location is only more convenient to like 4 or 5 schools and 1 of them will buy up most of the tickets. Atlanta is more centrally located and not a bad drive overall for the majority of the schools.

If the state of Kentucky were smart, they would build up the area near the border of Tennessee by Nashville and try to get things like resorts, casinos, hotels, theme parks, etc. Then they could make it a nice tourist attraction similar to like Gatlinburg and only a short drive to Nashville. That would attract tourists to the state and make it a great destination for anyone visiting Nashville. They could undercut the hell out of Nashville's pricing.
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Atlanta is more centrally located for SEC schools than Nashville?

 
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bigblueinsanity said:
Not what I said. I said I enjoyed it because it's a great city and I wasn't gouged every step of the way.

Are you on the Nashville tourism commission or something? My god
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It's a phenomenal event here in Nashville. Atlanta sucks, St. Louis is in the mid south, NO is close to only 1 school, same w Tampa.

Logically, Nashville makes the most sense.
 
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Not good news to me. Like others, I prefer to see it rotate. Even though New Orleans is quite a trek for many UK fans, I enjoy it.

As far as Atlanta, it’s pretty centrally located, and being able to secure tickets was never a problem.

Nashville really limits the amount of UK fans that get in. Can you imagine how difficult it will be if the SEC continues to field much stronger teams like this year? Even if you base it on that alone, it makes a long term contract seem short-sighted. The tons of UK fans that make the SEC tourney a Cats party will be hurt the most, imo.
 
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