Tennessee Fans Can't Handle Their Liquor

outofyourmind said:
How much say does a City have over a University really.
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depends on the city. If the school is the entire city revenue generator, city has not much say. Someone like Jexas, Austin could be just fine without Jexas though so I bet the city has more pull. College Station does what A&M wants.
 
fishinabarrel said:
When you have a bunch of 21 year old kids that are friends with a bunch of 18-19-20 years old kids and you add in another 100k people it's pretty much impossible to stop underage drinking
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Don’t worry, according to the thing there were just three cases of underage sales.
 
I'm sure some enterprising young person will invent and patent the buttplug-flask for just this occasion.
 
fordman84 said:
depends on the city. If the school is the entire city revenue generator, city has not much say. Someone like Jexas, Austin could be just fine without Jexas though so I bet the city has more pull. College Station does what A&M wants.
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But isn't the University of Tennessee a State Property and Knoxville has no say what happens at football games ??
 
outofyourmind said:
But isn't the University of Tennessee a State Property and Knoxville has no say what happens at football games ??
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No idea. I always assume in situations like that there are ways to apply pressure to get what they want. There always is. I may have no say over someone, but I know how to apply pressure over parts of their work to get what I want. Maybe the city says "don't sell beer at these three games, or else we will defund improvement projects around the school".

Or this is all just more stating the issue and hoping the press alone gets the vendors to up their game, or pretend like they are trying to change.
 
outofyourmind said:
But isn't the University of Tennessee a State Property and Knoxville has no say what happens at football games ??
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I would think liquor control/enforcement has a say everywhere but maybe tribal land.
 
fordman84 said:
I'm sure some enterprising young person will invent and patent the buttplug-flask for just this occasion.
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I'm sure some enterprising hillbilly is working on it, if not already invented.
 
11 AM games will at least shorten the time for most to drink enough to get trashed. But I never met too many college kids that would not give it a try.
 
outofyourmind said:
But isn't the University of Tennessee a State Property and Knoxville has no say what happens at football games ??
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Yes... and No. Technically state property but probably incorporated by the city and subject to city code (local laws). Tennessee also has their own PD (which I think is housed in the stadium) so wonder what they have to say about this.
*also wonder if those "three cases of underage drinking" were Aramark employees selling directly to underage drinkers and that is what they're taking issue with?
 
outofyourmind said:
But isn't the University of Tennessee a State Property and Knoxville has no say what happens at football games ??
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Cities do have leverage with universities and both need to cooperate with each other. I’ll bet Tennessee is a City of Knoxville customer when it comes to water, sewer, garbage collection, etc services. State doesn’t supply those. Unless UT has their own water treatment plant, etc, they are tied to the city. And I’ll bet the University Police Dept calls Knoxville PD or local Sheriff’s Dept if they need additional law enforcement/backup instead of state police.
 
Kburjr said:
11 AM games will at least shorten the time for most to drink enough to get trashed. But I never met too many college kids that would not give it a try.
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Now that would be a good punishment...make them play all their home games at the 11am time slot. That would clean up the misbehaving in a heartbeat.
 
A group of guys and I were watching the Michigan Vs Michigan State game in 2007 at a Hooters down in Knoxville and the manager came by and shushed us. They don’t know anything about sports in Tennessee.
 
7samurai13 said:
A group of guys and I were watching the Michigan Vs Michigan State game in 2007 at a Hooters down in Knoxville and the manager came by and shushed us. They don’t know anything about sports in Tennessee.
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He was trying to keep you guys from getting shanked by Buford and his cousin-brothers.
 
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