www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_4028478,00.html $20 million each seems to be the offer for UT and VT to meet. $20 million offer could lure UT to play at Bristol By DAVE HOOKER, [email protected] August 25, 2005 Bruton Smith has never been afraid to put his money where his mouth is. The combination of the two has the University of Tennessee interested. The chairman and CEO of Speedway Motorsports is trying to jumpstart an old idea: a football game between UT and Virginia Tech at Bristol Motor Speedway. Why might it succeed now when it failed before? The stakes have been raised. "Twenty million to each team," Smith said. "Universities always want money so that would be $20 million for your university (UT) and $20 million for Virginia (Tech). That would be a pretty big financial day for them." UT has long resisted moving a home game to Bristol. However, that was when the speedway had offered UT approximately $3.5 million in 1999 to play a regular-season game on the infield of the .533-mile, high-banked oval track.
Wouldn't the sound of the engines affect the teams' ability to hear signals? 30,000 Vol fans and 30,000 Hokie fans all staring at each others tooth.
I didn't register for the site in order to read the article. I'm going to guess they could fit about 160,000 fans in the place. That would be $250 a ticket just to pay the teams if that is correct.
Holy crap... 20 mill to each team! If they were offering this, I can't see either of these teams turning it down.
