Lacking two goalposts and going through a hefty high-quality, the College of Tennessee is asking on its followers to assist ease the monetary burden.
Final weekend’s electrifying 52-49 win over Alabama had Volunteer followers in a frenzy, inflicting them to hurry the sector moments after a game-winning discipline objective and tarring down each goalposts whereas celebrating.
The SEC (Southeastern Convention) introduced on Monday that the College of Tennessee might be hit with a $100,000 high-quality for permitting followers to entry the competitors space.
The varsity itself is asking for $150,000 to cowl a number of the high-quality and to exchange the goalposts.
Following Saturday’s win, faculty president Randy Boyd was seen euphorically saying he didn’t care how a lot the goalposts price to exchange.
There’s little doubt why the followers precipitated such pandemonium whereas celebrating.
The Vols’ win over the Crimson Tide snapped a 15-year dropping streak towards Alabama, with their final win on Oct. 21, 2006.
With a house recreation on Oct. 22 towards the College of Tennessee at Martin rapidly approaching, the Vols’ desperately want to exchange its goalposts.
The Tennessee soccer program took to Twitter on Sunday to wittily ask its loyal fan base for assist.
After being ripped down and carried out of Neyland Stadium, the goalposts had been seen being tossed into the Tennessee River.
However, one fraternity at UT is claiming they now have it.
“half-hour later, it winds up behind our home,” Adam Fuller, a UT pupil and member of the Sigma Chi fraternity, advised WVLT.
Members of Sigma Chi say after the goalposts had been tossed into the river, and nearly all of Vol followers went on with their celebrations elsewhere, about 15 guys picked one of many goalposts out from the river and carried it to their frat home.
“A random man came visiting with a noticed, and we had been simply reducing it up for some time,” Rider Monsour advised WVLT.
Monsour estimates that the goalpost was reduce up into about 100 items, with folks flocking across the reducing, begging for a bit of Tennessee Vols’ historical past.
Sigma Chi says they saved a big portion of the goalpost taken from the river, with folks nonetheless coming by the fraternity asking for a sliver.
The fraternity even claims somebody supplied them upwards of $1,000 for the remaining items of the goalpost, however they’re agency on preserving it.
The goalposts weren’t the one factor taken from Neyland stadium after the win.
Folks had been seen ripping grass patches from the sector as souvenirs, with some already promoting their chunks on eBay.
Listings have been posted on eBay for a bit of the grass on which the Tennessee Volunteers beat the Crimson Tide, starting from $1.25 to $34.
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