Given that some of the planned work is still a few years out, I'm guessing the cost has not finished climbing.

Curry says building a new stadium would cost $800 million. So does that make this a bargain?

Brian A.
I'd rather be cycling.

Priorities again.

Yeah, I know - separate budgets, yadda yadda.

It's still depressing to see this much $$ spent on athletics while academics goes begging.

Why not have the UT administration place a "tax" on the Holy Church of Football--say, 1 percent of their total revenue--and put the funds into the academic departments?

The saddest part of this to me is how clueless you haters are to the entirety of the positive karmic impact that the football Vols, the stadium, the river, the setting itself have for many, and I mean MANY of us. I've lived here my entire adult life, by choice, started a business here, am raising my kids here. 200 million is nothing compared to the negative impact it would have if we had no stadium, or a cookie cutter box rather than a piece of history. Nobody ever wrote an article title "Top 10 Math Department Buildings". I took my son to his first game last season. Watching him watch it and take it all in gave me goosebumps. When the band marched down the field he had a look of amazement and joy that is worth every penny of that 200 million, and as for me, knowing that NS and SWF are the psychic anchor for hundreds of thousands of East Tennesseeans and millions more beyond, most of us could care less if half the academic departments go belly up due to your poor non-football revenue management. And BTW, I went to UTK, worked at UTK, graduated from UTK, and I LOVE UTK. Leave the athletic department alone. Quit looking to them to bail your academic asses out at the same time you whine about them being successful. What would you do if UTK football had never become what it has? I'll tell you. UTK would look a lot like ETSU or MTSU. We'd be EMCTSU. Football has given you the opportunity at UTK to become what you are today. So shut up and do it on your own now, for a change.

LEAVE THE UT ATHLETIC DEPARTMENT ALONE! ALL YOU PEOPLE CARE ABOUT IS WHINING! AND GEEKY ACADEMICS! FOOTBALL PLAYERS ARE HUMANS! THEY'RE LARGE HUMANS BUT THEY'RE HUMANS! LEAVE THE UT ATHLETIC DEPATMENT ALONE!

(With apologies to Chris Crocker)

The end result is fewer seats for fans.
But hey, the very expensive new box seats, very nice!

Gotta have priorities and take care of our big money fans, full catering and no exposure to the poor riff-raff, students, or vagaries of weather, and the heck with everyone else in those spaces so tiny one butt cheek takes up an entire "seat."

Now that's what I call Volunteer Spirit! Why shucks, it's enough to make a rich man bleed orange!

"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
Hunter S. Thompson

The concourse expansion phase of the Neyland Stadium Master Plan will require the demolition of South Stadium Hall, an old dormitory complex under the stadium on Phillip Fulmer Way, that currently houses two academic departments, Anthropology and Audiology and Speech Pathology.

Nothing better symbolizes the "UT Football rules everything" mentality so prevalent in Knoxville and east Tennessee than UT Athletics telling these two programs to get the hell out so Neyland can have another unnecessary multi-million dollar stadium expansion.

Simek took care of his own. Anthropology has a place to move to. ASP ran into the Cherokee Farm infrastructure project, $32 million in 2008, and the ASP/Psych building capital request was denied. So, no place for ASP to go, and the state shorts the university on their operating budget request. Time for ASP to go away, according to Bursten, Simek, and Petersen. Athletics vs. academics indeed.

I lived in the dorm in 1962-1964. When the train went by in the middle of the night, it rattled the stadium and dormitory. It took a few weeks to get used to the train. We pulled hundreds of pranks on each other while living there. I was in my room when Jewel, our 300 pound housekeeper and close friend, came running/shuffling down the hall and burst into our room breathless to tell my roommate and I that JFK had been shot.