University of Tennessee Crowdsourcing Funds for New Goal Posts After Fans Throw Them in River

Mar. 15, 2025

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TheUniversity of Tennesseesays they’re in need of cash after encouraging their fans' epic celebration that left their goal posts at the bottom of a river.

But now the school, which had promoted the wild fan celebration, says that they need money to replace the goal posts.

The Tennessee football team took to Twitter to explain their dilemma. “Y’all remember how we tore the goal posts down, hauled em out of Neyland and dumped em in the Tennessee River?”

“Yeah, that was awesome,” the team’s account stated.

“Anywho, turns out that in order to play next week’s game, we need goal posts on our field. Could y’all help us out?”

The tweet linked out to adigital fundraiser, encouraging fans to help the university raise $150,000 in time for the next game. Moreover, the university is even offering suggested donation amounts based on Tennessee fandom.

Moreover, the university proposed a much more generous donation — $1019.15 — to those who can afford it. That large number is the capacity of a sold-out Neyland Stadium.

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But the school is getting some criticism for their crowdsourced goal post fund, with people on social media pointing out the $5 million annual salary for the team’s head coach and theuniversity’s $993 million endowmentas of 2020.

When asked how much the unruly celebration would cost, Boyd said, “It doesn’t matter, we’re gonna do this every year.”

Over 2000 donations have been made to thefundraiser, which will close on October 31. As of Monday morning, more than $80,000 has been raised.

source: people.com