Tennessee's Thompson-Boling Arena AT FOOD CITY CENTER (lol) is about to undergo a 90 million dollar exterior and concourse renovation with an NBA style center hung scoreboard. It's not groundbreaking. But the renovations will modernize the arena exterior and bring it in line with the overall UT facilities architecture. The renderings look pretty good.
I still don't understand why you would want natural light coming into an arena when during day games, you have to put up a curtain to block the natural light due to the glare.
I have been to the Hump and Coleman coliseum. The Hump is fifty times better. The renovations have made it modern for watching the game in comfort even if it's not the best looking. Coleman is the most cramped place i've ever been and I am not fat😂.
Funny how MSU fixed basically everything you said was wrong with the Hump. The only problem is that there are no pictures of the renovated version on Google. As far as the columns go, that pattern has been there since it was built in the seventies, and make it one of the most recognizable buildings on campus.
Yeah he's misinformed on the hump. I'm an Auburn fan and we had a great visit there. Coleman coliseum on the other hand Is the worst arena i've ever been in.
Rupp Arena is a sight to see every time I’m in Lexington. You should’ve seen the outrage in KY when they announced they were changing the stadium name. That’s why they settled on Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center.
As a bama fan ours is too big and it’s ugly too, need that new arena bc that atmosphere would be unreal for our team the way it’s been trending up lately
Correction, LSU’s basketball arena is called the Pete Maravich assembly center or The PMAC for short. Not “assembly center”. Also, they just announced that LSU will be getting a new basketball arena which will have involvement with the city of Baton Rouge for bringing in national acts and making it much more than just a basketball/volleyball assembly center for the university .
AUBURN with just over 9,000 fans in the arena is 10x louder than any other gym in all of basketball MULTIPLE BASKETBALL LEGENDS HAVE SAID THE SAME WAR DAMN EAGLE
10 times louder… lol. It’s designed to be loud, they made it 9,000 though because Auburn has been shit at basketball for most of their history and the old arena was always half empty.
@@odasmith1215 it’s a good arena, never said it wasn’t. It’s not even the loudest in the SEC though. It’s definitely up there, but you just are going way over the top
Memorial Gymnasium is easily the worst basketball arena in the SEC. If you are sitting in the back of the middle decks the upper deck blocks the view of the jumbotron and feels weirdly claustrophobic. There's also no air conditioning.
I have been to AU, Ole Miss, Miss St, and Bama. Bama is by far the worst. The Hump was just fine. Auburn and ole miss are basically brand new arenas, both have to be top 5.
Man you got an awesome channel, I’m proud of you. One crazy idea would be to go to each arena for a game to rank your experience. Could be ranked on ticket prices, concessions, student section etc. Keep up the good work, watching from England!
Hey ... ding dong ... Tennessee's arena is not Thompson-BOILING arena. It's Thompson-BOLING arena. Pronounced like the game where you roll the ball at the pins ... bowling. Thompson-Boling Arena. I mean, it's #2 on your list. How can you NOT know how to say it??
Surprised you haven’t done an update on the San Antonio spurs downtown arena development, the city has purchased land downtown to develop a possible new arena
I'm at rupp every weekend. Terrible parking, the upper bowl is vertical and very hard to get up if you are going up there. We have ice cream but it's now 7.50 for basketball and 6.50 for gymnastics. The worst part of rupp is how expensive it is.
I'm an Auburn grad...I don't mind Rupp above Neville, but Thompson-Boling? Serious? That is trash. I would move UT down 2 and Auburn and Ole Miss up 1 each. What I like about Neville is that the sight line to the game is continuous...so, when you go to concessions, you can watch the game while standing in line. The standing-room only area with a bar for food and drinks is also a nice spot to watch the game. The natural light makes it feel bigger than it is. It is definitely nicer than Cameron Indoor. Rupp is fire with that outer reno. I would also have only a 13-arena listing because I would move that hideous Vandy arena to the A-Sun where it would be mid (Lipscomb would be #1).
No way you put The Hump as the worst stadium in the SEC. Really shows that you know nothing about basketball, especially not after the renovations it got in the past few years. I’d argue it’s a fantastic place to go watch basketball now.
Pieces of the ceiling at Stegeman Coliseum fell down after the 2022-23 basketball season. Arena is not the best, but I do like that the student section was moved to be behind the announcers and commentators
“Natural light” in a basketball arena during a day game is not a good thing. Allen Field House at Kansas used to have a row of normal glass windows behind the baseline that got in free throw shooters eyes and played weird tricks on the tv cameras. They finally replaced them with tinted glass in a renovation around 2000.
Accurate ranking of lsu's pete maravich assembly center. I went there a few times. It's a little outdated. Not bad though. All the money goes to football there.
Why would this video make you feel that way? Duke basketball is great, but that arena is a dump in comparison to the eight P5 Arenas I’ve attended for a game. Maybe the seven other arenas are the seven best arenas in the country, but Duke’s venue is very meh…
What's the big deal with natural light. I think that is just your thing and not something applicable to an "indoor sport" . What qualifies you as an expert on coliseum design anyway?
Do you ever read your comments? People are always trying to help you pronounce names, and then you continually mispronounce them in future videos. In what world is Thompson-Boling pronounced Thompson BOILING?? Hinkle Fieldhouse is not HINKIE. If you want to gain notoriety as a channel, you have got to clean that stuff up.
On every arena list you make it a point to list 1 or more arenas lack or have an abundance of 'natural light'. It's stupid. I've been making the suggestion for a clear roof or windows allowing for sunlight for years and they're just now doing it. It's not a new concept to be super impressed.
@@Frankjohnson54 No one can come close to Kentucky Basketball. I'm not saying that. In my opinion I think Kentucky Basketball is better than Duke or North Carolina. Y'all have always had a better Basketball team and with the exception of the last 2 plus Decades Tennessee VOLS Football has had the better Football team. Hopefully this year Tennessee can make it to the Final Four. But no Disrespect to Kentucky Basketball
WHY IN HAITIS WOULD YOU WANT NATURAL LIGHT...FANS SHOW UP TO WATCH BASKETBALL NOT THE SUNSET...If you are an interior designer then go and critique Cal Berkely's DEI DOME or Harvard's NOWHITEY ARENA....recently changed the name from the long time name of NOASIATIC ARENA.... but then again, I'm just a fan...
Auburn and Ole Miss have the two coolest arena's and its not close. UT has a huge arena but it's ugly. No way it's second best. KY should be rated high if for nothing but the success and historical status of their brand.
As a Tennessee fan I agree with you about Thompson-Boling being ugly (on the outside). Renovations will be done to change that soon, however. I'm pumped about that.
Cleveland is one of the worst architecturally designed cities in the world. So it is not surprising when someone from that area of country tries to rank stadiums and arenas in difference conference and leagues that hardly anyone is going to understand his logic. In previous rankings, tOSU stadium and arena were highly ranked even though both structures look like abandoned warehouses in a bad part of town. These gigantic stadiums are design to hold a hundred thousand people and almost all of them are hideous in appearance. They are also functionally compromised with bad sight lines, uncomfortable seating, poor acoustics, and not enough rest rooms and concession stands. It seems like the size of arena or stadium matters far more than the design to the person doing these ranking.
Burgerland really likes thier College sports for some reason. College sports are basically rec leagues in most nations, as the por leayges have multiple and multiple developmental and farm leagues and draft players right out of high school
I think we've all come to the conclusion that you don't read your comments or interact with your viewers or you wouldn't constantly mispronounce things repeatedly so I won't bother with that. It seems to have been addressed already anyway. But regarding the Pavilion at Ole Miss, if you're trying to say here that the player recognition wall with the jersey numbers and such on it is somehow being used to block out the natural light from those big windows, you're incorrect. That wall is on the opposite side of the arena. This leads me to my REAL question. Have you ever actually been TO these arenas in person to be able to formulate such a ranking or are you basing your list strictly on Google images you found online? I ask because if you have never actually BEEN TO these arenas, how could possibly make an accurate ranking list? Personally, I don't believe you've ever actually stepped foot inside any of these arenas, much less all of them.
Just proves that with TH-cam anyone can pretend to be in the know. The Hump is the exact size it needs to be for the fan base and was recently renovated inside and out. You didn’t get off your lazy behind to even visit. Michigan State coach Merchant said “the Hump, where 7000 sounds like 70,000”. Why don’t you travel to these coliseums before you begin ranking. At least you would be slightly credible. Enjoy your new laptop and microphone. 😂
Two SEC arenas have been renamed. Food City Center at Tennessee doesn’t count. They are: Auburn Arena is now known is Neville Arena. Sandy & John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss.
Absolutely awful list. born and raised in Kentucky and Rupp Arena is a nice arena don’t get me wrong but definitely ain’t top 3 it ain’t loud for one it don’t got chairbacks at the top so it definitely not top 3
Bud Walton at 5 is fucking asinine. This has to be rage bait. No one on earth actually thinks ole miss has a better arena than Arkansas
Tennessee's Thompson-Boling Arena AT FOOD CITY CENTER (lol) is about to undergo a 90 million dollar exterior and concourse renovation with an NBA style center hung scoreboard. It's not groundbreaking. But the renovations will modernize the arena exterior and bring it in line with the overall UT facilities architecture. The renderings look pretty good.
Arkansas’s is way better than ole miss. Been to many games in both, and it’s no comparison.
Arkansas basketball has more to worry about this season than winning games or the arena 😂
@@Young_Rolfe nah, winning games literally solves everything lol
lol thats facts. I'm in the Lab rn trying to solve the Love triangle that is Ark BBall@@B1055BH
bud walton not being top 3 is criminal
I still don't understand why you would want natural light coming into an arena when during day games, you have to put up a curtain to block the natural light due to the glare.
Who cares about the light 😂
Bud Walton outside the top 3 is wildddd
Auburn arena over bud Walton is crazy
Neville Arena is #1
When Jay Bilas did the Duke Arkansas game this year he said BWA was the loudest place he had ever heard.
@@clyftonhearn1804we won by 30 there, shut their crowd up..
@@clyftonhearn1804 he says that about every place
@@EdwardMann13whatever u say
Tell me you've never been to BWA without telling me you've never been to BWA.
Renovations make the Humphrey Coliseum better than Vandy, Georgia, and A&M. Lots of players say its the loudest place they've ever played.
I have been to the Hump and Coleman coliseum. The Hump is fifty times better. The renovations have made it modern for watching the game in comfort even if it's not the best looking. Coleman is the most cramped place i've ever been and I am not fat😂.
Nobody has said that
Yeah cause the ceiling is like only 20 feet high it sucks
That’s a lie
@juanjonez Mississippi State is like a Division 3 school at best.
Funny how MSU fixed basically everything you said was wrong with the Hump. The only problem is that there are no pictures of the renovated version on Google. As far as the columns go, that pattern has been there since it was built in the seventies, and make it one of the most recognizable buildings on campus.
Yeah he's misinformed on the hump. I'm an Auburn fan and we had a great visit there. Coleman coliseum on the other hand Is the worst arena i've ever been in.
They didn’t fix the way they play basketball 🤣
@@natedogg9319we made tourney last two years , getting better each year.
Rupp Arena is a sight to see every time I’m in Lexington. You should’ve seen the outrage in KY when they announced they were changing the stadium name. That’s why they settled on Rupp Arena at Central Bank Center.
As a bama fan ours is too big and it’s ugly too, need that new arena bc that atmosphere would be unreal for our team the way it’s been trending up lately
Ah, yes. Tompson “Boiling” Arena 😂
Can please say Thompson Boling arena right just one time damn every video you say it wrong
Props for having Bud Walton in your top 5! We're slated to have some renovations there in the near future.
Correction, LSU’s basketball arena is called the Pete Maravich assembly center or The PMAC for short.
Not “assembly center”.
Also, they just announced that LSU will be getting a new basketball arena which will have involvement with the city of Baton Rouge for bringing in national acts and making it much more than just a basketball/volleyball assembly center for the university .
Rupp is still the gold standard.
AUBURN with just over 9,000 fans in the arena is 10x louder than any other gym in all of basketball MULTIPLE BASKETBALL LEGENDS HAVE SAID THE SAME
WAR DAMN EAGLE
10 times louder… lol. It’s designed to be loud, they made it 9,000 though because Auburn has been shit at basketball for most of their history and the old arena was always half empty.
@@volunteer142 keep being salty
The jungle is most feared home court advantage in college basketball
And every team starts somewhere
War Damn Eagle
@@odasmith1215 it’s a good arena, never said it wasn’t. It’s not even the loudest in the SEC though. It’s definitely up there, but you just are going way over the top
War Damn Eagle 🦅 SEC Champs 2024 🏆
We don’t play in Auburn arena anymore. We play in Neville arena
Memorial Gymnasium is easily the worst basketball arena in the SEC. If you are sitting in the back of the middle decks the upper deck blocks the view of the jumbotron and feels weirdly claustrophobic. There's also no air conditioning.
Renovations made Humphrey Coliseum top 10 in the SEC. Place is LOUD.
I have been to AU, Ole Miss, Miss St, and Bama. Bama is by far the worst. The Hump was just fine. Auburn and ole miss are basically brand new arenas, both have to be top 5.
Man you got an awesome channel, I’m proud of you. One crazy idea would be to go to each arena for a game to rank your experience. Could be ranked on ticket prices, concessions, student section etc. Keep up the good work, watching from England!
Buddy said 2014
👍👍👍
Why is bro using the oldest pictures possible
Always
Hey ... ding dong ... Tennessee's arena is not Thompson-BOILING arena. It's Thompson-BOLING arena. Pronounced like the game where you roll the ball at the pins ... bowling. Thompson-Boling Arena. I mean, it's #2 on your list. How can you NOT know how to say it??
Its TN who gives a F
Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky are Easily the 3 Loudest
I was waiting for this video
1st to reply :)
@Benaglsfan19… why so negative :(
Solid rankings D.G.
I did not even watch the video, after seeing comments and Bud Walton was not in the top 3.... this guy knows nothing about this subject.
Surprised you haven’t done an update on the San Antonio spurs downtown arena development, the city has purchased land downtown to develop a possible new arena
I'm at rupp every weekend. Terrible parking, the upper bowl is vertical and very hard to get up if you are going up there. We have ice cream but it's now 7.50 for basketball and 6.50 for gymnastics. The worst part of rupp is how expensive it is.
0:17 2014?????
I’m a product of the old Barnhill Arena in Arkansas. Absolutely nothing fancy but the atmosphere was unbelievable.
The Hump #14 is outrageous
Coleman is a dump and I’m a Bama fan. If they want to keep Nate Oats around, they better get that arena situation figured out fast.
Awesome vids Ginger! Mountain west please
#1 basketball court, Cleveland Public Park in Nashville TN.
At noon time, the amount of natural light is unrivaled...
Bro is the biggest Mississippi State hater for no reason. The new Hump is easily top 10 in the conference.
? So your chanting “we are #10”
The Hump is not 14th
Are you going to do this with all the most notable conferences? I’d like to see a mountain west or pac-12 video on this
Bud Walton does natural light i guess you never been there why are ranking anything
I'm an Auburn grad...I don't mind Rupp above Neville, but Thompson-Boling? Serious? That is trash. I would move UT down 2 and Auburn and Ole Miss up 1 each. What I like about Neville is that the sight line to the game is continuous...so, when you go to concessions, you can watch the game while standing in line. The standing-room only area with a bar for food and drinks is also a nice spot to watch the game. The natural light makes it feel bigger than it is. It is definitely nicer than Cameron Indoor. Rupp is fire with that outer reno. I would also have only a 13-arena listing because I would move that hideous Vandy arena to the A-Sun where it would be mid (Lipscomb would be #1).
really fun idea for a video...nice job
No way you put The Hump as the worst stadium in the SEC. Really shows that you know nothing about basketball, especially not after the renovations it got in the past few years. I’d argue it’s a fantastic place to go watch basketball now.
Pieces of the ceiling at Stegeman Coliseum fell down after the 2022-23 basketball season. Arena is not the best, but I do like that the student section was moved to be behind the announcers and commentators
“Natural light” in a basketball arena during a day game is not a good thing. Allen Field House at Kansas used to have a row of normal glass windows behind the baseline that got in free throw shooters eyes and played weird tricks on the tv cameras. They finally replaced them with tinted glass in a renovation around 2000.
Rupp arena by far is the best arena. It’s not even close. Kentucky goes all out for basketball
Accurate ranking of lsu's pete maravich assembly center. I went there a few times. It's a little outdated. Not bad though. All the money goes to football there.
This video makes me glad that I have season tickets for Duke Basketball and get too go to Cameroon Indoor every game.
Why would this video make you feel that way? Duke basketball is great, but that arena is a dump in comparison to the eight P5 Arenas I’ve attended for a game. Maybe the seven other arenas are the seven best arenas in the country, but Duke’s venue is very meh…
Auburn should be #1, Bud Walton should be 3rd and Alabama should be 14th or DQ for Coleman Cave.
Memorial gymnasium is 14. I have been to 10 or the 14.
Neville Arena and the Pavillion at Ole Miss are both awsome.
Oh War Eagle!
You didn't show UK's new massive Jumbotron. The interior has many new renovations the should have been mentioned.
Ive always liked Vandy's design. So unique.
it looks cool, but watching a game from the seats under the over hangs is terrible.
What's the big deal with natural light. I think that is just your thing and not something applicable to an "indoor sport" . What qualifies you as an expert on coliseum design anyway?
Do mountain west
Do you ever read your comments? People are always trying to help you pronounce names, and then you continually mispronounce them in future videos. In what world is Thompson-Boling pronounced Thompson BOILING?? Hinkle Fieldhouse is not HINKIE. If you want to gain notoriety as a channel, you have got to clean that stuff up.
Not sure he can read
Memorial gym when Vanderbilt is good (it’s been awhile) is a top 3 atmosphere in the SEC
Great job 👍I can agree with everything except i think Bud Walton is number 2. Cant go wrong with those top 4 though
On every arena list you make it a point to list 1 or more arenas lack or have an abundance of 'natural light'. It's stupid. I've been making the suggestion for a clear roof or windows allowing for sunlight for years and they're just now doing it. It's not a new concept to be super impressed.
Kensucky can renovate the arena all they want, but doesn’t fix the fact they STILL lose to Tennessee at home in every sport
Tennessee will never ever be on the level of Kentucky not even on the same planet
Kentucky will never be on the level as Tennessee VOLS Football! EVER
@@Cock1935Yet UT hasn’t won an SEC championship in football since 1998. That’s not saying much.
@@Frankjohnson54 when has Kentucky won a SEC Championship in Football? I'll wait
@@Frankjohnson54 No one can come close to Kentucky Basketball. I'm not saying that. In my opinion I think Kentucky Basketball is better than Duke or North Carolina. Y'all have always had a better Basketball team and with the exception of the last 2 plus Decades Tennessee VOLS Football has had the better Football team. Hopefully this year Tennessee can make it to the Final Four. But no Disrespect to Kentucky Basketball
Do the WAC arenas
To host...do you WRITE yer script or ad lib? You gave a lot of for #2 pick except. I know this is minor...WHERE it is and WHO plays there...
I get it. It's a list of places you've never been, and you're ranking them based on what you guess they'd be like. Bud Walton at 5 is a hot take 😂
Natural light is for greenhouses. Most of the games take place at night anyway.
Go Cats!
You sir know arena go cats!
4:45, Hey!! T-shirt night!
Ordinary I’d be roasting you for mispronouncing TBA, but Id rather you call it Thomson “Boiling” Arena than “The Food City Center”
Honestly, they can call the building itself whatever they want. On gameday, I just call it "The Summitt".
I am a Vanderbilt fan and I love memorial gym
Alabama and A&M’s arenas look like high school auditoriums to me. Vanderbilt’s is a completely one off oddball. Just a weird place.
If you ever played at VU, you would love it. Room on sides and at ends so fewer injuries after fast breaks and going after loose balls.
Auburn number 2 behind Rupp
WHY IN HAITIS WOULD YOU WANT NATURAL LIGHT...FANS SHOW UP TO WATCH BASKETBALL NOT THE SUNSET...If you are an interior designer then go and critique Cal Berkely's DEI DOME or Harvard's NOWHITEY ARENA....recently changed the name from the long time name of NOASIATIC ARENA.... but then again, I'm just a fan...
Any SEC arena list that doesn't have Memorial at 14 is invalid
that’s not auburns arena anymore 😭
Auburn and Ole Miss have the two coolest arena's and its not close. UT has a huge arena but it's ugly. No way it's second best. KY should be rated high if for nothing but the success and historical status of their brand.
As a Tennessee fan I agree with you about Thompson-Boling being ugly (on the outside). Renovations will be done to change that soon, however. I'm pumped about that.
The best arenas are the ones host winning teams
Damn I forgot it’s already 2014😂😂
Bud Walton at 5? Are you f ing kidding? Have you even been there? I'll concede Rupp at 1 for now but BW is a close 2nd.
Big Ten?
Cleveland is one of the worst architecturally designed cities in the world. So it is not surprising when someone from that area of country tries to rank stadiums and arenas in difference conference and leagues that hardly anyone is going to understand his logic. In previous rankings, tOSU stadium and arena were highly ranked even though both structures look like abandoned warehouses in a bad part of town. These gigantic stadiums are design to hold a hundred thousand people and almost all of them are hideous in appearance. They are also functionally compromised with bad sight lines, uncomfortable seating, poor acoustics, and not enough rest rooms and concession stands. It seems like the size of arena or stadium matters far more than the design to the person doing these ranking.
Vandy's arena is probably the worst in college basketball
Im guessing you have never been to Memorial Gym before. Ive been to nicer middle school gyms. How is it not 14
Burgerland really likes thier College sports for some reason. College sports are basically rec leagues in most nations, as the por leayges have multiple and multiple developmental and farm leagues and draft players right out of high school
Nobody asked
I think we've all come to the conclusion that you don't read your comments or interact with your viewers or you wouldn't constantly mispronounce things repeatedly so I won't bother with that. It seems to have been addressed already anyway. But regarding the Pavilion at Ole Miss, if you're trying to say here that the player recognition wall with the jersey numbers and such on it is somehow being used to block out the natural light from those big windows, you're incorrect. That wall is on the opposite side of the arena. This leads me to my REAL question. Have you ever actually been TO these arenas in person to be able to formulate such a ranking or are you basing your list strictly on Google images you found online? I ask because if you have never actually BEEN TO these arenas, how could possibly make an accurate ranking list? Personally, I don't believe you've ever actually stepped foot inside any of these arenas, much less all of them.
You should have seem Stegman before they remodeled the outside!
Natural light is extremely distracting to Basketball. I hate it.
All the SEC arenas are awesome he needs to find something else to do 😂
Go big blue!
DO THE AMERICAN NEXT
GREG BYRNE BUILD NATE OATS HIS ARENA
Nate won’t be there long enough to see it. If Louisville comes knocking he’s gone
Why? He's going to louisville
Just proves that with TH-cam anyone can pretend to be in the know. The Hump is the exact size it needs to be for the fan base and was recently renovated inside and out. You didn’t get off your lazy behind to even visit. Michigan State coach Merchant said “the Hump, where 7000 sounds like 70,000”. Why don’t you travel to these coliseums before you begin ranking. At least you would be slightly credible. Enjoy your new laptop and microphone. 😂
Two SEC arenas have been renamed. Food City Center at Tennessee doesn’t count.
They are:
Auburn Arena is now known is Neville Arena.
Sandy & John Black Pavilion at Ole Miss.
I will never call TBA the food city center
Thompson Boiling lol😂
Go Big Blue!
Starting next year OU will have the worst
Absolutely awful list. born and raised in Kentucky and Rupp Arena is a nice arena don’t get me wrong but definitely ain’t top 3 it ain’t loud for one it don’t got chairbacks at the top so it definitely not top 3
Can't help it but I love Memorial Gym.
Memorial is the worst by far imo
I’m a Bama fan but Coleman is awful. Hate going to a game therez