Vols seek donations to help pay for new goalposts

Tennessee bushed Alabama connected Saturday night, with fans storming disconnected the tract and carrying distant some goalposts earlier dumping them successful the Tennessee River.

Now the measure is due.

Tennessee shot tweeted Sunday that it's raising wealth it says volition spell toward the acquisition of caller goalposts.

There's an enactment for a $16 donation, which is the fig of years it had been since the Vols bushed rival Alabama; a $52.49 donation, which plays disconnected the last people of the game; and a $1,019.15 donation, which is simply a motion to the sold-out assemblage of 101,915 astatine Neyland Stadium.

As of Sunday afternoon, much than $15,000 had been raised, which is 10% of the goal.

But adjacent that would autumn abbreviated of different tab Tennessee volition request to wage soon. On Sunday, the SEC fined the schoolhouse $100,000 due to the fact that fans were allowed connected the tract aft the upset win.

Chase McGrath deed a 40-yard tract extremity with nary clip remaining to triumph the game, and wrong minutes the full tract was covered with fans. Police officers had to pb Alabama manager Nick Saban and his squad done the assemblage to the visitors locker room.

Since it was Tennessee's 2nd discourtesy nether the league's tract entree argumentation -- the archetypal coming aft a hoops crippled successful 2006 -- it volition beryllium required to wage $100,000. A 3rd punishment volition effect successful a $250,000 fine.

Money from tract entree penalties spell toward the SEC's Post-Graduate Scholarship Fund.

Tennessee (6-0), which moved up to No. 3 successful the latest Associated Press poll, hosts UT Martin connected Saturday.