Butch Jones promotes ‘Checker Neyland’ movement for Florida game
By Jason Hall
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Tennessee coach Butch Jones is on board with the “Checker Neyland” movement for Saturday’s game against Florida. Jones tweeted yesterday urging Vols fans to visit the newly launched site in order to see which color to wear to this weekend’s game.
#VolNation you asked for it, now make it a reality!!! Go to http://t.co/JcVZg81ehY to find out what color to wear on Sat! #CheckerNeyland
— Butch Jones (@UTCoachJones) September 28, 2014
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Tennessee fans and web developers Tim McLeod and Jonathan Briehl launched checkerneyland.com Thursday with a concept inspired by the following tweet:
If Oklahoma can stripe their stands in shirts, I don’t see why this can’t be done in Neyland…. #VolArtConceptpic.twitter.com/H6jYHMI2Qx — Spencer Barnett (@CleVOLander) September 15, 2014
“The plan started this week,” McLeod said. “A friend tweeted a picture and I came up with the concept. We built the site over the next few days. It took a while to map the stadium out. Lots of coffee.”
“We knocked out the concept, UI, and framework in a day,” Briehl added. “Finding the stadium layout and verifying was the hardest part. We’d love to see it take off and have the word spread in about a week to see the stadium checkered for the Florida game.”
Spencer Barnett, a graphic designer and Tennessee fan, was responsible for the proposed image of a checkered Neyland Stadium. Barnett says his inspiration came during Tennessee’s 34-10 loss to Oklahoma in Week 3.
“It goes back to during the OU game and when I saw an image on here of where they striped their stadium,” Barnett said. “I thought ‘that looks slick, but I think we can do that and do it better’. So I did a search to find an image of Neyland at near capacity and then I Photoshopped it create the orange and white sections.”
A former freelance journalist from Nashville, Jason covers Tennessee, Vanderbilt and Kentucky
