Finebaum - "The LSU passion for baseball is really unmatched anywhere in the SEC"

[blacklistedbully]

Chaps my hide ESPN refers to this moron as, "Mr. SEC". He's an asshat extraordinaire. It would not bother me one bit if we banned his ass from our campus.

Pencil-necked geek!

[basedog]

I can't stand nor watch that moron but he's right. I just don't think I can pull for the Corndogs and I can't stand the Gators either!

[blacklistedbully]

I can't stand nor watch that moron but he's right. I just don't think I can pull for the Corndogs and I can't stand the Gators either!

Say what?? You don't think our fans are very bit as passionate about baseball as theirs? We own 18 of the top 25 all-time on-campus attendance records in the NCAA. We have been passionate about baseball long before LSU got excited about it when they started winning under Skip.

[basedog]

Say what?? You don't think our fans are very bit as passionate about baseball as theirs? We own 18 of the top 25 all-time on-campus attendance records in the NCAA. We have been passionate about baseball long before LSU got excited about it when they started winning under Skip.

Passion in winning National Championships, never thought we Msu aren't passion as fans, but Lsu is the dog in the Sec hunt as of now and have been for almost two decades, look at how many Sec Titles and National Championships they won compare to anyone else.

[msbulldog]

Say what?? You don't think our fans are very bit as passionate about baseball as theirs? We own 18 of the top 25 all-time on-campus attendance records in the NCAA. We have been passionate about baseball long before LSU got excited about it when they started winning under Skip.

Tell it Black! You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to blacklistedbully again.

[HSVDawg]

Say what?? You don't think our fans are very bit as passionate about baseball as theirs? We own 18 of the top 25 all-time on-campus attendance records in the NCAA. We have been passionate about baseball long before LSU got excited about it when they started winning under Skip.

You are right. We were passionate about baseball long before LSU. But, again, its not 1985 anymore and they have long since passed us in overall fan support. Alex Box is a huge stadium that is packed to the max every Fri and Sat night on SEC weekend series. We couldn't even fill up our grandstand in 2016 when we were playing Arkansas for a f-ing SEC championship. Yea, we have a lot of large crowds but those are just about all during postseason play or SBW. We have never been able to truly fill up DNF for more than 3-4 games per season in the past 20 years.

The biggest part of that is that LSU just has more fans in general. Are those fans actually more "passionate" than ours? I have no idea. But unfortunately, attendence and how well the fans travel is pretty much the only way to measure it.

[Todd4State]

You are right. We were passionate about baseball long before LSU. But, again, its not 1985 anymore and they have long since passed us in overall fan support. Alex Box is a huge stadium that is packed to the max every Fri and Sat night on SEC weekend series. We couldn't even fill up our grandstand in 2016 when we were playing Arkansas for a f-ing SEC championship. Yea, we have a lot of large crowds but those are just about all during postseason play or SBW. We have never been able to truly fill up DNF for more than 3-4 games per season in the past 20 years.

The biggest part of that is that LSU just has more fans in general. Are those fans actually more "passionate" than ours? I have no idea. But unfortunately, attendence and how well the fans travel is pretty much the only way to measure it.

I think that's more LSU perception than reality. And the perception that they want to create.

What you are talking about is why MSU wants to centralize the crowd in the grandstand. Our issue is we have a lot of fans in the outfield and the bleachers and we spread our fans out making it look like fewer fans are there.

[HSVDawg]

What you are talking about is why MSU wants to centralize the crowd in the grandstand. Our issue is we have a lot of fans in the outfield and the bleachers and we spread our fans out making it look like fewer fans are there.

No that's not what I'm talking about (although I do agree with that).

This is what I'm talking about. Below is the weekend attendance for 3 home series in 2016.

Texas A&M (SBW) - 33,896
Ole Miss - 31,831
Arkansas (playing for the SEC championship for the first time in 25 years) - 22,438

Again, when playing for a historic milestone not seen in a quarter century, we couldn't even fill up to the listed capacity of the stadium. It is very hard to argue that you have the most passionate fan base when said fanbase only truly turns out in droves for a couple of weekends per year at most.

[dawgs]

You are right. We were passionate about baseball long before LSU. But, again, its not 1985 anymore and they have long since passed us in overall fan support. Alex Box is a huge stadium that is packed to the max every Fri and Sat night on SEC weekend series. We couldn't even fill up our grandstand in 2016 when we were playing Arkansas for a f-ing SEC championship. Yea, we have a lot of large crowds but those are just about all during postseason play or SBW. We have never been able to truly fill up DNF for more than 3-4 games per season in the past 20 years.

The biggest part of that is that LSU just has more fans in general. Are those fans actually more "passionate" than ours? I have no idea. But unfortunately, attendence and how well the fans travel is pretty much the only way to measure it.

So attendance and traveling fans you say? So scroll up and see the tweet where we brought more fans to the CWS finals in 2013 than lsu this year. Or where we have 18 of the 25 largest on campus crowds in college baseball history, and the top 14 all belong to us. I fail to see how focusing on crowds hurts our argument. Lsu averages ~2K more than we do, sure, but they have a lot more students and are located in way larger metro area.

[blacklistedbully]

So attendance and traveling fans you say? So scroll up and see the tweet where we brought more fans to the CWS finals in 2013 than lsu this year. Or where we have 18 of the 25 largest on campus crowds in college baseball history, and the top 14 all belong to us. I fail to see how focusing on crowds hurts our argument. Lsu averages ~2K more than we do, sure, but they have a lot more students and are located in way larger metro area.

To put it another way...LSU's average attendance is 36% of their enrollment. Miss. State's average attendance is 41% of our enrollment. And we live in a state where there are 2 P5 & 2 SEC teams, whereas LSU is the only of both.

LSU averaged 2655 more per game than we did. Wouldn't surprise me if it was actually less, given how many we get in the LFL.

There is no way LSU is more passionate about their baseball team than we are. They are passionate about winning championships, and baseball has brought them plenty of that. But if the roles were reversed, and we were the ones with those championships, and they not, I doubt they'd average as much as we do now.

PF is a moron.

[HSVDawg]

So attendance and traveling fans you say? So scroll up and see the tweet where we brought more fans to the CWS finals in 2013 than lsu this year. Or where we have 18 of the 25 largest on campus crowds in college baseball history, and the top 14 all belong to us. I fail to see how focusing on crowds hurts our argument. Lsu averages ~2K more than we do, sure, but they have a lot more students and are located in way larger metro area.

LSU has won 7 or 8 national titles in baseball in the past 25 years, plus 2 NC's in football and numerous others in smaller sports. You're comparing their fans attendence in their 8th or 9th trip to the CWS finals to our fans attendence in our very first appearance in any national title game, ever. There are literally thousands if not tens of thousands of LSU fans that probably said "meh, been there done that" after the 3rd or 4th title win under Bertman in the 90's. I'd never in a million years expect their fans to outnumber ours under those circumstances. The points above are valid about percentage of enrollment / population that make up our attendence, but this is a bogus comparison. It's similar to Clemson vs. Alabama in the NC game the past 2 years where Clemson fans outnumbered Alabama fans 60/40 or so each time. Do you really think Clemson football has more fans or more passionate fans than Alabama?

[blacklistedbully]

Also, you don't think SCar fans and UPig fans aren't as passionate? Sure, LSU typically leads offcial "average attendance" records, but MSU, UPIg & SCar are routinely in the Top 3-5 as well.

[TrapGame]

Finebaum's your typical media whore. I stopped listening to him when he refused to talk om recruiting violations and then went into full ass kissing mode.

[ghostofjackie]

Chaps my hide ESPN refers to this moron as, "Mr. SEC". He's an asshat extraordinaire. It would not bother me one bit if we banned his ass from our campus.

Pencil-necked geek!

I'd say we were a very close second, but without the National Championships and SEC Championships to match, LSU is tops in the country. They travel a little bit better than we do as well. In general, they have more passionate baseball fans than we do.

If Polk #1 (or #2 for that matter) would have sacked up and won a National Championship, then we might be in a completely different position. If we had broken the ice back in the 80's, MSU baseball would have gotten 3-4 more by now.

[Todd4State]

I'd say we were a very close second, but without the National Championships and SEC Championships to match, LSU is tops in the country. They travel a little bit better than we do as well. In general, they have more passionate baseball fans than we do.

If Polk #1 (or #2 for that matter) would have sacked up and won a National Championship, then we might be in a completely different position. If we had broken the ice back in the 80's, MSU baseball would have gotten 3-4 more by now.

That's MSU's fault for not moving on from Polk. It probably set us back 10 years each time.

[confucius say]

Some of you are mistaking success for passion. Lsu has had more success no doubt. And has more fans no doubt, on account of being the only game in town in a state 150% bigger than Mississippi.

I'm not sure which fan base is more passionate, but there is no discernible difference.

[RocketDawg]

Some of you are mistaking success for passion. Lsu has had more success no doubt. And has more fans no doubt, on account of being the only game in town in a state 150% bigger than Mississippi.

I'm not sure which fan base is more passionate, but there is no discernible difference.

Louisiana is only about 50% larger than Mississippi.

[basedog]

Fact is, Lsu Baseball, Bama Football and Kentucky BasketBall have the most passionate fans for those sport not only in the Sec but country.

[Mobile Bay]

Pawl is such a blatent Old Piss homer, that it doesn't surprise me that he hates us. 17 him

[tcdog70]

I can't stand LSU--hope they lose. But I can't find fault with Finebaum's statement. If we don't like it -how about we beat that corndog ass. When we whine and bitch we sounds like Ole Miss. Win the SEC and win a Natty-then we will worry about who is the most passionate.