The Croom Diaries
06-02-2013, 03:12 PM
I've just been watching these games on TV this weekend, but something is up with the attendance figures, they don't make sense. I've heard from several people that were at the SBW game vs. Auburn and both games this weekend and they say there was just as many if not more there this weekend....no way there was a 3K difference (25% more at SBW).
I'm not buying that Stricklin is holding back just to save the money so he doesn't have to send it to the NCAA. We are talking about $30,000 (3,000 x $10) in lieu of blowing every other Regional out of the water by a long shot. With a $60 million athletic budget, $30,000 or even $60,000 over two games is 0.001% of the budget at most. That would be like having $1,000 cash in your wallet and going out of your way to lie just to save $1. So basically I think the "2nd largest crowd ever" in April was a lie. I guess it was Tyler Bratton, I don't know.
I think this makes all our records look dumb. Undoubtedly we have the top crowds, but everything above the 07 Super I'm beginning to believe was a farce. Before this weekend I thought LT just lied about those numbers in that game to save the extra cash, but now maybe he didn't lie there - the real lies are all the other games.
I hate to sound like I'm going against the baseball program here, but I just think it makes us look bad.....like we just pull numbers out of our ass, and when we say we have the top 10 crowds all-time it's just a farce - we might have 4 or 5 of the top 10. Is there something I'm not seeing? Do we have 5 year olds counting tickets I don't know about so we really aren't making it up we are just incapable of counting correctly? Are all the numbers actually accurate I'm just a dumbass?
I'm not buying that Stricklin is holding back just to save the money so he doesn't have to send it to the NCAA. We are talking about $30,000 (3,000 x $10) in lieu of blowing every other Regional out of the water by a long shot. With a $60 million athletic budget, $30,000 or even $60,000 over two games is 0.001% of the budget at most. That would be like having $1,000 cash in your wallet and going out of your way to lie just to save $1. So basically I think the "2nd largest crowd ever" in April was a lie. I guess it was Tyler Bratton, I don't know.
I think this makes all our records look dumb. Undoubtedly we have the top crowds, but everything above the 07 Super I'm beginning to believe was a farce. Before this weekend I thought LT just lied about those numbers in that game to save the extra cash, but now maybe he didn't lie there - the real lies are all the other games.
I hate to sound like I'm going against the baseball program here, but I just think it makes us look bad.....like we just pull numbers out of our ass, and when we say we have the top 10 crowds all-time it's just a farce - we might have 4 or 5 of the top 10. Is there something I'm not seeing? Do we have 5 year olds counting tickets I don't know about so we really aren't making it up we are just incapable of counting correctly? Are all the numbers actually accurate I'm just a dumbass?