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If we go hire the kinda coach we should hire and win, butts will be in the majority of the seats for sec games. If we go screw it up trying to save money coming off the cann debacle, then the seats will be mostly empty.
If I remember correctly, years ago after a certain inning (maybe the 4th or 5th), folks we?re allowed toQuote:
Originally Posted by dawgs
move and sit in any chair back which was empty. Does anyone know if that is still the case today?
Yeah the Canny scanny was vastly underestimated in our performance this year. It really devastated a fragile team to begin with. A lot of players and recruits were extremely disappointed with what happened. Fans too! We are just now starting to play some decent ball. Early in the year, we were not even competitive. All these things including a below average OOC schedule results turned many off. Basically just gave up on this year and plan to get ready for 2019. Had we started the year like we're playing now, we would certainly be on the positive side of the Dance bubble. All the TJ surgeries had a huge effect as well. While many complain about Henderson's management, we need to remind ourselves he has forgotten more about baseball than all of the experts on this board know combined. He couldn't have inherited a worse situation. If we somehow make the SEC tourney and get a Dance bid, it will have been due to a Herculean effort in the last half of the season. Funny thing many years ago, one of Ron Fraser's Miami teams went through a rough season and barely made the CWS.....they then won it all. He later said it was one of his worst teams ever and never in his wildest dreams figured they would win it all. Hope springs eternal for our Diamond Dogs!! I won't give up hope until the last nail is hammered into our coffin.
Yes.Quote:
Originally Posted by TALL DAWG
As far as grandstand seating goes, I've heard the Bears do it this way: Every seat in the grandstand with the exception of the box seating on the lower tier is available to anyone the minute they walk into the stadium but, if the owner of the seat shows up, naturally they have to move. There is no waiting 4 innings to move to a chair back.
I don't know anybody that sits in the grandstand here but I know I had to sweet talk my way past an usher just to sit in the grandstand to watch batting practice a couple of weeks ago.
You can buy general admission chairbacks at om. It's a shame we can't do similar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mjoelner34
It appears many MSU fans have more money than people think, or they are simply willing to spend it
However, with a good ticket exchange, we could increase the amount of money that gets put into MSU's and Starkville's economy by enticing more folks to come and selling tickets twice
Cohen needs to fix this shit yesterday. student section in the HUMP as well.
I have a friend that has sold his tickets on line to the grandstand for literally every game so this excuse is really tired and no valid. Now people have tickets that don't part w hem, but ticket exchange isn't the problem w that.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5049
What platform did he use to sell his tickets?Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
That would be awesome and that's the only solution to the problem. You can't do that on Super Bulldog Weekend but every other game that would be great.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mjoelner34
Not sure, but I think the current grandstands for this year were sold to season ticket holders from before, and starting next year the new grandstand will have thousands of new season ticket holders. This season the concourses have a ton (in big games) of people who will be sitting in the grandstands next year. I was one of those during SBW.Quote:
Originally Posted by drummerdawg
We do need to allow the GA fans to move to the grandstand earlier, like middle 2nd or after the 2nd inning. That and an easier/quicker way for season ticket holders to sell their tickets. If nothing else is developed I'll use stubhub or vivid seats to sell my grandstand seats for individual games. I wish I could upload my tickets electronically, that would make it a LOT easier to sell (and buy) them closer to game time. I'd give them away if I could do it electronically.
Bump, because I never got an answer to this. Homedawg?Quote:
Originally Posted by 5049
stub hub. sells a ton of his tickets, basketball and baseball.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5049
Pretty much no baseball or basketball regular season games in college or pro have packed seats anymore. It's a product of every game being on TV, corporate season ticket holders, a large number of regular season games, and a large playoff format that decreases the importance of regular season games.
It seems that for years many people have purchased grandstand seats only to be in them for a select few games so they'd have them when we host a Regional. Or they buy them and sit in the LFL. What the MSU admin ought to do is make these people buy a personal seat license for the entire year for $___. Then they have first dibs on purchasing the ticket for their PSL, and can do so up to 24 hours before first pitch. Otherwise, the seat is sold as a general admission ticket. If they do that, then the 2,000 people who are walking aimlessly around the LFL and concourse will end up sitting in the grandstands.
You realize this is what we do exactly in the hump and we charged a psl for the new dudeit was just gotten up front to help offset cost of the stadium. Here's what gets me, people get pissed that the people who purchased seats(and actually paid money for them) come to a few games, by choice, distance or whatever. But those people who didn't buy seats and have the same set of excuses, distance, other things going on, whatever, want a place to sit whenever they come............for nothing. It's mind boggling. So piss on the ones who bought em and help pay for it but bitch moan and complain for those who chose not to. And yes, everyone had a chance to buy a seat. Everyone. The grandstand would have been larger had we sold more grandstand seats. That's a fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matty Dispatch
I have a feeling that this mindset is one of only a few people from Noxapater and the like, and they leak out onto the message board. The other 80% of the fanbase understands the realityQuote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
And if you can now buy baseball tickets on stubhub, which you can: https://www.stubhub.com/find/s/?q=mississippi%20state
then these folks have zero room to complain, so ignore them
Figuring out a better solution that benefits everyone isn't really getting pissed, it's just trying to figure out a better solution.Quote:
Originally Posted by Homedawg
Say two season tickets in the grandstands cost $1,000. And a couple from Jackson is willing to pay that despite only going to 10 games per year. Well, what if they paid $500 for a yearly PSL, and then purchased tickets for their seats for any games they want to go to for half price. Ultimately paying $700. Then MSU sells their two seats as general admission for regular price for the other 20-some odd games and makes $700 off them.
The couple who purchased the PSLs save money. MSU makes more money. More people have access to the grandstands. Win, win, win.
ETA, then why don't the Yankees and every major league team do this since it's so easy?? Watch 75% of MLB games and half of the seats behind the plate are empty.Quote:
Originally Posted by Matty Dispatch
Sounds all well and good. But it's called supply and demand. They can't get 500 per year for em. Hell they only sold what they sold by getting $1800 over TEN years. I'm all for a more people in the stands looks better. However, the fact remains everyone had a chance and there are still ways to get tickets. It's just that most hat come on here crying about it complain about people who bought seats and don't use them and then turn around and say, " I only come 3/4 times a year and I want a place to sit in the grandstand!"........ if you want that go buy one on the free market. Otherwise sorry. And to add I assure you the athletic dept wants people in the seats. However, as the saying goes, "dance w the one that brought you or in this case bought you!"
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