What is the Issue with MSU's Attendance Numbers?

Does anyone know how many arky had for their afternoon game?

I?ll let y?all in on a little secret... we?ve never had 15k at a baseball game and never will. About 12k is the most we?ve ever squeezed in (Clemson Super Regional).

I bet your sources are amazing. Got any sweet recruiting secrets for us?

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Originally Posted by Homedawg

No. You the crowds are always lower because you only get a percentage of the gate once you get to your bid number. More crowd announced less in your pocket.

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So we split the gates with the other schools?

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Originally Posted by MStateDawg

I?ll let y?all in on a little secret... we?ve never had 15k at a baseball game and never will. About 12k is the most we?ve ever squeezed in (Clemson Super Regional).

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Don't believe it.

Tomorrow night?s attendance number will be a little more telling I think. Today?s is consistent with what we had for the first game in the 2016 Regional, also against a 4 seed in the middle of the day.

Today - 8,826
?16 vs SEMO - 9,378

And for reference, the Saturday night game against Fullerton in ?16 had an attendance of 10,656. My point is don?t make it an old stadium versus new stadium debate just yet, a little more to it than that. Look at our Top 5 biggest crowds of all time, each of those games was played in April.

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Originally Posted by MStateDawg

I?ll let y?all in on a little secret... we?ve never had 15k at a baseball game and never will. About 12k is the most we?ve ever squeezed in (Clemson Super Regional).

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Negative. There were 10 time the people between and behind the rigs in the outfield during the 15k ole miss game than were at the super regional.

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Originally Posted by Captain Falcon

My point is don?t make it an old stadium versus new stadium debate just yet, a little more to it than that. Look at our Top 5 biggest crowds of all time, each of those games was played in April.

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Bingo. SBW.

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Originally Posted by MStateDawg

I?ll let y?all in on a little secret... we?ve never had 15k at a baseball game and never will. About 12k is the most we?ve ever squeezed in (Clemson Super Regional).

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There was wayyyy more than that for Clemson. The announced was super bogus. Couldn't move in outfield

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Originally Posted by Mjoelner34

Negative. There were 10 time the people between and behind the rigs in the outfield during the 15k ole miss game than were at the super regional.

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No. Just no.

No one will admit it but I've been suspicious that the new stadium wouldn't hold anywhere near what the old one would from the getgo.

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Originally Posted by mparkerfd20

No one will admit it but I've been suspicious that the new stadium wouldn't hold anywhere near what the old one would from the getgo.

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In the outfield it probably doesn't.

I wish we’d learn to stop being concerned with attendance. It’s almost a damn crutch. We’ll have one if the best attended regionals every year. It’s the outcome that matters. Not that damn attendance asterisk.

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Originally Posted by drummerdawg

Does anybody know what our season ticket numbers are compared to the old stadium? I'm guessing OM outsold us by a good bit in season tickets because they didnt have a game under 7.5K all season while we had a couple drop in the 6Ks

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OM has a big advantage over State in that Memphis and Desoto county is a short easy drive. As well as Tupelo.

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Originally Posted by Maroonthirteen

OM has a big advantage over State in that Memphis and Desoto county is a short easy drive. As well as Tupelo.

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That's why they sell about 1,000 more season tickets? Not buying that. Tupelo is about the same distance to Starkville and Rankin and Hinds county isn't any harder of a drive as the Memphis area is to Oxford.

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Originally Posted by drummerdawg

I've got a few attendance questions myself and I'm not sure we can get an actual crowd of over 13k there. New Dude isnt as big

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Well we have no grandstands for people to sit. Season ticket holders, that didn't come but to about 30% of the games hold every damn seat in the house. Thats why.

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Originally Posted by drummerdawg

That's why they sell about 1,000 more season tickets? Not buying that. Tupelo is about the same distance to Starkville and Rankin and Hinds county isn't any harder of a drive as the Memphis area is to Oxford.

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Yeah, i think every town in desoto minus HL is bigger than Tupelo.

I trust you guys will get to the bottom of this, and it will leave me free to work on my quest for world peace.

Sitting here talking to a university official so I asked. Regular season we count tickets purchased. For regionals we count tickets scanned because we have to give that money to the NCAA. We don't want to inflate the attendance because it cost the university.

Attendance at the following regional sites:

BATON ROUGE Regional
USM vs Arizona State - 9,918
LSU vs Stony Brook - 10,542
Day 1 Total - 20,460

FAYETTEVILLE Regional
Arkansas vs Central Connecticut - 10,037
TCU vs Cal - 9.594
Day 1 Total - 19,631

OXFORD Regional
Clemson vs Illinois - 8,935
OM vs Jacksonville State - 9,810
Day 1 Total - 18,745

STARKVILLE Regional
MSU vs Southern - 8,826 (but I agree the Dude look more full than that???)
Central MI vs Miami - 7,259 (but didn't look anywhere close to that if our game truly had 8,826 in attendance)
Day 1 Total - 16.085

No other regional comes close to 10,000 total attendance.