Quote Originally Posted by berr6728 View Post
the attendance figures are based on season ticket sales and walk ups each game, not acual attendance. You can figure that we have 5000 season tickets sales and 1000 walk up sales, so new stadium will get same attendance. Economics does not support what you koolaid drinkers think. We do not have enough population in the surrounding area to support what you and our stupid AD thinks. I am a Math major from MSU and the math does not add up, sorry. You need some 3,000,000 in population to draw from to consistently draw 7 to 9 thousand fans to each weekend game. You have to compete with 2 other major Universities as well as every other activity in the surrounding area. I hope it will work but I am not optimistic it will. I am 72 years old and do not see these things happening in the rest of my lifetime. The people at LSU thought just as all of you, that they would constantly fill up, not so as of this year. They have had their worst attendance in last 7 to 8 years. Still have season ticket sales and walk ups but stands are empty in many areas. No shows, just like it will be at MSU, ECONOMICS. I will not renew my 6 season tickets for baseball as the SEC network will allow me to watch all of States games as well as a few others and not have to drive 375 miles one way to watch a very poor coached team from my arm chair in Louisiana. I love my University but I am very unhappy with our AD and our Baseball coach and what athletics has become today. At my age I do not need to go thru the agrevation of a season like this year.
You're first problem is asserting that we should only build a new stadium if it means that we sell it out every night. No one does that. Not even MLB. That's extremely short sighted. We're going to have smaller crowds at times simply because there are going to be times like spring break, exams, etc. that students are not going to be in town. If we're playing Alcorn in February and it's 40 degrees on a Tuesday, we're never going to sell that out either- and it's unrealistic to expect that.

Conversely, we're also going to have SBW, Regionals, SR, weekends against big name and rival teams- and those are going to draw well.

You're second problem is assuming that we shouldn't build a new stadium because we are currently drawing well. A new stadium is going to be more comfortable and a better experience for our fans overall. It's going to help with recruiting because the players are going to see something nice and modern as opposed to old and outdated when compared to who we are recruiting against in the SEC.