Interesting comment from Stricklin RE baseball stadium

[messageboardsuperhero]

Stricklin sent out a tweet this morning that 98% of season ticket holders have renewed their baseball tickets. Then a fan responds with something along the lines of "Well, if 98% of people are renewing their tickets, there's nothing wrong with the lifetime seating arrangement."

Stricklin responds by saying this- "The lifetime seats will continue to be honored at the present stadium."

I hope some of the lifetimers are more open to the change than I think they will be- Stricklin is trying really hard to butter them up and brace them for what's coming. Of course, when those people watch a game in the new stadium, they'll wonder why they ever pitched a fit to begin with.

[AROB44]

I gave up my "lifetime" seats a couple of years ago. I just didn't make enough games to justify keeping them.

[Bark]

I gave up my "lifetime" seats a couple of years ago. I just didn't make enough games to justify keeping them.

I wish more people were as reasonable as you.

[messageboardsuperhero]

I gave up my "lifetime" seats a couple of years ago. I just didn't make enough games to justify keeping them.

This happens every year: we always sell out the 5,500 or so grandstand seats, but then we'll only have about 2,000 grandstand people show up for a big SEC game. This is bad, but what makes it worse is that those people renewing their lifetime tickets and not showing up are taking all the good seats away from people who would like to use them. This is why walking up on a Saturday afternoon and getting a decent seat to the game is impossible.

In the new stadium, we'll sell more season tickets, make more money off those tickets, sell more single game tickets, and have more people actually show up to the games- not to mention we'll all end up with a much better stadium. As Bark said, I wish some of the lifetime people were as reasonable as you.

[Coach34]

The grandstand being empty during TV games is absolutely embarrassing- it really makes us look like we dont support baseball.

[engie]

Agreed 100%.

FWIW, Dudy Noble actually has 4316 chairbacks. Plus 180 skybox chairbacks.

I believe the most season tickets we've ever sold is 5632 -- a record that's likely to fall this year. But it never fluctuates more than a couple hundred regardless of how good or bad we are expected to be. Thus, what you've actually got, is about 1k general admission season tickets being sold. Figure 3-4 per rig owner in the outfield and you are within a couple hundred of the total. There are, at MOST, 2-300 people that buy season tickets for the bleachers -- and I'd be willing to bet that it isn't that many.

I stand on the fact that we could sell 8-10k season tickets in a new stadium if there were that many good chairbacks and outfield options available. I'd think we could sell 1k club seats at $1k/yr -- and could sell out 30-40 skyboxes if they were anywhere near the current rates. Hell, we sold out the current 18 before they were completed -- and have never had a cancellation to the best of my knowledge.

[Coach34]

We will double revenue when the new stadium is built

[messageboardsuperhero]

Agreed 100%.

FWIW, Dudy Noble actually has 4316 chairbacks. Plus 180 skybox chairbacks.

WOW. The fact that we sell 5,600 season tickets with only 4,316 chairbacks is really pretty amazing- it also tells me there would be huge demand for more. I can't wait to see how many tickets we sell when there are more good seats available.

I stand on the fact that we could sell 8-10k season tickets in a new stadium if there were that many good chairbacks and outfield options available. I'd think we could sell 1k club seats at $1k/yr -- and could sell out 30-40 skyboxes if they were anywhere near the current rates. Hell, we sold out the current 18 before they were completed -- and have never had a cancellation to the best of my knowledge.

The demand for a club level and more suites is absolutely massive- no doubt about it.

[ScottH]

However, the seats will be allocated on Bulldog Club points. And carry an annual license fee.

Which means get your points and your checkbook in order. Or find a friend with a high ranking.

Cause if you can buy lets say 4 (maybe 6 in top giving levels) seats, the seating will substantially be gone by 1500-2000 ranking. Most of the higher ranking BC members are baseball season ticket holders so it's not like they will be skipping their turn.

[War Machine Dawg]

Agreed 100%.

FWIW, Dudy Noble actually has 4316 chairbacks. Plus 180 skybox chairbacks.

I believe the most season tickets we've ever sold is 5632 -- a record that's likely to fall this year. But it never fluctuates more than a couple hundred regardless of how good or bad we are expected to be. Thus, what you've actually got, is about 1k general admission season tickets being sold. Figure 3-4 per rig owner in the outfield and you are within a couple hundred of the total. There are, at MOST, 2-300 people that buy season tickets for the bleachers -- and I'd be willing to bet that it isn't that many.

I stand on the fact that we could sell 8-10k season tickets in a new stadium if there were that many good chairbacks and outfield options available. I'd think we could sell 1k club seats at $1k/yr -- and could sell out 30-40 skyboxes if they were anywhere near the current rates. Hell, we sold out the current 18 before they were completed -- and have never had a cancellation to the best of my knowledge.

We will double revenue when the new stadium is built

Yep. The Sleeping Giant has started to stir. The money we'll generate in baseball with the new stadium will show why we are truly one of the elite, long term, here to stay baseball powers in the nation. Then throw in what Cohen is building on the field......We WILL have the hardware in Starkville in the near future, boys. I feel it.

[bully99]

Didn't Palmeiro and Clark at one time each own a skybox. Coach, I agree with the TV part, especially when you watch lsu and south Carolina on TV and their stadiums are packed from pole to pole and the outfield areas, But they're in much larger metropolitan areas to draw those. Have to consider the very rural nature of MSU.

[rabbitthedawg]

I buy season tickets for the LFL, which obviously does not count toward a chair back seats. So, we may sell many more season tickets this year.

[MSUDawg4Life]

Yep. The Sleeping Giant has started to stir. The money we'll generate in baseball with the new stadium will show why we are truly one of the elite, long term, here to stay baseball powers in the nation. Then throw in what Cohen is building on the field......We WILL have the hardware in Starkville in the near future, boys. I feel it.

That's why it's critical to do this thing right.

[engie]

Rafi still has his box. It's the 2nd or 3rd one from the plate on the 3b side. Clark may have one, but it will be on the 1b side -- which I have no knowledge of, since I only frequent the 3B side(signs on the doors define whose boxes they are)

[bully99]

So Palmeiro's box stays empty or does the university use it for guests.

[Gen. Grant]

As a relatively new fan of MSU BB, I will happily buy season tickets for the new stadium.

[messageboardsuperhero]

As a relatively new fan of MSU BB, I will happily buy season tickets for the new stadium.

There is a rapidly growing population of people like you who really want to get involved in Mississippi State baseball- which is why it's so important for us to build a great, new stadium to meet that demand.

A national contender in a major sport at MSU (or any MS school for that matter) is very, very appealing to the people in this state.

[engie]

Been mostly empty when I've been up there. I think he's still got friends in the area that use it pretty regularly...

[Homedawg]

Didn't Palmeiro and Clark at one time each own a skybox. Coach, I agree with the TV part, especially when you watch lsu and south Carolina on TV and their stadiums are packed from pole to pole and the outfield areas, But they're in much larger metropolitan areas to draw those. Have to consider the very rural nature of MSU.

Clark never did but palmeiro still does. He just never uses it.

[maroonmania]

Clark never did but palmeiro still does. He just never uses it.

Still amazes me that the Palmeiro kid watched us finish 2nd in the nation where his Dad is a legend , and on top of that his parents still pay for a skybox and yet he signs with NC State which is twice as far from his Texas home. Strange.