Beating LSU in baseball attendance

[MedDawg]

Is this something that can be done? The first few years they started recording attendance for baseball games State was leading the country, but after that it's been all LSU. Is the attendance average something we can take back? I would love to see it and us make an effort to at least try. I know we do good compared to the average teams in the country and SBW, Regionals, and a few big games we do better than anybody. We finished 3rd in average attendance last year behind LSU's 10,000+ OM's 8,000+ with a little over 8,000 ourselves. Is there any way we can get about a 2k bump in our average? If so, how? Looking at the games last year, it looks like both LSU and OM sold a good bit more season tickets than we did (idk how that happens in Oxford) and therefor never claimed an attendance lower than that even though State might have had more actually at their games they still were below the other two in tickets sold (which is what everyone counts).

It's ALL from season tickets. LSU can have 1,000 people in the seats but gets credit for 10,000+ each game due to selling 10,000+ season tickets.

The only way for State to be #1 is actually an easy one--build 2,000 more chairbacks and sell 2,000 more season tickets. Keep in mind that the entire current stadium seating--chairbacks, club levels, and skyboxes (plus lounge spots) are sold out with season tickets.

I think we likely could sell out all 2,000 new chairbacks, especially with new fan attractions like food trucks we will have this season. We would need to make sure the additional fans would be accommodated with more bathrooms and concessions.

If we took out the 3rd baseline berm and added upper and lower decks on that end and an upper deck above the 1st baseline berm we would have 2,000 more seats. We could add some more skyboxes, too.

We could also add bleachers to right field but make them look built in with the same black metal styling of the grandstands and not the usual shiny aluminum bleachers.