Oh so you care about the results? Or are you making strawmen?
17 you. Fan support is our biggest advantage
Point being show us a club sport that averages almost 11,000 PAID? Look back at my baseball posts, I've been one of Lemon's biggest critics and still am, I thought he should have been gone last year. And I'm old enough to have sat behind home plate when there was a tin cover over those bleachers, chicken wire stopping foul balls, shingle roof on the dugouts and pulled into LF in my truck and backed up to the fence most games with space left on both sides of me
Congratulations on your club sport attendance national championship!
So you’re pumping your chest because the football program generated enough revenue to build a shiny new baseball stadium?
Mullen left 2 years B4 The Dude opened and football has gone down in quality and attendance since. We're definitely fortunate to be a member of the SEC and be gifted money from tv revenue of all of the conference teams games in all sports, all the bowls, pay season hoops, conference championship games, National champs. won by other members etc to the tune of what $40+ million per year? MSU football itself though, not so much
Our fanbase has a very tough time grappling with the fact college baseball doesn’t matter at all
We also grapple with the fact that we can’t compete in football in the modern era.
When your only response is “softball loses more” you’ve officially lost the argument. Think about how pathetic of a statement that is.
Doesn't matter, it's the same thing as baseball in the accounting, just like soccer, golf, tennis, etc.
and apparently basketball matters less to our fans since baseball outdrew basketball even with a newly remodeled Hump, baseball average was 2,500 more per game. Another "Club Sport" evidently
Your v a g is getting sandy and I seriously doubt you attend any damn sporting events at State. You're dead weight as a fan if I'm guessing, simply based on your total lack of understanding of anything sports related.
I’m not sure why you’re using attendance in a particular sport at a particular school to make this argument.
Why you hating on Kosciusko, arsehole? KO rocks
I’ll accept the arguments that basketball and football are essential sports.
Maintaining support through downswings makes it easier to have an upswing.
I say our attendance doesn't pay the bills or get us top signing classes and it's a pointless brag. We basically just have to have greater attendance than the other teams in the conference because most of the country doesn't care about college baseball. Especially considering the grandstand seats are an inherited spot and the LFL is ridiculously cheap for what it is while also being similar. It's time baseball fans start really supporting things. They get the equivalent of 1989 football season ticket prices for their seats. They seem to only want to support baseball and that's never going to work in today's college athletics. I also believe every sport should get support but football pays the bills.
Funny how that doesn't happen with other sports but some think it should in baseball. The baseball over everything crowd is one of the greatest MSU problems there is. I like baseball a lot, but it's still just a secondary sport in the grand scheme.
Surely you have no idea who you are talking to… goat outed himself as one of the cigar boys a couple weeks ago.
Well it may not be a pointless brag. Do you think not bragging about it would be better off paying the bills, getting us better signing classes? I’m sure we’re not paying the marketing intern much. I agree that baseball fans should start supporting things, but is that going to happen without a little shameless marketing?
I get the differing opinions on what sport we should support. We can’t monetize fandom to the dollar, and maybe if we did we could pull together a panel of allstar sixpackers to argue about that, but if a sport has generally good fan support metrics we shouldn’t trash those metrics.
I asked this a couple weeks ago and someone posted a clarion ledger article where the writer said that MSU baseball lost $2.3 million in 2022. No other information was given except that. So, you have no way of knowing if that is a net loss that includes depreciation or any other non-cash losses. I suspect that loss includes depreciation.
We aren't celebrating a sport though. We're celebrating the attendance of a sport. There's a difference. I don't give a squat about who goes to baseball games, it's the celebrating it when we can't get fans to show up to anything else much. Hopefully we're about to up the cost of attendance since people are so proud of their attendance.
lol I’ve often wondered the same about you… would you like me to link the post where you made the assertion that you were well connected? If I recall correctly, you made a statement that Dakota Jordan was paid enough to be criticized. I asked how much that was. You then preceded to try and act like it was public knowledge and only and idiot wouldn’t know… although you would never tell us how much Jordan was paid.
I think when we aren't very good at baseball, we beat our chest about attendance. Do you think that's going to increase attendance? I do not. I think the same people go regardless. Does it make our recruiting better? It doesn't based on our results. Neither does the best stadium in college baseball really (And it's amazing!) and a nice indoor facility that few have. We can keep trying to sell those things but it's not proving to be a difference maker for baseball. Times have changed significantly since the portal and NIL started. The best way to support baseball is by supporting football. That's where the money is, but our large number of baseball is king fans won't show up. We're now 18th in the country in baseball budget and supposedly somewhere a little higher in baseball NIL. When NIL becomes part of the budget soon, folks better flood to football or things will get worse.
