Announced crowd of 48,724 for Game 1. I’m guessing announced crowd Saturday will be somewhere between 40,000 and 45,000. I’m seeing more tickets on the secondary market than I did for the opener.
Toledo game attendance
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I still have it, never been worn. I put it in a gallon zip lock the day I got it and its been resting in there since. I'm waiting for just the right event to break it out of hibernation, like the day Sly is added to the MSU Sports Hall of Fame** or something like that.
Disney may be about to cut ESPN off at the knees if they keep hemorrhaging money. As I don't see NIL in its current form as sustainable, I also don't see these huge conference payouts as sustainable. I am debating on going this weekend for a couple of reasons.
I’m trying to give away 4 tickets on the 40 west side and can’t find takers
Would have really been tough if Toledo kept last year's QB starter from transferring to Baylor. Guess the money was just too good.
Is it?
State has 10-15k hard core fans (see BC numbers). Then their spouses and kids. You have a hard core fan base of approximately 25-30k. Then the students for another 8k-10k.
With a losing football program and rain likely, another sec game at home next weekend... not bad if we have 40k
the small crowds and lack of commitment from the alumni is because of years of losing.
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But if you wanna see a victory this may be one of your only 2 opportunities
I think I go on to explain in my posts deeper in the thread that I do not really care about winning and losing. I know that is not a way most people look at it, but again to each his own. I have a different reason for being at the games.
Years of losing? Last year was the first time in 15 seasons we won less than 6 games total and didn’t reach a bowl. OUR FANS ARE SOFT.
When the going gets tough, our fans don’t show. That’s it. We have a new coach (3rd coach in 3 years) who is trying to find his footing. No one has any idea how his tenure will turn out, but most on here just complain and don’t show up to DWS
Ah, I see you have it all sorted out after Jeff Lebby has coached *checks notes* two football games.
and the previous season kind of left a bad taste is everyone's mouth too. You earn a following and respect, its not handed to you the day you walk in the office door
This is a loser mentality as fanbase. You show up and support, if after a period of time (it can be a season) it’s not working then it’s reasonable to stop supporting the program. No other fanbase Arkansas, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Auburn, Kentucky has half-empty stadiums to start the beginning of a new coach’s tenure. Just us. Why is that?
There’s comments on here saying “well we’ve had a bunch of losing lately.” What? We just ended arguably the most successful 15 year stretch in Mississippi State football history. Our fanbase is SOFT.
Yep. Burned a lot of good will with the shenanigans pulled last year. And the same folks who pissed and moaned while Leach was going 9-4 cheered on last years disastrous decisions. Well the bill is due now.
Curious, superfan, while you are chiding everyone else for being a bad fan , how supportive of you when Leach was coaching and going 9-4 ? Oh that’s different***
maybe the disastrous decisions made in the wake of Leachs passing, which you cheered on have dug quite a hole for the program.
This isn't just about football this season.
This is about the 2 craptastic baseball seasons where we finished last and next to last after '21 and the half arse one last year where we didn't host. It's about keeping Foxhall too long. Its about the Cohen years, where Cohen crept around in the shadows avoiding contact with fans. It's about 7 seasons of Ben Howland and his .468 Conference winning percentage. It's about Selmon not giving anyone the warm and fuzzy's either. It's about the Nikki McCray Pinson experience letting the players run the team. It's about the Arnett experience w/ nobody running the team. It's about the underwhelming football staff hires this past offseason. It's about how much it sucks trying to get on campus and park. Its about how much it sucks to get off campus after a game. Have any of those not half empty stadiums you rattled off had the same experiences like I just named? And by the way, half empty as you put it at Davis Wade is just over 30,000 and we had 48,000 for E KY.
It's about the whole athletic experience at MSU being run like a circus instead of a business since arguably before Stricklin left and certainly since. Soft fans, no, more like fed up fans...........
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