here's to all you fairweather-ed fans. Arkansas, LSU Attendance Leaders June 20, 2005 http://ncaasports.com/baseball/mens/story/8581087 BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- Arkansas and LSU did not win the Southeastern Conference baseball championship or make it to the College World Series this year. They did win fans, however. Arkansas led the SEC in attendance, drawing a school-record 146,902 fans for 28 home games. That's an average of 5,246.5 fans per game. LSU was second in the league in attendance with 141,199 fans at 36 home games. That's an average of 3,922.2 per game, down from LSU's average of 4,724 last season. LSU led the SEC in ticket sales with 270,300, down from last year's total of 284,328 for the same number of home games. The 2004 total is the third-highest in LSU history. The LSU record for baseball ticket sales, set in 2003, is 291,676. Arkansas sold a school-record 200,378 tickets, which ranked second in the conference. When the NCAA announces attendance rankings after the season, LSU figures to lead the nation for the 10th year in a row because the NCAA counts ticket sales as attendance. The SEC, which has the same policy, last week released ticket-sales figures listing LSU as the conference champion in ``paid attendance.'' Not all schools announce separate totals for ticket sales and attendance at home games, as do LSU and Arkansas.
LSU will always lead the SEC in Ticket sales. The people will buy the tickets as long as the team is competitive. Hell, they sell a **** load of season tickets. But, the drop in nearly 1000 people per game over the season is the alarming number. The honest truth is, its not hard to sell the tickets in a town where over the last 15 years, the program has been dominant in a sport where outside the college world series, there are only a handful of places that baseball is an interest in more than 1000 or so die hard fans. LSU is a special place for baseball b/c a bad crowd is 3900 people. That is a record setter for 85% of college baseball programs. There is a big enough group of LSU baseball loyalists who will be with the team whether they win or lose for the rest of there lives to dwarf some others schools best crowds during awesome years. I think its safe to say that LSU has about 3,000-3500 die hard baseball fans that will be there no matter what. If the team hits a rut in the next few years, those people will still be there. I believe. But, lets say you go to a place that is rockin in baseball over the next few years, a place thats not used to winning, I guarantee LSU will outdraw that place by 1500 every game. This is a credit to what skip did for baseball.
You shoulda left me on ignore when I all I did was complimented the LSU fans and Skip for building LSU's baseball program? Man I cant win for losing. Oh, I agree with you on the paragraphs. My bad.:lsup:
Well, as long as we sold the most, "actual attendance" doesn't bother me as much. When we start selling less tickets than other schools in the conference, that's when I start believing we're becoming more and more "fair weathered".
Here is what I got out it: attandance was down by ~20%. "LSU was second in the league in attendance with 141,199 fans at 36 home games. That's an average of 3,922.2 per game, down from LSU's average of 4,724 last season"
