After this weekend, if any of you still think our baseball…..

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eckie1

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…..expenditures are not worth it, you’d be better off to go suck start a shotgun. Huge moneymaker for the University and the City of Starkville.

Football’s issues are just that…..FOOTBALL’S issues. Go talk to your AD.
I know you’re a straight up psycho, but haven’t you made the polar opposite argument before??? I.e., spending money on baseball is dumb??? I don’t care enough to look it up, but I think you have.
 

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you’d be better off to go suck start a shotgun.
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One football game, even in a down time, has greater attendance and makes more money than a three game series in baseball. It's best if all the sports make money, and we aren't even spending as much as several other baseball programs.
 
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bulldoghair

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I know you’re a straight up psycho, but haven’t you made the polar opposite argument before??? I.e., spending money on baseball is dumb??? I don’t care enough to look it up, but I think you have.
Yes, Goat was being sarcastic.
 

bulldoghair

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…..expenditures are not worth it, you’d be better off to go suck start a shotgun. Huge moneymaker for the University and the City of Starkville.

Football’s issues are just that…..FOOTBALL’S issues. Go talk to your AD.
Sounds big until you remember the program costs $7.6 million to run every year. That one big weekend doesn’t even cover the light bill for Dudy Noble, much less the deficit.

Btw, separate question- how many of the same people made up the attendance for all three games? Other words, if there were 40,000 tickets scanned over the three days- how many of them were the same person over multiple days?
 

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Sounds big until you remember the program costs $7.6 million to run every year. That one big weekend doesn’t even cover the light bill for Dudy Noble, much less the deficit.

Btw, separate question- how many of the same people made up the attendance for all three games? Other words, if there were 40,000 tickets scanned over the three days- how many of them were the same person over multiple days?




 
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Btw, separate question- how many of the same people made up the attendance for all three games? Other words, if there were 40,000 tickets scanned over the three days- how many of them were the same person over multiple days?
So, do you know of any program, anywhere, in any league, in any sport, that quizzes fans when they go through the gates if they were there the day before?

Is their money no good if they were in a seat the day before, do you count that differently?
 

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I know you’re a straight up psycho, but haven’t you made the polar opposite argument before??? I.e., spending money on baseball is dumb??? I don’t care enough to look it up, but I think you have.
He 100% has made the opposite argument

he’s arrogant as 17 and claims to know everything. But in reality he just says a bunch of random $h1t and RARELY turns out kind of right.
 
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Sounds big until you remember the program costs $7.6 million to run every year. That one big weekend doesn’t even cover the light bill for Dudy Noble, much less the deficit.

Btw, separate question- how many of the same people made up the attendance for all three games? Other words, if there were 40,000 tickets scanned over the three days- how many of them were the same person over multiple days?
Why does that matter?
 

bulldoghair

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…..expenditures are not worth it, you’d be better off to go suck start a shotgun. Huge moneymaker for the University and the City of Starkville.

Football’s issues are just that…..FOOTBALL’S issues. Go talk to your AD.

Why does that matter?
I was genuinely mainly just curious.

But also to add to GOAT’s sarcastic point- If we’re counting the same person’s tickets three times over three days- same season ticket holders, students, and locals showing up multiple times- then the actual number of unique people and unique dollars spent into town is way lower.

Separately, how’s the pitchers arm? I never heard or read any confirmed bad news or not. If he’s not hurt will he pitch next weekend?
 

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Sounds big until you remember the program costs $7.6 million to run every year. That one big weekend doesn’t even cover the light bill for Dudy Noble, much less the deficit.

Btw, separate question- how many of the same people made up the attendance for all three games? Other words, if there were 40,000 tickets scanned over the three days- how many of them were the same person over multiple days?
I was one & I can assure you it wasn't free.
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Big Ten schools routinely get 15k in attendance for wrestling matches , and even more for hockey. I am sure you (as we all were) were glued to them over the weekend. Fact of the matter is that the Arkansas/High Point game last night had more viewers than MSU's baseball program has had in the last 5 seasons combined.
 

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Fact of the matter is that the Arkansas/High Point game last night had more viewers than MSU's baseball program has had in the last 5 seasons combined.
That stat hits like a fastball to the chest.
And to make matters worse, 99% of the country thought High Point was just a strain of weed until a few days ago.
 
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bulldoghair

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What is this response supposed to mean?
You know DesotaCountyDawg once banned me on here a while back for making a joke about Erika Kirk fake crying. I guess my joke was too soon for some. No hard feelings- Some truths just take longer to put on makeup.
 

She Mate Me

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What is this response supposed to mean?
You know DesotaCountyDawg once banned me on here a while back for making a joke about Erika Kirk fake crying. I guess my joke was too soon for some. No hard feelings- Some truths just take longer to put on makeup.

 
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What is this response supposed to mean?
You know DesotaCountyDawg once banned me on here a while back for making a joke about Erika Kirk fake crying. I guess my joke was too soon for some. No hard feelings- Some truths just take longer to put on makeup.
I didn’t ban you for that.
 

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I was genuinely mainly just curious.

But also to add to GOAT’s sarcastic point- If we’re counting the same person’s tickets three times over three days- same season ticket holders, students, and locals showing up multiple times- then the actual number of unique people and unique dollars spent into town is way lower.

Separately, how’s the pitchers arm? I never heard or read any confirmed bad news or not. If he’s not hurt will he pitch next weekend?
I think I’m going to sell off all my AAPL, AMZN, and NVDA unless they can quickly publish how many “unique dollars” are on their EBITDA statements.
 
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…..expenditures are not worth it, you’d be better off to go suck start a shotgun. Huge moneymaker for the University and the City of Starkville.

Football’s issues are just that…..FOOTBALL’S issues. Go talk to your AD.
Says the guy who threw in the towel on baseball Friday night in the 4th inning.

Go eat a bag of dıcks you dôuchebag!
 
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bulldoghair

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I think I’m going to sell off all my AAPL, AMZN, and NVDA unless they can quickly publish how many “unique dollars” are on their EBITDA statements.
“Unique dollars” = real incremental spending coming from people who wouldn’t otherwise be in Starkville.

I own thise very same ones. I’d say hold on to them. Although our baseball program is printing deficits, the tech giants are still printing money.
 

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So, do you know of any program, anywhere, in any league, in any sport, that quizzes fans when they go through the gates if they were there the day before?

Is their money no good if they were in a seat the day before, do you count that differently?
It was a weird question. Aren’t the people who scan tickets on a football or basketball Saturday the same ones who scanned one the previous Saturday?
 

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I was genuinely mainly just curious.

But also to add to GOAT’s sarcastic point- If we’re counting the same person’s tickets three times over three days- same season ticket holders, students, and locals showing up multiple times- then the actual number of unique people and unique dollars spent into town is way lower.

Separately, how’s the pitchers arm? I never heard or read any confirmed bad news or not. If he’s not hurt will he pitch next weekend?
Yes. I always want each dollar to be unique when I get paid. Otherwise I refuse to accept it.
 
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It was a weird question. Aren’t the people who scan tickets on a football or basketball Saturday the same ones who scanned one the previous Saturday?
I bet 85 percent of them are the same for basketball maybe a little less for football.

The people that sit in our section for basketball are the same every game.
 

bulldoghair

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It was a weird question. Aren’t the people who scan tickets on a football or basketball Saturday the same ones who scanned one the previous Saturday?

Yes. I always want each dollar to be unique when I get paid. Otherwise I refuse to accept it.

I bet 85 percent of them are the same for basketball maybe a little less for football.

The people that sit in our section for basketball are the same every game.
A big baseball weekend feels huge because Dudy Noble packs 14k+ fans per game- but unique visitation is dragged down by heavy repeat attendance- season ticket holders, students, locals, short drives- going Friday-Saturday-Sunday. It’s mostly the same 10k people that are already around. That means fewer new wallets- fewer hotel nights- and less incremental spending. A typical football home game draws more people in one day as baseball does in three, but with far higher unique visitors- meaning mostly out of towners staying overnight, eating multiple meals, buying gas, hotels, merch ect. The economic multiplier is dramatically higher for football and one game can generate 10 times the town impact of a baseball series.
So when someone says baseball is a “huge moneymaker” for Starkville- the point is that the unique dollar influx and overall economic punch is nowhere near football’s. Football Saturdays are the real cash cow for the town, and the only cash cow for the athletic department.
 

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I didn’t ban you for that. I know who did because they messaged me. You do realize that there’s multiple moderators on this board?
Yes I know. And I too was messaged by more than one person that told me it was you. Look I said no hard feelings and I mean it.
 

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A big baseball weekend feels huge because Dudy Noble packs 14k+ fans per game- but unique visitation is dragged down by heavy repeat attendance- season ticket holders, students, locals, short drives- going Friday-Saturday-Sunday. It’s mostly the same 10k people that are already around. That means fewer new wallets- fewer hotel nights- and less incremental spending. A typical football home game draws more people in one day as baseball does in three, but with far higher unique visitors- meaning mostly out of towners staying overnight, eating multiple meals, buying gas, hotels, merch ect. The economic multiplier is dramatically higher for football and one game can generate 10 times the town impact of a baseball series.
So when someone says baseball is a “huge moneymaker” for Starkville- the point is that …….


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