Kendall Rogers with some kind of take...
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It’s a stupid point, but on top of that, he’s made a stupid example of his stupid point.
Austin is a massive metro of ~2M people and can’t possibly support that attendance. But Baton Rouge, which is a metro of over 800k, is plenty small enough to support it.
Baton Rouge is way more similar to Austin than it is Starkville. None of it makes sense.
Austin is a massive metro of ~2M people and can’t possibly support that attendance. But Baton Rouge, which is a metro of over 800k, is plenty small enough to support it.
Baton Rouge is way more similar to Austin than it is Starkville. None of it makes sense.
If there was ever a time retard should be used, it was the time retarded people cancelled people for using the word retarded.
My daughter lives there & its too massive for me
He’s 10% right. Texas’ attendance issue is big city and population related. It’s just not how he claims. The problem Texas has is their campus and existing stadium is within the city of Austin. They’ve just got no feasible way to expand or build a bigger stadium with no feasible real estate available.
But Houston beat Texas last night.
Because Houston is a bigger city with more people.
With less people at the ballpark.
Because Houston is a bigger city with more people.
With less people at the ballpark.
Ummm..... yes it is.
And the fact that the following metros are this close as well.
1 hour away #24 San Antonio nearly 2.8M people
2 hours away #4 DFW Nearly 8.4M
2.5 hours away #5 Houston Nearly 8M
Yeah. It's big. But massive is a bit of a stretch. 25th largest in US. For context Charlotte is 21st and Atlanta 8th.
it’s pretty big. 2.4 million people. Pushing top 20 in USA.
Well, it's within half a million of the population of the entire state of Mississippi. I'd say in the context being discussed here it counts as massive.
That's his point, but there are 45x more people in Austin than there are in Oktibbeha County and over 2x as many students at UT than there are at MSU...Kendall doesn't understand basic math.
The closest metropolitan area to MSU (1:20 away) has a population of around 270k. It's Tuscaloosa AL.
Here is where the math really doesn’t math. He mentions LSU. Baton Rouge is the State Capital. There are also almost a million people just in Baton Rouge proper. The city would still exist without LSU due to all the river access and chemical plants.
I did a little math. I used the population for the Austin metro and the three counties of the GTR. Their largest baseball crowd this year is roughly 0.3% of the metro population. Ours is roughly 9% of the GTR population. If we attended like they do our largest crowd would have been around 500. If they attended like we do their largest crowd would have been around 230,000. Belive it or not the football numbers are reasonably similar.
this is what happens when two large metro programs meet... SCHLOSSNAGLED!
They're both state capitals of baseball crazy states. It's a perfect comparison and completely blows up his ridiculous assertion.
I flipped over to that game last night after ours and saw 7-0 and moved on.
Crazy, I gotta watch that comeback.
UT would have swept OM without a terrible pitching 9th inning in the opener.
Kind of off topic but strange that Gordo and Reform are considered Tuscaloosa metro. Reform, especially, is more "Columbus Metro" if such a thing existed. About 85% of the population of the "Tuscaloosa Metro" is in Tuscaloosa County, but the "metro" includes Hale, Greene, and Pickens also.
Of course it matters. It's basically our only advantage......the culture around baseball. We literally have nothing else to recruit around except that we love baseball.
Does this always equal more talent and wins in college baseball? Historically, no. But it's the main reason WE have been good, throughout the years. To discount that makes you a bigger retard than Rogers. Does UCLA need a big crowd to attract talent and players? No, but they also are in SoCal, in the second biggest metro in the country, at an elite school and in a baseball hotbed.
We're in Starkville MS. We need the crowds
I grew up spending a good bit of time in Monroe and Itawamba Counties, and they have some Bama tendencies, but they both pale in comparison to Lowndes. Lowndes is virtually Tuscaloosa West.
When I first came here in 2007, it was a nice place. It has grown exponentially ... outward. The largest growth is from outside the main city in places like Round Rock. I never realized they were adding San Marcos; that is a huge addition.
ETA - if I were going to add a pro sports team, I would build a new area between Austin and San Antonio. There is plenty of space there, and you would draw from both cities.
I've spent a LOT of time in all three, and still do. Lowndes is the worst for sure, but the other two are pretty dang bad.
No it doesn't, but you just have to read the signs on the outfield fence to figure that out.
Average attendance at round rock express games is 5600. UT average attendance is 6500.