Baseball Attendance

[drt7891]

Got to visit the new DNF yesterday, and boy was it something to behold. Wonderful place. Feels like a major league park.

I was looking at the attendance, though, and for Saturday and Sunday, attendance was appx 9400 for each game. However, it felt like there were 3000-4000 people more than what the actually were. Perhaps it was due to the fact a lot of GA tickets were sold.

For big SEC weekend when 12-14000 people are expected, though, a couple of pointers for general admission seating:
1. If you want a seat in a berm, you better get there 20 minutes or more before the anthem. Prime berm seats go an hour or more before first pitch.

2. If you get there at or after first pitch, be prepared to stand for a while. Although you can see the field very well from most railing spots around the field (if you don’t mind standing)

3. You can only use your foldup chain in a berm. They cannot be used on a walkway or in a concourse.

4. Families with small kids typically leave early in a game. Be ready to snatch up some prime real estate if you want it.


Overal, the berms are fantastic. Even when they are crowded, you can see the field. The biggest critique (right field berms only) is the support pole for the net runs right through the sight line of the video board. Maybe that’ll be an upgrade down the road is another scoreboard somewhere.

Comapred to the bleachers, the berms are awesome, though. Get out and enjoy a game, if you can. It’s worth the trip.

 

[Hankp22]

I thought yesterday was the largest crowd of weekend

It seemed like a few thousand more than the previous two days. They may not have been scanning tickets though by the time the WBB game ended. There was a large mid-inning walk in crowd.

 

[GTAT]

I'll take more consistent crowds of 8 or 9K all day long, over those 15K attendance record crowds. Players would too.

 

[GhostOfJackie]

I'll take more consistent crowds of 8 or 9K all day long, over those 15K attendance record crowds. Players would too.

I'm sure the players are thrilled that someone like you is speaking for them.

 

[GTAT]

I'm sure the players are thrilled that someone like you is speaking for them.

You left out the part where you cry for me to be banned.

 

[Duke Humphrey]

Weather forecast killed attendance for first two games

The forecast for Friday and Saturday was not good, but the weather for the game on Sat turned out great. However, people had already made their plans.

Got to visit the new DNF yesterday, and boy was it something to behold. Wonderful place. Feels like a major league park.

I was looking at the attendance, though, and for Saturday and Sunday, attendance was appx 9400 for each game. However, it felt like there were 3000-4000 people more than what the actually were. Perhaps it was due to the fact a lot of GA tickets were sold.

For big SEC weekend when 12-14000 people are expected, though, a couple of pointers for general admission seating:
1. If you want a seat in a berm, you better get there 20 minutes or more before the anthem. Prime berm seats go an hour or more before first pitch.

2. If you get there at or after first pitch, be prepared to stand for a while. Although you can see the field very well from most railing spots around the field (if you don’t mind standing)

3. You can only use your foldup chain in a berm. They cannot be used on a walkway or in a concourse.

4. Families with small kids typically leave early in a game. Be ready to snatch up some prime real estate if you want it.


Overal, the berms are fantastic. Even when they are crowded, you can see the field. The biggest critique (right field berms only) is the support pole for the net runs right through the sight line of the video board. Maybe that’ll be an upgrade down the road is another scoreboard somewhere.

Comapred to the bleachers, the berms are awesome, though. Get out and enjoy a game, if you can. It’s worth the trip.

 

[MedDawg]

The majority of the crowd was in the concessions line....

Got to visit the new DNF yesterday, and boy was it something to behold. Wonderful place. Feels like a major league park.

I was looking at the attendance, though, and for Saturday and Sunday, attendance was appx 9400 for each game. However, it felt like there were 3000-4000 people more than what the actually were. Perhaps it was due to the fact a lot of GA tickets were sold.

For big SEC weekend when 12-14000 people are expected, though, a couple of pointers for general admission seating:
1. If you want a seat in a berm, you better get there 20 minutes or more before the anthem. Prime berm seats go an hour or more before first pitch.

2. If you get there at or after first pitch, be prepared to stand for a while. Although you can see the field very well from most railing spots around the field (if you don’t mind standing)

3. You can only use your foldup chain in a berm. They cannot be used on a walkway or in a concourse.

4. Families with small kids typically leave early in a game. Be ready to snatch up some prime real estate if you want it.


Overal, the berms are fantastic. Even when they are crowded, you can see the field. The biggest critique (right field berms only) is the support pole for the net runs right through the sight line of the video board. Maybe that’ll be an upgrade down the road is another scoreboard somewhere.

Comapred to the bleachers, the berms are awesome, though. Get out and enjoy a game, if you can. It’s worth the trip.

Pretty good crowd Sunday. The grandstand wasn't near full, but it also was not embarrassingly empty. The outfield and standing concourse looked full , but there was room for more--the standing concourse can hold more with a 2nd and 3rd row of people standing, and there were a few empty LFL spots and some with just one person in it. Good student turnout--the right field was packed with students, but can be packed even more (as it was a few games last year).

A weird aside: The wind was freezing in some parts of the stadium but not others. Went to a friend's seats at the top of the upper level behind home plate, and the wind was a lot stronger/colder than it was in my seats in the back of the lower level even with 3rd base. We couldn't stay up there more than a minute. It was difficult to believe how much colder one spot can be than the other, considering both were in the back, in the shade, and covered overhead. If anything, one would expect the back of the lower level to be windier because of the open concourse behind it.

Great view of the action in the upper level, btw.

 

[thekimmer]

Looks like we will return to the old wooden bleacher days somewhat.....

Got to visit the new DNF yesterday, and boy was it something to behold. Wonderful place. Feels like a major league park.

I was looking at the attendance, though, and for Saturday and Sunday, attendance was appx 9400 for each game. However, it felt like there were 3000-4000 people more than what the actually were. Perhaps it was due to the fact a lot of GA tickets were sold.

For big SEC weekend when 12-14000 people are expected, though, a couple of pointers for general admission seating:
1. If you want a seat in a berm, you better get there 20 minutes or more before the anthem. Prime berm seats go an hour or more before first pitch.

2. If you get there at or after first pitch, be prepared to stand for a while. Although you can see the field very well from most railing spots around the field (if you don’t mind standing)

3. You can only use your foldup chain in a berm. They cannot be used on a walkway or in a concourse.

4. Families with small kids typically leave early in a game. Be ready to snatch up some prime real estate if you want it.


Overal, the berms are fantastic. Even when they are crowded, you can see the field. The biggest critique (right field berms only) is the support pole for the net runs right through the sight line of the video board. Maybe that’ll be an upgrade down the road is another scoreboard somewhere.

Comapred to the bleachers, the berms are awesome, though. Get out and enjoy a game, if you can. It’s worth the trip.

In the olden days, on SEC weekends, if you sat in the wooden bleachers you or someone in your group got there before BP to get a prime seat and rampant seat saving took place. The chairback people behind the plate showed up at or after first pitch. The difference now is flipping the seat numbers. Old days ratio was about 85-15% bleachers to chairbacks. Now its prolly 98-2% chairbacks to berm. Competition will be keen although the plethora of standing room will help. The only potential issue I see with that is standees clogging up the concourse.

 

[Misfit]

I got out of the Army in Sept., 1978, and started to school at State the following January. During the years I was in school and before the old new stadium was built, if it was a big SEC series, you needed to be in your bleacher seat 2 hours before the game started if you wanted a seat. I watched an entire NCAA regional tournament game hanging from the rusty metal railing on the side of the bleachers.

 

[thekimmer]

I got out of the Army in Sept., 1978, and started to school at State the following January. During the years I was in school and before the old new stadium was built, if it was a big SEC series, you needed to be in your bleacher seat 2 hours before the game started if you wanted a seat. I watched an entire NCAA regional tournament game hanging from the rusty metal railing on the side of the bleachers.

I hear you. My student tenure at State was similar to yours. For the 85 regional final we got to the gate at 8:00 AM for the late afternoon/early evening game (forget exact time). We were not the first in line either. In that same tournament I remember folks going to the early game and left seat cushions, blankets, coolers, etc in the stands, some taped down with duct tape, to 'reserve' their seats for our game. They were warned repeatedly not to do that over the PA system but did it anyway. After the stadium was cleared, flunkies went through the stadium and removed all that stuff and put it in a massive pile next to the grandstand while being dog cussed by many of the owners of the stuff watching helplessly outside the fence.

We routinely got in the stadium 2 hrs ahead on Sat nite for the old twi-nite 7 inning DHs . On Sunday you could usually come a little later maybe and hour or hour and a half prior to first pitch.

I think the berm area is inevitably going to go that way as well.

 

[StarkVegas Steve]

The Saturday LSU game will probably be the first chance in the new stadium to break the attendance record. I'd imagine the crowd that day will be two to three deep out in the outfield concourses. Definitely will want to get there early for that one if you want to be able to see the game.

 

[MedDawg]

There will be a lot of LSU fans there wanting to see the New Dude, too.

 

[bulldogcountry1]

There will be a lot of LSU fans there wanting to see the New Dude, too.

They will be in the Omaha club.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

I got out of the Army in Sept., 1978, and started to school at State the following January. During the years I was in school and before the old new stadium was built, if it was a big SEC series, you needed to be in your bleacher seat 2 hours before the game started if you wanted a seat. I watched an entire NCAA regional tournament game hanging from the rusty metal railing on the side of the bleachers.

Yep. I stood on the brick support of one side of a bleacher during most of an '85 regional game (probably MSU's win against West Virginia). My family set up the RV at the top of the hill looking down towards the right field corner and as I was leaving the Michigan - New Orleans game heading back up to the top of the hill, the line to get into Dudy Noble for the upcoming MSU-Michigan game was maybe two-thirds up that hill.