Mid-week Attendance

[Dawg1979]

talking attendance alone, i hate mid-week games, but last nights was brutal. why would you either A.) not schedule a game during spring break or B.) play it in jackson or Biloxi?

what was the attendance last night? 35? litterally, i think it was around 35 people there.

i know its been discussed here before, but i had to mention how pitiful last nights was especially

 

[MSUDC11]

Um it's Spring Break and it was about 30 degrees last night. And we were playing a 3-11 SWAC school.

Our midweek crowds on an average Tuesday or Wednesday are bigger than 95% of teams' weekend crowds around the country.

 

[57stratdawg]

We're always going to struggle with midweek games early on IMO. I just don't think we have the population density around Starkville.

 

[Dawg1979]

you made my point. put it that game in jackson

 

[patdog]

You might have had 40 people at the game if it was in Jackson. It was just a miserable night for baseball against a terrible opponent with no drawing power.

 

[aTotal360]

I don't know, but I think the logic is to take as little of a financial hit as possible. They know those game are a loss. And maybe moving them simply costs more money than it's worth. We wouldn't get any gate or concessions money if we moved it and we would have to pay travel expenese. As is, we open the gates, have a skeleton crew, and try to be as financially efficient as possible. Just a guess...

 

[Uncle Ruckus]

Have all of them in Biloxi and you'll be guaranteed to have at least two in attendance.

 

[Hoover Dawg]

talking attendance alone, i hate mid-week games, but last nights was brutal. why would you either A.) not schedule a game during spring break or B.) play it in jackson or Biloxi?

what was the attendance last night? 35? litterally, i think it was around 35 people there.

i know its been discussed here before, but i had to mention how pitiful last nights was especially

This is one reason Cohen likes 4 game sets in the OOC, to encourage bigger weekend crowds and minimize weekday games.

I used to be a big proponent of playing midweek games in Jackson but unfortunately that hurts the school schedule because of travel. It'd be nice if Starkville was located within 45 minutes or so of a bigger metro area with a stadium but it's not reality.

Midweek games are what they are.

 

[StillTbonewannabe]

Also you don't get the Stadium for free. I have no clue what the break even number is but I guarantee that playing last night in Jackson loses a good bit of money. The paid attendance was probably 5500 last night since that game is part of the season tickets.

 

[ronpolk]

you made my point. put it that game in jackson

I live in Madison and would not have gone to the game last night. It was too cold.

 

[rem101]

Were you mad at the attendance Monday, too?

 

[bruiser.sixpack]

Midweek attendance is over 5000.... season tickets sold!

 

[Bulldogg31]

We're always going to struggle with midweek games early on IMO. I just don't think we have the population density around Starkville.

I'd say a big part of our population is plenty dense.


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