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Posted on 3/30/13 at 11:34 am to Billder
Posted on 3/30/13 at 11:34 am to Billder
What you don't get is that last night's attendance will likely be in the top 10 for the year at Taylor Stadium.
Given the cool weather and it being Spring Break (few students around), the only reason the crowd was that good was because we were playing LSU.
The 2012 average attendance was around 800+.
The poor attendance is due to weather, due to a history of really poor promotion and advertising,and a history of being a team that's not bad but not usually a conference-leading team either (in any conference).
The promotion is improving somewhat. It will take time and money to improve facilities and to improve the team performance. The weather we can't do anything about.
Given the cool weather and it being Spring Break (few students around), the only reason the crowd was that good was because we were playing LSU.
The 2012 average attendance was around 800+.
The poor attendance is due to weather, due to a history of really poor promotion and advertising,and a history of being a team that's not bad but not usually a conference-leading team either (in any conference).
The promotion is improving somewhat. It will take time and money to improve facilities and to improve the team performance. The weather we can't do anything about.
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Posted on 3/30/13 at 11:37 am to trripleplay
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What you don't get is that last night's attendance will likely be in the top 10 for the year at Taylor Stadium.
Given the cool weather and it being Spring Break (few students around), the only reason the crowd was that good was because we were playing LSU.
The 2012 average attendance was around 800+.
Wasn't there a softball game going on last night, watched the reply against SC. I heard the announcers saying Mizzou even run ruled a few teams this year.
Hmmmm should I watch Mizzou baseball get murdered against the #2 team or watch#6/7 Mizzou softball murder a team, run rule another team.
Posted on 3/30/13 at 11:37 am to trripleplay
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The poor attendance is due to weather
this is our line when we only pull 5,000 for a conference game.
Posted on 3/30/13 at 11:39 am to trripleplay
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trripleplay
I have no doubt that interest will pick up as time goes by. I would think your baseball program will be more of a priority going forward just based on conference affiliation.
Posted on 3/30/13 at 11:59 am to trripleplay
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What you don't get is that last night's attendance will likely be in the top 10 for the year at Taylor Stadium.
Given the cool weather and it being Spring Break (few students around), the only reason the crowd was that good was because we were playing LSU.
The 2012 average attendance was around 800+.
The poor attendance is due to weather, due to a history of really poor promotion and advertising,and a history of being a team that's not bad but not usually a conference-leading team either (in any conference).
The promotion is improving somewhat. It will take time and money to improve facilities and to improve the team performance. The weather we can't do anything about.
My problem is the lack of season ticket sales(showing the lack of promotion that you are hinting)... MANY schools have small crowds in questionable weather early in the year, but selling 6k+ season tickets sure does make it look good in a box score.
Could be as simple as offering double or triple reward points for baseball season tickets in your booster club(points that could be applied to football or basketball priority). A couple hundred $$ for baseball season tickets that gets better seats at football and basketball games would get quite a few more people to buy -- and thus(at least occasionally) put a few more butts in seats. You've got pretty good baseball potential IMO -- just got to invest up front in making it a money-maker instead of a money pit...
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