re: Gymnastics attendance > baseball atendance

LSU averaged 5,404 fans per game

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pretty sure we averaged more than 5400 in baseball last year... Like double

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Might want to rethink this also

As season starts, LSU hopes to reverse trend of fewer spectators in the stands


by ross dellenger

rdellenger@theadvocate.com


By 5 p.m. Friday, a line of purple-and-gold clad fans will stretch from the gates of LSU’s Alex Box Stadium and weave through a parking lot full of gumbo-cooking and beer-drinking tailgaters.

Gates will open, and fans will pour into one of the nation’s most plush college baseball parks.

They will buy thousands of game-day programs, consume hundreds of hotdogs and roar their approval when the season’s first rendition of “Calling Baton Rouge” blares from the speakers.

It might just be the best atmosphere and biggest crowd for any college baseball season opener in the nation.

But it won’t be full.

LSU’s season-opening game against Kansas on Friday night is a sellout. In fact, most of the Tigers’ 15 home Southeastern Conference games have just standing-room-only tickets remaining, and the school has led the nation — by a wide margin — in ticket sales for 19 consecutive years.

The problem: Getting these ticket-purchasing fans — predominantly the 9,000-plus season ticket-holders — into seats.

LSU averaged 5,404 fans per game during the regular season last year, according to a compilation of actual attendance figures. That’s the lowest in the six seasons Alex Box Stadium has been open