re: Gymnastics attendance > baseball atendance

yep I just went through and calculated attendance.

the box score which reports the attendance averaged out to 5,688 a game. I may have done some math wrong at someplace but pretty much what was reported likely paid is what the article reported.

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Yes. Paid is a NCAA recognized stat. Actual isn't.

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The LSU baseball article specifically commented that LSU was concerned that despite averaging over 9,000 season tickets only 5,400 were actually showing up.

The gymnastics article did not differentiate, so you may be correct but at face value it stated 5,600 fans attended.

I am not sure you are correct about NCAA recognized stats. For football games they use the actual number present including fans, game management, press, etc. so would presume they do the same for all sports.

I would also question your chart as its very unlikely average attendance dropped 1,000 fans between 2013 and 2014 given the continued rise of he program. The Reveille may need to revisit those numbers.

By the way you do a great job with basketball coverage and I always enjoy your posts.

I find it pretty funny. It's great he is trying to get some jimmies rustled over Gym attendance. More power to our gym team for having more success this season.

Troll on

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the box score which reports the attendance averaged out to 5,688 a game. I may have done some math wrong at someplace but pretty much what was reported likely paid is what the article reported

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What is your basis for this assertion. Again, you may be correct, but what are you referencing?

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Provide a credible link showing these actual numbers.

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Even if the numbers are right, I've apparently learned there are only 5 home matches a year for gymnastics. If LSU baseball only have 5 home games a year we'd probably be able to get at least 30K per game if the box could hold that. When you have 30 or so games a year with half them being against directional schools you're not going to get capacity attendance.

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What is your basis for this assertion. Again, you may be correct, but what are you referencing?

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I don't enough about this to make an assertion with a link. But it makes sense, go look at other box scores for other sports, they will report paid attendance.

For example Sam Houston State vs LSU reported over 100K in the stadium. Where there actually 100K in that stadium? I think most people would say probably not.

Baseball game 2 reported 10,000 attendance, I was at that game, there wasn't 10,000 people at that game, maybe 7 or 8 thousands. Still impressive for the Saturday before Mardi Gras.

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I am not sure you are correct about NCAA recognized stats.

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I am, but keep up the good fight. Just learn to pick your battles.

Why would you try to prop up the LSU gym team by putting down the baseball team? It makes no sense seeing that the fandom should overlap.

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Even if the numbers are right, I've apparently learned there are only 5 home matches a year for gymnastics. If LSU baseball only have 5 home games a year we'd probably be able to get at least 30K per game if the box could hold that. When you have 30 or so games a year with half them being against directional schools you're not going to get capacity attendance.

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then why does football, which only have 7-8 home games not get capacity? From your logic, it should....right?

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then why does football, which only have 7-8 home games not get capacity? From your logic, it should....right?

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We have 100K seats. For the big games we get that.

I'm just saying if LSU baseball only had 5 homes games like gymnastics, they'd sell out every game. The capacity is like 10K and we'd get that.

It sounds like the comparison isn't even right in the first place. The comparison is also weak because people have far less opportunities to see gymnastics where as there are more chances to see baseball games, so people will skip more. Especially if it is against some team like Northwestern State.

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