re: Auburn updating their baseball stadium as LSU falls further behind

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While this is true, full loud stadiums also come as a result of a nice, fun atmosphere. Miss St. was awful this year and they still had packed stadiums throughout the year.

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I saw empty seats in the stands.

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I think a state of the art batting cage is a must. A great locker room. A great training room. LSU already has all of this.

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Because we recently spent millions on them instead of replacing the batter’s eye or putting in arm chairs down the foul lines.

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Well it’s not the 90’s anymore. So because stadium improvements haven’t resulted in a dynasty we should just quit trying to improve Alex Box?

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We have been improving Alex Box. Ticket sales are fine. Fans come they feel like it. A large renovation won’t sell many more tickets.. Actual attendance might go up, but that too will fade as the newness fades.

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We should have stayed in the old box...we won 5 titles there

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There was no room for grand locker rooms or training facilities, etc.

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I take it none of you have ever even been in our locker rooms and facilities?

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The locker rooms are great, and I'll bet the players love them. That being said, they don't mean jack shite to the gameday experience for fans which is what packs the seats.

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I saw empty seats in the stands.

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I never said that every single Mississippi St game was a sellout. But they were 26-30 and might’ve had a better in stadium attendance than us this year. Friday night games weren’t packed because of their all-star team, it was because it’s a fun stadium to be at.

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Because we recently spent millions on them instead of replacing the batter’s eye or putting in arm chairs down the foul lines.

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We’ve always kept up with player facilities. That’s not something that just started happening the past couple of years.

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Actual attendance might go up

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Yeah.. that’s the point.

Even if you’re right, you’re such a smug prick

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We’ve always kept up with player facilities

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No we haven’t.

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Actual attendance might go up Yeah.. that’s the point.

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But ticket sales won’t.

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Auburn updating their baseball stadium as LSU falls further behind

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Well LSU has spent hundreds of millions of dollars upgrading our Football Coaching Staff, Strength and Conditioning Staff, our Baseball Coaching Staff, hiring a chef for better nutrition, upgrading our Women’s Basketball Coaching Staff, and hiring a new Men’s Basketball Staff. However, Chicken Little shows up and whines about bleachers yet again.

Oh, and Auburn has the great TJ Finley and Koy Moore to go along with their beloved Head Coach Brian Harsin.

But LSU has bleachers. Lol.

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And yet LSU is still hauling in #1 recruiting classes

Gotta hate it

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Serious question: What does this have to do with the fan experience (which is the point of this thread)?

And for people who think it was just because of Covid:


2022 numbers


Arkansas: 10,413 (up 1,694 from 2019)
LSU: 10,365 (down 269 from 2019)
Mississippi State: 10,289 (up 1,389 from 2019)
Ole Miss: 9,998 (up 1,010 from 2019)
Texas: 6,797 (up 1,304 from 2019)
South Carolina: 6,522 (up 524 from 2019)
Texas A&M: 5,755 (up 829 from 2019)
Oklahoma State: 5,499 (up 3,646 from 2019)
Florida: 5,320 (up 1,496 from 2019)
Nebraska: 5,028 (up 602 from 2019)
Southern Miss: 4,771 (up 1,719 from 2019)
Florida State: 4,538 (up 208 from 2019)
Clemson: 4,255 (down 49 from 2019)
Tennessee: 4,193 (up 2,289 from 2019)
Louisiana: 4,142 (down 521 from 2019)
TCU: 4,113 (down 266 from 2019)
Texas Tech: 4,015 (up 114 from 2019)
Vanderbilt: 3,649 (up 720 from 2019)
Auburn: 3,605 (up 285 from 2019)
Oregon State: 3,589 (down 77 from 2019)
Arizona State: 3,302 (up 382 from 2019)
Virginia: 3,288 (up 207 from 2019)
East Carolina: 3,260 (up 169 from 2019)
Arizona: 3,233 (up 689 from 2019)
Georgia: 3,125 (up 725 from 2019)

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Those raggedy metal bleachers are nearing 30 years old at this point

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The bleachers out behind the left field wall are the bleachers from the Old Box. It's an absolute joke. LSU got away with moving those over to the New Box by saying the people who sat in those bleachers at the Old Box asked for them to be moved over.

I'm sure they would rather nice chair backs.