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re: Will Missouri try and bolster their baseball program?
Posted on 5/20/14 at 3:46 pm to Jagd Tiger
Posted on 5/20/14 at 3:46 pm to Jagd Tiger
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the idea was to make it more comfortable to sit on, as well as look better.
Ohhh, interesting. Yeah, until now I didn't know why they moved the hill in. Thanks.
And I believe you're wrong about it only costing 1 million to move the hill, but I have nothing but hearsay to support my claim.
Anyway, it seems like some things could be added to the ballpark to make it more respectable without going overboard financially.
With the amount of money spent on other things, it seems like such a small investment to turn the baseball program into something notable.
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Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:43 pm to Sleeping Tiger
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Anyway, it seems like some things could be added to the ballpark to make it more respectable without going overboard financially.
Can you see anything Mizzou can add to the stadium that would get people more interested besides booze or a winning baseball team?
I'm not even talking about Mizzou specifically. Our AAA team here was having attendance issues until they started winning. Other minor league teams add party areas, special nights for groups, cheap drinks, better concessions.
I just don't see what can be built to make the experience better besides a deck out in right field next to Devine where people can bring drinks and party. That kind of experience gets people interested.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:49 pm to Sleeping Tiger
Between the softball team being a better product to watch (quicker games, better program), the weather, aluminum bats, and having the Cards/Royals down the road, I don't see Mizzou ever having a well-attended program.
I suppose they could add alcohol to the mix, but there aren't enough reasons to get folks out to the ballpark. If I'm in St. Louis or KC I will save my time and money and go to a MLB game. If I live in Columbia I might go, but if softball has a game the same day I'm going to watch that, because I have small children and they can't handle the length of a college baseball game. Families are, for the most part, who you market to for non-revenue sports, and college baseball in the Midwest isn't very family friendly, especially when you have a better product right across the street. I just don't see it happening any time soon.
And if crowds are going to be crummy in perpetuity then I wouldn't sink the money into the product unless you can at least have very good teams. In The SEC that's extremely difficult to do, given Mizzou's inherent disadvantages that the rest of the conference recruit against.
I suppose they could add alcohol to the mix, but there aren't enough reasons to get folks out to the ballpark. If I'm in St. Louis or KC I will save my time and money and go to a MLB game. If I live in Columbia I might go, but if softball has a game the same day I'm going to watch that, because I have small children and they can't handle the length of a college baseball game. Families are, for the most part, who you market to for non-revenue sports, and college baseball in the Midwest isn't very family friendly, especially when you have a better product right across the street. I just don't see it happening any time soon.
And if crowds are going to be crummy in perpetuity then I wouldn't sink the money into the product unless you can at least have very good teams. In The SEC that's extremely difficult to do, given Mizzou's inherent disadvantages that the rest of the conference recruit against.
Posted on 5/20/14 at 4:57 pm to Sleeping Tiger
This Faciliy improvement article shows some of the various plan for spending, the football field turf surface renovation was 1.5 million, that may or may not have been part of an initial 10 million project that included renovating the press box to the higher floor and adding the club level. I think the hill move renovation may have been part of that project so you might have gotten your idea from that, but as you see that was a larger more encompassing project than just the hill.
You can see the estimate for the new softball field was around 18million, so a new baseball park would obviously take that kind of money at the least.
Alden outlined the earlier renovations to the field as "aesthetic" and I have to agree the results are less than spectacular. At this point in the 200 million over 10 year plan, I think baseball is on a back burner and something big will have to happen for that to change. Just for what it's worth.
You can see the estimate for the new softball field was around 18million, so a new baseball park would obviously take that kind of money at the least.
Alden outlined the earlier renovations to the field as "aesthetic" and I have to agree the results are less than spectacular. At this point in the 200 million over 10 year plan, I think baseball is on a back burner and something big will have to happen for that to change. Just for what it's worth.
This post was edited on 5/20/14 at 5:01 pm
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