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re: How many consecutive games has LSU sold out for football?
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:49 pm to lsufball19
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:49 pm to lsufball19
Honestly, no one in the SEC has any sort of long-standing sell-out streak outside season ticket sales. I don't know what type of point you're trying to make with someone over facebook (doubtful)
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Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:51 pm to lsupride87
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No, the answer to his question is 90 games i beleive
that's how many years season tickets have been sold out, not total tickets. there are only between 65-70k season tickets sold. then you have 20k+ left over for visitors and single game tickets. Arkansas was not a sell out last year, which was our last home game
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:54 pm to sorantable
idk but there's like a 20 year waiting list for season tickets
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:54 pm to REBEL5 AC
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I agree with all of this. I will say, though, that Ole Miss should have a lower attendance than LSU for a couple of reasons:
1. Baton Rouge has a population of 230,000 compared to Oxford's population of 20k on the dot. That's including the 10k growth since 1990. And Oxford doesn't have any Ole Miss cities close by. Memphis a little, but majority of that population could never afford to make that trip. BR has New Orleans(350k+), Lake Charles(80k), and Lafayette(120k) all within an hours drive. Ole Miss getting 60k fans in that stadium is actually pretty impressive.
2. We split Memphis, MSU, and USM in Mississippi. ULL takes away a good portion of fans, but they don't keep LSU fans from attending Death Valley.
This thread is beating a pointless matter, but I'm fine with OM pulling in 60k a game. I was very fortunate to be able to attend every home game growing up(raised in Alexandria), but I know not very many people can make a 12 hour round trip on weekends to see a 3 hour game.
agreed, smaller state overall, 2 other schools that actually support football, smaller student body every year so smaller pool of alumni. anything bigger than a 70k seat stadium for ole miss would be too much as it just isn't feasible to sell tickets to that many people for the aforementioned reasons. not a knock on ole miss, just kind of a natural reality they can't control.
btw, please don't give memphis credit for being a threat
. they're selling season tickets right now for like $65 total, and they regularly have under 10k people in attendance. it's quite sad. they really need to move out of that dump, the liberty bowl, and build a small 25k seat on campus stadium. it would help them tremendouslyThis post was edited on 7/22/14 at 2:55 pm
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:56 pm to lsufball19
quote:I just assumed that is what he meant, because that is all that really matters
that's how many years season tickets have been sold out, not total tickets. there are only between 65-70k season tickets sold. then you have 20k+ left over for visitors and single game tickets. Arkansas was not a sell out last year, which was our last home game
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:57 pm to sorantable
0. Alabama fans have murdered all of the LSU fans while we were drunk and refused to get off the plane.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:58 pm to lsupride87
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I just assumed that is what he meant, because that is all that really matters
you really think sorantable would start a thread asking a question that could be answered with such a quick and irrefutable response?
he knew lsu's sellout streak was zero or not very long, which is why he started the thread. it's been a daily thing for him for awhile now
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:59 pm to lsufball19
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Four teams averaged maximum or above maximum capacity in 2013: Texas A&M, South Carolina, Mississippi State and Georgia.
BIG 4
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:01 pm to dawg4lyfe
quote:Getting to play two awesome games in LSU and Carolina helped. We played only sisters of the poor at home last year
BIG 4
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:03 pm to lsufball19
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, smaller student body every year so smaller pool of alumni
Enrollment is growing.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:08 pm to UMTigerRebel
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Enrollment is growing.
ok...no one said it wasn't, but it's still considerably smaller than most the rest of the conference at just 18k undergraduate students. so while the rate at which the gap is increasing, between ole miss and a school like lsu, may have lessened, the gap is still growing wider each year, and ole miss still has decades of alumni to catch up to with the bigger schools. again, it's not a knock on ole miss or anything, it's just a simple reality of their situation and possible number of fans to fill a stadium. unless you're a bandwagon school like Notre Dame, a small school is not going to have the sheer number of alumni to fill up 100k+ seat stadiums every weekend, which is why Ole Miss doesn't have a need to expand much further than what they already have. It would be counterproductive outside premium seating.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:08 pm to vuvuzela
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They could probably tell you how many Bama has sold out, but they wouldn't know jack shite about their own team.
Bless your heart.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:11 pm to lsufball19
Ok, I misunderstood and thought you were saying that the student population was getting smaller every year.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:13 pm to Draconian Sanctions
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Idk but there's like a 20 year waiting list for season tickets
That's impressive.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:19 pm to lsufball19
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Honestly, no one in the SEC has any sort of long-standing sell-out streak outside season ticket sales. I don't know what type of point you're trying to make with someone over facebook (doubtful)
We had one until a year or two ago that dated back to 1979, it was the 3rd longest in the nation. Things have changed.
Posted on 7/22/14 at 3:42 pm to lsufball19
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agreed, smaller state overall, 2 other schools that actually support football, smaller student body every year so smaller pool of alumni. anything bigger than a 70k seat stadium for ole miss would be too much as it just isn't feasible to sell tickets to that many people for the aforementioned reasons. not a knock on ole miss, just kind of a natural reality they can't control.
Exactly. That's why I find our attendance pretty impressive. Another thing that kills Ole Miss is its huge out-of-state attendance, especially Texas. 95% of those Texas kids go back to Texas after graduation and maybe come back once a year, while they have friends still there. So, while we have our 15k students, 5k have probably never seen football and another 3-4k go back to Texas and never come back. That leaves about 5k every 4 years that even know what football is and stay somewhere relatively close to north MS. We may pull a couple thousand decent alumni every four years.
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btw, please don't give memphis credit for being a threat . they're selling season tickets right now for like $65 total,
That's why I included them. You give a family that both parents work, both making around 30k a year the option of down the road $40 family total game or 75 minute south Ole Miss game that will cost a family of 4 a $100 to attend and they will all pick Memphis. But you're right, they aren't much of a threat right now.
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