We're not. As I've mentioned before, there isn't the fan support. We're in a 100,000 person town, and we've pretty much got to draw the crowds from that. Obviously, it's got to become more important, but we really need to students involvement.

The cool thing about that is that the student population turns over at least every 5 years, so it shouldn't take long, assuming it's given a priority and there's a decent product on the field and atmosphere to watch.

I'm not as worried about baseball as I am about many other things that have arisen from the conference shift.

This post was edited on 3/14/13 at 10:33 pm

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Posted by sms151t

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Posted on 3/14/13 at 11:04 pm to Mizzeaux

If Castiglione was still AD MU would be dumping money into baseball. I think if would've stayed MU would have better facilities and higher pay scales. But I also think he doesn't move MU to SEC.

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Posted by reedus23

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Posted on 3/15/13 at 8:47 am to Mizzeaux

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As I've mentioned before, there isn't the fan support. We're in a 100,000 person town, and we've pretty much got to draw the crowds from that. Obviously, it's got to become more important, but we really need to students involvement.

The local fan support will be relied on for weekday games. But for the weekend games, I think they need to draw in fans from outside the COMO area. I know I've said it before, I'm taking my kid's team down there from STL for a baseball tourney that works around the Mizzou games so we can catch them as well. If they get the games on local radio here, where people can listen and get interested, I think you'd see more people making the trip on a weekend to catch a game or 2 or 3. I'm not talking about drawing 8,000 to games, but get attendance into the 1000's instead of 100's.

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