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re: Slive's love affair with Atlanta
Posted on 3/15/14 at 11:57 am to KSGamecock
Posted on 3/15/14 at 11:57 am to KSGamecock
quote:Is the issue with the venue, or with traveling fanbases who will actually attend the game (this is the argument that Cheese Grits is making concerning the basketball tournament).
Anybody have any attendance numbers on Hoover? Is it really that big of an issue? I have no problem with it being there.
For 2013 Attendance (national ranking based on avg attendance, listed is total attendance) data:
1. LSU (~365k)
2. Arkansas (~220k)
3. Ole Miss (~210k)
4. South Carolina (~200k)
5. Mississippi State (~210k)
9. Texas A&M (~130k)
10. Florida (~110k)
12. Alabama (~86k)
21. Auburn (~72k)
24. Vanderbilt (~74k)
31. Tulane (~58k - for reference)
32. Kentucky (~45k)
33. Georgia (~49k)
34. Tennessee (~40k)
According to Cheese Grits' argument, the SEC baseball tournament should be somewhere like Shreveport or Memphis.. more centralized to the schools with actual fanbases. However, the tournament is in a suburb in the middle of Alabama which has limited hotel space, limited outside entertainment options to make it a destination location, and most convenient to schools with middling attendance in the sport in question.
Clearly, there is a breakdown of logic here between what's good for the basketball tournament and what's good for the baseball tournament.
This post was edited on 3/15/14 at 12:00 pm
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Posted on 3/15/14 at 12:37 pm to CrazyTigerFan
You describe Hoover as some podunk town with little to nothing around it. It's a suburb of roughly 85,000 in a metro area of 1.15 million not that much smaller than New Orleans or Memphis. Calling the hotel accommodations limited is a bit of a stretch too. An over abundance of entertainment options would kind of defeat the purpose of keeping fans at the ballpark for as many games as possible. The problem for those of you that hate Hoover is how well attended the tournament has been even when Alabama wasn't in it. That and the fact that the championship game keeps selling out despite no in state team playing in it for the last few years.
I know you were only using Shreveport as an example but just in case you were being serious it would be a bad move. Other than LSU, Arkansas, and A&M, it is much less convenient for all other league members.
I know you were only using Shreveport as an example but just in case you were being serious it would be a bad move. Other than LSU, Arkansas, and A&M, it is much less convenient for all other league members.
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