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.

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Posted by CrazyTigerFan

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Posted on 3/15/14 at 12:44 pm to Govt Tide

Cheese Grits argument for the basketball tournament is that it should be held in proximity to the larger actual fanbases. Shreveport and Memphis are the cities that closest fit that argument in regards to baseball. As those numbers show, other than Florida and South Carolina, the league members who actually attend the sport would be serviced with such a tournament location.

My post was in response to a different poster. He asked what was wrong with Hoover as a venue. My point is that Hoover is not centralized to the baseball fanbases in the SEC who actually attend the sport. Why should there be a different standard for determining the location of the baseball tournament than the basketball tournament, when supposedly ease of access to fans is an issue?

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Posted by Cheese Grits