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re: How many consecutive games has LSU sold out for football?
Posted on 7/22/14 at 2:54 pm to REBEL5 AC
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
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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 3:42 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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