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It’s time to move the SEC Baseball Tournament from Hoover!
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:23 pm
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:23 pm
In before LSU fans cry “But, RV parking”
Move it from that outdated concrete jungle of a park and move it to a Bham new park or Memphis.
Move it from that outdated concrete jungle of a park and move it to a Bham new park or Memphis.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:33 pm to WildcatMike
They will never move it, parking/tailgating would be a huge issue in both of the new places you listed. And the campground right at the park is huge as well. Plus Exit 10 at Hoover has grown tremendously.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:34 pm to WildcatMike
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Bham new park
Fantastic park right by a fun brewery. But jesus parking would be a cluster
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:34 pm to WildcatMike
Assuming LSU even makes the tourney
If Birmingham, might as well leave it in Hoover
Memphis is not central enough for entire conference
I really think it needs to be moved around.
Several quality minor league parks that could host it.
Part of rotation:
Memphis
Hoover
Pensacola
Biloxi
Spring training site in Florida, pick one
If you schedule it with Braves, their home stadium would be a nice location
If Birmingham, might as well leave it in Hoover
Memphis is not central enough for entire conference
I really think it needs to be moved around.
Several quality minor league parks that could host it.
Part of rotation:
Memphis
Hoover
Pensacola
Biloxi
Spring training site in Florida, pick one
If you schedule it with Braves, their home stadium would be a nice location
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:48 pm to WildcatMike
Casinos in south Mississippi would be fun but I don’t think it’s centrally located enough to attract fans in driving distance but the ones that did come would have a blast.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:53 pm to WildcatMike
Why not just do a rotation of the minor league stadiums in the SEC states, make to where it has to be within a certain number of miles from campus?
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:55 pm to WildcatMike
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In before LSU fans cry
They will cry about anything
Posted on 4/23/21 at 1:56 pm to WildcatMike
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It’s time to move the SEC Baseball Tournament from Hoover!
It's been time to at least rotate it but they just extended the contract with the Hoover Met a few years ago through like 2030. They'll never move it, though. It's easier for them to keep it there than to think outside the box of possible better options. They make money and people keep going, so they can hang their hat on that argument perpetually
This post was edited on 4/23/21 at 1:58 pm
Posted on 4/23/21 at 2:01 pm to nicholastiger
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Memphis is not central enough for entire conference
Memphis is central enough for the teams that comprise most of the fans that attend. Oxford, Starkville, Baton Rouge, Fayetteville, Auburn, Lexington, Athens, Columbia, Tuscaloosa, Knoxville, and Nashville are all a ~6 hour drive or closer, most of those being much closer than a 6 hour drive. It's centrally located to more schools than Birmingham is and is in a perfect location for fans to have things to do in walking distance of the stadium. Reegardless, I agree, it needs to rotate around the geographic footprint of the conference
This post was edited on 4/23/21 at 2:03 pm
Posted on 4/23/21 at 2:09 pm to WildcatMike
Memphis:
Nashville:
Pensacola:
Little Rock:
All are excellent venues. There’s plenty more. There is a ton of money to be made by this event if you include entertainment venues and the like. The RV argument is played out. The parking scene at TD Ameritrade at Omaha isn’t the greatest, but it gets the job done. Why can’t parking lots at some of these other places work.?
Nashville:
Pensacola:
Little Rock:
All are excellent venues. There’s plenty more. There is a ton of money to be made by this event if you include entertainment venues and the like. The RV argument is played out. The parking scene at TD Ameritrade at Omaha isn’t the greatest, but it gets the job done. Why can’t parking lots at some of these other places work.?
Posted on 4/23/21 at 2:11 pm to TexasTiger08
The parking argument will always be dishonest and/or short-sighted. It's been a cop-out for years. Autozone is in the middle of downtown Memphis. Downtown Memphis manages to host and accomadate festivals with tens of thousands of people the entire month of May and has an NBA arena downtown as well. I think they can manage how to figure out RV parking for a few hundred fans.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 3:11 pm to WildcatMike
Why would they move from Hoover to shite holes Memphis or Birmingham? Have the thing in ATL or Biloxi at the shuckers park.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 3:39 pm to turnpiketiger
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shite holes Memphis or Birmingham?
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ATL or Biloxi
what do you think Atlanta and Biloxi are?
Posted on 4/23/21 at 5:20 pm to lsufball19
Screw Atlanta on Anything. I wish they would move SEC Football game out of Atlanta!
Posted on 4/23/21 at 5:26 pm to BhamBlazeDog
RV culture is a miniscule part of SEC baseball fandom.
Boomer-thinking in the purest sense.
Boomer-thinking in the purest sense.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 5:29 pm to Numberwang
Let's say you cram 20 RVs per acre into parking at Hoover.
You still wind up with maybe 100 RVs. The typical RV has 2-3 people aboard. MOST will be some old retired couple and nobody else.
The RV argument is literally comprised of fewer than 1000 fans across all SEC fanbases who might, at some point, use an RV space at Hoover.
It's one of the dumbest arguments ever made related to SEC venue selection.
You still wind up with maybe 100 RVs. The typical RV has 2-3 people aboard. MOST will be some old retired couple and nobody else.
The RV argument is literally comprised of fewer than 1000 fans across all SEC fanbases who might, at some point, use an RV space at Hoover.
It's one of the dumbest arguments ever made related to SEC venue selection.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 5:43 pm to Numberwang
I've always heard that all the SEC head coaches love the setup in Hoover & any move would be against their unanimous wishes. I know CPM likes it as he feels the park compares favorably to the dimensions in Omaha.
Posted on 4/23/21 at 7:46 pm to Keltic Tiger
There are certainly nicer and newer stadiums to host it at like Regions Field, Autozone Park, and Nashville as well as a couple of neat location options like Pensacola or Biloxi.
Venue capacity, however, would be an issue at Regions Field, Pensacola, and Biloxi. While the Hoover Met is old, it can and has accommodated up to as much as 16,000 and routinely draws 10k to 11k for many of tbe tourney championship games. Right or wrong, I'm not sure the SEC office is going to mess with that.
Memphis and Nashville are probably the only two sensible alternatives that can provide the most centrally located venues that meet or exceed the Hoover Met's capacity
Venue capacity, however, would be an issue at Regions Field, Pensacola, and Biloxi. While the Hoover Met is old, it can and has accommodated up to as much as 16,000 and routinely draws 10k to 11k for many of tbe tourney championship games. Right or wrong, I'm not sure the SEC office is going to mess with that.
Memphis and Nashville are probably the only two sensible alternatives that can provide the most centrally located venues that meet or exceed the Hoover Met's capacity
Posted on 4/23/21 at 7:56 pm to Govt Tide
Every one of the "tournament" situations where most SEC teams attend every year should rotate regularly.
Hardly any fan is going to attend the SEC baseball tournament every year.
If you threw it to Memphis or Nashville every few years, a lot more fans would get to experience it overall. That would increase fan-interest and engagement.
It's basically a meaningless tourney. But if it was held in Memphis, you could not print enough tickets for the Ole Miss, LSU and Arkansas fans who would show up for it.
Hardly any fan is going to attend the SEC baseball tournament every year.
If you threw it to Memphis or Nashville every few years, a lot more fans would get to experience it overall. That would increase fan-interest and engagement.
It's basically a meaningless tourney. But if it was held in Memphis, you could not print enough tickets for the Ole Miss, LSU and Arkansas fans who would show up for it.
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