I think it's time to move the Track and Foley,

where exactly would you put our baseball field?

Foley is fine it just needs even the slightest hint of attention to be even more fine. Extend the left field seats, build an actually legit student seating area in right field/kudzu hill, put some bleachers in left field. I mean it really wouldn't take a whole lot to get foley up to speed but we've put it off for ooooohhhhh a few decades now. The location is fine though.

Keep putting perfume on a pig like steg and tell yourself it's great hum?

Just like steg? We really are well behind the baseball arms race with our peers and way behind the west.

Last I checked, Foley actually already has premium seating options, is an outdoor venue, and isn’t shared with 3 women’s programs. So no, not just like Steg.

There are plenty of ways to take an existing baseball stadium and build on it without completely relocating the program to where everyone (fans and students) would have to make the effort to drive and park off South Milledge. Alabama, Auburn, and Ole Miss have all done it recently and done it well.

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All of this. We don’t need a 15k stadium. It’s a great walkable location on campus and from dining options in 5 Points. As fan experience goes, it just needs some basic expansion and attention from the AD. A lot of what makes it unique and fun is already in place, it just needs to be modernized

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This is the problem. They are trying to take away what makes Foley incredible, and thats Kudzu Hill. That needs to be the focus of the stadium like Miss St does with their lofts in left and Ole Miss and Arky with their crazy drunk students beyond the outfield wall.

Foley is special. It just needs direction, and about 25 million dollars.

Both MSU and Arkansas can also consistently rely on 15k to show up for most SEC series and at least half that for non-con games. Part of that is winning culture but a big part is there is nothing else going on in either area of those states come Spring.

I’ve been doing the season thread for baseball (nevermind been going to games at Foley) for long enough to know that we can draw a crowd some weekends and even gain some fair weather support some years but it’s not ever going to match the levels of MSU and Arkansas. And honestly, that’s fine. We can expand Foley to fit more people but still not break 10k and provide a great home field advantage.

Just don’t do the following:
1.) make an absolute hodge podged mess like Tennessee’s dump of a stadium. What a poorly executed pile of shite that place ended up being.
2.) Overestimate fan interest and attendance by relocating a brand new, bigger stadium and have nobody show up to it (Florida and Kentucky made this mistake)

What needs to happen:
1. Leverage the existence of the houses atop Kudzu Hill and make right field into the designated student seating area (Ole Miss and Alabama have each done this). Have it wrap around from the right foul pole to the right of the batters eye and build seating tiers up the hill for people to bring chairs and coolers
2. Make an MSU style big scoreboard to put out in left center from dead right where it currently is.
3. Expand the existing stadium down both lines and relocate the visitors bullpen to behind the left field wall. If concerned about attendance, make the expansion a standing room only platform for non-con with the ability to add bleachers for conference slate and postseason
4. If you really want to get crazy, build a baseball development building in left field where the current parking lot is. IMO this is a pipe dream but a needed one for a number of reasons

I think MLB in Georgia is about to shrink and I would way rather support UGA than any pro baseball at any level. frick mlb for screwing all the people of Georgia and the kids who lost the all-star game experience.

Fans have had no problem ignoring the NFL....

Students are obviously first but the Northern half of Atlanta is also very important.

Braves are losers anyways. Hell, they even choked away the all-star game....in braves style.

Younger crowd could careless, the NFL has bit the hand that feeds it. Younger generation digs soccer and axe throwing, most don't even have cable accept for internet to stream.

Baseball, is actually whiter and wealthier han ever with all the travel ball and expense. The diversity seems to come from latin America these days....