As long as we're talking about SBW - what's the deal

[TheCosmoKramer]

with it being on a week when the baseball games are Thurs., Fri., Sat.? This may have already been discussed, but I think that's seriously going to hurt attendance.
I could be wrong, but I just don't see that many people coming into town for possibly one baseball game and a football scrimmage (with or without concert). I know it's unlikely that I'll come down from Memphis for that weekend, since I wouldprobably miss all of the Thursday baseball game and most of the Friday game. I doubt I'm the only one. It just seems like an odd decision.

 

[dawgstudent]

but the Thursday game will be on TV.

If it's a homecoming weekend of sorts, you sure aren't making it easy for it to be homecoming.

 

[TheCosmoKramer]

Good point about the Thursday game being on TV. Still, there are a lot of weekends with Fri.-Sun. baseball series, which would make it much more likely that I (and I assume others) would make the effort to get to Starkville that weekend.

 

[lawdawg02]

So it wont deter those folks. it may hurt attendance, but I dont see it seriously hurting attencance. if ticket prices are jacked up for the concert, I would think thatll have a more profound effect.

 

[The Peeper]

know we had to agree to it but its not like it was originally planned as Th, Fr, Sa instead of Fr, Sa, Su. And like lawdawg said, I think the majority of fans are 1 day fans anyway, its hard for most to come up on Fr in time for game and most Sun games are low attendance games anyway.

 

[TheCosmoKramer]

I don't know when the Thurs. night game happened compared to when the dates were set for SBW (although one year I think they moved SBW after announcing the dates and I assume could do so again).

It may be that most people drive up for the day. I just think that if they're trying to make it a sort of spring homecoming, doing it on a weekend without a Sunday game makes it less likely that people from more than a few hours away will make it. With most of the alumni base more than a few hours' drive from Starkville, I just think you end up making it tough for a fair amount of people to justify the trip, when (I assume) it could just as easily be on a weekend that has a Sunday baseball game.