So, if we’re going all in in baseball- and I’m great with that …

[DawgNsuds]

First off I don’t think we need expansion for sake of bigger and bigger attendance records. I’m not even sure we’d get them. But I do think it should happen, and view it as an investment into the next generation of MSU baseball fans / support. And it will increase revenue as well.

I was in town for the weekend of the South Carolina series with my kids. Knowing that they are too young to be super interested in the game, but might like the spectacle of it, and wouldn’t sit still but would maybe like to roam around the stadium….I scoped out possibly just getting GA tickets. That’s how I got hooked at a young age when my Dad used to take me. But holy shít. Literally was going to be nearly $100 just to get the 4 of us in the stadium, and that’s before parking, concessions, souvenirs, etc. And we wouldn’t even have seats. So I made an easy call to not go, knowing we’d be lucky to get an hour out of it before legs started hurting, it got too hot, etc.

It’s just crazy because when I was growing up - in this same century so no that long ago - I had a season GA pass that was $50. Total….for the whole season. Wasn’t a lounge regular either. Mostly sat in bleachers, would move to grandstand in the 4th / 5th when they let you, and popped into the lounges here and there. Probably wouldn’t give 2 shíts at all about MSU baseball today if I got detached quickly from the live product in my formative years, due to getting priced out. But that’s what we’re doing now to lots of folks. In general we just need more seating, and some actual seating needs to be allocated for students and GA, don’t care where it is in the stadium or how nice it is….just make room for 800-1,000 people to put their asś on something that they don’t have to carry into the stadium with them. That’s it. And make those 800-1,000 seats affordable (along with any additional SRO tickets), which you can do if you’re expanding down the lines with more premium / chairback seating, and increasing cost of existing grandstand / skyboxes / lounge spots.

Might want to consider Bully's Kid Club for your kids, of course the ROI would be based on how often you get to Starkvegas. Also FYI SEC weekends last season for GA tickets were approx double what the out of conference games were.

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[DawgNsuds]

More seats would allow them to be cheaper. The reason it is expensive is there are so few chairbacks so they get top dollar.
Supply and demand.

I pay the same for my chairback tickets that you pay for a GA ticket, the difference is the initial contributions that we made prior to building the new stadium for the right to buy that ticket. That is locked in until I believe 2029 with there being a Covid clause that skews it for some I believe

 

[Bulldog45]

I'm not commenting on your post, but just wanted to say, I believe they are going to build the next Loft building sooner than you think.

Give us our own version of Big Mac land and make that the publicly available reserved seating

 

[paindonthurt]

Nah, I don’t have season tickets or the ability to go to many games at all. We have a really good thing going with our baseball atmosphere. I hope we don’t screw it up.

How will raising the price to match the demand screw it up?

Its not like we are going to double the price from one season to the next.

 

[paindonthurt]

Again, all I want is the option to buy individual baseball game chairback tickets at a reasonable price. I don’t have the geographic or financial means to be a season ticket holder in either sport. Whenever I do go to a football game in Starkville, it’s a non-conference game.

You don't always get what you want. Thats not a joke. I'm serious.

The athletic directors job is to maximize revenue and minimize expenses unless the expense can generate more revenue.

 

[paindonthurt]

The boomers inherited a rich, dynamic country, and through greed have gradually bankrupted it. Not all boomers are sociopaths.

The people of today inherited a rich dynamic country and they are just as greedy as anyone before them.

 

[Mjoelner]

One thing I’d like to see is an incentive program for season ticket holders to sell any tickets they aren’t using. Maybe give them BC points or discounts on next season’s tickets for

Junction Johns are already in use just outside the LFL down some stairs in the parking lot, you can go and come in and out as you wish. They are seldom used but I love them because of that. They have tried food trucks in that same area, not sure I EVER saw anybody use them at all.

I used to tear up the gizzards when WTF@ had a food truck out there.

 

[paindonthurt]

Solution to being sold out is to increase capacity to meet demand. Not increase prices to bring demand down to capacity.

Yall are still on this kick! Since the first day the damn thing was finished.

11,000 average attendance and 16,000 ish capacity

We should raise the season ticket prices 10 to 20%. Find a way to add a few seats.

The stadium isn't terribly small.

 

[maroontide06]

You don't always get what you want. Thats not a joke. I'm serious.

The athletic directors job is to maximize revenue and minimize expenses unless the expense can generate more revenue.

Ok country clubber I get it. Expand the country club. Happy now?

 

[paindonthurt]

I personally wish there would be a lower priced either reserved or G/A option involved with any expansion plans. To me they had the right idea in Omaha with the outfield seats being cheap G/A, but when Covid came along they capitalized on the opportunity to raise the price significantly and make them more expensive reserved seats.

They did it b/c it was smart.

If they expand and the demand is there, they will raise prices in the "cheap" seats too. They should.

 

[paindonthurt]

Ok country clubber I get it. Expand the country club. Happy now?

You can whine all you want, but their job is to maximize revenue. They should get fired if they don't do that.

I have baseball season tickets. If they keep going up on price, i might not have baseball season tickets. If someone is willing to pay more than me, thats my problem, but its good for MSU.

 

[patdog]

Yall are still on this kick! Since the first day the damn thing was finished.

11,000 average attendance and 16,000 ish capacity

We should raise the season ticket prices 10 to 20%. Find a way to add a few seats.

The stadium isn't terribly small.

It's too small for our fanbase. Limiting attendance is NOT the right answer. Ever.

 

[maroontide06]

You can whine all you want, but their job is to maximize revenue. They should get fired if they don't do that.

I have baseball season tickets. If they keep going up on price, i might not have baseball season tickets. If someone is willing to pay more than me, thats my problem, but its good for MSU.

Keep on the filthy lucre train.

 

[paindonthurt]

It's too small for our fanbase. Limiting attendance is NOT the right answer. Ever.

11,000 of 16,000 isnt limited. 69%

I mean yeah we max it out a few times a year. We did that a few times in football. Do we expand the stadium every time we get a sell out crowd?

 

[paindonthurt]

Keep on the filthy lucre train.

 

[Maroon Eagle]

You can whine all you want, but their job is to maximize revenue. They should get fired if they don't do that.

I have baseball season tickets. If they keep going up on price, i might not have baseball season tickets. If someone is willing to pay more than me, thats my problem, but its good for MSU.

Exactly

I gave up my season tickets a few years before Dudy III because my life was and is such that I rarely went to Starkville.

I’ve been there less than a handful of times in the past 10 years so the cost - benefit ratio wasn’t in favor of going to games…

Bad for me. Good for MSU.

 

[paindonthurt]

Exactly

I gave up my season tickets a few years before Dudy III because my life was and is such that I rarely went to Starkville.

I’ve been there less than a handful of times in the past 10 years so the cost - benefit ratio wasn’t in favor of going to games…

Bad for me. Good for MSU.

The worst part about it is i post my tickets on here for sale a lot at a very reasonable price (ESPECIALLY CONSIDERING WHAT I PAID) and lots of people b1tch about the price i sell.

But they always get sold. Always to someone reading who isn't b!tchng.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

The athletic directors job is to maximize revenue and minimize expenses unless the expense can generate more revenue.

Before you gizz yourself because I'm disagreeing with you.....I really don't. I do agree with you in concept especially on the tickets. But I also don't think it's smart to base every decision regarding college sports on nothing but pure profit. If you were, then many people here are right.....minimize baseball. But some things, you must view as an investment. Baseball success helps a ton of things on our campus and it isn't all directly, or at least immediately directly and directly measurable....in profit. It's a recruiting tool, and also something where we can claim to be among the best, and that means something.

But in general, in regards to say, ticket sales and such, I definitely think we need to maximize whether or not average Joe gets a cheap seat or not.

 

[OG Goat Holder]

Ok country clubber I get it. Expand the country club. Happy now?

Let's extend this to football.

For a few years when I lived a long way off, I only made a few games a year. 2014 was one of those unfortunately. I went to USM, Auburn and Arkansas. Can't remember how much I paid exactly, but USM was fairly cheap, Auburn was much more, and Arkansas was about the same. Guess why? While WE knew we were good, the hype was there for USM. Auburn was top of the mountain, and Arkansas was watching us play as #1. The last two means much more demand, you see? Therefore the ticket is more expensive, but I had a 'seat' on all occasions. And also, there are zero general admission seats at Davis Wade.

This is the same concept as baseball and I don't see why you and others can't comprehend it. It's like your misplaced anger is making you dumb, like AI with wrong inputs. I promise you right now, any reasonable amount of chairbacked seating we can build will be sold immediately to season ticket folks on the waiting list. ESPECIALLY now with BOC. Any bleachers you build will be just like the berms.....packed within minutes of opening the gates. At least for most of the Friday/Saturday weekend games. And any chairback you buy will be more expensive, unless like I said before, you know somebody who hooks you up. But this whole 'casual walk up to the gate and buy a seat' thing is fake news. It doesn't exist due to our demand for season tickets. It isn't Hoover, where there are a much smaller amount of 'reserved' seats and the rest of the stadium is general admission.

I recommend if you want seats, you go to midweek games or Sunday weekend games. You can buy a chairback or, if they ever built bleachers, a GA bleacher seat probably for one of those. But I'm sure you'll probably still bltch about it being in the sun or something.

 

[paindonthurt]

Before you gizz yourself because I'm disagreeing with you.....I really don't. I do agree with you in concept especially on the tickets. But I also don't think it's smart to base every decision regarding college sports on nothing but pure profit. If you were, then many people here are right.....minimize baseball. But some things, you must view as an investment. Baseball success helps a ton of things on our campus and it isn't all directly, or at least immediately directly and directly measurable....in profit. It's a recruiting tool, and also something where we can claim to be among the best, and that means something.

But in general, in regards to say, ticket sales and such, I definitely think we need to maximize whether or not average Joe gets a cheap seat or not.

I agree with you but when i say maximize profit i mean maximize Mississippi State. Profit/Investment/brand etc.

Still waiting for you to admit you were wrong about $2.9 million though.

 

[o_Hot Rock]

Again, all I want is the option to buy individual baseball game chairback tickets at a reasonable price. I don’t have the geographic or financial means to be a season ticket holder in either sport. Whenever I do go to a football game in Starkville, it’s a non-conference game.

Then you don’t want to see State be good.

 

[maroontide06]

Then you don’t want to see State be good.

Really? Just because I don’t have deep pockets doesn’t mean that I don’t want Mississippi State to be successful. I’ve got a dad and a son that I want to take to a Mississippi State Baseball game in Starkville. Just ONE. Time is fleeting and I hope that’s something you can understand.

 

[Trojanbulldog19]

Again, all I want is the option to buy individual baseball game chairback tickets at a reasonable price. I don’t have the geographic or financial means to be a season ticket holder in either sport. Whenever I do go to a football game in Starkville, it’s a non-conference game.

I would say chair back reasonable price at our market is not gonna happen. Bleacher seat maybe if they do that.

 

[o_Hot Rock]

Again, all I want is the option to buy individual baseball game chairback tickets at a reasonable price. I don’t have the geographic or financial means to be a season ticket holder in either sport. Whenever I do go to a football game in Starkville, it’s a non-conference game.

That may be reasonable but personally, I would rather win with less fans At games. Winning TRUMPS all.

 

[o_Hot Rock]

Really? Just because I don’t have deep pockets doesn’t mean that I don’t want Mississippi State to be successful. I’ve got a dad and a son that I want to take to a Mississippi State Baseball game in Starkville. Just ONE. Time is fleeting and I hope that’s something you can understand.

Ummm, I get this part. I got no answer to make life fair. Wish I did but then that might interfere with God’s plan of our development. Live the ones you with!