Open letter to LSU Basketball student faithful

No really? You can't be serious? I thought basketball was created 6 months ago.

I was going to LSU basketball games when Don Redden, Anthony and Nikita Wilson, Jose Vargas, Rickey Blanton, i even have an old program from a game my grandpa took me to when i was a 4 year old when Jordy Hultburg was on the team.

Try again dude.

 

Attendance should be measured relative to capacity. If baseball games are 95% full and basketball games are 50% full, then baseball is more popular.

 

Bingo. And take into account that college baseball in general isn't that popular and a lot of FBS schools don't even have baseball teams...

LSU IS the standard of top-notch baseball attendance and has been for the last 20 years.

 

There are not 4500 empty seats at baseball games. And football stadiums hold 92,000 seats. LSU Football doesn't have a problem with no-shows but rather with people leaving early.

 

That has more to do with basketball being more exciting and fast-paced than baseball in general. Yet, more people go to baseball games at LSU instead of basketball...hmmm

 

The baseball team plays like what 30 home games a season? Like what someone said before, the more home games the less demand for each game. But the baseball team ALWAYS sells out the SEC/big games. No gimmicks needed

 

We aren't comparing craziness or loudness. We are comparing attendance/fan loyalty. What good is having a loud crowd for a big game but not any other game? Any school, large or small, can get rowdy for a big game. True fans do it for every game, like at Duke, UNC or UK.

Basketball is just a more popular sport in general. You'll see it at the rec center, in the intramural leagues, etc. It appeals more to students. Most of the baseball fans are not students.

 

this dude is saying that because of the games he went to when shaq was there. well no **** john. he doesn't have a clue, because if it were true, he would have 7 million pages of statistics proving it.

 

Here's God: "It's blue."
Here's JohnLSU: "You're wrong, it's red."

Do you own a TV? Cause I do, and I'm pretty damn sure I watched a bunch of LSU baseball games on TV last year. So you either don't have a TV, or you just don't look for LSU baseball games on TV (or you're really good at avoiding the channels they're on). Come on man, you have to pick your battles. Or at least be fair in them...

Here's some evidence for this upcoming year:


Twenty-Seven Baseball Games on Live TV - LSUsports.net - The Official Web Site of LSU Tigers Athletics

And here is a little more evidence that LSU baseball has created some obvious interest/excitement from the viewing audience:

LSU-Texas College World Series game earns record ratings in New Orleans market for ESPN
By Doug Tatum
June 25, 2009, 12:04PM

ESPN announced on Thursday that Wednesday night's telecast of Game 3 of the College World Series between LSU and Texas earned a 21.0 market rating in New Orleans, making it the highest-rated CWS game televised by ESPN in this market since records started being kept in 2001. It bested the rating from Game 2, which earned a 18.6 household market rating in New Orleans.

ESPN said the Tigers' 11-4 victory over the Longhorns was the highest-rated program on cable in the New Orleans market this year. The top-five cable broadcasts in New Orleans this year are all College World Series games.
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Both sports can be very exciting. Basketball in general is more exciting because of the pace of it. Baseball is a more patient sport and can be boring at times. But it can also be very exciting when you have two good teams battling it out. LSU baseball has been bigger because of the great success and the fun atmosphere created at home. I have no doubt that LSU basketball would be bigger if they were consistent winners because it's an exciting atmosphere when they just put about 10,000 in the stands and play competitive against a good team.

 

Yes, the stadium is built to the adequately size determined by demand with the current amount of games played per season. The point was, in the hypothetical scenario where there were half the baseball games, they would sell out more and the stadium would be a limiting factor. I'm done because I'm tired of this argument.