Our season average currently sits at 5,648, which is good for 8th in the country behind Lsu, Ms St, Arky, OM, t.u., UofSC, and UF.

Previous seasons:
2023 - 5,577
2022 - 5,547
2021 - 1,474 (Covid Restrictions)
2020 - 4,695 (only 14 games)
2019 - 4,926
2018 - 5,026

With SEC weekends and regionals (ideally) coming, maybe we can push for a 6K average. We'd need to be around 6,185 the rest of the way to reach it. With crowds like last night, I don't see why not. Maybe that's the push the leadership in the AD needs to see to help move around the renovation plans.

I think as long as this team keeps winning, we will have great attendance-hopefully around 7000-for the rest of the season. There's no reason Blue Bell Park shouldn't be full for conference play.

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Our season average currently sits at 5,648, which is good for 8th in the country behind Lsu, Ms St, Arky, OM, t.u., UofSC, and UF.

Previous seasons:
2023 - 5,577
2022 - 5,547
2021 - 1,474 (Covid Restrictions)
2020 - 4,695 (only 14 games)
2019 - 4,926
2018 - 5,026

With SEC weekends and regionals (ideally) coming, maybe we can push for a 6K average. We'd need to be around 6,185 the rest of the way to reach it. With crowds like last night, I don't see why not. Maybe that's the push the leadership in the AD needs to see to help move around the renovation plans.

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I think the only push they need is some big donations. The added seats at Olsen will not pay for themselves, unless you figure in the one-time donations that might come from some folks who might be enticed to donate (in part) through the chance to get seats in new premium seating.

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Our season average currently sits at 5,648, which is good for 8th in the country behind Lsu, Ms St, Arky, OM, t.u., UofSC, and UF.

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SEC baseball is just different. All top 8 in attendance in the country are SEC (or will be by this time next year).

So, is the only way to get actual seats to games buying them second hand from season ticket holders? The lawn seating situation is a mess, but an easy way to wildly swing capacity.

Pretty much. You can get a seat in 202/203 if you get there early enough.

We just had 7,000+ for a Tuesday game during spring break. That's insane. If the Ags keep winning, tickets for SEC weekends will be nearly impossible to get.

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1. 7,000+

2. Tuesday game


3.spring break.

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Those three items are the big story.

I know that it's a dead horse but it still needs to be beaten. Decreasing capacity when the school is going through massive growth is one of the worst decisions that our Athletic Department has ever made.

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I know that it's a dead horse but it still needs to be beaten. Decreasing capacity when the school is going through massive growth is one of the worst decisions that our Athletic Department has ever made.

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Agree. And fwiw, I was against it at the time.

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I know that it's a dead horse but it still needs to be beaten. Decreasing capacity when the school is going through massive growth is one of the worst decisions that our Athletic Department has ever made.

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While I don't disagree, two points: when the designs were done for the renovations we did not know we were going to the SEC and everyone hated the first base bleachers which is where Blue Bell Park lost most of its capacity in comparison to prerenovation Olsen Field.

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There's a lot of "grass is always greener" to this talk about Olsen and the old bleachers. State had two sets of those bleachers prior to their rebuild, and got rid of both of them. Their fans complain that there is not enough berm seating in the new park (when they get a big crowd, about 1/3 of that is actually having to stand). Florida has two large berms and the fans there apparently like them (the old ballpark at Florida, although concrete, was largely backless bleachers with no cover where fans baked in the sun). Given the trends in ballpark construction, and the limitations we had with resources, I understand why we did what we did. To me, the biggest mistake from the last renovation was putting the team facilities in the path of a seating expansion down the 3rd base line. I would really like a do over on that decision more than anything.

Lot of empty seats behind home plate at Florida last night. Wonder if their head coach sent the bat signal out last night after winning a huge game at home?

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hunter2012 said:

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I know that it's a dead horse but it still needs to be beaten. Decreasing capacity when the school is going through massive growth is one of the worst decisions that our Athletic Department has ever made.

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While I don't disagree, two points: when the designs were done for the renovations we did not know we were going to the SEC and everyone hated the first base bleachers which is where Blue Bell Park lost most of its capacity in comparison to prerenovation Olsen Field.

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There's a lot of "grass is always greener" to this talk about Olsen and the old bleachers. State had two sets of those bleachers prior to their rebuild, and got rid of both of them. Their fans complain that there is not enough berm seating in the new park (when they get a big crowd, about 1/3 of that is actually having to stand). Florida has two large berms and the fans there apparently like them (the old ballpark at Florida, although concrete, was largely backless bleachers with no cover where fans baked in the sun). Given the trends in ballpark construction, and the limitations we had with resources, I understand why we did what we did. To me, the biggest mistake from the last renovation was putting the team facilities in the path of a seating expansion down the 3rd base line. I would really like a do over on that decision more than anything.

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TBH, I dont think they care about capacity as much as Rev/SqFt.

The expansion down 3rd base line seems like it was calculated for alcohol and food sales rather than butts in the seats, or, heaven-forbid, an aesthetically pleasing design.

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If and when we do renovation/expansion, we will address increased capacity, improved aesthetics, reduced berms, different products for different price points (premium season tickets, clubs, loges, suites, regular season tickets, and 360 concourse/GA), and new student athlete and coaches facilities. All it will take is $80M+ and a likely reseating of BBP.

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TheBonifaceOption said:

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hunter2012 said:

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I know that it's a dead horse but it still needs to be beaten. Decreasing capacity when the school is going through massive growth is one of the worst decisions that our Athletic Department has ever made.

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While I don't disagree, two points: when the designs were done for the renovations we did not know we were going to the SEC and everyone hated the first base bleachers which is where Blue Bell Park lost most of its capacity in comparison to prerenovation Olsen Field.

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There's a lot of "grass is always greener" to this talk about Olsen and the old bleachers. State had two sets of those bleachers prior to their rebuild, and got rid of both of them. Their fans complain that there is not enough berm seating in the new park (when they get a big crowd, about 1/3 of that is actually having to stand). Florida has two large berms and the fans there apparently like them (the old ballpark at Florida, although concrete, was largely backless bleachers with no cover where fans baked in the sun). Given the trends in ballpark construction, and the limitations we had with resources, I understand why we did what we did. To me, the biggest mistake from the last renovation was putting the team facilities in the path of a seating expansion down the 3rd base line. I would really like a do over on that decision more than anything.

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TBH, I dont think they care about capacity as much as Rev/SqFt.

The expansion down 3rd base line seems like it was calculated for alcohol and food sales rather than butts in the seats, or, heaven-forbid, an aesthetically pleasing design.

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If and when we do renovation/expansion, we will address increased capacity, improved aesthetics, reduced berms, different products for different price points (premium season tickets, clubs, loges, suites, regular season tickets, and 360 concourse/GA), and new student athlete and coaches facilities. All it will take is $80M+ and a likely reseating of BBP.

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Oh baby. I cannot wait.

Avg is now 5,767. We had a strong Friday & Saturday, but Wednesday & Thursday were down.

We're only going to have two Fri/Sat/Sun home SEC series this season also. (Vandy and Georgia)

Tonight's Attendance: 8,075 🏟📈

• Largest since the 2012 redevelopment
• 6th largest in program history

Thank you, #12thMan! 👍#GigEm pic.twitter.com/xXcNSlYPcB

— Texas A&M Baseball (@AggieBaseball) April 14, 2024

Schloss mentioned a bigger stadium again in his postgame. Something like "no reason Mississippi St and LSU have 2 times what we do…"
Not anything we haven't heard him say before but still, it's on his mind. I hope there's a campaign soon to take advantage of this current momentum.

It was packed last night, 3 deep SRO across the place

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Schloss mentioned a bigger stadium again in his postgame. Something like "no reason Mississippi St and LSU have 2 times what we do…"
Not anything we haven't heard him say before but still, it's on his mind. I hope there's a campaign soon to take advantage of this current momentum.

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It was in context of recruiting Tanner and whether he used the "come play in front of a packed house" and he said he didn't because he was also being recruited by Arkie and State who have double our capacity. It's definitely on his mind and it should be.

If we can get 12k for a ratty ass basketball game we should be able to get 50k for a baseball game. (That's just my daily jab of hatred at the dirty Canadian plot of bouncy ball)

I'd think 10k is a realistic number for the park.

Part of Schloss strategy....keeps calling out fans to get to the stadium on a wkly basis for home games (almost specifically by section at times). It's to get folks to the stadium for home field advantage (obviously), but he's pushing for larger stadium by trying to show we can sell this out and be at over-capacity.

Don't mean to be a downer or anything, but we really need renovations or I see Schloss leaving Aggieland. He's made it very clear that he was promised expansion and considers it a priority; if we don't give it to him, someone else will. Again, not trying to spread rumors or anything, but I just think this is how things stand realistically.

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Don't mean to be a downer or anything, but we really need renovations or I see Schloss leaving Aggieland. He's made it very clear that he was promised expansion and considers it a priority; if we don't give it to him, someone else will. Again, not trying to spread rumors or anything, but I just think this is how things stand realistically.

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This is some hand-wringing.

We don't, in 2024, lose coaches due to facilities.

And Schloss had no issues recruiting one of the best teams in the country into ours.

He's not going anywhere. He's just fundraising.

Full agree. I don't know the priority order, but in 2024 things I imagine are important to Schloss and the players are NIL, player facilities, and stadium atmosphere. Capacity is an element of atmosphere, but we absolutely cannot neglect the other try to get this done. We have to do all of them.

Also fwiw Gavin and Jace both retweeted thw tweet in OP with some comment along the lines of best fans in the nation.