MSU Helps SEC Meet "Pack The Parks" Baseball Attendance Campaign Goal
May 25, 2016 | Baseball
The MSU-Georgia series drew 29,915 fans to Dudy Noble Field on Super Bulldog Weekend, including a paid Saturday crowd of 13,617, the largest home attendance in the Southeastern Conference this year and the fourth-largest gate ever for a Mississippi State home game.
State drew 193,703 and averaged 6,917 paying customers for 28 home dates in 2006, ranking third in the Southeastern Conference behind SEC West rivals LSU and Arkansas. It helped the Southeastern Conference surpass its Pack the Parks baseball attendance promotional campaign goal --- 1.5 million fans at the 12 SEC ballparks during the 2006 season. The campaign eclipsed the mark last weekend during NCAA regional competition hosted at five SEC schools, raising the home paid attendance total in the SEC to 1,563,079, more than double that of the next closest conference.
"We are certainly pleased to achieve such a goal," SEC Commissioner Mike Slive said. "The SEC has always been the leader in collegiate baseball and this is certainly an accomplishment everyone associated with SEC baseball can be proud of. This sets the bar extremely high."
The SEC has drawn over one million in paid attendance for five straight seasons. No other conference has ever drawn a million or more fans to its baseball stadiums during a single season.
Last season, the SEC drew 1,490,005 fans to its ballparks, an increase of over 163,000 from the 2004 season. The SEC reached the one-million mark in 2006 in early April, a full week earlier than it had ever reached that figure. The SEC's baseball attendance in 2005 was over 600,000 that of the next closest conference, the Big 12, who totaled 844,000 a year ago. Three of the top five and eight of the top 25 schools in NCAA baseball attendance in 2005 were SEC schools.
Team *Home Dates Total Average
LSU 37 270,341 7,306
Arkansas 29 206,352 7,116
Mississippi State 28 193,703 6,917
Ole Miss 35 158,306 4,523
Alabama 36 162,790 4,521
South Carolina 35 133,652 3,818
Florida 35 123,022 3,514
Auburn 33 80,699 2,445
Georgia 37 69,165 1,869
Tennessee 32 55,100 1,721
Kentucky 36 58,521 1,625
Vanderbilt 34 51,428 1,512
TOTALS 407 1,563,079 3,840
TOP 10 HOME CROWDS OF 2006
Date Matchup Attendance
April 8 Georgia at Mississippi State 13,617
May 19 Auburn at Arkansas 9,119
April 1 Tennessee at Arkansas 8,782
April 15 Kentucky at Arkansas 8,486
May 20 Auburn at Arkansas 8,425
April 9 Georgia at Mississippi State 8,368
April 15 Alabama at LSU 8,208
Mar. 26 Mississippi State at LSU 8,101
May 5 Alabama at Arkansas 8,089
April 14 Alabama at LSU 8,074
TOP NEUTRAL SITE CROWDS OF 2006
May 11 Georgia vs. Georgia Tech 19,119
- (Turner Field - Atlanta, Ga.)
May 24 LSU vs. Alabama 12,828
- (Hoover Met Stadium - Hoover, Ala.)
May 26 LSU vs. Alabama 11.923
- Hoover Met Stadium - Hoover, Ala.)
April 18 LSU vs. Tulane 10,011
- (Zephyr Field - Metairie, La.)
