Florida advances to CWS in front of at least 300 fans
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I don't know about that I watched them Saturday and same thing half empty.
It's always been bad. As much as I've been to Gainesville in the last 10 years... you never hear anyone every talking about baseball. It's completely dominated by football and basketball. My best friend's father in law is a huge Florida booster and has box seats for football and 'behind the bench' seats for basketball. I have yet to hear once where they have gone to a baseball game.
They had a 5 hour rain delay Saturday, a postponed game yesterday, and a doubleheader with another rain delay again today...
What do you expect?
Walk over to Gator City for some drinks and come back?
Yet the people in Baton Rouge have a love affair with baseball. I watched most of the game last night and turned in when Ole Miss State caved in late. From what I saw, fans sat through the rain delay, and read that they stayed through the 1:30am CDT finish, and the dance around the Box until 2:00am.
How much of this goes back to support from the athletic department?
USCBatgirl21
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Not to mention it was Monday. People do have jobs, even in Gainesville.
TBH, the ballpark looked pretty packed for Sunday's game, pre rain delay.
I don't know. I think it depends on the area and the fans that get involved.
South Carolina has always been a huge baseball state. Growing up, baseball was just as big as football at my high school. You either played football or baseball and that was it. I was playing fall ball while some of my football friends were playing football in the winter. There were a few guys on the football team that tried to play baseball but the off season for football was to demanding.
Lots of churchs in West Columbia have baseball/softball fields. I've probably played at 3 dozen different baseball parks in the West Columbia/Cayce/Columbia area.
I would assume the same is for the Baton Rouge area. Gainesville? I can honestly say I don't remember seeing any baseball fields in the area. I remember seeing a soccer/baseball field somewhere toward the Gainesville country club but that's it.
I'll have to keep that in mind the next time I'm done. But I've been in Gainesville probably 10-12 times now and I have never had one baseball conversation down there.
I don't know. We need to stay away from any new ex Florida coaches right now....
Yeah but Coonasses are drunk about 95% of the time, so running around dancing at 2AM is a pretty common occurrence around there
Yeah, but there is an absolute ton of talent in the state that doesn't want to leave the state that has nothing to do with fields in Gainesville. To me its a testament to Sully as a recruiter to bring these guys in knowing the park may never be full.
Foley hired Sully and maybe Sully doesn't care for new AD even though he is paid very well.
They re-started at 1 and game 2 started at 4. Played 2 innings and had another delay finally finishing around 10 or so last night. Wouldn't expect many people to hang around for that. Although this weekend wasn't a true reflection they still have small crowds....UF averages around 4k a game. Which is 7th in the SEC.
I went to the 2012 Super Regional game vs OU where we closed them out about 4pm on a Monday...don't recall it being super full but others that have a memory of the game can weigh in
I would comment but I know we've gotten some bandwagon fans because of 2010 too.
O'Sullivan has one of the two or three best jobs in college baseball. I am not sure why anyone thinks he may come to Carolina. He just got a contract extension and makes $ 1.4 million per year, which is about $ 1 million more than Chad was making. There is not a better area in the country to recruit high school baseball players than Florida and recently they have been to Omaha six times. Their stadium is not Founders Park but is much nicer than most minor league stadiums I have seen.
Why would anyone leave that job (after ten years) to take over a rebuild at another school ? Makes no sense to me unless he's bored with success. And the kicker is that he's not a great coach... he is a great recruiter.
Why would anyone leave that job (after ten years) to take over a rebuild at another school ? Makes no sense to me unless he's bored with success. And the kicker is that he's not a great coach... he is a great recruiter.
Alos, the HC at UF has to be a lower-pressure job than at USC. Thus I believe that any high-profile, highly-paid coach may take that into consideration when looking at the USC opening.
