[Husker] Husker baseball needs your help

[Skylar Dodds]

Mike,

If weather is a part of it, it's a small one.  Attendance has declined
steadily over the past few years.

Take this weekend's Texas series.  There was every reason for fans to go to
these games (other than the product on the field).  The weather was nice,
it's our last time playing Texas as part of the Big XII.  They're the #5
team in the country.  They have a legit 1st round draft pick throwing on
Friday, etc. etc.

We drew and average of 3,663 with a max of 4101 coming on Saturday.  Yikes.
By comparison, in 2005 that series produced attendances of 8,485 8,153 and
5,947 for an average of 7,528.

Until a season or two ago, you couldn't buy reserved seats during the season
(season ticket holders only) you had to go G.A. and sit on the berms, now
for most series you can walk up a few minutes before the game and get
reserved.

There have been some cold games, but that's not what's keeping fans away (or
at least most of them).


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Nolan [mailto:nolan at tssi.com] 
Sent: Monday, May 09, 2011 11:44 AM
To: Borer Steve CAA
Cc: Skylar Dodds; husker at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [Husker] Husker baseball needs your help

I think right now might be a very difficult time to hire a new baseball
coach, with the pending change in conference.  

But I do agree that Mike Anderson has been rather disappointing.

A friend of mine is a big baseball fan and has gone to many Huskers
games, I'll have to ask her why she thinks attendance has fallen
so much.  (Weather could easily be a factor this year, it has been
a VERY COLD spring, though it's hot today.)  
--
Mike Nolan