With a little help of the green stuff you mean.
Class of 2017 SG/SF Jordan Tucker (NY / GA) Leaving Duke to Butler
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I'll illustrate it.
The fact they play in an arena that seats fewer than 10,000 in a city metro area of over 5 million, and they can't even fill that, about sums it up.
In fact, average GT attendance in 2016 was...
...wait for it...
5,831
Only one ACC team was worse. Can you guess which one?
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Actually, baseball as never been in better shape. Just read this week in Forbes that the average MLB franchise rose 19 percent in the last year. That's $1.54B on average. And right now, baseball might have more terrific young players than any single moment in it history. But other than that, they've got nothing going on. Sport might dry up by the end of the decade.
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Not true.
With the 2016 Major League Baseball regular season in the books, the league reported total paid attendance of 73,159,044 or an average of 30,059 per game across 2,425 dates.
The 2016 MLB regular season marked the 11th highest-attended in the history of the league. The last 13 years (from 2004-2016) comprise each of the 13 best-attended seasons in baseball history, by total.
MLB Hits 73.159 Million In Attendance, 11th Highest All-Time, Down Slightly From 2015
The Braves have been averaging about 2 and 1/2 million a year in recent years. Not bad, but not as good as their 3 and 1/2 million attendance years a while back.
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Attendance is probably fine because it's a cheap event to go to and the sport has become regional.
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Your last sentence is unnecessary. Never said that. I'm sure it's in fine shape but if you could buy stock in 2 out of 3 (MLB, NFL, NBA) is the MLB one you'd buy?
Baseball only has one problem. People compare it to football. It isn't as popular as football. But baseball itself, has never been in better shape. The thing about baseball is that it is not a national game. It is a local game. People love their baseball team. But don't really care to watch other peoples teams. Most people will watch any football game. Although that is starting to decline. I love baseball but I would not sit and watch the Phillies play the Padres. I would sit and watch the eagles play the chargers.
Baseball is a cheap event? Where? Baseball teams have NEVER done better. The $$ is flowing in to the teams and the players.
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I guess I should clarify.. I'm comparing MLB to the NFL, NBA, CFB and CBB.
I've bought tickets to a ton of basketball and football events and they were all more expensive than the tickets I bought to last nights Braves game. Home opener at that.
MLB is the clear #2 sport in America. Its not even close.
What is the new stadium like?
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Really nice - I'm not blown away and the old stadium was really nice as well but it's in a better location to draw people from the North Metro suburbs.
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My Duke buddy said Duke called Tucker last night
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Uh what? Does this mean Allen is leaving? I assume Duke would start Jackson/Allen/Trent together even though Trent is more of a SG. If they're trying to talk to Tucker that must mean Allen is gonna declare?
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I'm just about done with Duke. By all means Tucker, go there.. K's bench is the only one in America shorter than Boeheim's.
Have fun with that.
Hopefully he'll realize who's been after him from the jump. (Please disregard those months we ghosted on you)
Have fun with that.
Hopefully he'll realize who's been after him from the jump. (Please disregard those months we ghosted on you)
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Now why you gotta go and ruin our night with this...about knox or not, a call from duke to Tucker just plain sucks!
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Interesting, if true ... at least I wouldn't feel quite so lousy as I would if we lost out to G Tech or Oregon ... ah, who am I kidding? I'd probably be even more PO'd!
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how would Tucker be related to Knox, recruitment wise?
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Ok then we can blame Hop for this
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Knox goes to Mizzou, Tucker is Plan B...
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Duke was probably gonna start Wendell Carter and Bolden together anyways. Knox would probably be the first dude off the bench. They don't get Knox - Tucker fills that role of 6th man
I don't see him going to Duke.
