I live 10 mins from dudy noble and went to tournament games there and its an incredible experience especially when we unveiled the national championship banner
been waiting for you to start the college baseball tour!!!!!!!!! Can't wait to get to all of these....Did Arkansas this year (better than a lot of minor league parks) Florida, and Auburn. Have done Mississippi State before the renovations, Texas A&M, LSU, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vanderbilt, and Georgia as well
Baum-Walker has actually had another renovation in the last couple years since the Google Earth pics were done. Now there's a huge athletic center in RF that connects underground to the 1B dugout. Crazy enough, for a sport that doesn't get nearly the attention of football or basketball, almost every stadium in the conference has had or will have some sort of multi-million dollar upgrade or rebuild in the last decade.
Lol, we have a AA team that sits 10 minutes from the Razorbacks campus. Beautiful stadium, but the Hogs are what matter here. KC is only three hours away. Fayetteville's population is nearly 100K and the metro area is over 600K. It's not rural anymore. This conference is not near as rural as you think. The slogan may be cheesey, but it's true. "It just mean more" down here. Southerners care more about college sports.
@@ryanelam1254 I lived for a couple of years in the South and experienced that. On Saturdays during football season it seemed like half of Louisiana was going to pay attention to the LSU game over in Texas 40% of the state were "gig 'em Aggies", 40% of them were "Hook 'em Horns" with a few odd balls who like Texas Tech. Growing up near Toronto I think it was even bigger than hockey here. It reminded me a little more of European soccer fans how deep the support ran.
Fun fact: there's a train track behind right field at Olsen. Whenever a train passes by, we hold up a number of fingers to guess how many engines are on the train.
I've got some bad news, the outfield walls at Kentucky Proud Park are black now I went last weekend for the first time and it's really nice. Probably needs one more concession stand though. Lines got a little long
And only FOUR handicap parking spots with NO shuttle. If you need assistance getting in and out of the stadium. . . .good luck. Otherwise, a nice venue.
Foley is small but it’s chill in that way. There’s not massive lines at bathrooms/concessions, normally easy to find parking too. Just wish the dawgs would stop playing w/ my emotions and get a chip. 08 was insane I still can’t believe we lost to another team named the bulldogs
4:45 I think that Spanish style exterior matches the LSU campus buildings but I could be mistaken. Its been a long time since I visited and I wasn't there to look at architecture. I would be now that I'm an old man but I had other things on my mind in those days. Maybe an LSU alumn can confirm or tell us I am wrong? My favourites are Ole Miss and Auburns. Auburn just has a nice unique look and Ole Miss' has a really nice park imo.
The Vanderbilt left field wall was made a feature years ago as the head coach, at the time, was some kind of Red Sox fan (former player or fromBoston) That’s the way I heard it….
As a Georgia fan, I don't know if Foley Field needs an expansion or a replacement, but we definitely have work to do. College baseball is growing in popularity, and the reduction of MiLB will soon make the quality of play in NCAA D1 baseball better. We've got to keep up.
Most of those stadiums give some minor league venues a run for their money. When I lived in East Tennessee, I enjoyed going to watch the Lookouts and the Smokies play. Now I live in Minnesota, and I’ve gone up to St Paul to watch the Saints play a couple of times. All nice stadiums.
Arkansas was the original innovator in making college baseball profitable and fan friendly. College baseball stadiums looked like high school stadiums before Baum Stadium was built. The entire conference has Arkansas to thank for SEC dominance in college baseball.
So LSU is supposed to be thankful to Arkansas for the standard when the Razorbacks finally finished a stadium in 1996, the same year LSU was winning their third national championship? Something about that seems a bit off lol
Mississippi State built Dudy Noble (the original) long before Arkansas was allowed to join the SEC. I'm no State fan, but I give them credit for making modern college baseball big time well ahead of Arkansas.
