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I woke up this morning happier about SMU football than anytime since the early 80s. Then this afternoon cold, hard reality set in: We are still a member of the NCAA.

We won our conference, ended the regular season as a Top 25 team, get to go for our 12th win AFTER key visitation weekends commence with potential transfers, and get a preview of a conference mate that we will face at home next year. All in all, it could be a lot worse and I'm still smiling from last night's big win!! Let's finish strong and wake up next year as a pre-season top 25 team. The Fenway Bowl will be a lot of fun for our student-athletes.

I had tickets, train ticket, hotel reservations. Then UVa got COVID. I got 1/2 refunds. Not sure I can go this time. If I do, I’ll get refundable everything.

Only thing to do is go up there and give b.c
some Texas speed and strength.
Win baby.

birddogger wrote:Apparently we're not getting a lot of love from the ACC. They designated BC for this bowl but haven't selected any other teams for the other bowls yet. I understand that ND is holding things up, but why did the conference pull the trigger on the Fenway Bowl so early? And what did BC do to make the conference mad and keep them at their equivalent of the Frisco Bowl?

BC has no fans. Even in Boston. If you have to name just 2 ACC teams that have usually quite poor TV drawing power, the 2 are BC and Wake Forest. Even Syracuse is consisntenly a bigger draw for football than Bam, which also is a big dud for basketball TV drawing power.

Only thing to do is go up there and give b.c
some Texas speed and strength.
Win baby.

Dec. 4 portal joy starts.

Is it finalized looks like some trading going in still

Topper wrote:I woke up this morning happier about SMU football than anytime since the early 80s. Then this afternoon cold, hard reality set in: We are still a member of the NCAA.

It is not the NCAA. It is two things combined, which also explain why FSU is not in the playoff: 1) the BT and SEC now have near total control over the CFB post-season, and 2) the ACC is so far behind that pair in TV money it has barely more power than the Big 12 losing OuU and Texas. That later is the direct fruit of all that damned ACC over-emphasis on basketball while accepting a football conference that is happy with 1 Top 10 team per year and 2 or 3 other Top 25 teams.

SMU will have to EARN RESPECT one victory at a time.

Hart said we are going to Boston on Z.

Graceland Tar Heel wrote:

Topper wrote:I woke up this morning happier about SMU football than anytime since the early 80s. Then this afternoon cold, hard reality set in: We are still a member of the NCAA.

It is not the NCAA. It is two things combined, which also explain why FSU is not in the playoff: 1) the BT and SEC now have near total control over the CFB post-season, and 2) the ACC is so far behind that pair in TV money it has barely more power than the Big 12 losing OuU and Texas. That later is the direct fruit of all that damned ACC over-emphasis on basketball while accepting a football conference that is happy with 1 Top 10 team per year and 2 or 3 other Top 25 teams.

Agreed.

But at least we’re not the PAC who bet big on making sure every single athlete was featured. Revenue and interest be damned.

Siri doesn’t know we’re in the Fenway Bowl yet.

EastStang wrote:I had tickets, train ticket, hotel reservations. Then UVa got COVID. I got 1/2 refunds. Not sure I can go this time. If I do, I’ll get refundable everything.

Yep. Same thing. We were able to use our flights later in the spring, but our hotel was non refundable. That hurt. We’ll be more prepared this time around.

Have we accepted?

Our leader hart.. a joke.