|
Fan support: Can you blame them?Moderators: PonyPride, SmooPower
36 posts
• Page 2 of 3 • 1, 2, 3
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?Who said anything about keeping the coach? Foregone conclusion. He'll be headed back to Hawaii, fittingly, on Pearl Harbor Day.
GET BAYLOR, TECH, A&M AND NORTH TEXAS OFF THE SCHEDULE. NOW. TODAY. YESTERDAY.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
so who would you like to schedule? SF Austin, SHSU, Abilene Christian? We should probably avoid UTSA at all costs, too. I hear they are pretty tough.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
Well, one of the games is UCF so the trip is a bit of a 2-for. Pony up!
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?Getting rid of the SWC schools from the schedule doesn't fix the problem. Merely hides the symptoms of our football ills.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?Cox, makes sense. Not a lot of premium road venues on the schedule.
An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and
doesn't care who wins. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?The opening comment of this thread - we didn't have people travel because they have lost hope in the program. Two years ago, we had two tents full of people, lots of students, and people were hoping for the upset.
This time - no students, one tent, didn't fill a section, and everyone was talking about trying to beat the spread. It isn't that nobody wants to go to Waco. People just have zero faith in the program and the administration should take note of that.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
Can't really disagree with that. #HammerDown
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?The fact we have fans who think we had a good road trip crowd to Baylor 2 years ago just reinforces that we have generations of SMU fans that don't understand what a good road contingent looks like. Not sure what scale they are using but it definitely isn't the standard that is required for SMU to escape its second tier future. SMU had been to what-3 straight bowls at the time?
"With a quarter of a tank of gas, we can get everything we need right here in DFW." -SMU Head Coach Chad Morris
When momentum starts rolling downhill in recruiting-WATCH OUT.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?we sold out our allotment two years ago - I thought it was a decent crowd.
Our crowd isn't fooled by participation trophies - we know the difference between a real bowl game and a manufactured number 40 bowl game also
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
Last season, on this very board, I asked SID to give me some talking points to convince my wife that we should continue donating to football at the expense of academic giving. All I got was a smart a@# reply. I am still giving to football against her wishes but exhibitions like last night make it harder to justify. I will keep giving until there is no more program or I am six feet under, but I am reall worried that there are issues that go much deeper than June Jones, who I personally like, that are at play here.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
We have to continue to play the teams that we want to recruit against (Tech, A&M, TCU, Baylor) to maintain a profile with the top players. We also have to play these teams in order to sell seats at Ford. Notice that we only draw well against the top regional teams that are within driving distance of Dallas.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?Penn State had over 15,000 fans travel to Ireland for their game against UCF this past weekend. We cannot get 200 fans down to Waco.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
Source? ( honestly curious )
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?I heard the ESPN crew quote the 15000 figure
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?Penn State has more undergrads enrolled than we probably have living alumni and they were good in a real conference for decades
"I think Couchem is right."
-EVERYONE
36 posts
• Page 2 of 3 • 1, 2, 3
Who is onlineUsers browsing this forum: Google [Bot] and 79 guests |
|