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Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:24 pmby newshound
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:27 pmby Charleston Pony
newshound wrote: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.
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:28 pmby CoxMustangFan
Treadway21 wrote:I went down two years ago and had at least a glimmer of hope. I also went down to A and M with not much hope. Left both games hating life. No way was I going to put myself through that again. Looks like I made a smart decision and so did everyone else that didn't go.
Well, one of the games is UCF so the trip is a bit of a 2-for.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:29 pmby skyscraper
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 12:32 pmby Treadway21
Cox, makes sense. Not a lot of premium road venues on the schedule.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:46 pmby JasonB
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 1:54 pmby Rebel10
JasonB wrote: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.
Can't really disagree with that.
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:02 pmby Stallion
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?
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:42 pmby gostangs
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 2:58 pmby Topper
gostangs wrote:The big money guys want to do what is best for the school. If you are going to give serious money to SMU - you would rather endow scholarships, a professorship or build a new building rather than throw it down a rat hole to get rid of June. this situation has now risen to the top of the concern list - so I would assume it will be addressed.
Our fans are pretty good about going and are supportive when there is even a contest. I had no interest in watching all the Baylor people celebrate what should be ours.
Come on basketball season.
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 3:02 pmby Topper
Charleston Pony wrote:newshound wrote: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.
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.
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:23 pmby PoconoPony
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?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:25 pmby smusic 00
PoconoPony wrote: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.
Source? ( honestly curious )
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 6:47 pmby RGV Pony
I heard the ESPN crew quote the 15000 figure
Re: Fan support: Can you blame them?
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Mon Sep 01, 2014 7:01 pmby couch 'em
Penn State has more undergrads enrolled than we probably have living alumni and they were good in a real conference for decades