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Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Moderators: PonyPride, SmooPower Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Pretty sure TV money is interested in the 6,500,000 DFW TV sets much more than the 15,000 people we are or aren't packing in Ford. We don't capture any of those eyeballs and I don't find the general fan responsible for that.
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Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Well, if SMU can not figure out how to do outreach, then, that is a big deal. How about food banks in the poor side of town, with SMU students and friends giving out food? How about low interest loans or something. If SMU has drifted so far from the UMC, then maybe it is time to end FB. It sounds so self serving, but the UMC was about outreach. It seems like SMU has become separated from what they are supposed to be. YES, a church school. You folks have to figure this out. Are you some elite, out of touch, rich kid school? Are you part of what is left of the UMC? It's really up to you folks to decide. That will decide your FB P5 chances. Dallas is a Southern Baptist, evangelical area. So it probably won't be easy. But life is not easy, nor is FB nor the P5.
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?
95-205 from 1989 to 2014. Mention programs with that record that are able to fill 80% of their stadium.
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?We will be the Rutgers of the PAC 12
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Maybe that was the reason for Chad's dance routine
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SMU is not a "church school". Its a secular private school for all practical purposes just like many others: i.e USC, Tulsa, Tulane, Vandy, Creighton etc. More Catholics at SMU when I was an undergrad than Methodists. A good thing frankly. Diversity is important in higher education. SMU aims to be a multicultural institution whether some on this board agree with that mission or not. If SMU is to improve academically then maybe they ought to take a page from the Vanderbilt playbook and recruit more Jewish students who on average have very high academic indicators as a group. Frankly, I am glad all the fundamentalist Christians in this state view SMU as "liberal". They can all go to EatMEu or Baylor if they want a more faith based experience. That being said I think its fine anyone identify with SMU football or come to games. Baptists, Catholics, Methodists, Mormons, Muslims, Pentecostals, Jews etc. Even heathens like me!
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Oh I know-and I generally agree but we don't have much to fear from Methodism which does not have a fundamentalist tradition. I'd take all the support from Methodist we can get-and we used to have a history of successful MYF support. If HP Methodist wanted to co-op SMU game day I'd say the more-the-merrier
"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.
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How horrible for "fundamentalists", aka a person who believes in the Bible, would want their school to be more religious. I wish we had more religious traditions like celebration of lights and prayer at the football game than really just those two. I always saw SMU as a moderate institution and conservative compared to the nutcases at the west coast or northeast schools
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Or the non conference opponent we recently added for next season....
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You're a kick in the nuts....lol
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?That was in response to the nutcase comment
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Yeah wimpy green gets thrown with the nuts as well! Of course, their accreditation is questionable.
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Not the one I was talking about
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All the others are good and opposite of nutcases.. Well maybe not TCU
Re: Everybody's Gut feeling about us making a P5 Conference?Agree, "church school" was the wrong wording. Secular is correct. Liberal as far as Texas. Liberal as far as Utah, ASU, UA, close to WSU. We do get a little left leaning in some parts of the west. AZ is so right wing, they may love Baylor/BYU. That won't happen, with the PAC. So SMU can fit the PAC, IMO. But they have to do something, not just in FB, BB, but to the kids out in the DFW area that are hungry. It is easy, and will do a lot of good, and it will bring recruits. Spend the $5M, it will come back. I don't want to preach, but folks, trade your BMW for a Ford. A Mustang maybe? I know it will be sad. But if you want to appeal to regular people, you have to sacrifice, a tiny bit. So, SMU has a good chance, if they can fill the stadium. Better chance if UH stays in the AAC. The latest ad by SMU is good, "no one is a lesser person". That is great. Can you make it real in Dallas?
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