Re: Impact of the Indoor Practice Facility
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2018 8:08 pm
Mustangsabu wrote: And we wonder why SMU has a negligible global academic reputation...
Global academic reputation
Mustangsabu wrote: And we wonder why SMU has a negligible global academic reputation...
Mustangsabu wrote:I find the points made to be interesting. And honest.
When I think about it, however, I am dismayed that people choose to give more money to athletics than to the academic side. Shows a total apathy for the actual purpose of the university. Athletics should be an extension of the college experience not the focus. Students are there to be taught and to learn. And we wonder why SMU has a negligible global academic reputation...
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Mustangsabu wrote:We are really going to spend millions of $$ so that a minuscule subset of our students, students who but for the football program wouldn't be at the school anyway, can train in cooler temperatures.
PonyPlayer4 wrote:Mustangsabu wrote:We are really going to spend millions of $$ so that a minuscule subset of our students, students who but for the football program wouldn't be at the school anyway, can train in cooler temperatures.
Pretty disgusting comment here on the quality of student athletes you believe are recruited to SMU. Most are very high quality, intelligent, and leaders. It is also a naive comment based off how the university has sold the utilization of the IPC.
I also find it interesting you choose to complain about how other people spend their money. As mentioned before in this thread, there are plenty of other universities that have utilized athletics to raise their academic profile.
SMU_Alum11 wrote:Mustangsabu wrote:SMU_Alum11 wrote:
Honestly, until we see improvement from the schools outside of engineering, law and business, I don't see any one should bother donating there. Just my opinion. I rather donate to the sports programs because that's my main and pretty much only reason for coming back to campus. Outside of sports, I would only donate to Celebration of Lights. I wish the whole boulevard could be annually lit up and not just right outside Dallas hall.
RGV Pony wrote:Have yall heard of PonyPower? It started in 17-18; its goal was to increase the annual "current use" $ raised across schools, departments etc. Prior to 17-18 that amount was around 45mm. The goal for 17-18 was to raise 45mm. Actual raised was 57.6mm. Goal for this year is 50mm. About half the amount raised went straight to scholarships & research.
Here's some more info.
https://giving.smu.edu/pony-power/
mtrout wrote:For all the directors cup talk here are our current sports for fall '18 so far.
W XC 1st 1st 3rd
W Soc 8-5-1
M Soc 5-4-2
Volleyball 6-9
Football 2-4
Mexmustang wrote:As far as measuring the performance of the Athletic Department by mentioning the Director's Cup rankings, after ranking the dismal performance of football and basketball what else is left to measure but the combined performance of all sports, including those referred to as Olympic sports? We haven't won a football championship in any of our alphabet conferences in 30 years! And we won't see another in basketball for another five to ten years.
Mexmustang wrote:This IPF puts SMU even with the larger high school programs in North Texas. One high school has just spent $75,000,000 on there new high school stadium. If I remember correctly Ford's budget was originally announced at $26,000,000. As someone said, this facility puts us number 31 amongst IPF's in North Dallas. Don't bother to check these numbers, as I didn't, I just repeated some numbers thrown around while having a beer while watching UCF. The point being, this facility puts us even with major high school programs, but SMU is again a dollar short and a decade late.
As far as measuring the performance of the Athletic Department by mentioning the Director's Cup rankings, after ranking the dismal performance of football and basketball what else is left to measure but the combined performance of all sports, including those referred to as Olympic sports? We haven't won a football championship in any of our alphabet conferences in 30 years! And we won't see another in basketball for another five to ten years.