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crazy horse wrote:I know there have been rumblings in the PAC 12 to stay at 10, or just add SDSU. But at one time there was a rule that you had to have 12 teams to have a championship game. There may be other restrictions as well. Is that still in place? Would that help SMUs chance of being #12?

MustangStealth wrote:

TidePony wrote:
Very nice!

Ugh. It looks like a hospital from the 70s from the outside.

gostangs wrote:Any chance we can get a shade structure on the east side and a camera station so we can show actual fans sitting on the west side instead of nothing on the east side ?

Charleston Pony wrote:Have to find shade somewhere...plenty to be had on The Boulevard. Always more people there than ever enter the stadium

laxdawg97 wrote:

Charleston Pony wrote:Have to find shade somewhere...plenty to be had on The Boulevard. Always more people there than ever enter the stadium

I wish SMU would be the program to step up and experiment with converting a sizable chunk of the east side to flat, staggered terraces with overhead canopies. This would be more appealing to groups, and bring some of the Blvd experience into the stadium.

For today's generation of students, it seems attending games is less about the product on the field than the social experience, and they do not want to sit in a seat or otherwise be restricted from moving around. Clearly, many/most are choosing different experiences during the times football is being played on campus as it is, and that's a missed opportunity to establish new rituals/traditions.

My FIL and his SMU buddies are appalled by this argument, but from the games he's dragged me to it just seems like SMU admin has to go back to the drawing board and design an experience around today's students vs. hoping they'll eventually see football as us older folks do. I wiggled out of the invite to Senior Day, but despite my limited ties to SMU it genuinely hurt to see clips on TV of those kids having their moment in an empty stadium, rain or not.