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Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:29 pmby tristatecoog
This is a good point. The open seating in the north EZ didn’t work a few years ago but the grassy EZ took off. Where will students go? Back to the southeast corner with the band?
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Mon Jan 30, 2023 7:50 pmby Bergermeister
An ill conceived plan. Another SMU example of too many dollars and not enough sense.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Mon Jan 30, 2023 8:50 pmby Terry Webster
Bergermeister wrote:An ill conceived plan. Another SMU example of too many dollars and not enough sense.
Who knows? With new seating maybe the students will stay past halftime.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Mon Jan 30, 2023 10:42 pmby stlpony
There is a grass section for the students. It is accessible, not fenced off, and already preserved from the demolition process. It's amazing hearing people complain about a $100M+ expansion initiative to our football stadium. The expansion is key towards a P5 invitation, brings in incremental revenue, and provides the comfort people are willing to pay a premium to get.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 6:56 amby Charleston Pony
I think the south end zone was popular because of the shade often provided there as well. That new grassy section, not so much
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 9:41 amby GHammond
Sporting News just came out with the list of the "Most Disgruntled College Football Fans" and SMU was number 2 behind Texas A$M. Spoiled Millionaires University makes sense.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 10:25 amby Dukie
GHammond wrote:Sporting News just came out with the list of the "Most Disgruntled College Football Fans" and SMU was number 2 behind Texas A$M. Spoiled Millionaires University makes sense.
I can make a great case that Aggy fans have become quite spoiled over the last decade plus.
No one who became a fan of SMU football in 1985 or later is or has ever been spoiled.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:10 amby Charleston Pony
GHammond wrote:Sporting News just came out with the list of the "Most Disgruntled College Football Fans" and SMU was number 2 behind Texas A$M. Spoiled Millionaires University makes sense.
We are who we are and Aggie$ just have unrealistic expectations thinking NIL now allows them to buy a championship. Even going back to the Pony Express era when they were paying as well or better than SMU, they never could beat us
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:17 amby SMUstang
We would have to be a long ways behind Texas A$M on this one.GHammond wrote:Sporting News just came out with the list of the "Most Disgruntled College Football Fans" and SMU was number 2 behind Texas A$M. Spoiled Millionaires University makes sense.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:18 amby Charleston Pony
Dukie wrote:No one who became a fan of SMU football in 1985 or later is or has ever been spoiled.
I wouldn't go that far as there are plenty of spoiled children attending SMU, but anyone who has been a fan of SMU football since our return from the death penalty in 1989 is a pretty hard core and long suffering fan. I would not exclude SMU basketball from that assessment either. Seems like we've had far more disappointments than really great moments, even when we were good (NIT championship loss, early exits from both NIT and NCAA tourney, CUSA football championship game loss, bowl losses, etc...)
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 11:40 amby Dukie
Charleston Pony wrote:Dukie wrote:No one who became a fan of SMU football in 1985 or later is or has ever been spoiled.
I wouldn't go that far as there are plenty of spoiled children attending SMU, but anyone who has been a fan of SMU football since our return from the death penalty in 1989 is a pretty hard core and long suffering fan. I would not exclude SMU basketball from that assessment either. Seems like we've had far more disappointments than really great moments, even when we were good (NIT championship loss, early exits from both NIT and NCAA tourney, CUSA football championship game loss, bowl losses, etc...)
The point is a "spoiled fan base," of course, as you know, so I'm not getting into a spoiled-children debate. I picked 1984 because there was nothing to get overly excited about during the 6-5 seasons in 1985 and 1986 and there has been nothing since, at least nothing when it really counted (I'd put the College GameDay loss at Memphis when SMU was something like 8-0 as the biggest missed opportunity, but that team then would had to go on to clear several more hurdles, like making a NY6 bowl and winning it, to even approach anyone being spoiled). And Godfather basketball had some absolutely awesome moments, but never when it counted, as you note.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 1:39 pmby Charleston Pony
Dukie wrote: Godfather basketball had some absolutely awesome moments, but never when it counted, as you note.
I was really pulling for that NIT crown which would have given Larry Brown the coaching trifecta. I had almost forgotten the disappointment of losing that Memphis Gameday game because we didn't have special teams!
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 2:16 pmby GHammond
I was coming from the angle of b itching about a $50,000,000+ Ford Stadium upgrade.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 3:05 pmby ponyboy
It’s a valid angle.
Re: Construction cam for Weber Endzone Project?
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Tue Jan 31, 2023 3:20 pmby mtrout
GHammond wrote:I was coming from the angle of b itching about a $50,000,000+ Ford Stadium upgrade.
100million. By the way, what's the markup on that?