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Saw LB and Recruits out tonightModerators: PonyPride, SmooPower
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Re: Saw LB and Recruits out tonightor it just reinforces that SMU is a basketball school and that you will be the center of attention
Re: Saw LB and Recruits out tonightPonyscott - basketball guys don't talk to anyone who cares about football. It would be nice to have decent football, but is number 100 on their list of concerns.
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BS--It does come up---and subconsciously it affects decisions, as winners are attracted to winners and no one wants to answer questions about how horribly [deleted] the football team and is a national laughing stock. Maybe it will reinforce that SMU is a basketball school now...
Re: Saw LB and Recruits out tonightWe can only hope that the football boosters have been so shamed by this incident, and even more so the success of the bball boosters, that they will do what needs to be done.
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Re: Saw LB and Recruits out tonighti don't think the football team's performance matters much at all to bball recruits, what does matter is seeing our stadium overrun with Aggies. May not effect Gilder much because he has been to multiple games at Moody i think, but someone like Blackshear may have a hard time ignoring that. they had to be impressed by the Blvd though and the food at Al Beirnats.
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I agree. I think the gameday scene is more important than the actual outcome. Although, when you're as bad as we are it can't help. Terrible football doesn't hurt Kansas bball recruiting but I'm sure they have decent attendance for football games, and a great gameday scene. SMU-12 NCAA appearances, 1 Final Four
2014-15 & 2016-17 AAC Men's Basketball Champs
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Kansas is not a great example. Kansas fans are insufferable when it comes to support of football, and the game day experience at SMU is better. Biggest hurdle with KU is they're right in the middle of a campaign to drive the endowment to $2B and the only thing that will get fans excited is an announcement of a $200m+ reno/re-build. The more realistic approach for KU is to do what KSU has done and complete upgrades in stages. Upgrades in stages just don't get fans excited. To your point though, I've never heard of a single recruit say KU's football struggles are a factor in his decision to attend KU. Ever. Pony up!
Re: Saw LB and Recruits out tonightlegit. thanks for sharing
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Looking at it from that angle is very June Jonesian if you ask me... We do need to start building some momentum again, and commits from the DFW hotbed is what we really need longterm, lock up DFW and you will always be relevant. No time like the present, but to this point, no commits from here other than McQuaid who then opened his recruitment back up. Beat the hell out of anybody!
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I agree. I have seen hoopmanx make that statement a couple of times, and it always confuses me. So as long as we are never in the lead for someone it is not bad if we do not get them? By that logic we could never get anyone but it is ok because we never lost anyone we were in the lead for. Also, how were we not in the lead for mcquaid at any point? He committed here.
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No, you need perspective on how mid sized, semi-elite, private programs, build. Very few, if any, rely on their backyard. That's a football concept that means nothing w /a staff like we have. Also, we never led for mcquaid. We came out of nowhere and got a verbal. Creighton was always considered the clubhouse leader there
Saw LB and Recruits out tonightSo you are saying we were not in the lead for mcquaid while he was committed to us. Makes sense.
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I'm saying its irrelevant cause we recruited over the kid before he even signed his LOI. I'm also saying you guys are naive as to how mid-sized private programs are built. Take a look around in places not called Texas. Look at rosters, how many in state kids do you see? How many are located in the same city/town as the school etc? You have to take a different approach. We're doing just fine. Its freaking amazing anyone would see McQuaid as a loss/negative when we literally grabbed a 3 year starter at his same position in the same cycle.
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who not to mention performed at a high level in the ACC "smupony94: Harry, you have been promoted to purveyor of official status capabilities."
Saw LB and Recruits out tonight
See if you can find where I said I was not happy with the trade of mcquaid for Emelogu. You won't find it. My point is you keep saying we have not missed on anyone we were in the lead for, which is silly on two fronts. One, we had a commit who decommitted. We were obviously in the lead and then obviously he left. Maybe/probably we wanted that to happen, but it still happened. I will concede that perhaps we never missed if we asked him to leave so I should not have used this as an example. Second, and more relevant, measuring success as not missing anyone you were ever in the lead for is ridiculous. As long as you never get in the lead for someone you will never fail by that measure.
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