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Stallion wrote:They were willing to invest in their Head Football Coaches by paying them market value for over a decade before getting into the P5

SMU has been above market for at least ten years.

Nonsense

TCU paid market value as a non-P5 to fend off a long list of P5 suitors

SMU pays G5 market value. SMU didn't lift its finger to pay market value nor did it make any public effort to keep Morris like UCF, like Memphis (with Fuente and Norvell) like UH, like Temple. All those schools at least attempted to make the decision difficult and all were well above what is G5 market value right now.

No longer can anyone claim that SMU is following the TCU Model. You may say TCU got lucky with Patterson--and you'd probably be right--but TCU considered Patterson the investment that could take TCU to the P5 and it has paid off immensely

If SMU thought Chad Morris was the right guy-which he is btw-SMU Boosters should have invested in him starting last year to keep him for at least 2 more years when hopefully Craddock would have been ready. TCU's Boosters got it done with privately financed Coaching salaries and infra-structure that SMU simply didn't

Is it your argument that SMU doesn't privately finance coaching salaries? I don't think it is, but you make it sound like it.

Who amongst us has represented that smu is or has been following the TCU model? If anything, the far majority of the commentary on this board has been to bemoan the fact that we aren't.

Money whipping Chad to keep him here an extra two years when an SEC school that made sense came calling wasn't going to work any more than it did with Houston and Herman.

Of course SMU privately funds salaries and infra-structure-I've pointed that out numerous times any time SMU fans criticize the "administration" or Turner. Those have to be largely off-budget items at a school like SMU as they were I might add when TCU was not P5.

On its face that position conflicts with your last sentence above.

Stallion wrote:TCU paid market value as a non-P5 to fend off a long list of P5 suitors
M. SMU pays G5 market value. SMU didn't lift its finger to pay market value nor did it make any public effort to keep Morris like UCF, like Memphis (with Fuente and Norvell) like UH, like Temple. All those schools at least attempted to make the decision difficult and all were well above what is G5 market value right now. No longer can anyone claim that SMU is following the TCU Model. You may say TCU got lucky with Patterson--and you'd probably be right--but TCU considered Patterson the investment that could take TCU to the P5 and it has paid off immensely. If SMU thought Chad Morris was the right guy-which he is btw-SMU Boosters should have invested in him starting last year to keep him for at least 2 more years when hopefully Craddock would have been ready. TCU's Boosters got it done with privately financed Coaching salaries and infra-structure that SMU simply didn't

See?

I had the go back and find this thread after watching the TCU-Kansas game.

All I have to say is: TCU’s cheerleaders/dancers are smokin’ hot.