Re: UCONN to Rejoin Big East
Posted: Tue Jun 25, 2019 9:13 pm
Mustangsabu wrote:SoCal_Pony wrote:Red, I will take it a step further.
If your criteria is the 2 most popular sports in a particular country (for America that would be FB & BB) and if you factor in intangible advantages we have, I would argue that absent a brief LB run that SMU itself helped destroy, SMU is probably most inept sports brand in America, possibly the world. Sounds hyperbolic, I realize, but hear me out.
Over the past 30 years, SMU has been ranked a Top 60 national university in America (reputation, but not so academic as to be a hindrance), a Top 60 school worldwide in terms of endowment (financial resources) and probably THE Top location nationwide for FB & BB HS talent.
Yet given these advantages, what exactly has SMU achieved??
for FB:
winning % is 114 out of 119 D1-A schools.
0-56-1 vs. Big12 South, the 1 criteria diehard fans truly care about.
for BB:
2-54 vs ranked teams pre-LB for the Men.
4 NCAA tourney wins total in over 60 years of Men’s & Women’s combined participation. I’m sure you are aware, every year some 10 to 15 schools accomplish this or more in less than 3 weeks.
I’m not a sports fanatic, but I follow it somewhat. I really can’t think of anyone as inept as SMU.
For our men....
0-56-1, 2-54 & 1 tourney win in 30 years....who can possibly match that.
I agree with you. But I'm shocked at the notion that we are a top 60 school worldwide in terms of endowment and yet, according to the last Times ranking of world universities, we are in the "350-400" bracket.
Mustangsabu, virtually every top university in the world by endowment resides in America, so yes...SMU is Top 60. Also, many of these schools have enrollments that far exceed SMU, so by a Endowment per student ratio we look even more favorable.
30 years ago, the city of Dallas was ranked #10 in terms of GDP among American cities, today it is #4. During this time, no American city in the Top 25 has advanced as much as Dallas. Rather remarkable when you consider the competition at the very top of the list. Dallas area is also 3rd, behind only NY & Chicago areas, for home of Fortune 500 companies.
So Dallas itself is a booming economic juggernaut. One would think SMU could produce top business, law and engineering schools to support Dallas....think again.
Our undergraduate and graduate business schools as well as our law school are all ranked ~50th.
A school in Waco has a higher ranked law school.
A school in College Station has higher ranked undergraduate & graduate business schools.
UTD has a higher ranked MBA program.
Our engineering school isn’t even ranked Top 100, with even UTD, UTA, Coog High and TTech ranked higher.
We do have the highest tuition and highest paid President in the state, so there is that. I will also add that our recent Dean hirings in Law and Business seem uninspiring. So for me, I’m not very pleased with my Alma Mater, which of course I love.
It’s easy to blame RGT, but I blame his enablers more.
In short....SMU s*cks