If Rutgers Can Do It, So Can SMU!!!

[bubba pony]

Rutgers has accomplished exactly what SMU had hoped to accomplished. Rutgers and SMU have the same story line. Long time doormats. New Jersey football players have traditionally gone to Norte Dame and Penn State since no school in NJ lured them. . Rutgers coach vowed to keep them in state and he has succeeded. took him 5 years to deliver. PB has had 5 years and has failed. Rutgers draws about 30-35k attendance with no advertising. Rutgers future football shows Norte Dame on their schedule staring 2010 and every year thereafter including 2016. I wish we would play ND that offen like we use to.

By the way, RUTGERS invented college football as they hosted the first game in 1868 versus Princeton, and won. Further it’s has high academicals for a state school and is the 9th oldest college in the USA. SMU, which I love, should strive to mimic Rutgers’s success.

[docabel]

To be fair, Rutgers has some built in advantages:

- They are the state university of New Jersey
- The Big East is an automatic BCS Bowlqualifer and is at the trough of BCS money


TCU is the only non-BCS candidate, who has a chance to be invited to a BCS Bowl. If they lose a game or two, they are out of the top twenty. Non-BCS schools almost have to run the table to be invited to a BCS bowl.

I think the most important thing in this mix is that by being a member of the Big East and therefore the BCS is the money they are bringing in pales in comparison to anything that SMU could bring in. Say SMU has a wonderful season, goes 9-2 and sells out all the home games (OK a little bit of a longshot at this point, but play with me) and downstream Baylor goes 1-11 with 6K Baptists in the seats, I would contend that Baylor would probably bring in more money because of the Big12/BCS ties because all teh TV/bowl money that the conference schools bring in gets divided up between all conference schools. While the BcS fiasco of the NCAA is deplorable in how it keeps the "smaller" schools out of the mix, to me it is even more corrupt in the manner in which the monies are now distributed.

[J.T.supporta]

SMU DOESNT HAVE A RAY RICE OR A BRIAN LEONARD...but we do have a decent supply of backs that can rack up yards...

But dont compare us to Rutgers until we start 5-0 and are Ranked in the TOP 25 and have a Heisman Canidate

[NavyCrimson]

but rutgers is part of the bcs-bs!!!

makes a big difference!