College Football News previews Boca Raton Bowl

by **Donnell88** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 1:12 pm

collegefootballnews.com/2019/12/smu-vs-florida-atlantic-cheribundi-boca-raton-bowl-fearless-prediction-game-preview

by **ponyte** » Mon Dec 16, 2019 7:51 pm

https://collegefootballnews.com/2019/12 ... me-preview

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by **EastStang** » Tue Dec 17, 2019 2:43 pm

If Shane can avoid picks, we should be able to pull this one out. I suspect that FAU will come out passing because everyone knows our pass defense is suspect (even Navy). So, we need to get some sacks and turnovers early.

by **SMU_Alum11** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:25 am

If we dont win by 21, I'll consider it a loss. We are better than FAU. We are playing a coachless team. We are play unmotivated team having to play another home game as a bowl game.

by **Donnell88** » Wed Dec 18, 2019 8:17 pm

SMU resorts to the three-man pass rush far too often in obvious passing situations. It's hard to play good defence when you are giving the opposing quarterback far too much time to find an open receiver.

by **SMU_Alum11** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 8:38 am

Vivid seats still has a ton of seats available and I think TM does as well. It's going to be a poorly attended game unless something happens as predicted.

by **PonySnob** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 9:05 am

Believe SMU has sold about 1,000 seats directly.

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by **JasonB** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 9:49 am

PonySnob wrote:Believe SMU has sold about 1,000 seats directly.

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That would really be frustrating. Why spread us out all over the place if only a few tickets have been sold?

by **JasonB** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 9:53 am

Donnell88 wrote:SMU resorts to the three-man pass rush far too often in obvious passing situations. It's hard to play good defence when you are giving the opposing quarterback far too much time to find an open receiver.

I couldn't agree more. The strength of the team is the DL depth and our corners in bump and run. We should be pressuring in pass situations every time to get the ball out early. Otherwise the safeties and MLB get exposed.

by **smupony94** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 10:28 am

PonySnob wrote:Believe SMU has sold about 1,000 seats directly.

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Yep, a really bad look for when we want to go to a better bowl. People love to [deleted] but not help out.

by **DanFreibergerForHeisman** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:21 pm

PonySnob wrote:Believe SMU has sold about 1,000 seats directly.

Ouch that is terrible.

by **SMU_Alum11** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 12:49 pm

smupony94 wrote:
PonySnob wrote:Believe SMU has sold about 1,000 seats directly.

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Yep, a really bad look for when we want to go to a better bowl. People love to [deleted] but not help out.

I think bowls will know not to send us far because Frisco we filled in our half easily. I think the fan base (including me) have this in their minds:

1) Playing G5 opponent from CUSA...
2) Playing a coachless team
3) Expensive travel and not day trip-able

I'm sure there are others but those factors lead to a 1k purchase of tickets and I don't see this getting higher than 1.5k.

by **One Trick Pony** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 1:17 pm

SMU_Alum11 wrote:
smupony94 wrote:
PonySnob wrote:Believe SMU has sold about 1,000 seats directly.

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Yep, a really bad look for when we want to go to a better bowl. People love to [deleted] but not help out.

I think bowls will know not to send us far because Frisco we filled in our half easily. I think the fan base (including me) have this in their minds:

1) Playing G5 opponent from CUSA...
2) Playing a coachless team
3) Expensive travel and not day trip-able

I'm sure there are others but those factors lead to a 1k purchase of tickets and I don't see this getting higher than 1.5k.

I thought everybody that went to SMU are millionaires and debt free haha

And don't forget the weather it's raining

by **SMU_Alum11** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 2:20 pm

One Trick Pony wrote:
SMU_Alum11 wrote:
smupony94 wrote:Yep, a really bad look for when we want to go to a better bowl. People love to [deleted] but not help out.

I think bowls will know not to send us far because Frisco we filled in our half easily. I think the fan base (including me) have this in their minds:

1) Playing G5 opponent from CUSA...
2) Playing a coachless team
3) Expensive travel and not day trip-able

I'm sure there are others but those factors lead to a 1k purchase of tickets and I don't see this getting higher than 1.5k.
I thought everybody that went to SMU are millionaires and debt free haha

And don't forget the weather it's raining

Tack it on!

by **03Mustang** » Thu Dec 19, 2019 4:09 pm

smupony94 wrote:
PonySnob wrote:Believe SMU has sold about 1,000 seats directly.

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Yep, a really bad look for when we want to go to a better bowl. People love to [deleted] but not help out.

Many of us would love to go but this was one of the more expensive destinations. I’m glad many of you are able to drop a few thousand dollars on this trip right before Christmas, but the vast majority of fans don’t really have that flexibility.

It seems doubtful that any school outside of The immediate region would sell very many tickets.

If we get a bad bid next year because we didn’t travel well to the Boca Raton bowl versus FAU then we weren’t going to get a good bowl bid anyway.