DC Opinion piece on Homecoming...

[tex23bm]

I am responsible for that Article. I was at the game, and I was peeved about the exodus. I really wanted that article to be more of a call to action, and create some passion. I wanted people to get mad at me, and want to go to prove me wrong. I didn't want to pick on any one organization though, because sooooo many walked out on the team, alumni, and school.

Well they proved me wrong. But not in the good passionate way. I've recieved responses throughout the day. All of them have been people agreeing with what I had to say. I have not heard from one person who disagreed with what I said. No one was willing to Said anything of accepting the challenge or defending their image. I guess only Time will tell.

I feel though that I set the students up for failure on this challenge. The last home game is just after Thanksgiving. I can feel the excuses for not showing now. I guess we can only hope.

Bill Meehan

[abezontar]

Don't get your hopes up too high, cause you will definitely be disappointed. I remeber the year Ford opened, we played a top 25 TCU at Ford, right after Thanksgiving......the only SMU fans were parents of players and bandsmen.....it was so incredibly sad.

[MustangSally]

And man, what a miserable experience that was. I believe that was the 62-7 blowout.

That said, there are plenty of SMU students that live in the DFW area, if they want to go to the game, they can easily find a way. It's the wanting to go part that is hard to find.

[abezontar]

tis true....I will be there, and maybe I will be able to convince my wife and parents to join me as long as it isn't too cold....a win on the 19th would help in my efforts.

[DixieTech]

I am not a good student here at SMU. I am only involved in one student organization. I don’t regularly attend the Boulevard, and I worship a different school. Quite frankly, I’m the guy with the Notre Dame hat you’ve never seen without that hat.

What a pathetic, pathetic tool. The guy goes to SMU and his heart lies with a school that he has nothing to do with, far away in the midwest?
Is there a lower form of life than the D-1 student who cares not for his school, but cheers for a team he has no connection to? The answer: yes, the one who openly admits it in the school paper.

[BarbaraAnn]

I am not a good student here at SMU. I am only involved in one student organization. I don’t regularly attend the Boulevard, and I worship a different school. Quite frankly, I’m the guy with the Notre Dame hat you’ve never seen without that hat.

What a pathetic, pathetic tool. The guy goes to SMU and his heart lies with a school that he has nothing to do with, far away in the midwest?
Is there a lower form of life than the D-1 student who cares not for his school, but cheers for a team he has no connection to? The answer: yes, the one who openly admits it in the school paper.

I know! It's a shame that somebody who supports another team can come to a depleted football program and stay through the games and cheer for that team! And then, the guy has enough heart in the matter to write the school newspaper about telling other students to show up.

It's such a shame that we can get people to care for another school and our school, when most of the people hear could care less about SMU.

What a SHAAAAAAAME!

[tex23bm]

DixieTech,
I am Irish, I grew up an Irish fan. I will always be an Irish fan. I applied to Notre Dame. I got rejected. I ended up at SMU. I didn't grow up in texas. I grew up in the North. I am as connected to a school as a person could be without going there. I plan on applying to go there for graduate school.

So, here I am at SMU, I have two options, be a bitter little tool, or move on. I chose to move on. I decided that I would support my school. I still love ND, there's no two ways about it. I'm not a poser who grows up loving something, hits a setback and folds. On the flip side we have the kids who claim to love SMU and don't give enough of a crap to actually support the team. Tell me, who's the tool? I think it's the jerk who claims to care but never shows it. If you think it's the person who claims not to care, but shows he does, that's your opinion. I also think that's an idiot's opinion.

Before you decide to judge someone you've never met on the basis that they take a stance on something, maybe just maybe you might consider what may have brought them to that point. If you want to bash me for supporting a team that I'm not connected to, bash me for supporting SMU. I suggest you accept support from wherever you can get it. This team needs it.

Bill Meehan

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

I am not a good student here at SMU. I am only involved in one student organization. I don’t regularly attend the Boulevard, and I worship a different school. Quite frankly, I’m the guy with the Notre Dame hat you’ve never seen without that hat.

What a pathetic, pathetic tool. The guy goes to SMU and his heart lies with a school that he has nothing to do with, far away in the midwest?
Is there a lower form of life than the D-1 student who cares not for his school, but cheers for a team he has no connection to? The answer: yes, the one who openly admits it in the school paper.

Don't you have some tortillas to toss?

[EastStang]

Hey ND is to catholics and Irish what BYU is to Mormons. They all cheer for them, no matter where they go. Sorta like the Brooklyn Dodgers were every dogface's team in WWII, and then they moved to LA and no one likes them anymore.