SMU Partial Future Football Schedule

[RHS]

Wouldn't A&M like to play in Dallas every once in awhile as a "gift"
to all the Dallas Aggie Alumni base and Dallas Aggie supporters?

Plus it couldn't hurt recruiting to show recruits how
even away stadiums will "turn out for the Aggies".

And wouldn't A&M demand (and SMU would agree)
to play the game at the new Jerry Jones stadium
which will be "the stadium" to be seen playing in?

Aggies big contengent of alumni is in Houston. The biggest reason for them to play in Dallas would be for recruiting & they get the cream of the Houston area now. They aren't like Tech where the largest group of alumni live in DFW. I don't know if that is as big a motivation as it is for Tech. For Tech it also helps get the larger group of alumni active and contributing $$$. A&M doesn't need that from DFW like Tech does.

If the Aggies do play in Dallas, that would be huge for the Ponies.

As far as playing a tough non conference opponent for respect, having 8 or 9 wins will get you more. It is a lot easier said than to actually beat those tough teams. Just ask Spike Dykes who tried that and nearly pulled out a couple. But playing a light non conference schedule hasn't hurt Leach and we have as much or more positive attention than we did under Spike.

Schedule games you can win. As you win more, recruitinig improves. Then you can schedule better teams that you can still win because you improved your talent level. You don't have to come all the way back over night.

[mrydel]

[quote="RHS"]You don't have to come all the way back over night./quote]

Apparently in our case we do not have to come all the way back in 2 decades.

[PonyKai]

It's been a process. We had to overcome the death penalty, then we had to overcome incompetent and stifling academic restrictions, than we had to overcome our talent transfering, then we had to overcome a bare cupboard, then we had to overcome 'questionable' play calls. So we've over come quite a bit in two decades, there's just plenty more to come.

[abezontar]

I don't know if we have overcome the questionable play calling yet. I still don't trust Bennett to make smart calls when the game is close.


Let me rephrase that, the optimism that I had when Bennett was hired that he would make good game-day coaching decisions has been lost after watching Bennett's performance for the past six years.

[PonySnob]

I don't know if we have overcome the questionable play calling yet. I still don't trust Bennett to make smart calls when the game is close.


Let me rephrase that, the optimism that I had when Bennett was hired that he would make good game-day coaching decisions has been lost after watching Bennett's performance for the past six years.

Always remember that Bennett "has forgotten more football than all of us will know"..............

[alamocitystang]

[quote="Stlhockeyguy02"]Don't forget Notre Dame is not a "mega-giant." They have fewer students then we do. However they do have the tradition, winning, cult following as well.[/quote]

Notre Dame is comparable in size to us, but they are bigger by about 2000 undergraduates. Surprisingly to me their graduate enrollment is smaller, but overall they are still about 1000 students larger.

It is worth mentioning that schools around our size can do big things in NCAA football though.

[davish75]

Isn't by far the biggest hurtle to overcome is the death of the SWC?

[perunapower]

Isn't by far the biggest hurtle to overcome is the death of the SWC?

No, the biggest hurdle is SMU treating it's athletic program like Div. III for too many years, alienating many alumni and setting a tradition of sub-par performance on the field. But, I will agree in saying that the death of the SWC was a major setback.

[PonySnob]

No, the biggest hurdle is SMU treating it's athletic program like Div. III for too many years, alienating many alumni and setting a tradition of sub-par performance on the field. But, I will agree in saying that the death of the SWC was a major setback.

Doesn't appear that the death of the SWC has hurt TCU very much in football..............

[Stallion]

or Rice which has had about 4 to 5 of its best seasons in 45 years.

[ponyboy]

Fifteen second recap of SMU football history.

1) Good team in first thirty years with one national championship and the legendary Doak Walker

2) Bad team for second thirty years with 42% win percentage

3) Got tired of being aforementioned bad team, cheated like fools and got our heads handed to us by the NCAA, the fallout from which cheating had a big part in the breakup of the SWC and our fall from "BCS" status

4) Resumed same performance as number 2 above as a mid major.

Recent, hopeful news: Built a beautiful new on-campus stadium and instituted the Boulevard. And last year knocked on the door of a bowl game with a 6-6 record. The guy who led us to that has three years of eligibility left.

[DFW HOYA]

The last two atheltic directors at aTm have been consistent on why they don't want to play in Dallas (or Houston for that matter): they want the former students to drive to College Station and fill Kyle Field and not the other way around.

Yes, it's short sighted, but that appears to be the philosophy.

[davish75]

No, the biggest hurdle is SMU treating it's athletic program like Div. III for too many years, alienating many alumni and setting a tradition of sub-par performance on the field. But, I will agree in saying that the death of the SWC was a major setback.

Doesn't appear that the death of the SWC has hurt TCU very much in football..............

TCU not being able to bring in Tx or A&M each year hurts a lot. Having to replace those natural rivials with teams you have no history with and to play at high altitude hurts a lot too.

All this effort to increase big 12 games at the Cotton Bowl and at Arlington will really hurt SMU and TCU. Having zero chance of playing the Cotton Bowl Classic in one of many miscarriages of justice for our area schools.

[PonyKai]

Just throwing this out there...why hasn't the Iron Skillet been played at the Cotton Bowl? I don't think 55-60 thousand are going to show up, but its neutral ground for a natural metroplex rivalry. Just looking for answers.

[KnuckleStang]

Forget the Aggies and Irish, I'm still trying to understand why someone from SMU would agree to a 2-1 at Arkansas State's place. Somebody please tell me that's a typo.