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Today, I read some mail sitting on my desk. Included was a January 2005 letter from Mark L. Meyer, President, SMU Mustang Club to Mustang Club members. Although SMU had significant accomplishments in the Olympic sports during 2003-2004, a number from the 2004 Mustang Club Morgan Campaign results caught my eye --- 1,745 members.

That is an unacceptably low number of Mustang Club members.

Other than being a Mustang Club member I have no official or unofficial relationship with the Mustang Club...but I am asking any Ponyfans.com member who isn't a member of the Mustang Club to please consider joining.

SMU Athletics needs your support!

Does anyone have comparative member numbers on TCU & Baylor as to their versions of Mustang Club?

What's more, I think each of us who is a Mustang Club member should challenge themselves to recruit one new member this year. I've taken the first step & pitched the idea at lunch with a 'recruit' last Thursday, and I know I'll succeed. If I can pull it off in the RGV, it shouldn't be a problem in DFW.

what is the benefit to the school?

What is the benefit to the football program?

How much does it cost?

Benefit to school: A means by which to lessen the red in which athletics swims.

Benefit to athletics: The converse of the above; also, from what I understand (I had the same questions and was answered as follows) every dollar goes toward things like recruiting etc.....in a perfect world, it would lessen the gap between those schools who proffer private jets etc. to recruits (yeah yeah I know that doesn't happen these days wink wink).

Cost: As low as 50 to as much as you want. Pay it quarterly like your taxes.

I got the same mailing on my desk this week, too (with a personal note attached from George Simons) and I plan to join, along with my new wife (an SMU graduate)!

GO MUSTANGS!

Another thing to think about, the larger the membership of the Mustang Club, the more influence it can have when dealing with the administration of the University in regards to athletics at SMU.

You can get more information about the Mustang Club and join here too:

http://www.smumustangs.com/mustangclub/

Please consider joining and becoming a member. The Mustang Club isn't an exclusive club just for the well to do (I certainly wouldn't fall into that category), it is a club for all SMU fans who want to support our athletic programs.

MrMustang1965 wrote:I got the same mailing on my desk this week, too (with a personal note attached from George Simons) and I plan to join, along with my new wife (an SMU graduate)!

GO MUSTANGS!

Congrats on getting married. Can we call her MrsMustang1965?

I just renewed my membership in the Mustang Club. Increased my pledge 333%.

I am not in a position to really recruit new members, but was able to make a large increase in my pledge.

I hope this helps.

Mike Damone wrote:

MrMustang1965 wrote:I got the same mailing on my desk this week, too (with a personal note attached from George Simons) and I plan to join, along with my new wife (an SMU graduate)!

GO MUSTANGS!

Congrats on getting married. Can we call her MrsMustang1965?

Thanks! Actually, she posts on here as "BornRed&Blue". Graduated from The Hilltop in 1979.

MrMustang1965 wrote:

Mike Damone wrote:

MrMustang1965 wrote:I got the same mailing on my desk this week, too (with a personal note attached from George Simons) and I plan to join, along with my new wife (an SMU graduate)!

GO MUSTANGS!

Congrats on getting married. Can we call her MrsMustang1965?

Thanks! Actually, she posts on here as "BornRed&Blue". Graduated from The Hilltop in 1979.

Well, it IS the 21st century so we can't expect her to change her name, but maybe we can hyphenate it and call her "MrsBornRed&Blue-Mustang1965."

I have pledged, thanks to DiamondM and her information about the free brownies and lemon squares at the basketball games. It makes it all worth it.

Living in Virginia, I am a member of the Mustang Club (not that it does me any good out here), but I joined anyway three years ago to help out the school. I hope that will help me get a couple of tickets to the Aggie game (because I am planning a business trip) for that weekend.

If even 10% of our current students and living alumni were interested enough to support the Mustang Club, it would make a huge difference. I'm a poor man compared to many SMU alumni, but even a peon like me can use another tax break...and when I can afford to increase my donation by 333%, I will no longer be known as the Charleston Pony. Maybe someday I will call myself S.C. Peruna

Yes. If helping SMU Athletics is not enough to convince you to join, consider the free drinks, bag-o-cashews, Chex Mix, brownies and lemon squares (actually triangles) at halftime of basketball games. If the food and the company of other supporters is still not enough, consider that the half time reception gives you a place to go to escape the tarted up pre-pubescent girls with hot pants and bare midriffs shimmying and pelvic thrusting through half time. Can any parent of an 11 year old explain why they allow this to happen to their daughters?