Last Night At Ford Stadium

Last night, I was invited to Ford Stadium to hear coaches Rompola, Dement and Bennet discuss the absolute necessity of getting butts in seats this upcoming season. And obviously, I’m not just talking football here.
Down on the sacred turf of Ford Stadium, in 90 degree heat, the boys were running ‘voluntary’ windsprints, as Coach Bennet coincidently happened to be jogging circles around the concourse. The team looked in good shape and appeared to be REAL fired up. Sterling Harris (believe it or not) was consistently out in front when it was the O-line’s turn to run. Even after the ‘voluntary’ practice was over, much of the team, specifically almost the entire O and D lines stayed after to work technique.
I’m reporting this to let you know how everyone on the Hilltop seems to be doing what it’s going to take to build a winner. There appears to be only one missing link...
Butts in seats.
And that’s why we were there. There are about a hundred people who volunteered to contact local businesses to persuade them to purchase tickets for football, and men’s and women’s basketball. As I mentioned in another post, this should be a special year. Not only is there a new football coach, a new attitude, and a new commitment to returning championship ball (both the round kind and the pigskin kind) to the Hilltop, but this year, SMU is making a special effort to reach out to the entire city and welcome them as fans. There will be some terrific entertainment (in addition to some exiting football) at nearly every game this year. I already told you about Staubach for the Navy game. They’re also working on signing Robin Williams to do a comedy show after another game. There will be music concerts, wild promotional activities, a Mustang Maniac, all kinds of fun stuff going on. There will be some top flight entertainment scheduled for B-ball games as well.
So here’s the deal: SMU is offering tremendous package deals to area businesses. Football tickets, men’s and women’s basketball tickets, parking passes – the whole shebang in a couple of different packages – at a big discount. Businesses can write it completely off, yet it makes a perfect reward for employees, a great recruiting activity, and a terrific way to reward customers and vendors. If your business might be interested in purchasing some of these packages, please respond to me off-list at [email protected]
Every great city has a great university, and SMU is Dallas’ great university. Our mission is to welcome Dallas to the Hilltop and turn the entire city into fans. I think we all agree that game attendance is the crucial key: from team motivation, to recruiting, to funding The Commitment, to positioning ourselves favorably for conference alignment and whatever the NCAA does with Division IA classification.
So if you or your employer might be open to purchasing a few of the packages, PLEASE let me know. I’ll do all the groveling, just let me know who to contact. THANKS, and GO PONIES!
Down on the sacred turf of Ford Stadium, in 90 degree heat, the boys were running ‘voluntary’ windsprints, as Coach Bennet coincidently happened to be jogging circles around the concourse. The team looked in good shape and appeared to be REAL fired up. Sterling Harris (believe it or not) was consistently out in front when it was the O-line’s turn to run. Even after the ‘voluntary’ practice was over, much of the team, specifically almost the entire O and D lines stayed after to work technique.
I’m reporting this to let you know how everyone on the Hilltop seems to be doing what it’s going to take to build a winner. There appears to be only one missing link...
Butts in seats.
And that’s why we were there. There are about a hundred people who volunteered to contact local businesses to persuade them to purchase tickets for football, and men’s and women’s basketball. As I mentioned in another post, this should be a special year. Not only is there a new football coach, a new attitude, and a new commitment to returning championship ball (both the round kind and the pigskin kind) to the Hilltop, but this year, SMU is making a special effort to reach out to the entire city and welcome them as fans. There will be some terrific entertainment (in addition to some exiting football) at nearly every game this year. I already told you about Staubach for the Navy game. They’re also working on signing Robin Williams to do a comedy show after another game. There will be music concerts, wild promotional activities, a Mustang Maniac, all kinds of fun stuff going on. There will be some top flight entertainment scheduled for B-ball games as well.
So here’s the deal: SMU is offering tremendous package deals to area businesses. Football tickets, men’s and women’s basketball tickets, parking passes – the whole shebang in a couple of different packages – at a big discount. Businesses can write it completely off, yet it makes a perfect reward for employees, a great recruiting activity, and a terrific way to reward customers and vendors. If your business might be interested in purchasing some of these packages, please respond to me off-list at [email protected]
Every great city has a great university, and SMU is Dallas’ great university. Our mission is to welcome Dallas to the Hilltop and turn the entire city into fans. I think we all agree that game attendance is the crucial key: from team motivation, to recruiting, to funding The Commitment, to positioning ourselves favorably for conference alignment and whatever the NCAA does with Division IA classification.
So if you or your employer might be open to purchasing a few of the packages, PLEASE let me know. I’ll do all the groveling, just let me know who to contact. THANKS, and GO PONIES!