Don't you think if we got to a bowl game...

[BRStang]

that we would bring the fans out? I think so. I think anyone who ever cared one iota about SMU Football would at least consider going to the game just solely based on the huge probability that it may be another 20 years before we get to another one.

I try to make to as many games as I can during the season, but I can't make every one of them. Usually about 3-4. I'm sure there are a lot of others like me. But if we were to make a bowl game anywhere, I'd be there even if I had to walk there in the snow, uphill, both ways.

I don't know...

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

I guarantee you we can guarantee 25K if we make a bowl.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Sorry, I should have said WHEN we make a bowl.

[mathman]

Sorry, I should have said WHEN we make a bowl.

I agree completely. My two sons and I went to the Marshall game and really enjoyed it. We are going to the Houston game and taking along my grandson. We have already decided we will go to whichever bowl game the mustangs play it.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

re: I guarantee you we can guarantee 25K if we make a bowl.

Really?

I hope you are right.

If SMU ends up in a place like Birmingham, Alabama or Mobile, Alabama I would think 25 thousand SMU fans making the trip would be a stretch.

But again I really, really hope you would turn out to be correct.

[RGV Pony]

re: I guarantee you we can guarantee 25K if we make a bowl.

Really?

I hope you are right.

If SMU ends up in a place like Birmingham, Alabama or Mobile, Alabama I would think 25 thousand SMU fans making the trip would be a stretch.

But again I really, really hope you would turn out to be correct.

the Mobile game would be about the only one I could make

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

re: the Mobile game would be about the only one I could make

Why is that?

[ALEX LIFESON]

i think someone is smashed, or just joking.

[Arkpony]

Wherever we play.., I will be there!

[expony18]

Wherever we play.., I will be there!

me too... unless im hunting

[ALEX LIFESON]

Me too ole' friend!

[SMU Football Blog]

that we would bring the fans out? I think so. I think anyone who ever cared one iota about SMU Football would at least consider going to the game just solely based on the huge probability that it may be another 20 years before we get to another one.

I try to make to as many games as I can during the season, but I can't make every one of them. Usually about 3-4. I'm sure there are a lot of others like me. But if we were to make a bowl game anywhere, I'd be there even if I had to walk there in the snow, uphill, both ways.

I don't know...

Actually, no. I don't think you are going to get people that haven't been to an SMU game all year to go to a bowl game. At least, not anybody that lives in the metroplex anyway, unless it is Fort Worth. If people haven't been willing to drive 30 minutes to go see SMU play, they are not going to make travel plans on relatively short notice to go see SMU play.

And that is why I am expressing attendance at these next two games with some urgency.

[BRStang]

that we would bring the fans out? I think so. I think anyone who ever cared one iota about SMU Football would at least consider going to the game just solely based on the huge probability that it may be another 20 years before we get to another one.

I try to make to as many games as I can during the season, but I can't make every one of them. Usually about 3-4. I'm sure there are a lot of others like me. But if we were to make a bowl game anywhere, I'd be there even if I had to walk there in the snow, uphill, both ways.

I don't know...

Actually, no. I don't think you are going to get people that haven't been to an SMU game all year to go to a bowl game. At least, not anybody that lives in the metroplex anyway, unless it is Fort Worth. If people haven't been willing to drive 30 minutes to go see SMU play, they are not going to make travel plans on relatively short notice to go see SMU play.

And that is why I am expressing attendance at these next two games with some urgency.

Right. (About people who never go to games.) But I'm actually talking about, for one, those who live in the Metroplex and DO go to the games. I know a lot of people in Dallas who only make it to a few games and/or leave with the kids before half-time, go the the blvd. only, etc. Combine the people who go to ALL the games, with the people who only go to half or so, plus the people who forget to walk into Ford, plus the out-of-towners who go to some games, and I think you're starting to build a nice little contingent of fans. Maybe not 25K, but something.

There are also a LOT of (far) out of towners who might make it to one game a year, usually for a "special" game or something. I bet many of these people would look at a bowl game as special enough to travel.

Blog, I don't like the way you state your OPINIONS sometimes. Sometimes you dismiss out of hand various scenarios and convey your opinions as if they are pseudo-facts. I don't think you can say for a FACT that we won't bring many fans. You need to consider different scenarios. I suppose that happens when you go in-house rather than litigate.

[RGV Pony]

re: the Mobile game would be about the only one I could make

Why is that?

the short answer: because life is complicated.

A few more details: I'll defer to the attorneys on the board who can tell you about guidelines containing the words "Visitation...Christmas Vacation: Parents who reside 100 or more miles apart..."

[SMU Football Blog]

Blog, I don't like the way you state your OPINIONS sometimes. Sometimes you dismiss out of hand various scenarios and convey your opinions as if they are pseudo-facts. I don't think you can say for a FACT that we won't bring many fans. You need to consider different scenarios. I suppose that happens when you go in-house rather than litigate.

If I came across as dismissing your opinion, I apologize, I didn't and certainly didn't intend to come across as if I did. Obviously, it is just my opinion and it isn't worth more than anybody else's. However, I try to have informed opinions and I like to think I am pretty even keel. You are right in that there are people that can only get to Dallas or Ford once a year and will move mountains to go to a bowl game. I just don't think there are thousands of those people.

Nearly everything on here and on the blog is opinion; I just don't think I need to preface every sentence with "In my opinion, ..." In fact, I was making a conscious effort to stop it as I have tried to improve my writing. For the record, I did say, "I think..."