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I know I'm getting ahead of myself, but does anyone have our future schedules. I know we are scheduled to play:

2007
Sep. 1 Texas Tech
Sep. 22 at TCU

2008

2009
Sep. 12 at Baylor
Sep. 19 at Mizzou

2010
Sept. 18 Mizzou

2011
Sep. 3 Baylor

In the mean time go fry some Owls on Saturday so we can schedule a Bowl game this season!

That Mizzou series is a new one. When was that announced?

with TTech, TCU, Baylor and UNT on the non-conference slate next year, will be an accomplishment to go 2-2. With Tech, UNT, Rice, Tulane and 2 eastern division CUSA teams coming to Ford, we should at least average 20,000 home attendance

IT will be UTEP and one eastern division team at home; we got two this year (Marshall and UAB)

even better for attendance with UTEP coming in. should do much better than 20k average next year...especially if the team is better than this year.

Yep...the TTech game will have 35k
UTEP will have 22k
UNT 20k

...and who knows about the others. If the season pans out like we all want it to, someone needs to start working the phones NOW to try and get Mustang fans to buy as many seats in Ford as possible for the TTech game. It ould be nice to at least go 50:50 with the Tech fans as opposed to 30:70

We better load in some directional schools - this season is a great example of how peope dont care who you play as long as you produce some wins. We need to stop stacking the big 12 in there and schedule some patsies. The buzz we got going is because we eased up on the schedule.

Obviously,SMU fans do care who you play since only about 11,500 fans bothered to show up the day SMU became bowl eligible. The Bowls aren't allowed to care who you play as long as you are one of the 5 teams that gets to 7 wins. SMU has averaged approximately 15,000 paid and any one that can see realizes that is a heavily inflated number of actual attendance.

Unless you counted the tickets, I think I'll stick with the announced attendance of 13,500 or so. As to your expected follow-up that SMU pushes actual numbers a bit, it is the same at every school on earth. If we are going to compare our attendance with other schools, let's try to do so on an apples-to-apples basis. Finally, do you know how many fans attend the games from behind the glass in the suites? Since all schools get to count the suite attendance as well as those visible, perhaps your "there were only 11,500 there" doesn't take into account those which you cannot see.

There are a lot of reasons to be critical of SMU athletics. Harping on the insignificant difference between your stated 11,500 in attendance and the official 13,500 is not one of them. Both figures should leave us very wanting.

You can live in whichever dream world you like. I've worked in an athletic department-I know how attendance is figured and that is paid attendance published in the paper including the 1$ Ticketholders. I also sit on about the 43 yard line and the entire section is literred with empty seats. You obviously feel like almost 1 out of every 2 seats was occupied against Tulsa. My eye sight is pretty good. So I'll stick with my opinion and you stick with yours.

The sad thing is that better teams from the right places (TT, OSU, Baylor, etc.) means more fans but it is the same 11,500 or 13,500 or whatever for us and the rest are from the other school. Better teams bring more people, just not the right ones at this time.

All I know is - we have a schedule like last year and we are out of it again in spetember and nobody thinks anything is happening at SMU - we now have some momentum and the average Dallas football fan thinks SMU has improved a ton. We had nice attendence at Houston - we will build our own base as we win - unless we decide to end it ourselves by over scheduling.

I really like our non conference schedule next year.

IMO play North Texas, Baylor, and TCU every year and rotate the last NC game between a tough team and a not so tough team, Maybe like Texas Tech one year and then another Sunbelt team the next. THat would be the perfect mix.

gostangs wrote:All I know is - we have a schedule like last year and we are out of it again in spetember and nobody thinks anything is happening at SMU - we now have some momentum and the average Dallas football fan thinks SMU has improved a ton. We had nice attendence at Houston - we will build our own base as we win - unless we decide to end it ourselves by over scheduling.

I like the schedule next year. I was all for this year to build confidence. The kicker was you can not lose one of the "gimmes" and we did. NTSU was a bad, bad loss and it shows now. It is time to get back to the better schedule and prove we can compete on the field so we can compete in the recruiting.