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IF this is it for the conference musical chairs, this is a win for SMU.
We live to fight another day. If the race to 16 would have started, we would have been screwed.
We now have more time to improve our athletics and hopefully the higher ups now see how important it is and why we need to be "top 25 in everything we do". If June can continue to deliver, we may have a shot the next time the conference shuffle comes around.

Kickoff please.

Absolutely ponydawg. This is what we needed. More time. We wouldn't have been able to garner major attention off one one winning season. Look at the things SMU will have on the horizon in the next 2-3 years.

1. Largest fundraising campaign in school history
2. Presidential Library
3. Indoor Practice Facility
4. 2M a year head coach
5. New basketball coach
6. New HD video board

And who knows what else we will have once we get this thing really going. June knows what's on the horizon. When realignment does occur in either 2011 or 2012, we will be poised to improve far more than we would be now.

Don't get me wrong, I still think we will need some luck to get a bid in the future, but we can do a lot to help ourselves out. But the good news is we live to fight another day!

The only way SMU can ever win in football is to have an NCAA playoff. That will take a class action court case or presure from a congressional investigation. However, the BIG schools could eventaully bolt and form their own association and leave the NCAA. I fear that we will be stuck out no matter what happens.

I disagree. I think it is now or never. Last chance is next year, if the MWC is still in a position that they can get BCS status with a little boost before the evaluation period ends.

Otherwise there are no new changes until the next round of tv contracts are up-- in 15-18 years.

huskerpony wrote:Otherwise there are no new changes until the next round of tv contracts are up-- in 15-18 years.

Something will always give. Once the SEC gets their new contract years from now, someone somewhere won't be happy and blah blah blah. And I think we will have some form of a playoff before 18 years from now and things can change then.

ponydawg wrote: "top 25 in everything we do".

Especially baseball. Back to reality... SMU has about as good a chance as UTSA does at getting into BCS conf. Hard to play with the big boys when we can't come up with a way to field a baseball team.

no offense to either one, but baseball matters about as much to the BCS picture as womens basketball. If it mattered, don't you think we could find a way to play baseball and womens softball?

I subscribe to Huskers theory that we needed to catch a break now or in the next year. We aint "earning" our way in. We will never have enough success or fans to earn our way in. We need to be in the right place at the right time and sooner than later.

huskerpony wrote:I disagree. I think it is now or never. Last chance is next year, if the MWC is still in a position that they can get BCS status with a little boost before the evaluation period ends.

Otherwise there are no new changes until the next round of tv contracts are up-- in 15-18 years.

Well CRAP...I'll be 80+ years old or 6 feet under by that time. Whopee...I can hardly wait.

Hoop Fan wrote:no offense to either one, but baseball matters about as much to the BCS picture as womens basketball. If it mattered, don't you think we could find a way to play baseball and womens softball?

I subscribe to Huskers theory that we needed to catch a break now or in the next year. We aint "earning" our way in. We will never have enough success or fans to earn our way in. We need to be in the right place at the right time and sooner than later.

check out the CWS cast..it's all southern schools, as you might expect for a summer sport. Baseball doesn't generate revenue, but it is gaining in popularity. It's going to be another feather in TCU's cap getting this additional exposure.

in agreement with ponydawg...down here in aggieland the talk is how A&M made Texas blink. The reality is that the SEC, while giving the impression of moving and shaking by dancing with the aggies really just covered their backsides in case PAC 10 was able to pull the trigger.

Big winner(s)? Baylor. The axe did not fall (yet), and the money will roll in for a few more years. SMU perhaps, with a brief reprieve, can position itself for an upgrade by this time 2011 or '12, when the next version of realignment hits. This will involve LEADERSHIP on the part of our AD and President, and a good bit of luck.

Big Loser(s)? TCU. They have done everything right as far as model (yield to Stallion on that term) and still are on the outside looking in...at least until MWC gets (or not) a BCS invite. Don't like the Frogs a bit, but they are the most deserving 'loser' in this latest scenario. Missouri took it on the chin as well, finding that they are not as 'wanted' by other conferences. Anyone want to bet Nebraska and Missouri get some Spurrier-style pile-ons by the other big 12 schools this next year?

A&M played their hand brilliantly, and came away as a much stronger candidate for breaking away from the UT trailer-hitch than any other. Since money drives this beast, they also get a pay increase without losing their chief rival.

So glad Texas, Baylor and Tech saw the need to maintain the Big 12 to remain 'loyal' to traditional rivalries..(roll eyes). Hope SMU hangs a hundred on the Sand Aggies and Bears in the next two years, just for old times sake.

pencil in 2016 when the ABC part of the Big 12 Contract comes up.

Stallion wrote:pencil in 2016 when the ABC part of the Big 12 Contract comes up.

When is June's contract up with SMU?

tcu's on field success combined with a lack of CURRENT marketability is a poison pill for them right now. the combination of a very tough opponent with lack of revenue (my assumption) isn't attractive. they're slowly drawing larger crowds and you have to think they're slowly creating fans but it should necessarily be a slow process creating a fan base. same problem could be looming for us. need to become the Miami (FL) of DFW asap...maybe airdrop t-shirts over the metroplex