JJ talking to Maryland. I don't blame him.
Posted: Wed Dec 29, 2010 2:27 pmI don't Blame JJ. SMU has the worst in stadium experience of any D1 team in the country. Sure the boulevard is fun, but going to the games pretty much sucks except for the hardcore fans that were there in the glory days.(who still mostly leave at the end of the 3rd regardless of how close the game is) My girlfriends whole family couldn't believe how lame and quiet it was at the Washington State I brought them to.(This actually goes back like 3 girlfriends, always got the same response: my high school games were more fun..) Same goes to all my other friends I have brought to games over the years. At the Marshall game my brother saw some SMU fans that were loudly cheering told to sit down!!
Seems JJ still isn't getting a lot of the recruits in he should be. Like the OL that was turned down last year after being accepted into other schools. Then to top it off everyone [deleted] about things like geldings or black uniforms! There has been a lot of schools this year wearing black for a game. Isn't Oregon wearing them in the nc game? TCU is wearing black and red in the Rose Bowl. Tech and Utah both wore black/camo jerseys. The problem is... No young fans. Smu lost 20 years of fans. So all we hear is from a few guys stuck in the 70's and 80's . Other than the TCU game we average about 200 students in the student section! Very Lame. Even my 4A small town High School had more. I was born in 85. Been to SMU games all my life. We moved in 95 and I only made it to a few games a year. The way it worked out I always seemed to make it to games we lost. Maybe thats because my dad only ever wanted to go see games vs old SWC foes or TCU. Even as a student in 04 and 05 I never saw us win 1 game in person! I just saw thrashings like 31-10 to La Tech. I did get to hear the last second hail mary against UAB on the ticket though! Like I said I always went to the wrong games . I almost went to the 05 TCU game but went hunting instead . Back to the point. Other than Sam Houston I had not seen us even win a d1 game in person since The 41-16 Houston win in 1992!!!! So to have JJ here is a huge blessing. It is amazing how fast people forget how terrible we have been.
There has probably been 100 times I have told people in Texas I went to SMU, and they had never heard of it. So I can't even imagine how few football recruits out of state (or in state) are familiar with the program. I cant imagine very many people not knowing where TCU is... JJ has done an amazing job recruiting, getting our name back out there, and winning games! I personally figured it would be 5 years until we could have a 9 win season. JJ has far exceeded my expectations. We have been the worst team for 20 years. So people [deleted] about 7 wins lose my respect. We should do everything we can to keep JJ and his staff!
Seems JJ still isn't getting a lot of the recruits in he should be. Like the OL that was turned down last year after being accepted into other schools. Then to top it off everyone [deleted] about things like geldings or black uniforms! There has been a lot of schools this year wearing black for a game. Isn't Oregon wearing them in the nc game? TCU is wearing black and red in the Rose Bowl. Tech and Utah both wore black/camo jerseys. The problem is... No young fans. Smu lost 20 years of fans. So all we hear is from a few guys stuck in the 70's and 80's . Other than the TCU game we average about 200 students in the student section! Very Lame. Even my 4A small town High School had more. I was born in 85. Been to SMU games all my life. We moved in 95 and I only made it to a few games a year. The way it worked out I always seemed to make it to games we lost. Maybe thats because my dad only ever wanted to go see games vs old SWC foes or TCU. Even as a student in 04 and 05 I never saw us win 1 game in person! I just saw thrashings like 31-10 to La Tech. I did get to hear the last second hail mary against UAB on the ticket though! Like I said I always went to the wrong games . I almost went to the 05 TCU game but went hunting instead . Back to the point. Other than Sam Houston I had not seen us even win a d1 game in person since The 41-16 Houston win in 1992!!!! So to have JJ here is a huge blessing. It is amazing how fast people forget how terrible we have been.
There has probably been 100 times I have told people in Texas I went to SMU, and they had never heard of it. So I can't even imagine how few football recruits out of state (or in state) are familiar with the program. I cant imagine very many people not knowing where TCU is... JJ has done an amazing job recruiting, getting our name back out there, and winning games! I personally figured it would be 5 years until we could have a 9 win season. JJ has far exceeded my expectations. We have been the worst team for 20 years. So people [deleted] about 7 wins lose my respect. We should do everything we can to keep JJ and his staff!