Know This!

[PonyKai]

Was scanning through the upcoming game notes distributed to members of the press, and once again it's chock-full of posture on SMU's part. A simple, easy thing to do, obviously, but nonetheless, still nice to see. There's a section titled, not surprisingly, Know This!

SMU has the largest athletic budget
among non-AQ schools.

• SMU built a $60-million on-campus stadium
in 2000 and has an additional $80 million
committed to new facilities and facility
improvements.

• SMU has a history of athletic success at
the highest level. For 85 or its 100 years,
SMU competed in an AQ-like conference,
the Southwest Conference. Over that
span, SMU has won eight NCAA Team
Championships, over 100 individual NCAA
Championships, and 138 Conference
Team Championships, while posting 147
NCAA top-10 team finishes.

• SMU has won C-USA’s Directors’ Cup 11
times in the last 14 years. In the 2010-11
Directors’ Cup, which quantifies a school’s
overall success in collegiate athletics, SMU
finished ahead of Boston College, Colorado,
Ole Miss, North Carolina State, Utah,
Wake Forest, Oregon State, Washington
State, Mississippi State, Rutgers and Kansas,
all members of AQ conferences.

• SMU is on a huge upswing. Over the past
five years, football attendance is up 52%,
annual giving is up 82%, sponsorship revenues
have increased three-fold and royalty
income is up 63%.

• Led by June Jones, SMU’s football team
has earned consecutive bowl berths after
winning back-to-back C-USA Western Division
Championships.

• SMU is the only FBS athletic program
in Dallas, a top-five TV market and arguably
the most football-intense region in the
state/country. Dallas is the nation’s ninthlargest
city and part of the fourth-largest
metropolitan area in the nation, ranking as
the No. 1 visitor and leisure destination in
Texas.

• In terms of academics, SMU would rank
second overall among Big 12 schools, according
to U.S. News & World Report’s
2011 guide of the best national universities.
And SMU’s Cox School of Business
is one of the few schools in the nation with
three MBA programs ranked in the top 15
by Bloomberg Businessweek.

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/smu ... elease.pdf

[redpony]

Very interesting. Thanks for posting. All good info. Hope they are sending that out to all who are involved in selecting schools for their conferences.

GO PONIES!!!

[ponyte]

Nice to see SMU pumping all its successes and not just our Director's Cup domination. I Know I have rubbed a few Beloved Razorbacks fans' noses in our Director's Cup domination.