blackoutpony wrote:Big12Mustang wrote:
We are not/will never be a basketball school...so might as well start working towards fixing Football.

I know we just "tried" to make peace, but this might be the dumbest thing you've ever said after the basketball season we just had.
Did you attend a game in person? Moody blew my mind this year. I never thought I would see that kind of fandom from SMU. I think we sold out 8 games this year out of 11 at Moody with OUR fans and not the opponents for once. The only game in my time as a SMUer that I can remember being sold out at Ford where it was clearly dominated by SMU fans, and not 30%+ of the other team, was the SFA game in 2009.
What do you mean we'll never be a basketball school? Dude, right now, that's all we are.
Basketball school as in basketball being the only sport our fans come out to support and football taking the backseat forever. Texas is a football state, so I would prefer a million times we are considered a football school and make that a priority...even with an elite basketball team, I still think football should get a lot of love from the fans. Should we fire June and get a badarse coach that can take us to the big time? YES!
I went to every single home game at Moody for the season and the NIT. I love the atmosphere. I want us to duplicate that in Ford Stadium. I know it will take winning and most likely a change of the guard in coaching.
Being a basketball school, lowers the school's prestige and status in athletics vs. rivals that focus in football such as TCU, Texas, Texas A&M, Tech, Baylor. We don't want to be seen as being at the level of non P5 schools like Creighton, Xavier, Georgetown, Gonzaga etc. We need to strive towards P5 inclusion, not exclusion, and football steers the ship.
That's why I say we will never/should never be a basketball school.