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Please get A&M, Tech and Baylor off the schedule INDEFINITELY. Unless they pay us $1.5-2 million to come play at their place. A stadium full of Aggie fans (who left at halftime because the game was so non-competitive) does NOTHING for us. We make MORE MONEY playing them on the road ONLY.

Enough is enough. Play private schools and service academies and Power 5 teams on the road for cash. Copeland and Orsini had NO CONCEPT of scheduling. NONE. ZERO. Time to change that. And NOW!

And, while we are at it, buy out the UNT series. All of it. Kill it. Somehow some way.

SMU vs. Original Big 12 South since 1989:

Opponent: W-L [Scoring Margin]
Baylor: 0-11 [-34.3]
Oklahoma: 0-1 [-14.0]
Oklahoma State: 0-3 [-44.7]
Texas: 0-7 [-30.0]
Texas A&M: 0-11-1 [-33.8]
Texas Tech: 0-15 [-26.6]

TOTAL: 0-48-1 [-30.7]

How has June done against any team with a winning record. There are only so many FCS teams we can schedule.

Hell, we barely beat Montana State and SFA. Avoid those games, if at all possible. They draw about 8,700 fans.

And who are we supposed to schedule? Hell let's just drop down to FCS since you're scared of competition.

Not teams we are [deleted] 0-48-1 against. Over 25 seasons. Numbers don't lie.

newshound wrote:Not teams we are [deleted] 0-48-1 against. Over 25 seasons. Numbers don't lie.

Can you be a little more specific than that?

We are the cupcake

[quote="newshound"]Please get A&M, Tech and Baylor off the schedule INDEFINITELY. Unless they pay us $1.5-2 million to come play at their place. A stadium full of Aggie fans (who left at halftime because the game was so non-competitive) does NOTHING for us. We make MORE MONEY playing them on the road ONLY.

Enough is enough. Play private schools and service academies and Power 5 teams on the road for cash. Copeland and Orsini had NO CONCEPT of scheduling. NONE. ZERO. Time to change that. And NOW!

And, while we are at it, buy out the UNT series. All of it. Kill it. Somehow some way.

SMU vs. Original Big 12 South since 1989:

Opponent: W-L [Scoring Margin]
Baylor: 0-11 [-34.3]
Oklahoma: 0-1 [-14.0]
Oklahoma State: 0-3 [-44.7]
Texas: 0-7 [-30.0]
Texas A&M: 0-11-1 [-33.8]
Texas Tech: 0-15 [-26.6]



This is so true. We need to end this SWC reunion crap at the beginning of each season. Service academies and national privates are our best options at this point.

When was the last time we beat a service academy? And it appears we have lesser talent now. We are the cupcake. We need to understand this until we can upgrade. Right now we are the worst team in the nation. It is not who we play, it is how we play.

JJ did OK with Bennett's recruits but the lack of effort shows now.

Well said Mrydel.

Will the wife be here next week?

Why not keep TCU, and add UTEP, NMSU, UNM, SO Miss, La-Monroe, Rice, and after rebuilding add teams like Kansas or Wake Forest? We will not be ready for an access bowl for a few years, unless the new coach can work miracles. Plus, many of the teams I mentioned have alums working in DFW. We need W's, experience, and confidence.

Bingo.

TidePony wrote:Why not keep TCU, and add UTEP, NMSU, UNM, SO Miss, La-Monroe, Rice, and after rebuilding add teams like Kansas or Wake Forest? We will not be ready for an access bowl for a few years, unless the new coach can work miracles. Plus, many of the teams I mentioned have alums working in DFW. We need W's, experience, and confidence.

those are good suggestions and we need to keep playing TCU for sure. I have no problem with the long term deal with UNT (those who believe we are vastly superior and that it is beneath us to play UNT might have had their eyes opened recently) and while we might want to consider adding a game with someone we can be competitive with as you suggest (I would add La Tech, Texas State and UTSA to that list)), I want to continue playing our old SWC mates because these are measuring stick games. If we EVER want to compete at the highest level in football again, we have to keep scheduling, and eventually beating those teams. Everyone has to remember this year's schedule is loaded because it was designed for SMU to prove it was worthy of a BCS game in the 7th year of JJ's regime.

Or maybe we could get a coach in here that recruits better talent and works his [deleted] off to win so the record can improve against teams people actually care about us playing. You guys sound like you want to go play in the Sun Belt.

The answer isn't to lower the bar, it's to raise the standard.

TidePony wrote:Why not keep TCU, and add UTEP, NMSU, UNM, SO Miss, La-Monroe, Rice, and after rebuilding add teams like Kansas or Wake Forest?

Sounds great if the idea is to have 10k fans at Ford, plus we'd lose to several of those teams in our present state. A better idea is to just keep the schedule as is and take our lumps while we build to compete, we'll be much better off in the long run.