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I went over to check out that recruiting website by David Garvin. On it, he had just done an interview with Mack Brown. Anyway, Mack Brown was talking about something a sports psychologist told him once. The guy said, "The commitment of your team and your assistant coaches will only be as strong as the commitment that the university has to your program and that the fans have to your team”.

That got me thinking..I really agree with that. I think the more support we show for our mustangs, the more they will want to play. That is not to say they play uninspired right now, but just that they will get more motivated if they see how much people really do care about SMU football.

That is an interesting quote.

As interesting as the quote is, it raises an even more interesting question which I have wondered about for years: Is a team's success due to its fan support, or is fan support due to a team's success? SMU won a lot of games in the early 80s without high attendance levels.

Mustang1991 wrote:As interesting as the quote is, it raises an even more interesting question which I have wondered about for years: Is a team's success due to its fan support, or is fan support due to a team's success? SMU won a lot of games in the early 80s without high attendance levels.

My guess is that has something to do with the 'throwing money at players' Corollary to the 'fan support success' theory.

It seems - from what I have read - that alot of teams in Texas (and elsewhere) threw (and are still throwing?) money at players; without necessarily having great success on the field.

My guess is that has something to do with the 'throwing money at players' Corollary to the 'fan support success' theory.

Remind me how much TCU was paying Kenneth Davis and the others in 1986. How was TCU's attendance and record during that time? At least we paid good players. Wacker's record at TCU was .410.

I don't agree with that quote. It's easy for Brown to say that at UT with 10.5 million fans at his beck and call.

All of you are overlooking the key phrase-"the commitment of the university has for your program-that's what makes a college coach smile. That's the lesson SMU has spent the last 17 years learning.. Fan support means jack if the university is not committed to doing everything possible to ensure you are competing under the best Model possible within the rules. That's STEP 1-before you hire the Coach. Any coach who is being honest rather than kissing up to their employer will tell you that the commitment from the university is the most important ingredient in building a program.

Geez Stallion, just say "I [deleted] told your sorry [deleted] so" and be done with it.

Where is the emoticon for being puking sick of losing?

Well, we appear to be doing that with the men's basketball program with the facility and renovations to Moody in the offing.

We also have a $53 million dollar facility and pretty good looking weight facility sitting off Mockingbird. Now, with the continued loosening of the academic restrictions, it puts us in a better position to get players we normally wouldn't get.

That said, a football program craves organization from top to bottom. That's what we're lacking. If you aren't organized, you don't win.

Get what players? With Saturday's performance and with the strong (please God, prove me wrong and an idiot for saying it?) likelihood of a continued freefall, we will be lucky to keep the recruits we have.

You know what sucks about being a sunshiner?

The reality of the desperation of it.