Quote sums up SMU's predicament in recruiting TX

[SMU_Alumni11]

Im not saying my idea is perfect but how would that not work? I feel anytime people do things selflessly it provides a positive pictures on that group. I feel we just need to do outreach programs to close the gap.

[SMUer]

When we had the tornadoes in DFW last spring, the Texas Freackin-Tech football team immediately drove all the way from Lubbock to help the clean-up in South Dallas. Did SMU football do anything? I certainly didn't hear about anything. Perfect example of a missed opportunity to make good graces.

[ojaipony]

The division on campus isn't race it is class. Poor and lower middle class white students are in the margins just like the black athletes or blacks in general.

I'm not sure anything can be done about that at an expensive private school.

Amen. That's true. I was certainly one of them.

[SMU_Alumni11]

When we had the tornadoes in DFW last spring, the Texas Freackin-Tech football team immediately drove all the way from Lubbock to help the clean-up in South Dallas. Did SMU football do anything? I certainly didn't hear about anything. Perfect example of a missed opportunity to make good graces.

Exactly. If SMU actually had a person with a marketing/business development brain you would have thought they come up with this....

[skurtn]

SMU_Alumni11 for AD, Head Football Coach, Univ Pres, and Pres of the U.S.
He seems to have all the answers.

[SMU_Alumni11]

Please! I'm glad I have your vote.

[ojaipony]

Prime's son is a Pony now. We got all the swag we need now. Just get Prime out to promote and that's all you'll ever need and SMU will never have to worry about being "cool" ever again.

[EastStang]

Georgetown is a lilly white Catholic school in DC, yet it somehow has managed over the years to land top hoops talent. That may be due to several reasons: (1) the DC Catholic schools give inner city scholarships so these players are already in the "system"; (2) their coaches for the most part have been African American (John Thompson and JTIII). We tried the DISD best friend route with Tubbs and kept getting close but no 5 stars. We tried the guy with Michael Jordan on speed dial and got no where in Doherty. So, going with the old guy who won an NBA and NCAA championship sounds like a last chance to connect. Once you start getting them, even after he retires, that trend continues. We do need to reach out to the South Dallas Communities with perhaps a flood of free hats and T-shirts.

[OR-See-Nee]

When we had the tornadoes in DFW last spring, the Texas Freackin-Tech football team immediately drove all the way from Lubbock to help the clean-up in South Dallas. Did SMU football do anything? I certainly didn't hear about anything. Perfect example of a missed opportunity to make good graces.

We are now building a world-class golf course in the southern sector.

So there you go.

[texasmustang10]

Yall are over analyzing this. It isn't "cool" because we haven't been to a tournament since 93? 97? And no one goes to the games because of that.