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I wore a SMU pullover to the Mav's game the other night and had several people, both fans in attendance and concessions workers, comment positively on SMU basketball. They were all very excited about having a local team that was good and across the board expressed excitement for watching SMU in March Madness!!

after years of being a joke, it was really cool!!

I agree, but on the other hand I was just getting lunch near campus and two students in line behind me were talking about having seen LB on campus walking and then they transitioned to talking about the game in Florida tomorrow.

On the plus side, when I told them the game was here they immediately started talking about stub hub or calling a guy who usually has tickets. Just funny, as someone who is obsessed with it, to see people slightly out of step.

I can add my anecdote. I coach a boys soccer team. At practice I told a group of fathers that I had to cut out to go to an SMU game. To a man they said they were impressed and that they needed to see a game at Moody. None of these guys were SMU but all had heard about the buzz.

Pretty darn cool to be in in the ground floor. Still cannot believe it is hopping. I did not think it would ever happen. For the first time since the 80s it is fun being a Mustang.


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Treadway21 wrote:For the first time since the 80s it is fun being a mustang

This

By contrast, my wife and I were in Dallas on a football weekend last fall although our purpose was not to attend the ball game. We stopped in that grocery store at the Lovers Lane end of Snider Plaza and my wife spoke to several young men who were obviously students. Not only were they unaware of the football game but they did not recognize the name "Don Meredith" when my wife mentioned we had been in school the same time as he.

Some will say that this is another post to turn this into an 'anti" thread and maybe that is so.

But IIWII.

Go Ponies.

i'm happiest for the ones who can't remember when we were good at basketball. it has been harder on them because they have never experienced it. at least those of us of a certain age have our memories.

This is national but i was in a hospital in Albuquerque a few weeks ago (Alb loves their college hoops) and a kid at a cash register saw my smu pullover and said we've got a good team this year. just weird to get positive comments, i'm used to sympathy for being an smu fan

We are about to be Duke Southwest. Get used to it.

For those that follow local politics, 2 of 3 state representatives for district 108 (HP, UP, uptown, Preston Hollow-parts, Bluffview, etc.) have been to the games. The one that was an SMU alumnus is the one that has not. My wife (who is heavily involved in local politics) called him out yesterday as she entered the polls for early voting. His response: "Who cares? No one follows SMU basketball."

She said she laughed in his face and walked away.

Way to endear yourself to the masses. Granted she did have a T-Shirt on for the opponent's campaign (which she manages).

With that attitude, sounds like a classic alum. Probably has two Bachelors and a graduate degree.

Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:With that attitude, sounds like a classic alum. Probably has two Bachelors and a graduate degree.

lol

can I ask which one it is so I don't vote for him? That sounded so aggy like haha

2ndandlong wrote:For those that follow local politics, 2 of 3 state representatives for district 108 (HP, UP, uptown, Preston Hollow-parts, Bluffview, etc.) have been to the games. The one that was an SMU alumnus is the one that has not. My wife (who is heavily involved in local politics) called him out yesterday as she entered the polls for early voting. His response: "Who cares? No one follows SMU basketball."

She said she laughed in his face and walked away.

Way to endear yourself to the masses. Granted she did have a T-Shirt on for the opponent's campaign (which she manages).

There are two SMU alums in the race for the house seat. Chart Westcott went to SMU law school (was a classmate of mine) and I think Morgan Meyer went to SMU undergrad. Who didn't know I have a guess as to which one but I understand that might be my political bias.

If any of you watched the Arkansas-Kentucky game last night, you saw that when they were talking about Arkansas' chances to go to the big dance, they said one of their "quality wins" was against SMU. Historically, we would have been a "bad loss".

I wear SMU stuff around Austin. But nobody ever asks me about SMU. But I did sit next to the UT women's bball coach at Starbucks on 15th Street today. My team is better than her team.