Team Support

[Pony94]

All this lecturing to the fans on here and talk of marketing makes me laugh.

We're the proverbial Phil Bennett team wasting time thinking about swing gate PATs when we've got bad fundamentals. Fix the fundamentals (win consistently for multiple years, win a few shocker games against the big boys, win the conference) and all the other stuff will fix itself. Writing high and mighty sermons on Ponyfans, running commercials for a team that gets blown out by UNT, throwing the students under the bus... It's completely irrelevant.

Let's say we squeak our way into another garbage bowl in 2015. Stadium will be more full in 2016. Win the American in 2016. Stadium will be more full in 2017. Beat TCU and win the American in 2017... and so on. That's the only way fan support will get to where you guys want it to be.

Oh yes, it's so simple, you've just cured cancer with your one magnificent post. Thanks, why didn't anyone else think of that, now we can all be quiet.

ssssshhhhh. People who have been following SMU since before your child got on the team are talking.

This is all amazing to me. If you pull all of the negative posts from the board, traffic would be cut by more than half. A positive post gets turned into nothing constructive...grow up and support the team and drop all the rest of the BS.

[smusic 00]

Love me some BUS! I need a big hug.

[covok48]

Why is it always when we're at our lowest point, we as hardcore fans start turning on each other?

[SMUer]

Passion literally means "to suffer"

[Big12Mustang]

Snarky comments...

WOW
Mason reaches out to SMU players and asks for their best. Be full of energy, give it your all. Pop the guy in front of you... Here let me show how it is ... in practice... Doing the best he can for the university you got your degree from, and this is your response.

Tell me JJ gave 25 % of the effort and energy on Mas.

And you want to complain.

I'll be at every game this year. I'll stay as long as the team plays with maximum effort. They may not win but won't have the attitude of JJ. (Quitter)

I looked up old posts... September 2012 I was asking for JJ to get the shaft.. He quit working then. He Stole 4 million dollars from his " friends" in the circle.

SMU can and should be a factor in NCAA football. Not under the same criteria. SMU people are winners.. not whiners.

Get behind this team and coach. Let Turner know where you want to be in three years.

Wow. Like this post.

[smupony94]

bus for search committee

[smusic 00]

Passion literally means "to suffer"

Excellent and timely point.

[JoeKidd]

All this lecturing to the fans on here and talk of marketing makes me laugh.

We're the proverbial Phil Bennett team wasting time thinking about swing gate PATs when we've got bad fundamentals. Fix the fundamentals (win consistently for multiple years, win a few shocker games against the big boys, win the conference) and all the other stuff will fix itself. Writing high and mighty sermons on Ponyfans, running commercials for a team that gets blown out by UNT, throwing the students under the bus... It's completely irrelevant.

Let's say we squeak our way into another garbage bowl in 2015. Stadium will be more full in 2016. Win the American in 2016. Stadium will be more full in 2017. Beat TCU and win the American in 2017... and so on. That's the only way fan support will get to where you guys want it to be.

My post wasn't about marketing, putting a winning product on the field, etc. It was simply about supporting our program and I posted it on here bc I know we are the few that do care, but even many of the PF members (as can be seen by the replies to my post) seem to have given up on the team and the season. I was simply saying don't, the program needs the support more than ever if we want to turn it around in the long run.

What PonyTe did this week was extremely admirable and even for those of us that don't have his football bona fides dropping an email to the staff/team and showing up to games will mean a lot.

[footballdad]

All this lecturing to the fans on here and talk of marketing makes me laugh.

We're the proverbial Phil Bennett team wasting time thinking about swing gate PATs when we've got bad fundamentals. Fix the fundamentals (win consistently for multiple years, win a few shocker games against the big boys, win the conference) and all the other stuff will fix itself. Writing high and mighty sermons on Ponyfans, running commercials for a team that gets blown out by UNT, throwing the students under the bus... It's completely irrelevant.

Let's say we squeak our way into another garbage bowl in 2015. Stadium will be more full in 2016. Win the American in 2016. Stadium will be more full in 2017. Beat TCU and win the American in 2017... and so on. That's the only way fan support will get to where you guys want it to be.

Oh yes, it's so simple, you've just cured cancer with your one magnificent post. Thanks, why didn't anyone else think of that, now we can all be quiet.

ssssshhhhh. People who have been following SMU since before your child got on the team are talking.

Really? Maybe if more people like me had been around here longer, June would have been gone years ago. Maybe it was people like you 'talking' to hear yourself talk, that allowed the program to regress into it's current state?

[footballdad]

All this lecturing to the fans on here and talk of marketing makes me laugh.

We're the proverbial Phil Bennett team wasting time thinking about swing gate PATs when we've got bad fundamentals. Fix the fundamentals (win consistently for multiple years, win a few shocker games against the big boys, win the conference) and all the other stuff will fix itself. Writing high and mighty sermons on Ponyfans, running commercials for a team that gets blown out by UNT, throwing the students under the bus... It's completely irrelevant.

Let's say we squeak our way into another garbage bowl in 2015. Stadium will be more full in 2016. Win the American in 2016. Stadium will be more full in 2017. Beat TCU and win the American in 2017... and so on. That's the only way fan support will get to where you guys want it to be.

My post wasn't about marketing, putting a winning product on the field, etc. It was simply about supporting our program and I posted it on here bc I know we are the few that do care, but even many of the PF members (as can be seen by the replies to my post) seem to have given up on the team and the season. I was simply saying don't, the program needs the support more than ever if we want to turn it around in the long run.

What PonyTe did this week was extremely admirable and even for those of us that don't have his football bona fides dropping an email to the staff/team and showing up to games will mean a lot.

There are plenty of folks here who get exactly what you were trying to say. We need many more just like yourself and Ponyte.

[SMUer]

Yes, thank goodness for you three. The only three "real" fans SMU has.