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Outsiders perspective

Postby Hog Dad » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:16 am

I'm a Razorback but keep up with SMU because I have a child that's a student there. I think you should be very excited about the Chad Morris hire. Seems like a perfect match right now. I think SMU needs a young coach with a distinctive offensive identity, plus strong Texas ties. Morris has it all.

Congrats on the hire, and I look forward to watching the Ponies play on family weekends.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby SMU1523 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:21 am

Thanks Hogdad.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby SMU2007 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:33 am

feel free to watch them on more than just family weekends. we need all the fan support we can get!
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby Treadway21 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 10:45 am

SMU2007 wrote:feel free to watch them on more than just family weekends. we need all the fan support we can get!

Yes - and get your daughter to go more than just family weekend and homecoming (though she probably does already) and get her friends to go to all the games as well. The Chad says it will take everyone, but most importantly we need the students to buy in.

Thanks for posting. Good luck in hoops - hope to catch y'all in a rematch.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby Hog Dad » Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:00 am

Treadway21 wrote:
SMU2007 wrote:feel free to watch them on more than just family weekends. we need all the fan support we can get!

Yes - and get your daughter to go more than just family weekend and homecoming (though she probably does already) and get her friends to go to all the games as well. The Chad says it will take everyone, but most importantly we need the students to buy in.

Thanks for posting. Good luck in hoops - hope to catch y'all in a rematch.

She went to every game this year except Houston, but she never saw a 2nd half. :( I think that's been the case for the student section as a whole, but hopefully that's going to change.

I went to the SMU-Arkansas basketball game. LOVE Moody.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby ojaipony » Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:02 am

Hog Dad wrote:I'm a Razorback but keep up with SMU because I have a child that's a student there. I think you should be very excited about the Chad Morris hire. Seems like a perfect match right now. I think SMU needs a young coach with a distinctive offensive identity, plus strong Texas ties. Morris has it all.

Congrats on the hire, and I look forward to watching the Ponies play on family weekends.


Welcome to the board and thanks for sharing the perspective. I can tell you are a very wise man - Arky fan but put your kid in SMU. Very wise man indeed. :-)
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby Treadway21 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:05 am

Hog Dad wrote:
Treadway21 wrote:
SMU2007 wrote:feel free to watch them on more than just family weekends. we need all the fan support we can get!

Yes - and get your daughter to go more than just family weekend and homecoming (though she probably does already) and get her friends to go to all the games as well. The Chad says it will take everyone, but most importantly we need the students to buy in.

Thanks for posting. Good luck in hoops - hope to catch y'all in a rematch.

She went to every game this year except Houston, but she never saw a 2nd half. :( I think that's been the case for the student section as a whole, but hopefully that's going to change.

I went to the SMU-Arkansas basketball game. LOVE Moody.

Yes she wasn't the only one. It was hard to sit through some of those second halves. Even us die hards hard a hard time not leaving.

I am pretty confident the students will catch on and connect with HCCM and the student section will get bigger and stay to the end. When they have something to watch, they come through - see hoops.

Hopefully we will catch you on the BLVD. Don't be a stranger.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby NewAgeMustange » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:22 pm

I remember the student retention got a whole lot better when the team started winning more games than losing. More people stayed and especially more people lasted the entire game. compared to now or even 07
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby PonyFan32 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:30 pm

We left at halftime of the Homecoming game with us leading 13-0. Didn't really want to considering how well the team was playing, but the weather plus the impending doom of collapse was too much to overcome. Turned out to be the best decision I've made all year since I really didn't want to have to watch us lose on the last play of the game.

This way, close to half of my memories of the 2014 season (since I was only able to make it to 2 games) can be of us actually playing well!
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby Stallion » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:53 pm

Yeah I don't think that's the Culture Change Chad Morris has in mind with "Lock Arms" but cool story Bro
"With a quarter of a tank of gas, we can get everything we need right here in DFW." -SMU Head Coach Chad Morris

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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby DiamondM75 » Wed Dec 03, 2014 4:57 pm

Hogdad - you got your name in the sidewalk?
Just send 'da money.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby ponyte » Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:06 pm

I have a Hog Daughter and she don'ts go to many Hog games. She did attend a Hog MBB, at Moody this year. I don't think kids in general have the same enthusiasm for school football that they once did.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby 03Mustang » Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:08 pm

PonyFan32 wrote:We left at halftime of the Homecoming game with us leading 13-0. Didn't really want to considering how well the team was playing, but the weather plus the impending doom of collapse was too much to overcome. Turned out to be the best decision I've made all year since I really didn't want to have to watch us lose on the last play of the game.

This way, close to half of my memories of the 2014 season (since I was only able to make it to 2 games) can be of us actually playing well!


Best decision was leaving to avoid seeing us lose. Wow.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby Hog Dad » Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:15 pm

DiamondM75 wrote:Hogdad - you got your name in the sidewalk?

I sure do. Had a wonderful experience in Fayetteville.
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Re: Outsiders perspective

Postby Hog Dad » Wed Dec 03, 2014 5:16 pm

ponyte wrote:I have a Hog Daughter and she don'ts go to many Hog games. She did attend a Hog MBB, at Moody this year. I don't think kids in general have the same enthusiasm for school football that they once did.

Does she like going to school there?
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