SMU working to renew Baylor, TCU series

[Pony Boss]

Comparable season ticket sales for regional rivals:

TCU
2009: 13,000
2010: 19,500
2011: 22,500
2012: 30,000
2013: 31.636

http://www.frogsowar.com/2013/8/8/46013 ... -season-is

Baylor
2013: 23,564

2012: 17,320

2011: 16,830

2010: 12,849

2009: 12,362

http://m.wacotrib.com/news/higher_educa ... l?mode=jqm

SMU seems to be at around 10k right now after a 1-11 season. Notice TCU entered Big 12 in 2012. They jumped their ticket sales from 2009-2010 after the Fiesta Bowl year, while in Mountain West.
Baylor sales jumped after RG3 gave em home in 2010.

[RGV Pony]

9300 to be more exact

[LA_Mustang]

Goals:
2016: 12,000
2017: 16,000
2018: 20,000

[eastexSMU]

I understand Texas would play SMU in Austin, but will not schedule
a home & home with us now, so no deal.

[BaylorHistory]

Hopefully we find a way to make it happen every year (or most years if every year doesn't work).

The numbers for the three schools make the case even more compelling for an annual meeting for all three...

TCU vs SMU: 48-40-7 (TCU)
Baylor vs SMU: 38-36-7 (BU)
Baylor vs TCU: 52-51-7 (BU)

Instead of the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy it could be the Battle for the BMW Keys.




I wouldn't mind seeing some hoops in Moody while we are at it.

[sbsmith]

No, us "Schedule Wimps" don't think we should add A&M and another P5 team on top of Baylor and TCU, that is all... The perfect OOC schedule is one easy game, and then a game against either the MWC or MAC to establish G5 conference superiority, and then Baylor and TCU.

The perfect OOC schedule is us versus every Texas P5 we can get. We should only play MWC or MAC teams in bowl games.

[sbsmith]

Hopefully we find a way to make it happen every year (or most years if every year doesn't work).

The numbers for the three schools make the case even more compelling for an annual meeting for all three...

TCU vs SMU: 48-40-7 (TCU)
Baylor vs SMU: 38-36-7 (BU)
Baylor vs TCU: 52-51-7 (BU)

Instead of the Commander-in-Chief's Trophy it could be the Battle for the BMW Keys.






I wouldn't mind seeing some hoops in Moody while we are at it.

Battle for the Bible Belt

[West Coast Johnny]

Why would SMU want to play a classless university with a classless coach like Fatterson, in an ugly city like fort worth on an ugly campus with [deleted] yellow brick buildings?

[smupony94]

We are gluttons for punishment

[East Coast Mustang]

Why would SMU want to play a classless university with a classless coach like Fatterson, in an ugly city like fort worth on an ugly campus with [deleted] yellow brick buildings?

TCU's campus reminds me of a Communist Bloc neighborhood

[ponydawg]

Why would SMU want to play a classless university with a classless coach like Fatterson, in an ugly city like fort worth on an ugly campus with [deleted] yellow brick buildings?

Battle For the Keystone Keg

[PerunaPunch]

I'd like to see some consistency in order to build/rebuild some regional rivalry games that will draw interest from Metroplex fans (as opposed to die-hard PonyFans). Realizing that the quality of EVERY team ebbs and flows, our problem is that we scheduled the likes of TAMU, OSU and Baylor when they were middle of the road, and then by the time we played them, they were very good.

For out-of-conference, I'd like to see TCU, UNT and Baylor every year. UT would be on my wish list for the #4 spot, but they will never play us in D/FW as they have nothing to gain (to date, they have recruited D/FW better than we do) and everything to lose (status, bragging rights, etc.).

If we could fill Ford with our own fans, a logical choice for a 4th team would be Rice, but that wouldn't bring us much besides a good chance of going 2-2 OOC. I hate TTech, and don't want them fouling up our nice stadium.

[ponygrad90]

Given our West Coast Alumni Base, we need to schedule UCLA at the Rose Bowl or USC

We need to schedule UCLA in Basketball too

[Bergermeister]

Why would SMU want to play a classless university with a classless coach like Fatterson, in an ugly city like fort worth on an ugly campus with [deleted] yellow brick buildings?

Tradition.