Hardin-Simmons

[copeydopey]

is anyone out there? cstv has no sound - just the background game noise.

looks like there is about 150 people there tonight.

[MustangSally]

Yeah, just background noise for me too, but better than the silence of the first few games. Definitely not the most rowdy crowd.

I dont get it, how do we end the football season on a 3 game winning streak, one of the better seasons in recent years, everyone's pumped up, can't wait for next year, yet we get only a few hundred to come support our bball team? And the bball team has had much better records in recent years than the football team. I understand they are two seperate sports and not everyone likes bball like football. It just seems like there could be some way to carry over the excitement of those last few football games and bring it into Moody. I just find it kind of strange that we will still have 8-12,000 fans on hand for a football game late in the season against Rice or Nevada, but we can't get half of those people to fill up Moody at the beginning of a bball season. We might be better than 3-3 if we had a few thousand fans providing SOME amount of intimidation/homecourt advantage.

Go Mustangs!

[copeydopey]

not many ppl get excited for hardin simmons. it might change for play and when hopkins returns.

[MustangSally]

True, I bet the Hopkins suspension did take any wind out the sails that we may have had. Hopefully things will pick up when he gets back.

I just always imagined how fun it would be if Moody were FULL of our own fans. I'd think that many of those people would want to come back, instead of sitting through a silent 800-in-attendance game. If there were some way to get one HUGE sellout at the beginning of the season, promote it to death, I don't know, maybe we could get something going rather than starting with 200 people and trying to build from there. OBVIOUSLY, I know the athletic dept doesnt prefer the lower attended games, but pull out all the stops to fill Moody for just one game early in the season and see what happens.

I knew many students who went to the games, but sat there silent, and then went home bored. I'd ask why they didn't cheer or get rowdy, and they'd say "no one else is, it's lame, I wish it were like Duke, that'd be awesome", so I've thought if we started out with a huge atmosphere, people would realize that we CAN have a bigtime environment, and they'd be encouraged to continue that throughout the season.

[Charleston Pony]

we haven't drawn more than about 1000 for these types of games in the past 20 yrs, but I agree it's disappointing to see what looks like only a couple hundred out there for the non-conference games this year

[copeydopey]

smu hasn't had a good atmosphere for a long time. (aside from the tech game a couple of yrs ago)

smu's motto -

keep doing the same, keep getting the same results...losing one fan at a time. very frustrating!

[ALEX LIFESON]

we used to beat these guy's by 40 points or so, they were on out tail until two minutes left. not very encouraging at all.

[mustangbill67]

This game should have been a blowout but we never put HS away to the end. At times HS looked like a West Texas high school basketball team of old, a bunch of short hustling white boys. I am not a student of basketball, but it seemed to me that while we played OK on offense (although this was probably because of the quality of the opposition), it seemed we lacked concentration on defense. Too many times, we gave HS wide open shots. Rack played pretty well and dominated under the basket. This team should look entirely different once Hop returns. We need a go to guy for scoring.

[MrMustang1965]

I was also in attendance tonight for the Hardin-Simmons game. Due to other commitments, it was my first (but definitely not may last!) SMU bball game to attend this year. Nice to see the Mustangs win one over the boys from Abilene.

Part of the reason that there may have been a smaller-than-usual crowd tonight is that some SMU fans, who live in the Park Cities, were probably over in Tyler watching the Scots thrash Marshall!

[mavsrage311]

don't forget about the Mavs, at least I know for me it's the reason I missed tonight's game

[Charleston Pony]

anytime your opponent hits over 50% from 3 pt range, you are either really over matched (I will say that's why SMU hit over 50%) or good defense is lacking (I will say that's why HS hit over 50%). Tough to get inspired when you know you can beat your opponent going 3/4 speed...and tough to get inspired in a scrimmage environment. I see the same 2032 were at the game (according to the box score). Hope that loyal season ticket base shows up for the conference games and that the students come out in force when they get back.

Long live the 1500

[Horseshoe]

As badly as the Ponies did some things last night (and some things, primarily on defense, were abysmal), we were still the far better team. Seemed like almost all of HS's points came on uncontested layups and those 3s. And give credit to HS -- those guys absolutely shot the lights out from the arc. Put them back in the human range of 35-40 percent at the 3-point line, and even with the poor defense, we're talking about a 20- to 25-point win. The defense can not, however, afford to play like that ever again.