For those that complain of attendance

[Blunt Pony]

This home schedule is insulting to season ticket holders and fans. Why the hell would anyone show up to anything other than the OU game which was originally scheduled the same night as the national championship game!! Seriously, it is hard to convince even our best fans that they do not have anything better to do than watch..

Centenary
Toledo
Long Island
Hardin Simmons
Savannah St.
Harvard
TCU
and Oklahoma

I realize this may be the way college hoops works these days, and if we were starting Big 12, ACC, or Big Ten conference schedules after this it would not be so bad, but this type of schedule, with our conference is going alienate the basketball fan worse than it already is.

[Stallion]

I wish more fans across the country found these games insulting-College Athletics is headed in the wrong direction when these scrimmages are passed off as games. When the draw of cash becomes more important than the competitive struggle between traditionally similar universities then you know that the NCAA is in the porocess of destroying the very thing that makes athletics great. I've actually thought of boycotting games next year when we play these Division 1AA schools but don't think that will necessary since nobody else will show up anyway.

[Blunt Pony]

These games don't even generate cash for SMU. No one will show up! I know that Duke, Wake, etc., can get away with some cream puffs because the fans will be there anyway, and the payoff of the conference games is enough to get the season tickets sold out, but what is the upside for SMU? I for one did not renew tickets for this season after seeing this schedule.

[Waz]

The very very limited upside to this type of schedule is that in two years you will only know that the record was 15-15 vs 7-23, or in a fantasy 23-7 vs 15 - 15. That 23-7 will sell kids, the 15-15 will also do a better job than the 7-23. We need to win games to make this program look even remotely appealing in its current stages. No body wants to come to a program that plays great opposition but get it's head bashed in every night. We would have trouble enough competing in the Patriot League or the Ivy League where they don't even give scholarships. Some success early in a season also helps a young and relatively inexperienced team think they might have some ability, and in basketball much as every other experience, sometimes perceptions become reality.

We have enough to complain about without dwelling on this, although there is no doubt that these are not exciting games. Stallion is right when he references the NCAA, but on a different level, a lot of teams schedule down to hopefully slide in an at large bid or NIT invite. We are just farther down the ladder.

[Blunt Pony]

You are correct as the record goes, but there are teams out there that are easy wins people have actually heard of! I follow quite a bit of college basketball and these are some programs I have never heard of. Can we at least beat up on some teams that have a little name recognition. How the hell have we fallen so far! I know the answer, I just hate that it is reality.