Baylor rape effect

[ALEX LIFESON]

Kind of like it was for that Ill fated UCF game

Yep!

[tristatecoog]

Man.. Upon fact checking not only did we start ranked #3..but we opened at home vs UTEP and.. Drew 24,000

Was that at the old Cowboys Stadium?

[RGV Pony]

Yes

[Digetydog]

Man.. Upon fact checking not only did we start ranked #3..but we opened at home vs UTEP and.. Drew 24,000

Was that at the old Cowboys Stadium?

In 1985, scheduling UTEP was the "Liberty game. With road games against OU and Arizona on the schedule, they were the "easy" OOC game and not a team that people in Dallas were likely to show up to watch.

I went to a couple of games that year and the crowds seemed "normal." Texas Stadium was great, but it was way to big for our crowds.

[Pony Boss]

Man.. Upon fact checking not only did we start ranked #3..but we opened at home vs UTEP and.. Drew 24,000

Was that at the old Cowboys Stadium?

In 1985, scheduling UTEP was the "Liberty game. With road games against OU and Arizona on the schedule, they were the "easy" OOC game and not a team that people in Dallas were likely to show up to watch.

I went to a couple of games that year and the crowds seemed "normal." Texas Stadium was great, but it was way to big for our crowds.

It was an off campus pro stadium, in the 80s. Trying to compare SMU to the Michigans and Alabamas that draw 80-100k each game is ridiculous. Of an enrollment of 5k, bringing 20-24k is 3 to 4 times the size of the school. Meanwhile big schools with 25-50k undergrads bring at most 100k which would be twice their enrollment....try bringing 200k ppl to a game Michigan and then I'll be impressed.

[Pony Boss]

Btw population in DFW was 2.7 Million in 1980 so today we have 3x the people. 1980s are long gone. Welcome to 2016 guys.

[whitwiki]

It was an off campus pro stadium, in the 80s. Trying to compare SMU to the Michigans and Alabamas that draw 80-100k each game is ridiculous. Of an enrollment of 5k, bringing 20-24k is 3 to 4 times the size of the school. Meanwhile big schools with 25-50k undergrads bring at most 100k which would be twice their enrollment....try bringing 200k ppl to a game Michigan and then I'll be impressed.

lsu does it

[Pony Boss]

It was an off campus pro stadium, in the 80s. Trying to compare SMU to the Michigans and Alabamas that draw 80-100k each game is ridiculous. Of an enrollment of 5k, bringing 20-24k is 3 to 4 times the size of the school. Meanwhile big schools with 25-50k undergrads bring at most 100k which would be twice their enrollment....try bringing 200k ppl to a game Michigan and then I'll be impressed.

lsu does it

They do indeed.

[Treadway21]

Started the year ranked #3 ended the year losing to OU 35-13 or something?

was at the game. We scored in the 1st two drives and didn't have a run of less than 10 yards. Atkins and Dupard I believe.

I remember the OU fans talking and being shocked how we were running over them. Then the dam broke.

It was a nationally televised back when that really meant something.

[leopold]

As I've shared here before, we have a kid from Navasota that will be playing 2nd team OL for Baylor. He has shared that they plan to run the ball a good bit more than last year, which does not bode well for our defensive depth. They will go after everyone, and will run it up given the opportunity.

They better worry about winning first. I'm not knocking Baylor, because I know they are loaded in some places, but the offensive is now paper thin before with two potential starters in Hammad and Autry left (face charges) and Stidham transferred - they better not lose a soul in preseason. The D-line doesn't return a single starter and just lost ITS biggest recruit in Jeremy Faulkam and while they should be okay at LB and CB it's still Phil Bennett's defense we're talking about here - expect lots of points. So their projected record went from about 10-2 to about 7-5.

Against us, I think we hang with them until late in the third, early fourth. We'll see.

Aaaaand they've gone and possibly gotten another kid suspended against us. Probably not - I can see them suspending him for the opener against friggin' Northwestern St. which will have no impact on the game whatsoever - but he may be suspended against us as well.

But if you're a player on the team and you see this, and you're disgusted by it - as surely some of them will be - what are your thoughts? I mean, not all are going to care; but some will and after being called 'rapists' day after day the morale on that team has got to be shaky. Things like this could completely undercut any 'Us Against The World' mentality Baylor has got going for themselves.

They simply can't afford to keep losing impact players left and right. It's a shame we don't get them later in the year - their lack of depth and potential for continued issues is going to wear them down by the end of the year, just like our 1986 team ya'll are talking about, and they are going to be hurting by the second half of the season.