Bring Back the Mayors Cup

by **Jackets N Pones** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 1:49 pm

Lots of SWC history here. Bring it back!!!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice%E2%8 ... ll_rivalry

by **smupony94** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 2:24 pm

We have Houston as a conference mate. No need to play Rice.

by **ponyboy** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 3:46 pm

I’d like to play any former SWC team, including Rice. Yes, lots of great history there.

by **PonySnob** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:00 pm

ponyboy wrote:I’d like to play any former SWC team, including Rice. Yes, lots of great history there.

Look at the attendance of Rice-SMU games in Dallas post DP.

by **ponyboy** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:08 pm

Better than HBU and James Madison.

by **PonySnob** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 4:17 pm

ponyboy wrote:Better than HBU and James Madison.

Reported attendance for James Madision was over 22K......last time a home game against Rice drew that many was for the first game back from the death penalty in 1989. The 2011 game against Rice supposedly had 14K in attendance.

by **smupony94** » Wed Aug 08, 2018 5:12 pm

ponyboy wrote:Better than HBU and James Madison.

We would have to play there - how is that beneficial. Not to mention their AD and President [deleted] on us as we left CUSA

by **CA Mustang** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:49 am

smupony94 wrote:Not to mention their AD and President [deleted] on us as we left CUSA

FWIW, they've changed AD (and maybe President) since then.

by **ponyboy** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 9:55 am

PonySnob wrote:
ponyboy wrote:Better than HBU and James Madison.

Reported attendance for James Madision was over 22K......last time a home game against Rice drew that many was for the first game back from the death penalty in 1989. The 2011 game against Rice supposedly had 14K in attendance.

Since you're playing that card, reported attendance for Rice in 2011 was 23,326

by **sbsmith** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 10:33 am

ponyboy wrote:
Since you're playing that card, reported attendance for Rice in 2011 was 23,326

It was actually 14,472

https://smumustangs.com/documents/2017/ ... df?id=8761

by **ponyboy** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:06 am

Wonder if that's not actual tickets punched on that pdf. Wiki for both teams says 23K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_SMU_ ... tball_team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Rice ... tball_team

by **skyscraper** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 11:14 am

Rice would be at the bottom of the list if we're wanting to add SWC teams back on the schedule.

by **PonySnob** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:43 pm

ponyboy wrote:Wonder if that's not actual tickets punched on that pdf. Wiki for both teams says 23K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_SMU_ ... tball_team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Rice ... tball_team

My number came from the media guide which is probably more trustworthy than Wiki.

by **PoconoPony** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:48 pm

[quote="ponyboy"]Wonder if that's not actual tickets punched on that pdf. Wiki for both teams says 23K

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_SMU_ ... tball_team

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Rice ... tball_team[/qute]

I was at the game and 14,000 is generous.

by **sbsmith** » Thu Aug 09, 2018 4:53 pm

PoconoPony wrote:
I was at the game and 14,000 is generous.

Yeah you could knock about 4-5K off that and get the real attendance. Very cold and windy that day.