Participation / Attendance this Saturday?

[Statler]

Regis and Company will hit the Boulevard no later than 10:00. Tents, chairs and satellite should be up and operational about 10:15. First beer will be cracked open by 10:16.

No doubt we will be the first ones there for the fourth consecutive home game.

WOW!!!!!

Nine hours before kick-off. I guess we won't see you at the game and we will try to step over your passed out lifeless bodies on our way to Ford.

Hey, you can't be talking.. You are bringing Kool-Aid and Vodka! (He really is folks). Even Darth might try some just to get through the game...

In the words of Dr. Smith, "oh the pain, the pain."

[Blue Horseshoe]

At the beginning of the year, they made it very difficult to just get in and drop off your tailgating gear at the boulvard. I wonder if orsini will just send the Tailgating MPs home early...

[regis]

We are only going b/c my parents haven't been to a game yet this year (no tailgating this year - thanks SMU!), and b/c they wanted a nice quiet place where we could talk and catch up. Seriously. I'm not joking.

There's been plenly of tailgating this year. You and yours chose not to tailgate because you were not allowed to freeload any more.

SMU changed the rules as is their right. It's unfortunate that they did. But me and everyone else who bought spots on the Boulevard made the decision to play by their rules. It's not SMUs fault that you chose not to.

[LawSchoolPony]

^Yep, and when I visited the Blvd. twice this season, I enjoyed walking through the Blvd. AND the empty spaces. Funny how during my trip back to Ole Miss where tailgating is FREE - it was so much harder to walk through the Grove with all those "freeloading" tents and 60k in attendance at the game....thank goodness SMU has the policies it does, all those fans and tents are indeed really bothersome.

I'm not sad that we're not tailgating this year (it was a LOT of work), just frustrated that the policies seem to limit SMU. Of course, the playing on the field this year is the biggest limit to our success right now. Here's hoping we win Saturday vs. Tulane! Go Ponies!

[perunapower]

^Yep, and when I visited the Blvd. twice this season, I enjoyed walking through the Blvd. AND the empty spaces. Funny how during my trip back to Ole Miss where tailgating is FREE - it was so much harder to walk through the Grove with all those "freeloading" tents and 60k in attendance at the game....thank goodness SMU has the policies it does, all those fans and tents are indeed really bothersome.

I'm not sad that we're not tailgating this year (it was a LOT of work), just frustrated that the policies seem to limit SMU. Of course, the playing on the field this year is the biggest limit to our success right now. Here's hoping we win Saturday vs. Tulane! Go Ponies!

Here's a BIG difference.

(Math disclaimer--not for the faint of heart--Go ahead a skip to the end if you can't bear to look.)

Ole Miss's Grove is 10 acres according to their website.

Let's figure out how big SMU's Boulevard is. Assuming that the Boulevard is two city blocks long (approx. 528 feet) and we'll say it's 60 feet wide. That's 63,360 sq. ft. Sounds pretty roomy, right? Convert that to acres and that's approximately 1.45 acres. Not so roomy sounding anymore.

60,000 people across 10 acres. That's about 7.25 sq. ft. per person.
25,000 people across 1.45 acres. That's about 2.75 sq. ft. per person.

Seeing a problem here? Me too. Now realistically everyone isn't on the tiny grass median on Bishop, but I'd be willing to guess a majority are, and plus that's where most Boulevarders camp out.

(End of math section)

Ole Miss's grove several times bigger than SMU's Boulevard. I realize that SMU has tailgating areas in front of Dallas Hall and near Cox, but we all know that most of the action is on the actual Boulevard. All in all, SMU has a space problem. We don't have the viable option of having a free tailgating area, not with the limited space available. Is it right to charge several hundred dollars for a tailgating space? Maybe, maybe not. That's up to you.

[perunapower]

I apologize. My inner nerd got unleashed.

[bigdaddy08091]

it really has been much more than any college student could expect to endure to have to suffer through your third whole year of losing. How do you do it?

How do the STUDENTS playing the game do it?

Free tuition, books, room, and board?

I wish watching this "football" would erase my student loans.

That sounds like the student, gold card, gold lexus and condo!

[Statler]

it really has been much more than any college student could expect to endure to have to suffer through your third whole year of losing. How do you do it?

How do the STUDENTS playing the game do it?

Free tuition, books, room, and board?

I wish watching this "football" would erase my student loans.

That sounds like the student, gold card, gold lexus and condo!

No that is someone who was in the band, was at all the home games, gave it all they had, went to many away game, watched his team blow up game after game, endure losing and the pain that goes with it game after game, plays in the alum band home game after home game and still roots for the ponies like a lot of us still do.