Bottom line of this thread is:
It so hacked off some of you (of course not that you'd let anyone know how much because of how uncool that would be); but many of your constituency would be more likely to stay in Dallas and spare 3-5 hours of your weekend for an SMU/UNT Game Day over most CUSA schools AND you'd
...arrive at "YOUR" Boulevard earlier than usual due to more cars parking in your parking lots than you've seen since the last TCU game AND
...you'd arrive maybe earlier to "YOUR" Boulevard to check out quite a larger number of chicks you don't see when most school out of state come to your campus AND
...you'd see one of the BIGGEST tailgate parties in Ford's young history along with a bunch of green-clad strangers you don't normally see on your campus but who you do see at the water fountain at some of your places of businesses, your churches, your synagogues, your kid's soccer games, etc, etc, etc ) AND
....many of you (of course, I don't mean "YOU" reading this post by any means) would want to come see your Mustangs try to once and for all shut up many folks (just like me) and to prove to us that all those bowl games were a FLUKE (say that word with your best Randy Galloway impersonation, ie, "IT'S A FLUKE" from The Ticket, oh nevermind). Of course, we'd be trying to prove otherwise. BUT MORESO
...you'd be more likely to do this (in larger numbers) than say against a CUSA conference game with the likes of ECU, Marshall, Temple, Toledo, La Tech, Tulane, or whoever takes TCU's place. Those schools might bring their band, maybe a few of their football player's parents and possible their cheerleaders all totalling about 600 who would travel to Gerald D. Ford Stadium OR
YOU of SMU...... can play someone who wants to (just as equally) come kick some Mustang tail and would bring 12-15,000 paying customers wanting to see that happen. Do you like that "what college football is all about" scene OR the one with all the other aformentioned school's quite a bit more serene scene, instead?
Go ahead now and, uh, yawnnnnnn.......BUT visualize a sea of red-blue and green-white at Ford while your yawning.
HAVE A NICE DAY!
