Road trip to San Antonio ?

[Stallion]

Labor Day Weekend-it could be Sunday again-the week before NFL starts. Could be a fun 3 day weekend

[Statler]

Labor Day Weekend-it could be Sunday again-the week before NFL starts. Could be a fun 3 day weekend

NFL will be shut down on a lock out by the owners

[RE Tycoon]

I heard this was orchestrated by ESPN looking for intriguing opening week match ups. Not sure how this effects our home game with Agg, but I wouldn't be surprised if we get screwed. I'd much rather play in SA then the [deleted] can in CS.

If a home game against Agg means a stadium 70% full of hicks doing their gay cheers, I'd rather not suffer the embarrassment. I'd hope SMU fans step up and take the opportunity to buy tickets first, but I've seen that story play out before and it doesn't end well for us.

Either way, they need to pull the trigger soon so I can make appropriate plans.

[lwjr]

Why is the world would they do that?...they get the gate reciepts at home and am sure SMU wouldnt be a great draw at San Antonio....yet.

They sell out here when they play here. Plus it is a great recruiting tool. It also makes sense they would rather come here than play at Ford. These are the only reasons I can think of. From SMU's point of view we are better off in San Antonio than at A&M.

It would be a good recruiting tool, if Mike Sherman could recruit. They had a pretty poor recruiting season this year. Good grief, Tech out recruited them this year!

[San Antonio Mustang]

Statler, I am trying to understand your point. Currently we are scheduled to play A&M in College Station next Sept. and then the following year at our stadium. How does moving this year's game from College Station to San Antonio work against SMU. Sure there will be more Aggie fans than SMU fans in San Antonio, but not as many as would be in College Station. It seems to me that A&M would be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory - not SMU. Can you explain your reasoning.

[ponyscott]

Statler, I am trying to understand your point. Currently we are scheduled to play A&M in College Station next Sept. and then the following year at our stadium. How does moving this year's game from College Station to San Antonio work against SMU. Sure there will be more Aggie fans than SMU fans in San Antonio, but not as many as would be in College Station. It seems to me that A&M would be snatching defeat from the jaws of victory - not SMU. Can you explain your reasoning.

It does sound like a 'package' deal where the game moves next year and the following year the Ford game goes to Kyle Field. SMU will never win these type of arrangements....the big schools will always want out of the Ford date. Who cares if its a sell out here?...it won't be enough revenue to TAMU to keep them interested. I guess it makes sense as a package and if ESPN is involved then so be it.

[lwjr]

I'm sure when this series was schedule, SMU was still the doormat of CUSA and A&M knew it was a guaranteed win. Now the Ponies are winning and the Ags do not want to risk a loss. If that is the reason by all of this, it is nice that SMU is starting to reach that level.

[mustangbill67]

Play both years at the AlamoDome, if necessary. Beats a trip to College Stadium.

[SMU89]

Let's go for the W being the only game on Sunday and nationally televised.

[mustangxc]

Not to get us off subject, but how many usually attend the away games? I drove down for the Rice game and it seemed like SMU had about 250 +/-. The age of the SMU crowd seemed to be largely 50+...perhaps those that remember the good old days. I don't want to bring back the "Lost Generation" thread, but hopefully SMU can have some more multi-generational support.

I disagree on the Rice game. It was fairly well attended by the SMU crowd. Easily over 1,000. I would guess 2-3,000.

[mrydel]

We 50+ers are getting a little big. Maybe they blocked the view of the other 2750 that were there.

[Nacho]

a&m is #7 preseason according to si.
if we want an easy win why don't we schedule ut? they are now the doormatt of the big 12.

[RE Tycoon]

The only problem I see with the logic that the SA game becomes our "home" game, instead of the following year, is that if that is our home game, then we control the revenue, TV rights etc. Our TV rights are owned by FSN now, so why would ESPN be arranging the location for our "home" game and broadcast it?

Not sure if there is a loop hole for neutral site games, but I would imagine FSN would not let that happen.

[goldenstang]

The only problem I see with the logic that the SA game becomes our "home" game, instead of the following year, is that if that is our home game, then we control the revenue, TV rights etc. Our TV rights are owned by FSN now, so why would ESPN be arranging the location for our "home" game and broadcast it?

Not sure if there is a loop hole for neutral site games, but I would imagine FSN would not let that happen.

Supposedly there is some sort of loopholes for Showcase games. I can't really give a definition on that but think Oregon St. vs. TCU and Va Tech vs. Boise this past year. Basically the Season kickoff type games they are having every year at Jerryworld and the Georgia Dome. I read this somewhere but can't remember where exactly. Take it for what it's worth.

[gostangs]

Lets do both games at SA - that would be the only fair way to do this.

Otherwise - tell ESPN to shove it and keep our home and home.

also - I thought we would be over-run by froggies at home this year but I was very positively surprised by our crowd - we were at least 2/3 - so I would not count us out vs aggies - our fans show up when the game has any relevence - and tend to blow off low rent opponents.