SMU's value to the BE

[East Coast Mustang]

Prediction: in five years SMU will be one of the best teams in BE. In ten years SMU will be one of the best teams in the country...top 20 year in and year out. BOOK IT!!!

Can I have some of what you're drinking?

[SMU_Alumni11]

H/T to Kate (sorry 94):

http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basket ... ain-thrive

SMU? What does SMU offer? It offers mostly empty football stadiums, mostly empty basketball arenas and limited recent achievement in either sport. A third consecutive plus-.500 season and third consecutive minor bowl bid is being viewed as a big deal, which seems plausible since the Mustangs previously hadn’t gotten to a bowl in the post-Death Penalty era. But given that 20,894 on average showed up to view this juggernaut -- officially, anyway -- it doesn’t appear the people of Dallas care all that much about the program’s turnaround.

SMU basketball, tragically, is worse. The program hasn’t earned an NCAA bid since 1993. There are high school teams drawing better than SMU’s current 1,596 per game. The Mustangs never have had a winning record in Conference USA; last year’s .500 mark was their best. Unlike Houston, which has Hakeem Olajuwon, Clyde Drexler, Elvin Hayes and Don Chaney in its past, SMU’s greatest player is probably Jon Koncak. Or maybe Jeryl Sasser. Or Quinton Ross.

There is nothing that suggests SMU can make the Big East better. There’s nothing that suggests SMU has anything at all to offer.

Read more: http://aol.sportingnews.com/ncaa-basket ... z1fo9p1siJ

The guys is a [deleted]. He has no clue about rebuilding sports programs. Hes just mad that he has to write for AOL. Does anyone actually read AOL news anymore? I havent read it since 1997.

[whitwiki]

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[Bergermeister]

Kate retweeted a link from the Sporting News. The quote is from SN's Mike DeCoursey.

...and we know the value of his opinion. Since she felt compelled to finish on a negative note, she could have quoted some guru from ponyfans.com - you know, keep it in the "family".

[mr. pony]

Prediction: in five years SMU will be one of the best teams in BE. In ten years SMU will be one of the best teams in the country...top 20 year in and year out. BOOK IT!!!

In five years, there will be no BE.