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Kynd Tulsa Phan · Post by **Kynd Tulsa Phan** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:01 am

I'm very happy for the Ponies and for all my Kynd Friends on Ponyfans.

This will be an interesting experiment but should prove fruitful for SMU. Now please try and get some OOC scheduled with sunbelt quality schools like Tulsa and Southern Miss. (added for RedPony)

My Butthurt has turned to fond memories of playing in 1/4 empty cottom bowls in the rain in 1996, getting beat @ Ford when SMU was 0-10 in front of 10,000 screaming blue hairs and all of the really good games and teams both schools have fielded in the last few years. I think Ill miss the hoops games @ Moody the most. I always loved playing SMU because I love SMU almost as much as I love Tulsa. Ive always known that SMU had tremendous potential.

I amm really looking forward to seeing some good teams come into Ford in the coming years. Schedule, Money and Exporsure wise this is a no brain decision by the school and I hope it works out great. When I moved to Dallas in 2002 and every year since I never in a million years thought SMU would be in a BCS league. That just goes to show what a first class AD Steve Orsini is. Now if he can just fire D'Oh the train will really get rolling.

In Trey's infinite love,
Kynd Tulsa Fan

ps: Embrace Mount-USA

that's great raplh · Post by **that's great raplh** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:05 am

Ktp. Ponyfans rookie of the year. Congrats.

NickSMU17 · Post by **NickSMU17** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:06 am

You want to buy my club seats for AFB?

Kynd Tulsa Phan · Post by **Kynd Tulsa Phan** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:09 am

NickSMU17 wrote:You want to buy my club seats for AFB?

Sure thing.

Im gonna buy some regular seats as well but ill take those so my Kid can get the whole experience

shoot me a PM Im out of the country being a winner until next Tuesday

1983 Cotton Bowl · Post by **1983 Cotton Bowl** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:27 am

Very random thought, but this post reminded me it was Tulsa's hoops team that first taught me what it means to be an SMU fan. I'll explain.

I'm going back to a game I attended at Moody in 1997 (or 1998?) and I don't know if anyone remembers it. My memory is a little foggy, so bear with me. Our hoops team went I think 10-0 in non-conference play that year before reverting to form in conference and going like 8-10. As I recall, we were on the postseason bubble at the end of the year and had a home game against a ranked Tulsa team. For those who don't remember, Tulsa had several ranked hoops teams in the 1990s and had a couple of good tourney runs. A very legit program. This was a critical game for SMU; a chance to beat a ranked team and impress the postseason selection committees.

Anyway, the game against Tulsa at Moody was a great one and came down to the wire. Woods, Sasser, and co. gave it everything they had and managed to take a one-point lead with something 2 or 3 seconds left. Tulsa called timeout and had to inbound the ball from under SMU's hoop, go the length of the court, and try to get a shot off in order to win. It looked like an almost impossible task.

During the timeout, I remember the SMU players (especially Stephen Woods) gesticulating and yelling to get themselves fired up. They absolutely had to make this stand and they knew it. Then, time was called and Tulsa inbounded. Due to some inexplicable total defensive breakdown by the Ponies, the Tulsa player who took the inbound pass was able to run the length of the court right to the hoop and make an completely uncontested layup as time expired. The Tulsa players stormed the court and the Ponies' dreams of postseason glory were crushed just like that.

It was shocking. I just sat there stunned. To this day that was perhaps the greatest example of "red-carpet D" that I've ever witnessed. No matter how many more times SMU plays Tulsa in either football or hoops, I'll never forget that game. It was right then and there that I realized what I was in for as an SMU fan. And the subsequent 14 years have proven that time and time again.

smusic 00 · Post by **smusic 00** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:35 am

I was there, too. That memory is very clear....and it still stings. You are right.

NickSMU17 · Post by **NickSMU17** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:39 am

1983 Cotton Bowl · Post by **1983 Cotton Bowl** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:47 am

Ok 1998, thank you. I think the 10-0 non-conference run was in 1997, so I probably got that part of the story wrong. But that play to lose against Tulsa ranks up there with "all-out" as one of the worst SMU sports moments I can remember.

huskerpony · Post by **huskerpony** » Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:54 am

Basketball season crosses new years.

That would make 10-0 non-conference 1997, meltdown not until 1998.