huskerpony wrote:Now that I will disagree with you on. If they wanted him that badly, he could have told them I can interview tomorrow. He told us I can interview next month, if I recall.
That being said, what I have a bigger problem with is that it was breaking on the Big East announcement day. He owed us that courtesy. Now that may be ASU's fault, but it should have been made clear, just like it was to us about the Sugar Bowl, that if there were any leaks before today the deal was off.
4 years ago twitter wasn't the monster that it is no. Any idiot can tweet something and nowadays that passes for an official news piece. And it spreads faster than wildfire bc of fear that someone else has scooped you.
Ok this is getting ridiculous...I agree with Dutch on THIS ONE POST by him totally
If SMU Alumni and Students don't realize or understand that it is your responsibility and Job to put people and yourselves in the stands not Jones. Get over your feelings of Entitlement..... Stop freeloading... All those who sit on their [deleted] and wait for the Rose Bowl are just ignorant of their responsibility to a successful program. Michigan, Alabama, Florida put a hundred thousand in the stadium every game including their out of conference weak cream puff games.
Jones needs to do his job, focus on getting the Team ready for the games and not have to deal the distraction of the worst fan support in the conference.... I can't imagine it was in his contract to do that job too.
Stop the myopic what Jones needs to do... Think what we need to do..
This myth of SMU fans sitting at home not going to games is silly. There just ARE NOT that many SMU FANS. There are only potential fans. It takes a attention-getting product, ala TCU, and marketing to get them in and make them fans.
couch 'em wrote:This myth of SMU fans sitting at home not going to games is silly. There just ARE NOT that many SMU FANS. There are only potential fans. It takes a attention-getting product, ala TCU, and marketing to get them in and make them fans.
RSFan wrote:If SMU Alumni and Students don't realize or understand that it is your responsibility and Job to put people and yourselves in the stands not Jones. Get over your feelings of Entitlement..... Stop freeloading... All those who sit on their [deleted] and wait for the Rose Bowl are just ignorant of their responsibility to a successful program. Michigan, Alabama, Florida put a hundred thousand in the stadium every game including their out of conference weak cream puff games.
Jones needs to do his job, focus on getting the Team ready for the games and not have to deal the distraction of the worst fan support in the conference.... I can't imagine it was in his contract to do that job too.
Stop the myopic what Jones needs to do... Think what we need to do..
I can understand the coaching job doesnt sound like marketing, but Im assuming getting paid 2 mil a year which extremely above non-aq team pay grades mean a little more extra work. That or he needs to be at least a 10+ wins coach with recruiting classes in the Top 35. For people like me, after this slap in the face, he needs to show committment to the school and the program. By doing that, he could just take some parts of the day, go once a week to media outlets, the flag pole, etc to try to inspire students to become fans. Like people above said, SMU doesnt have that many fans. The fans show up to the game despite a season collapse, its the fact that we have potential fans out there and they need a charismatic person to come swoop them away on the SMU train.
couch 'em wrote:This myth of SMU fans sitting at home not going to games is silly. There just ARE NOT that many SMU FANS. There are only potential fans. It takes a attention-getting product, ala TCU, and marketing to get them in and make them fans.
Our alumni are also largely out of state and just can't get to Dallas every weekend for a game. Only one of my close friends from college is still in Dallas. (Although half of them probably don't know we still have a football team.)
