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SMU needs to improve the game day experience. I know the best way is to improve that is the team but concessions and other areas need to be addressed. People love the Roughrider games and its not all for the baseball. The boulevard has been a huge success. The Rice game was flat out BORING.
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June Jones bobblehead day? :lol:
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June Jones waffle maker day?
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More students and young alums/fans, make it louder, sell beer (or if we cannot, then allow for in and out privileges during the game), use peer pressure to get people off the Blvd and into the stadium, collaborate with greeks, market the heck out of our program especially in UP/HP, engage more corporate sponsors, tell your friends/co-workers about SMU football, offer to take some folks to a game with you.

Marketing dept and BE $ should help, but some of this stuff is really just grassroots. Oh, and put a good product on the field and win big games.

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smusic 00 wrote:June Jones waffle maker day?

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ponyinNC wrote:

Marketing dept and BE $ should help, but some of this stuff is really just grassroots. Oh, and put a good product on the field and win big games.


That.

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LakeHighlandsPony wrote:SMU needs to improve the game day experience. I know the best way is to improve that is the team but concessions and other areas need to be addressed. People love the Roughrider games and its not all for the baseball. The boulevard has been a huge success. The Rice game was flat out BORING.

Actually I thought concessions were pretty good at Rice. I got a bad@ss corndog with a big lemonade form a concession stand on wheels I had never seen there before. Then got Campisis (I think it was Campisis) pizza. Cant complain about that. Also there was a Taco stand I saw.
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agree. Gameday presentations in football and bball are pathetic and on par with dIII schools.
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Funeral day?
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My first order would be to get rid of the f'n [deleted] "spirit squad" that paints themselves. I'm fine with them doing that...but whoever allows them to LEAD the team on the field is flat out ridiculous. It's childish.
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2nd order: Get rid of the obscene amount of cops that are at EVERY SINGLE section. I understand the need for cops, but having more cops in the stadium than people alone is ridiculous. Students don't want to stumble into the game and get arrested. Even if a person trips over a shoelace, the cops immediately question if they are drunk. This is true, I have seen it. Maybe this is why students don't come to the game...
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smusic 00 wrote:More strippers?

I must be missing something at the game
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Pony ^ wrote:2nd order: Get rid of the obscene amount of cops that are at EVERY SINGLE section. I understand the need for cops, but having more cops in the stadium than people alone is ridiculous. Students don't want to stumble into the game and get arrested. Even if a person trips over a shoelace, the cops immediately question if they are drunk. This is true, I have seen it. Maybe this is why students don't come to the game...

Not just students, but also alumni.

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