Why SMU can go to a bowl next year

by **RGV Pony** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:49 am

I woke up this morning & looked outside...and low and behold there's a white Christmas in the Rio Grande Valley. My neighbor's been here 30 years and has never seen snow in McAllen. If that can happen, my friends...ANYTHING can happen.

Merry Christmas Pony Fans

by **that's great raplh** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 9:57 am

we wll go to a bowl game next year - i can't wAIT!

by **Dement-ed** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 4:48 pm

If we do, I'm making the trip, whether it's to Honolulu (I wish) or Boise or Miami or anywhere in between. I will gladly forego all Christmas presents to see my Ponies in a bowl game.

by **Dooby** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:39 pm

Honestly man, in C-USA, my humble dream is that in our first bowl appearance in years we end up in New Orleans against the Sunbelt champ, and if that ends up being UNT, then all the better.

by **Hal** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 7:47 pm

I admit, I don't foresee a bowl appearance next season.
Whenever it happens, though - I'm there.

by **MrMustang1965** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 10:33 pm

Prediction: SMU returns to the Holiday Bowl in 2005. :shock:

by **that's great raplh** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 10:36 pm

the alamo bowl would be tough to swing

mobile is nice

and y'all know how i feel about new orleans

by **Diehard Pony** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:04 pm

MrMustang1965 wrote:Prediction: SMU returns to the Holiday Bowl in 2005.

Unfortunately we will never be returning to the Holiday Bowl. It's specific ties are between lower level bowl qualifying teams from the Pac 10 and the Big XII.

by **MeanGreenGem** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:55 pm

that's great raplh wrote:the alamo bowl would be tough to swing

mobile is nice

and y'all know how i feel about new orleans

Huh?

If the NO's comment was mean't as a negative, then you need to ask the last 4 teams who played UNT how the Big Easy is as a bowl host city. Some have said it even beat the Liberty Bowl for the overall experience preceeding the game.

One long time UCincinatti athletic official even after a loss to the Mean Green in the 2002 NO's Bowl wrote its bowl officials days after that game and said it was the best bowl experience the Bearcats had ever had.

Seems there are a few things you can do in New Orleans a few days before the game that keeps the players and fans pretty festive and playing inside the dome prevents weather disasters such as happened at the Fort Worth Bowl just the other night.

FYI: NO's Bowl officials are trying to urge ESPN to move this bowl game to a Thursday or Friday night game instead of the 2'nd Tuesday in December as it has been the last 4 years. When that happens, I will then make my 1'st NO's Bowl game! :oops:

by **ClassOf81** » Sat Dec 25, 2004 11:59 pm

All this NTSU stuff and you've never even been to a Darrell Dickey Invitational?

by **UConn/SMU** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 1:12 pm

A 6-5 record and a bowl appearance in 2005 is possible, but highly unlikely. I'll be okay with a 4-7 record. I'll be extremely happy with a 5-6 record.

A bowl invitation will happen eventually; we can compete in the C-USA West, and many of the non-BCS conferences are sending 4 or 5 teams to bowls. It's just a matter of time.

And the location? I'll take any bowl, but nothing compares to New Orleans. The only other American cities with character & personality like that are Boston & San Francisco. Boston has cold weather & no bowl. San Francisco has strange weather & the city doesn't care about college football.

New Orleans is the best place for ANY bowl. It should be the permament home of the Super Bowl.

by **GoRedGoBlue** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 2:34 pm

6-5 would be nice, but at 6-5, we aren't going to a bowl game, we need 8-3 to go...unless we are somehow the #2 CUSA team with a 6-5 record, not likely.

by **MrMustang1965** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 5:04 pm

Diehard Pony wrote:
MrMustang1965 wrote:Prediction: SMU returns to the Holiday Bowl in 2005.
Unfortunately we will never be returning to the Holiday Bowl. It's specific ties are between lower level bowl qualifying teams from the Pac 10 and the Big XII.

Was not aware of that. Thanks, DP. That's obviously changed since our last visit.

by **Diehard Pony** » Sun Dec 26, 2004 7:22 pm

MrMustang1965 wrote:
Diehard Pony wrote:
MrMustang1965 wrote:Prediction: SMU returns to the Holiday Bowl in 2005.
Unfortunately we will never be returning to the Holiday Bowl. It's specific ties are between lower level bowl qualifying teams from the Pac 10 and the Big XII.
Was not aware of that. Thanks, DP. That's obviously changed since our last visit.

No problem MM65. I wish we were in the Big XII so we would be eligible, not to mention a few other small benefits that come with the Big XII.

by **Jim Rome** » Mon Dec 27, 2004 1:01 pm

UConn/SMU wrote: .... And the location? I'll take any bowl, but nothing compares to New Orleans. The only other American cities with character & personality like that are Boston & San Francisco ....

I beg to differ. In terms of character and personality, give me:
1. Baltimore (seriously)
2. San Francisco
3. Denver
4. Washington D.C.
5. New Orleans
6. Pittsburgh (yes, seriously. Place has had a great facelift over the last 10-15 years)
7. Albuquerque (OK, not a potential bowl site, but a really great city)
8. Boston
9. Atlanta
10. Philadelphia

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