1) 21 looked good at CB 2) jones will be gone soon 3) I finally got to attend a game at Ford. Best of all, my dad, who had a serious health issue this summer, was able to go with me. The stadium was great and the 'Vard was the fantastic.
Btw - finally saw the reason behind your name. Go Pickers!! My mom's family is from Robstown. One day, I hope to be wealthy enough to bride the city officials to repaint that GD water tower. Always liked visiting Calalen.
1) 21 looked good at CB 2) jones will be gone soon 3) I finally got to attend a game at Ford. Best of all, my dad, who had a serious health issue this summer, was able to go with me. The stadium was great and the 'Vard was the fantastic.
Btw - finally saw the reason behind your name. Go Pickers!! My mom's family is from Robstown. One day, I hope to be wealthy enough to bride the city officials to repaint that GD water tower. Always liked visiting Calalen.
Small world! They will never repaint that water tower. RHS moved down to 3-A a couple of years ago; shame because the Calallen-Robstown baseball rivalry was legendary
mrydel wrote:My silver lining (don't ever steal my category again Calallen) is that no one in Arkansas is going to laugh at me about our loss this week.
1) 21 looked good at CB 2) jones will be gone soon 3) I finally got to attend a game at Ford. Best of all, my dad, who had a serious health issue this summer, was able to go with me. The stadium was great and the 'Vard was the fantastic.
Btw - finally saw the reason behind your name. Go Pickers!! My mom's family is from Robstown. One day, I hope to be wealthy enough to bride the city officials to repaint that GD water tower. Always liked visiting Calalen.
glad you had a great time with your dad. One to remember though the final score is one to forget.
An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
nobody is blaming the students for our horrible losses. Quit being so hyper-sensitive.
the point is that SMU doesn't...and hasn't ever...had the numbers of rabid fans we see at so many other schools every college gameday. Granted we are a small private school, but there are other small private schools that do far better than we do in the area of fan support.
Nobody is criticizing the people on this board. We are all heavily invested in SMU's athletic programs, but look at your classmates and former classmates and yes...look at the current students. It hasn't changed. There's a small group that is there in the stadium well before kickoff, all painted up, making noise, supporting their classmate/players as best they can. But for every one of them, there are 3-4 (or more) other SMU students who either don't know or don't care we have a big game going on in Ford...or worse yet, are out on the Blvd because it is all about "being seen". All dressed up, although perhaps not in red because red just might not be in their color wheel.
Let's be real. We had a decent turnout yesterday for what turned out to be a really nice day (weather wise), but just go to smumustangs.com and look at the photo gallery and view of Ford from the north endzone. Pretty sparse. While that is not on the students, it's a refelction of SMU as a whole. Not enough rabid students translates to not enough rabid alums translates to our inability to pack the house for even the biggest games at Ford. And let's not kid ourselves into thinking people (recruits) don't notice. It's the #1 reason we were left behind when the BCS was created.
Charleston Pony wrote:While that is not on the students, it's a refelction of SMU as a whole. Not enough rabid students translates to not enough rabid alums translates to our inability to pack the house for even the biggest games at Ford. .
I don't think you can blame alumni entirely. Do you think the main group of people making up the fanbases at USC, Miami, or tcu for that matter are alumni? Guess again. At this stage, smu has given the community very little to make them want to jump on the band wagon.
