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Postby smumustang1980 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 2:35 am

Everyone show up with a stuffed dummy. Hart should have these mass produced for us and hand them out at the gates... I'm sure we could have a factory in China give us a decent selection of men, women and children wearing SMU colors. For fifty-cents more we could add sound and have cheering dummies... This would be a first in college football history. We could invite Guinness and enter the record books! Just think: no more tens of thousands of empty seats! Ford would rock! :roll:
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby FriscoChuck » Wed Sep 11, 2013 5:49 am

They should be made in the image of Hart, Jones and Turner. And they should have one of the dummy hands stick up their arses.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby SMU 86 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 7:30 am

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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby PonyPlayer4 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:26 am

Just tarp 2/3 of the stadium.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby Cougar King » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:36 am

PonyPlayer4 wrote:Just tarp 2/3 of the stadium.


^Most realistic solution.



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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby LHS81 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:41 am

Cougar King wrote:
PonyPlayer4 wrote:Just tarp 2/3 of the stadium.


^Most realistic solution.



I heard winning works too.



25,000 in a new 40,000 seat stadium will need a lot of tarps
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby East Coast Mustang » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:47 am

That rejection letter that Cougar King got from SMU must have really stung him.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby lwjr » Wed Sep 11, 2013 9:52 am

Give a ways. Posters of the geldings with targets on them, let the kids and adults throw darts for prizes. I know the geldings are gone it would still be fun
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby Cougar King » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:27 am

LHS81 wrote:

25,000 in a new 40,000 seat stadium will need a lot of tarps



We had more than 25k playing off campus against an FCS team a few weeks ago while coming off a losing season including a loss to Texas State and Smoo. So we will average somewhere between 38k-41k next season when the stadium is done. Unlike SMU, we can actually sell out a stadium and best believe we will have 35-40k at our game next week. We will obviously sell out BBVA against Memphis and if we are 5-0 against BYU like many are predicting, then expect no less than 45-50k in Reliant.


East Coast Mustang wrote:That rejection letter that Cougar King got from SMU must have really stung him.


I never applied to SMU. The culture there isn't one I'm very fond of to say the least.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby LHS81 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:29 am

Cougar King wrote:
LHS81 wrote:

25,000 in a new 40,000 seat stadium will need a lot of tarps



We got more than that playing off campus against an FCS team. Unlike SMU, we can actually sell out a stadium and best believe we will have 35-40k at our game next week. We will obviously sell out BBVA against Memphis and if we are -0 against BYU like many are predicting, then expect no less than 45-50k in Reliant.


East Coast Mustang wrote:That rejection letter that Cougar King got from SMU must have really stung him.


I never applied to SMU. The culture there isn't one I'm very fond of to say the least.


Still gonna be an empty stadium in Houston. . . Hopefully, 7-11 has enough room for the 15,000 people with their ski masks.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby Cougar King » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:31 am

LHS81 wrote:


Still gonna be an empty stadium in Houston. . . Hopefully, 7-11 has enough room for the 15,000 people with their ski masks.



That didn't make a lick of sense. How would it still be an empty stadium if our games are going to have 35-55,000+? If we can fill up Reliant's lower bowl playing an FCS team, then what makes you think it will be empty when the real fun starts? We're playing at professional stadiums all around the city with no steady home this year and are still drawing double (and potentially triple and likely quadruple for BYU) Smoo's attendance despite the stadium being on campus and literally right next to The Boulevard. Again, people in Houston care more about UH than Dallas has ever cared about Smoo in a lifetime. Hmmm, I wonder why that is..
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby CenTXpony » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:35 am

Cougar King wrote:
I never applied to SMU. The culture there isn't one I'm very fond of to say the least.


Good call. You would have been wasting your $$$ for application fees in exchange for a rejection letter.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby Cougar King » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:36 am

CenTXpony wrote:

Good call. You would have been wasting your $$$ for application fees in exchange for a rejection letter.




Doubt it. Being a minority, scoring a 24 on the ACT and finishing in the Top 15% of your class goes a long way.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby East Coast Mustang » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:37 am

Yeah, and the "culture" at Princeton is why I didn't apply there.
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Re: New Idea To Increase Ford Attendance

Postby LHS81 » Wed Sep 11, 2013 11:38 am

Cougar King wrote:
CenTXpony wrote:

Good call. You would have been wasting your $$$ for application fees in exchange for a rejection letter.




Doubt it. Being a minority, scoring a 24 on the ACT and finishing in the Top 15% of your class goes a long way.



Should have tried NTCC. . . Oh, wait! You did!
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