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SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby feelthehorsepower » Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:35 am

http://www.sbnation.com/college-footbal ... m-up-on-it

Sad...everyone in the media is making a field day on our attendance. Time to do something about it.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby SMU404 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:00 pm

You should see the article that one of the players wrote about the attendance a few years ago in the school paper. It ended up making it onto the front page of yahoo. I'll try to find it
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby Donnell88 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:04 pm

Several years ago the Philadelphia Flyers hockey team played a home game while there was a snowstorm outside. Even though the Flyers routinely sellout, only a few hundred fans attended the game.
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Postby SMU404 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:07 pm

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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby SMUer » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:19 pm

It would've helped if we had put everyone on the east-side instead of the west-side. Despite assurances, the reason behind our poor attendance was only mentioned briefly once or twice. The constant camera angle on the easy east-side looked horrible. They also took a lot of wide angle shots of the stadium. Even a sprinkling of people on the east-side would have looked better...alas, no.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby PonySnob » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:50 pm

Look at attendance in the second half of the Washington Redskins game yesterday.........
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby Rebel10 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:53 pm

Maybe FTHP will start back attending UH games. LOL.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby PonyKris89 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:56 pm

Hey PonySnob, I posted a comment to this stupid SB Nation story, and I mentioned the Redskins game. These reporters are just total Dumbasses for taking potshots at
a school for not showing up in the Effing ice… and they act like free tickets is supposed to make a difference. Duh
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby feelthehorsepower » Mon Dec 09, 2013 12:58 pm

Rebel10 wrote:Maybe FTHP will start back attending UH games. LOL.


Why the hell would I attend games for Houston? I don't live there and could care less about Cougar High.

I graduated SMU and will renew my season tickets, with or without June.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby PonyKris89 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:01 pm

And FTHP, I wouldn't say they ripped SMU on this, either, they just pointed out what happened. But, just the mere fact that they write story is just flat out stupid.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby PoconoPony » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:33 pm

Baylor game vs. Texas had the same weather conditions on the same day and they had a full house. Things are a matter of priorities.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby Donnell88 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:40 pm

Yeah, like they have better things to do in Waco.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby PK » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:40 pm

PoconoPony wrote:Baylor game vs. Texas had the same weather conditions on the same day and they had a full house. Things are a matter of priorities.

Baylor was playing for the Big 12 Championship and a BCS Bowl...we were playing to maybe become bowl eligible for a second tier bowl slot.
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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby feelthehorsepower » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:50 pm

PK wrote:
PoconoPony wrote:Baylor game vs. Texas had the same weather conditions on the same day and they had a full house. Things are a matter of priorities.

Baylor was playing for the Big 12 Championship and a BCS Bowl...we were playing to maybe become bowl eligible for a second tier bowl slot.


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Re: SB Nation rips SMU Football on attendance

Postby PonyKris89 » Mon Dec 09, 2013 1:53 pm

PoconoPony wrote:Baylor game vs. Texas had the same weather conditions on the same day and they had a full house. Things are a matter of priorities.



and how hard is it to get around Waco in icy conditions. Not even close to comparable to DFW traffic.
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