DONOR FATIGUE ?

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Donor Solicitation fatigue? I think that SMU has spent just about as much time and money sending me donor forms that I've sent back. I wish the MC would not share my information with the other school departments.


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Could it be that our deep-pocket alums are finally hitting a limit as to what they are willing to spend in order to keep SMU football afloat? Could it be that almost everyone in the admin / CofC actually wants Jones out, but we simply don't have the funds to buy him out next year?

Ask yourself how long you would continue to pour your own money into an investment that fails to see the return you had been promised. The CofC agreed to pay JJ's salary on the premise that he could increase our win totals, attract more fans, win big games and possibly get us to a BCS game. They extended JJ based on the notion that SMU would see increased revenue in the Big East conference of around $7-12M over what we received in CUSA. That money never materialized, and we've only received about a $1-2M gain per year in the new AAC.

Without increased ticket sales, without a major BCS-buster type season, without even a conference championship, and now without the revenue of the Big East - perhaps the few wealthy souls that basically subsidize our football program have decided to cut their losses??

Whenever I talk to anyone from the outside about SMU football (and this includes SEC/P5 team fans), people always assume that SMU as an institution has so much $, and that we have these oil millionaires and trust fund billionaires and we can afford whatever we want, be it a coach or facilities or whatever.

I'm not sure this holds true anymore. Not a panic thread, but I'm at DEF CON 3 right now.

I am so far from C of C material that I hate to think about it, but my wife and I have written checks to SMU athletics every year since the 70s. She has been pestering me since the DP to justify the expense. Earlier this year, I asked SID in a post here to give me some arguments to make to her, but he was offended at the tone of the question, and I decided that his invitation to have her call him was made sarcastically, so I decided that such a conversation would be counterproductive. Since then, I have convinced her that football deserves the money that she wants to give to Fine Arts for one more year. I suspect that similar discussions are going on at a much higher level in C of C households.

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Have heard from several people that once JJ's time at SMU is done, the school will be paying the head coaches salary and the budget for that won't be anywhere close to what JJ is being paid.

Well if this is the case then we should just close up shop.

Possible options for Ford Stadium:
1) Paintball arena (Duke Nukem-esque)
2) Giant go cart track
3) Race Track (limited to shetland ponies all named Peruna)
4) Robot wars (presented by SkunkWorks lab)
5)....

Time to kickass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of gum.

June came to kickass and chew bubble gum. He's all out of kickass.