SMU Only Texas or SWC Team Not on UT Schedule

EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Tue May 09, 2006 8:09 am

Sure, I would love to play the Whorns, but only if we play better than we played last year. Last year's team would not have fared well against the Whorns. They might have offered us the crappy deal they offered TCU. Maybe, we just weren't desperate enough to take it. After 2010, perhaps UT will need to come to Dallas and will look again at playing SMU. At that point Deloss Dodds will be in the nursing home and whatever animus he may have against us will be irrelevent. A lot can happen in the next five years. Let's just worry about beating the teams that actually are on our schedule.

LonghornFan68 · Post by **LonghornFan68** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:05 am

jtstang wrote:Yeah, you convinced me. Being a d-2 school alum is obviously so much better than having gone to SMU, I don't know what the hell I was thinking.

It's not Div. II, it's Div 1-AA. Just thought I'd say it before mm1965 does. Heh.

White Helmet · Post by **White Helmet** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:15 am

Wouldnt it be hard for SMU to be the fasting growing state school in Texas? Last I checked, and my student loans agree, we were a private school.

westexSMU · Post by **westexSMU** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:47 pm

[quote="Sam_Houston"][quote="tmustangp"]...there is no reason that sam houston state should get to play them and we shouldn't...[/quote]Sure there is. Sam Houston State is a Div. 1-AA school, SMU is not. Sam Houston State has been in the Div. 1-AA playoffs in 2001, 2003 and 2004. SMU (Div. 1-A) has not even been to a bowl game in the past 25 years or won a conference championship since the days of the SWC. Sam Houston State is the fastest-growing state university in the state of Texas. SMU is not. Sam Houston State will bring a large contingent of fans to Austin since a lot of its alumni live nearby or in Houston. SMU's fans....well. Its alumni and student body are so apathetic towards the football program, it is sad. (I've read enough of the posts on this board to get a feel for what it's like there in Dallas) Sam Houston State has never received the 'death penalty' although a lot of folks who are incarcerated near the campus have! And...Sam Houston State will be more than happy to take the money that the Longhorns will pay us to play them in Austin. SMU doesn't need the money...does it? See ya'll Sept. 16![/quote] HEY COACH PB READ THIS ! Great Board Material ! Now our game with the "bearcats" will be fun !

gostangs · Post by **gostangs** » Tue May 09, 2006 9:58 pm

Fun for us.

abezontar · Post by **abezontar** » Tue May 09, 2006 10:32 pm

Sam_Houston wrote:
tmustangp wrote:...there is no reason that sam houston state should get to play them and we shouldn't...
Sure there is. Sam Houston State is a Div. 1-AA school, SMU is not. Sam Houston State has been in the Div. 1-AA playoffs in 2001, 2003 and 2004. SMU (Div. 1-A) has not even been to a bowl game in the past 25 years or won a conference championship since the days of the SWC. Sam Houston State is the fastest-growing state university in the state of Texas. SMU is not. Sam Houston State will bring a large contingent of fans to Austin since a lot of its alumni live nearby or in Houston. SMU's fans....well. Its alumni and student body are so apathetic towards the football program, it is sad. (I've read enough of the posts on this board to get a feel for what it's like there in Dallas) Sam Houston State has never received the 'death penalty' although a lot of folks who are incarcerated near the campus have! And...Sam Houston State will be more than happy to take the money that the Longhorns will pay us to play them in Austin. SMU doesn't need the money...does it? See ya'll Sept. 16!

I thought mean green gem said the fastest growing state university was NTSU.....you can't both be right

Sam_Houston · Post by **Sam_Houston** » Wed May 10, 2006 12:24 am

abezontar wrote:
Sam_Houston wrote:
tmustangp wrote:...there is no reason that sam houston state should get to play them and we shouldn't...
Sure there is. Sam Houston State is a Div. 1-AA school, SMU is not. Sam Houston State has been in the Div. 1-AA playoffs in 2001, 2003 and 2004. SMU (Div. 1-A) has not even been to a bowl game in the past 25 years or won a conference championship since the days of the SWC. Sam Houston State is the fastest-growing state university in the state of Texas. SMU is not. Sam Houston State will bring a large contingent of fans to Austin since a lot of its alumni live nearby or in Houston. SMU's fans....well. Its alumni and student body are so apathetic towards the football program, it is sad. (I've read enough of the posts on this board to get a feel for what it's like there in Dallas) Sam Houston State has never received the 'death penalty' although a lot of folks who are incarcerated near the campus have! And...Sam Houston State will be more than happy to take the money that the Longhorns will pay us to play them in Austin. SMU doesn't need the money...does it? See ya'll Sept. 16!

I thought mean green gem said the fastest growing state university was NTSU.....you can't both be right

From The Houston Chronicle:

Last fall in the 35 public Texas colleges and universities, there was an enrollment increase of 2,875 students. At Sam Houston State University alone, the increase was 975 students, or just over a third of the entire state total.

So what’s going on at Sam, with a 2005 fall enrollment of 15,308, the fastest-growing public college or university in Texas?

With the welcome growth in student numbers has come a corresponding increase in new faculty. SHSU President James Gaertner often mentions that SHSU's faculty-student ratio is 1:22, the same as it was when the school was founded in 1879.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Wed May 10, 2006 7:31 am

Sam_Houston wrote:
abezontar wrote:
Sam_Houston wrote:
tmustangp wrote:...there is no reason that sam houston state should get to play them and we shouldn't...
Sure there is. Sam Houston State is a Div. 1-AA school, SMU is not. Sam Houston State has been in the Div. 1-AA playoffs in 2001, 2003 and 2004. SMU (Div. 1-A) has not even been to a bowl game in the past 25 years or won a conference championship since the days of the SWC. Sam Houston State is the fastest-growing state university in the state of Texas. SMU is not. Sam Houston State will bring a large contingent of fans to Austin since a lot of its alumni live nearby or in Houston. SMU's fans....well. Its alumni and student body are so apathetic towards the football program, it is sad. (I've read enough of the posts on this board to get a feel for what it's like there in Dallas) Sam Houston State has never received the 'death penalty' although a lot of folks who are incarcerated near the campus have! And...Sam Houston State will be more than happy to take the money that the Longhorns will pay us to play them in Austin. SMU doesn't need the money...does it? See ya'll Sept. 16!

I thought mean green gem said the fastest growing state university was NTSU.....you can't both be right
From The Houston Chronicle:

Last fall in the 35 public Texas colleges and universities, there was an enrollment increase of 2,875 students. At Sam Houston State University alone, the increase was 975 students, or just over a third of the entire state total.

So what’s going on at Sam, with a 2005 fall enrollment of 15,308, the fastest-growing public college or university in Texas?

With the welcome growth in student numbers has come a corresponding increase in new faculty. SHSU President James Gaertner often mentions that SHSU's faculty-student ratio is 1:22, the same as it was when the school was founded in 1879.

What an unbelieveable spin of numbers. As just one possible HYPOTHETICAL, assume UT lost 25,000 in enrollment because students were fed up with the color orange, and subsequently the same 25,000 enrolled in UTAM because maroon was the new chosen color. Net increase in State schools of zero but still quite a bit more that SHSU. What a moron that reporter must be.

A-town Pony · Post by **A-town Pony** » Mon May 15, 2006 6:51 pm

First off, I don't have any desire to play UT.

I don't ever see us playing them again, unless OU/UT goes to a home & home series and they need a recruiting trip to Dallas.

I'm tired of hearing the Orangebloods down here in Austin saying 'SMU - are they still even in Division 1?' when I talk with them about football. It's rather sickening, plus I don't want to give them the satisfaction of pushing us all over the field and beat us like A&M did last year (went to that shillacking).

However, I'd be all for meeting them in a bowl game . . . .

Stallion · Post by **Stallion** » Mon May 15, 2006 8:04 pm

yeah its better to load up with Sam Houston St, Sul Ross and Quachita Baptist to prove we really are still Division 1. When did our fans become such wimps? I thought the stated goal was to be Top 25 in every sport-and yet many of you are too afraid to even put them on the schedule-EVER. Don't think TCU is afraid to schedule USC, OU, Oklahoma St., and many many others and actual BEAT them.

EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:28 am

Let's show we can beat UNT, TT, A&M and Baylor before we take on UT and OU. When we start beating them, then we can scream that the Whorns are ducking us.

Dark Horse · Post by **Dark Horse** » Tue May 16, 2006 8:55 am

Stallion wrote:yeah its better to load up with Sam Houston St, Sul Ross and Quachita Baptist to prove we really are still Division 1. When did our fans become such wimps? I thought the stated goal was to be Top 25 in every sport-and yet many of you are too afraid to even put them on the schedule-EVER. Don't think TCU is afraid to schedule USC, OU, Oklahoma St., and many many others and actual BEAT them.

Oh lighten up, Francis. Nobody is being a wimp. Just suggesting that the team grow before challenging the defending national champions. Calling PonyFans wimps because we want to beat who's on our schedule is like calling you a bad lawyer just because you spell OUACHITA with the letter Q. It might be wrong, but that doesn't necessarily define whether or not you're good at your job.