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Ah yes, year six, 1 1/2 cycles of a roster, and 150 (about) Jones recruits later, if only that darn schedule weren't so tough!

PK wrote: We are not that far from being competitve with them.

SMU21TCU10 wrote:I believe our attendance would be up if we were 6-2 right now

Depends on what teams we defeated to get to 6-2. If we had beat Tulane, we would be 5-3. That wouldn't create any big stir. Winning one of the "tough" OOC games to get to 6-2 might generate a little more interest. We would need to be 7-1 right now (which means we would have only lost one of the "tough" OOC games) to have generated enough buzz to increase attendance.

If you are talking about 6-2 with an OOC schedule full of cupcakes, I don't see that doing anything for attendance.

PK wrote:

SMU21TCU10 wrote:I believe our attendance would be up if we were 6-2 right now

Depends on what teams we defeated to get to 6-2. If we had beat Tulane, we would be 5-3. That wouldn't create any big stir. Winning one of the "tough" OOC games to get to 6-2 might generate a little more interest. We would need to be 7-1 right now (which means we would have only lost one of the "tough" OOC games) to have generated enough buzz to increase attendance.

If you are talking about 6-2 with an OOC schedule full of cupcakes, I don't see that doing anything for attendance.

Winning no matter who it is against will always get attendance up. As Coach Jones said on video that we need to have a schedule where we can go 4-0 in OOC. Sounds like you have a problem with Coach Jones philosophy.

Charleston Pony wrote:Don't we have UNT on the future schedule? That's a game we can win and will bring a decent crowd...much better than playing FCS schools. Need to continue playing TCU and Baylor as long as we can

Very very good chance UNT beats us this year. What then?

Of course SFA beats us if they had their 1st string QB.

Next year is going to be rough. Texas Tech, Baylor, TCU, A&M in the first month then the Big East schedule (which isn't that great but a heck of a lot better than CUSA). I wonder if Boise and Louisville are thrown in there too.

Bergermeister wrote:

Billy Joe wrote:.....our non-conference schedule is way too tough for where we are as a program. Let's get 10 straight bowl games then we can talk about playing a tougher schedule.

The voice of reason.

I love the sarcasm, quite awesome I give you points for that!

SMU 86 wrote:Winning no matter who it is against will always get attendance up. As Coach Jones said on video that we need to have a schedule where we can go 4-0 in OOC. Sounds like you have a problem with Coach Jones philosophy.

Yes I do. I think it would be much better if we had a team that could go 4-0 in OOC regardless of who we schedule. It's not like we are scheduling Alabama, LSU, Oklahoma or K-State. We are talking about TCU, Baylor (who currently has a better team than their history would support), A&M (hard to beat, but not unbeatable), Tech (who had to go three OTs to beat TCU with a freshman QB and a defense made up of mostly freshmen and sophomores). We beat TCU last year and could have done so this year if our receivers would have caught instead of dropped all those passes. We have beat an SEC Arkansas several times and a big 12 Kansas with SMU teams with less talent then what we have now. No guts...no glory. And I don't think beating up cupcakes are going to win more attendance from the Dallas fans.

Look, this was a slow start for our team this year because we were breaking in a new to JJ's system QB with a new O-line...I would hope that is not going to be the case every year.

Oh yeah...this is of course just MHO.

Lets just drop to DII and we can DOMINATE

03Mustang wrote:Lets just drop to DII and we can DOMINATE

I know you are kidding but there are those in adm that would like nothing better

Actually if we halfasz this level we would halfasz that level and suck there too.

lwjr wrote:

03Mustang wrote:Lets just drop to DII and we can DOMINATE

I know you are kidding but there are those in adm that would like nothing better

and I know what you're saying but you're wrong, they want D-III non-scholarship more

Hopefully those guys are few and far between at this point, although I'm sure they exist at almost every school.

SMU21TCU10 wrote:I agree. If we played 2 easy teams in place of Baylor and A&M (always want to play TCU) I believe our attendance would be up if we were 6-2 right now and were having 9 win seasons instead of 7. Boise plays one good team a year.

6-2 would up the attendance..... You mean like being 5-1 last year coming off a win against a ranked TCU team and playing the defending conference champion upped attendance?

If you can't run with the big dogs then don't get off the damn porch. This is yr. 5- we should have been competitive with Baylor, aTm and TCwho but we saw the true results of our $2 mill dollar coach.

Very, very successful programs in D1-AA don't draw more than us. Wins bring attendance but they have to be meaningful wins.

If UNT went undefeated every year in sunbelt.....who cares. If they go undefeated beating some teams that matter I will take notice. May go to a game.