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Cougar King wrote:

GiddyUp wrote:Funny how he lumps UNT in his new conference.

Lol I noticed that but I wasn't going to say anything. They're rooting for UH and SMU to fail and beg to come back to C-USA. they're mad that neither of us will allow them into the nBE/wherever we end up. So they're throwing around the terms "warped" "disillusioned" and "chasing a train that left them in 1996". I'm surprised that there aren't more NTSU guys who post on here.

MeanGreenMachine wrote:First, you guys are in meltdown over nothing. The same paths to the access bowls remain viable to SMU even after the jesuit order took their toys and went home. From a football perspective (and realignment has taught us that is what matters) you are just fine. If anything, you now have opportunities to create a new conference that will be better in football than before. I wouldn't be looking to leap from the Hunt Bridge or anything like some of you intend to.

Second, this is an even better opportunity to end your incessant wanderings from Boise to Providence and refocus on what you know works for you: strong regional ties with natural rivals based upon geographic proximity. It only makes sense that you want to be rivals with folks you see at the water cooler, not folks you might be in a conference call with in Hartford. Cease your wandering eye and refocus on your existing rivalries with Tulsa, UTEP and Houston. You have benefited from them in the past and they will serve you well in the future.

SMU has real chance to lead here and form a 21st century Western Conference. Here is the way I see it:

EAST:
SMU
Houston
Tulsa
North Texas
UTEP
Tulane (or maybe La Tech)
WEST
Air Force
UNLV
BYU
San Diego State
Boise State
Colorado State

The MWC schools would be thrilled to leave the crappy MW TV deal in their rearview. The new conference would probably get a decent TV deal itself because it delivers markets. Dallas, Houston, Denver, Albuquerque, Vegas, Boise, Oklahoma City, New orleans, San Diego, and a national BYU following. The excellent regional matchups gives ESPN or Fox solid inventory of games. The schools keep their travel expenses at a minimum. Moreover, it would be well positioned to pick up a Baylor or Tech if the Big 12 implodes. Last, it has a great mix of large state schools with big alumni bases (like North Texas, Houston, UNLV) and prestigious academic schools (like SMU and Tulsa). Best, natural geographic rivals can foster and grow (such ours only 30 minutes away)

So CHIN UP!!! The future could be great, if you just can see what is right in front of you.

squire wrote:Plenty of SMU arrogance in this thread. I can't think of an FBS football program that SMU should be looking down at, or laughing at this point, in spite of the 4 straight bowls.

CoxMustangFan wrote:

leopold wrote:

SMU2007 wrote:Tulsa is a prestigious academic school now?

Yes. It's a solid, small private school about the size of rice.

Do not for a second compare Tulsa - who, if you haven't been paying attention to has won the conference title in football AGAIN - to those schools. Their only problem is their size.

Don't forget the fact that Tulsa is a dying town.

SMU2007 wrote:Go independent? You are high.

Charleston Pony wrote:

SMU2007 wrote:Go independent? You are high.

what...you don't think schools would be lining up to interrupt their conference schedules by including a game against dear old SMU in Oct-Nov?

SMU2007 wrote:Go independent? You are high.

CoxMustangFan wrote:

RGV Pony wrote:You guys are forgetting Mazzios. Cmon man

Hell yes...and Cancuns (sp?).