Big Announcement 9/24

fifty · Post by **fifty** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 12:17 pm

Campus ice cream man routes? New uber pickup spot? La Madeline parking lot renovation complete?

Brooklynhite · Post by **Brooklynhite** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:28 pm

Greenwich Pony wrote:That's probably it, and that's a big deal but I really wish they'd stop this "Big Announcement" stuff. It almost feels like crying "Wolf" at times. I'm starting to roll my eyes every time I see this now. I'm not so much excited as annoyed. "Big Announcement" should be reserved major donors, a med school, a new research facility, a new (and improved) conference, IPF/Swim center, a huge increase in our USNews rankings (HA!)... something of that magnitude. It's not that we don't occasionally get things of that magnitude, but when mixed in with the other stuff (Sports memories? Really?) it loses it's punch and makes us look dumb. And while hitting a billion is a big deal, it's been done before elsewhere AND we were supposed to do that anyway with this new campaign. If the "Big Announcement" is that we hit our intended goal, that seems anticlimactic.

I completely agree!

blackoutpony · Post by **blackoutpony** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:38 pm

SMU2NFLEUROPE

BIGHORSE · Post by **BIGHORSE** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:55 pm

SMUfrat wrote:ugh.

SMU has a tendency to over hype super lame announcements.

Sometimes our big splashes, are just ripples in the pool.

Mestengo · Post by **Mestengo** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 1:58 pm

StallionsModelT wrote:June Jones statue.

haha
I already built that for him right across the street from his condo

https://youtu.be/XPIlpCtSpWw

Pony Boss · Post by **Pony Boss** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 2:08 pm

BIGHORSE wrote:
SMUfrat wrote:ugh.

SMU has a tendency to over hype super lame announcements.

Sometimes our big splashes, are just ripples in the pool.

Remember the 100 days til Baylor deal in 2014?

78pony · Post by **78pony** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:26 pm

Do believe it's a dual announcement:

1). Hit $1B

2). In honor of the above, SMU announces R. Gerald and Gail Turner Pavilions complete with waterworks to be constructed in front of every single structure in excess of 2,000 SF on the entire campus that does not currently have one. To be identified as: RGT Pavilion 1SW, 7NE, 3SE, etc. Number then campus quadrant system.

DanFreibergerForHeisman · Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:29 pm

Seriously, SMU has "boy cried wolf" me enough.

If it's really important I will hear about it when I hear about it.

mrydel · Post by **mrydel** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 3:52 pm

They do this every year and it is almost always very underwhelming

CoxMustangFan · Post by **CoxMustangFan** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:13 pm

DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:Seriously, SMU has "boy cried wolf" me enough.

This. I haven't been around SMU for long and even I'm sick of the Pony Pump and Dump.

PonySnob · Post by **PonySnob** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:15 pm

CoxMustangFan wrote:
DanFreibergerForHeisman wrote:Seriously, SMU has "boy cried wolf" me enough.

This. I haven't been around SMU for long and even I'm sick of the Pony Pump and Dump.

TWSS

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Junior · Post by **Junior** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 4:17 pm

Uber no longer on strike?

PonySnob · Post by **PonySnob** » Mon Sep 21, 2015 6:56 pm

Chad Morris and Gerald Turner just switched to GEICO and saved 15% on their car insurance.

smusic 00 · Post by **smusic 00** » Tue Sep 22, 2015 12:37 am

Finally discovered a spot free dishwasher detergent

NewAgeMustange · Post by **NewAgeMustange** » Thu Sep 24, 2015 9:44 am

hit a billion along with other 35 schools that have done it.

Auburn started a billion in 2012 and is 83% done.

Let's go USC, Harvard or Stanford and shoot for $6 or $6,500,000,000.

USC started in 2011 and has 4.6 right now, Harvard started in 2011 and I believe has 6 already. That's impressive.

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