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Pony ^ wrote:At least SMU just sent the email blast about the game saturday. Zero mention that UCF is ranked though...so the casual fan won't give a damn about UCF

Disappointing that there wasn't a little more hype but then again...most SMU students have demonstrated how little they care about our football program. Not just picking on our current students. SMU has gone out of it's way to build a culture in the post death penalty era that is apathetic towards athletics. Only in the past few years with our basketball success and with Chad Morris at the helm in football have I seen any signs of life and hope for the future. I hope there is a good Homecoming turnout but I fear the "generation lost" will not show in any significant numbers. Sure hope I'm wrong.

This is an alumni problem, a dallas problem just as much as it's a student problem.

How about starting with the fact that SMU is off to their best start in 33 years!

SMULaxer wrote:This is an alumni problem, a dallas problem just as much as it's a student problem.

Is it a "Dallas problem" or SMU's problem that the city, for the most part, has failed to identify with SMU for as long as I can remember? I would argue that SMU's students and alumni don't support the football program very well by comparison with students/alumni of most public schools across the country makes this very much SMU's problem. Can't expect "Joe fan" with no SMU connection to care more about the program than SMU's own

Doesn’t matter until we beat a few blue bloods/former SWC foes, have 10+ wins several years in a row, and make it to a few New Years bowls. Until that happens, expect 1500 on a Friday night

RunningStang wrote:How about starting with the fact that SMU is off to their best start in 33 years!

not high praise.

Nacho wrote:

RunningStang wrote:How about starting with the fact that SMU is off to their best start in 33 years!

not high praise.

There are some on this board who are not at all impressed with 6-2, feel that we are no better than bottom feeders in P5, and claim that we could easily be 4-4. That's the spirit!

PonyTime wrote:

Nacho wrote:

RunningStang wrote:How about starting with the fact that SMU is off to their best start in 33 years!

not high praise.

There are some on this board who are not at all impressed with 6-2, feel that we are no better than bottom feeders in P5, and claim that we could easily be 4-4. That's the spirit!

I am happy being 6-2 but we have looked like crap beating teams with losing records.

Well, in fairness to those who say we haven't accomplished anything...Chad Morris' SMU teams have beaten only one AAC foe that had a winning record (Houston last year) so this team still has a lot to prove before we declare it more successful than JJ's best teams. Plenty of opportunities these next 3 weeks

Charleston Pony wrote:Well, in fairness to those who say we haven't accomplished anything...Chad Morris' SMU teams have beaten only one AAC foe that had a winning record (Houston last year) so this team still has a lot to prove before we declare it more successful than JJ's best teams. Plenty of opportunities these next 3 weeks

We are nowhere near as good as JJ's best two(2) teams. Our defense is very poor, and I can't think of one(1)
good linebacker since Morris has been here.

SMU21TCU10 wrote:Doesn’t matter until we beat a few blue bloods/former SWC foes, have 10+ wins several years in a row, and make it to a few New Years bowls.

That's all that's required? Why not demand a national championship or two while you're at it?

CA Mustang wrote:

SMU21TCU10 wrote:Doesn’t matter until we beat a few blue bloods/former SWC foes, have 10+ wins several years in a row, and make it to a few New Years bowls.

That's all that's required? Why not demand a national championship or two while you're at it?

Exactly, so SMU.

3 AAC championships in a row wouldn't be good enough because the AAC is full of teams that 'nobody cares about'

footballdad wrote:

CA Mustang wrote:

SMU21TCU10 wrote:Doesn’t matter until we beat a few blue bloods/former SWC foes, have 10+ wins several years in a row, and make it to a few New Years bowls.

That's all that's required? Why not demand a national championship or two while you're at it?

Exactly, so SMU.

3 AAC championships in a row wouldn't be good enough because the AAC is full of teams that 'nobody cares about'

Except Houston has shown it can get people to care about their program even in the AAC and TCU did it in a lesser conference.

CA Mustang wrote:

SMU21TCU10 wrote:Doesn’t matter until we beat a few blue bloods/former SWC foes, have 10+ wins several years in a row, and make it to a few New Years bowls.

That's all that's required? Why not demand a national championship or two while you're at it?

TCU and Boise did it. Now look at their followings. We have the worst fan following in FBS. That’s what it will take, not signs in the Dart busses. TCU didn’t go from empty stadiums in the 90s to what they have now because they had a better marketing strategy. They have their fans because they won, consistently, and won big games.

I don’t think that will ever happen, which is why I accept that we will always have terrible attendance

By 2040 I am hoping to be able to have a 3D viewing experience that can put me anywhere on or above the field from anywhere on the planet. Physical attendance will be an old metric replaced by analytics associated with viewership, duration, frequency, etc. #nielsen2040