mustangbill67 wrote:I do not understand how anyone can say they are an ardent supporter of SMU athletics and not contribute to the Mustang Club unless they are financially unable to do so.
That is precisely the kind of elistist snobbery that I expect from a Mustang Club member. Bravo, man!
I saw somehing on tv about one of our ex players who is a border patrol agent or some kind of law enforcement officer in sout Texas. Played in the early 90s. Maybe someone else saw that on tv also and can clarify for me. Cleary you don't have to major in criminal justcie to do that kind of work. So many misconceptions out there.
Didn't a lot of our football players used to get summer jobs as prison guards? On the job training beats classroom every time. However, criminal justice would not be a bad major to add along with a multidisciplinary major of Crime Scene Investigation. Criminal justice, biology, chemistry, physics, sociology. Believe it or not some of these kids want to be farmers and they go to A&M for that reason. I can hear the lambs bleating, Agent Starling.
mustangbill67 wrote:I do not understand how anyone can say they are an ardent supporter of SMU athletics and not contribute to the Mustang Club unless they are financially unable to do so.
That is precisely the kind of elistist snobbery that I expect from a Mustang Club member. Bravo, man!
Well, I am usually very sensitive to snobbery and cannot find in it a single word that would leave anyone to believe that the person who typed this is a snob.
jtstang wrote:Well I am not a member of the Mustang Club and anybody who cannot understand that I am an ardent Mustang fan can kiss my @ss.
You can be one without being the other, no matter what elitist Mustang Club members can or cannot understand.
That's all. Other than that, I'm perfectly fine with his statement.
Let me try it from this angle my friend. I give to the Mustang Club. If I gave hundreds of thousands of dollars perhaps holding back could serve a purpose but I do not give at those levels. I give because I love my school. You love your school but you consider not giving, I assume, some sort of a protest against the travesty with which we have all lived the past 20 years. (Forgive me for any improper assumptions) I, and I believe Bill also, do not combine the travesty with the giving. We give soley because we love our school, and I woud wager that you do not give for basically the same reason. Hard to explain on a message board but I too have difficulty understanding the coorelation between giving to my school and the failure of the program when my giving is purely out of love and not in order that they can run the program better. If I felt for a moment that my measley donation to the Mustang Club could make a difference in the overall program I would be with you. I just hope my donation might go towards luncheons in Little Rock where I got to voice my opinion of the program or other such items.
I know Bill and know that he was not condemning those that do not give but merely having difficulty understanding how one can hold out and still be a strong supporter. At least in Bill's case it was not elitest I can assure you. But I do understand your stance. I hope you will try and understand ours. It is just an enigma wrapped in a riddle. Not a slap in the face.
Hopefully in the not too distant future, winning will return and we can all donate to the cause for whatever reasons we wish.
I joined in 2000 when I was told that joining would get me good seats in Ford if I bought season tix. So I bought 11 of them, and was not happy with the seats, felt like I 'd been lied to. So I unjoined. Simple as that.
