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I made my 2nd game this season. SFA and Houston. Alyssa and one of her quadruplet sisters gave me and my wife 2 tickets on the east side. Stayed for the whole game. It was fun to get out for a night game in good weather. Long game. Nice to get some records like 72 points.

Hard to hang out for 4 hrs, i dont keep track but arent most college games 3 hrs? I stayed until the very end. Much enjoyed burying the Cougs for once.

couch 'em wrote:There was more than 5000, come on.

Its not like I said there was. When I started watching (because of work) at the 2nd quarter through to the end of the game, the cameras showed the stadium and it looked like 5000, especially since I didnt see any coog fans just a band. Not trying to insult, the waitress even said, "Wow that must be a small school, it only looks like couple thousand people are there. Why did they make the stadium that big?" Which I was like, just a bad year and on a thursday. This is just the perception of the non-SMU viewer.

joeybradford wrote:I made my 2nd game this season. SFA and Houston. Alyssa and one of her quadruplet sisters gave me and my wife 2 tickets on the east side. Stayed for the whole game. It was fun to get out for a night game in good weather. Long game. Nice to get some records like 72 points.

Every time you go to home games they do well. You must go to the rest.

If there were more than 150 students in the Student Section (not counting the Mustang Band), I'd be damned surprised. Word is that the majority of the students go to The Boulevard to 'party' before the game and then go to The Barley House on S.M.U. Blvd. or other drinking establishments instead of the game. Pathetic. Simply. Pathetic.

Glad I was able to be there in person last night to witness history: the most points ever scored in an SMU football game, SMU exorcising the UofH curse of the past 20 years (no wins in Dallas since 1992) and RB Zach Line breaking/exceeding Heisman trophy winner Doak Walker's TD record. Quite a night!

Well, while not many people went to the SMU game, the local Houston sports radio stations barely said anything about UH today.
Isn't UH supposed to be a better football team with more of a fan base.. according to some local UH fans that invaded this board?

skurtn wrote:Well, while not many people went to the SMU game, the local Houston sports radio stations barely said anything about UH today.
Isn't UH supposed to be a better football team with more of a fan base.. according to some local UH fans that invaded this board?

Bragging about having a better football team and fanbase than SMU is like bragging about being better faster than a guy with no legs. Like Dallas, Houston is a region dominated by Ags and Sips and no one cares about the local teams unless they're winning.

I think JJ and the team dug their own hole with that loss to Tulane following uninspired play v Big 12/SEC this year. Had we been say 4-2 instead of 2-4 we might have been well over 20,000. Of course, I think the students have no excuses. They are pretty pathetic compared to my days in football at SMU when frats and Sororities attended the game en masse.

We had lost to the worst team in football, have been offensively non-competitive in all but one game, playing a team with a decent record, at a stadium located on traffic nightmares 75 and Mockingbird, on a Thursday night when people are normally busy making money or taking care of home stuff.

I was lucky to get out of the office early enough to get there in the 2nd quarter

AusTxPony wrote:I think JJ and the team dug their own hole with that loss to Tulane following uninspired play v Big 12/SEC this year. Had we been say 4-2 instead of 2-4 we might have been well over 20,000. Of course, I think the students have no excuses. They are pretty pathetic compared to my days in football at SMU when frats and Sororities attended the game en masse.

The only way there would have been 20,000 + butts in seats for a Thursday night game was if we came into the game undefeated and ranked.

AusTxPony wrote:I think JJ and the team dug their own hole with that loss to Tulane following uninspired play v Big 12/SEC this year. Had we been say 4-2 instead of 2-4 we might have been well over 20,000. Of course, I think the students have no excuses. They are pretty pathetic compared to my days in football at SMU when frats and Sororities attended the game en masse.

My freshman year at SMU was 1996. I didn't even know they had a football team until I arrived.
I went to several games my first year (at the Cotton Bowl), then just slowly stopped. Beyond going to some games again after Ford was built, I didn't see a point. The Boulevard was alright, but nothing compared to how it is now. Hell, I even worked for the Daily Campus for a while, and I never even saw many articles about the football team to push or prime the team to get folks interested.

I guess I'm not old enough to have walked to school, up hill, in both directions.

Student attendance has been fairly pathetic for the past 10 years excepting the big games. Frats and sororities show up after kickoff to make their appearance and then retreat to the bars/houses at halftime. They do what they do, and with only 7,000 undergrads, you notice the subtraction pretty easily. Kudos to the students who stay every game and especially last night.

I am the first to defend the students, but I there were more students at the Barley House than the game. This was not a good showing, but at least the ones that were there were vocal.

as they panned the stadium in 1st half, I guessed the crowd was in the 16-18k range, but by late in the 3rd quarter, it looked like one of our many classic displays of a few thousand loyalists

let's hope we have nice weather and can draw at least as many for Memphis. That's the kind of game we should have been planning give-a-ways for since before the season started.

me and my son sit like to randomly sit in different parts of the stadium. Last night we camped for a bit near the student section. there were actually a lot of students that showed up in groups stayed for a bit and left. it was like a revolving door. Like i said the whole stadium looked ok in the second quarter. After that you started losing the students to beer, the elderly to naps, and little kids to weeknight bedtime. thats pretty much our fanbase. I kid. sort of.