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What is so damn sacred about our Intramural Fields? We already have a nice soccer stadium, which with minor improvements could be one of the nicest in the NCAA. And it already has a NCAA quality track built on it. There are two prime open fields on campus, the current football practice field and the intermural field. Both are very visible (Library, Mockingbird Lane) so we could plaster the IPF with graphics and schedules and it would function as a SMU billboard that the public would see. There are about six Dallas and UP public parks within three miles for the Greeks to play grab-arse on. Too much hemming and hawing about this, pick one and do it!

SMUer wrote:What is so damn sacred about our Intramural Fields? We already have a nice soccer stadium, which with minor improvements could be one of the nicest in the NCAA. And it already has a NCAA quality track built on it. There are two prime open fields on campus, the current football practice field and the intermural field. Both are very visible (Library, Mockingbird Lane) so we could plaster the IPF with graphics and schedules and it would function as a SMU billboard that the public would see. There are about six Dallas and UP public parks within three miles for the Greeks to play grab-arse on. Too much hemming and hawing about this, pick one and do it!

Agreed.

I think we need big 12 money to build a soccer stadium since we know all sports below football don't make anything. If we had it believe me, soccer gets its deserved soccer stadium (I never go so assume by rank) and swimming should get a new Nat and peruna ballpark at dr pepper would be added later on. Unfortunately if you don't have large donor dollars its not going to happen

mustangxc wrote:

SMUer wrote:What is so damn sacred about our Intramural Fields? We already have a nice soccer stadium, which with minor improvements could be one of the nicest in the NCAA. And it already has a NCAA quality track built on it. There are two prime open fields on campus, the current football practice field and the intermural field. Both are very visible (Library, Mockingbird Lane) so we could plaster the IPF with graphics and schedules and it would function as a SMU billboard that the public would see. There are about six Dallas and UP public parks within three miles for the Greeks to play grab-arse on. Too much hemming and hawing about this, pick one and do it!

Agreed.

Why not use the existing football practice field. That seems the most logical choice. Doesn't disturb the sacred intramurals, soccer and track don't have to be rebuilt, and it is an area that football already controls. Is it not large enough? Also I would assume the indoor facility would be used for more than just football. I would hope both the men's and women's soccer teams would get time in the space.

I don't think its big enough. The practice fields are not even 100 yards and a regulation soccer field is wider and longer than football field

...and you certainly don't want to [deleted]-off the Meadows folks by spoiling the view.

The current FB practical field will likely remain open. Any sizeable facility would be visual pollution on the corner of Mockingbird and Bishop. If it is too small for soccer and a IPF would be warehouse looking (that is too small for FB and other sports to use effectively), the current field will be a practice field and/or intramurals.

Either the IPF goes where Westcott or the intramural fields are located. In any case, than means developing areas across the Expressway for Intramurals and/or soccer fields.

Peruna94&07 wrote:

mustangxc wrote:

SMUer wrote:What is so damn sacred about our Intramural Fields? We already have a nice soccer stadium, which with minor improvements could be one of the nicest in the NCAA. And it already has a NCAA quality track built on it. There are two prime open fields on campus, the current football practice field and the intermural field. Both are very visible (Library, Mockingbird Lane) so we could plaster the IPF with graphics and schedules and it would function as a SMU billboard that the public would see. There are about six Dallas and UP public parks within three miles for the Greeks to play grab-arse on. Too much hemming and hawing about this, pick one and do it!

Agreed.

Why not use the existing football practice field. That seems the most logical choice. Doesn't disturb the sacred intramurals, soccer and track don't have to be rebuilt, and it is an area that football already controls. Is it not large enough? Also I would assume the indoor facility would be used for more than just football. I would hope both the men's and women's soccer teams would get time in the space.

a big plastic bubble on mockingbird isn't going to happen. ever.

Yes, listen to Stallion. And listen to JasonB too.

This may be the most offensive thread ever.

There is a vast amount of progress needed. There are plenty of areas for improvement. And none of them has one thing to do with the boosters and their donations that got us a decent football coach. It’s their money, not ours. They can give to whatever or whomever they please. Just because they don’t spend their money the way others want them to means their somehow stupid, blind, or clueless. Thank goodness they chose to spend their money to improve our crummy team.

We have taken feeding on ourselves to an entirely new and unhealthy level.

SMUer wrote:What is so damn sacred about our Intramural Fields? We already have a nice soccer stadium, which with minor improvements could be one of the nicest in the NCAA. And it already has a NCAA quality track built on it. There are two prime open fields on campus, the current football practice field and the intermural field. Both are very visible (Library, Mockingbird Lane) so we could plaster the IPF with graphics and schedules and it would function as a SMU billboard that the public would see. There are about six Dallas and UP public parks within three miles for the Greeks to play grab-arse on. Too much hemming and hawing about this, pick one and do it!

The playing surface at Westcott is excellent, but the facility itself (lighting, seating, etc.) needs to be upgraded. The track, I gather, is not official size for NCAA events (a few meters short, I think).

Two points that need to be made here. (1) hiring June Jones allowed us to change the model. Without that, you'd have the Faculty Club continuing to dictate SMU athletics. By hiring JJ it made SMU so attractive that Larry Brown begged for the job. (2) We need to take the next step. JJ may not be the guy to get us there (Kyle Shanahan ought to be talked to- that guy has done some great things with the Redskins as OC with that stretch option). However the Shanahans must be friends with JJ because they keep drafting solid Mustang players.

And the more Mustangs June get's in the NFL, the more good players will want to play here

PlanoStang wrote:And the more Mustangs June get's in the NFL, the more good players will want to play here

How much longer will it take... A decade? We already have enough people in the NfL that should compete with ASU