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Treadway21 wrote:If they do this then I expect June not to complain about attendance.

June will just bring back the bus brigade! Just send a $1000 check made out to June personally, and he'll see to it that 3 or 4 local kids get to see a game. And it'll probably be the Montana St game. And when the kids see that atmosphere, they'll be fans for life!

That's pretty funny

June must have just finished penciling in his W's and L's in his annual "lets make a roadmap to six wins" meditation and saw Baylor wouldn't fit. What a loser. I'm growing tired of supporting a program that actually plans so they can acheive mediocrity. Pragmatic or not, that just isn't what sport is about...

Aside from the Texas FCS schools, I'd also have rather seen Grambling, Southern, Texas Southern or Jackson St provided they bring their band

East Coast Mustang wrote:I'm assuming they'll make this snoozer the parents weekend game in an effort to get a few more warm bodies in the stands. Hopefully the weather is beautiful and we bus in a bunch of kids for charity. I'm [deleted] about it, we all are, but playing Tech, Baylor, A&M, and TCU out of conference in one season is a lot.

We were begging to be in the big 12. Had we been accepted, we would be playing these teams, with the exception now of A$M, every year. There seems to be a disconnect here. On one hand we want to be in their conference, but on the other hand appear to not be capable of being competitive with these teams. Our coaches need an attitude adjustment. These are not warm up games that have no meaning, These are the games that are very important to the fans and need to be taken seriously.

Bottom 25 in all we do

PK wrote:

East Coast Mustang wrote:I'm assuming they'll make this snoozer the parents weekend game in an effort to get a few more warm bodies in the stands. Hopefully the weather is beautiful and we bus in a bunch of kids for charity. I'm [deleted] about it, we all are, but playing Tech, Baylor, A&M, and TCU out of conference in one season is a lot.

We were begging to be in the big 12. Had we been accepted, we would be playing these teams, with the exception now of A$M, every year. There seems to be a disconnect here. On one hand we want to be in their conference, but on the other hand appear to not be capable of being competitive with these teams. Our coaches need an attitude adjustment. These are not warm up games that have no meaning, These are the games that are very important to the fans and need to be taken seriously.

What's even funnier is that the same people touting the June Jones Miracle are the same ones pissin' down their pants about the possibility of playing a BCS-Lite schedule because deep down they know June Jones has failed to recruit the talent level necessary to compete at that level. What happened to all the Genius Evaluator talk? Then they attack those that point out the recruiting is mediocre and the recruiting strategy is a failure. Most schedules in SMU History have been tougher than this schedule and nobody died.Last year SMU played TCU, A&M and Baylor and strength of schedule was 68th-not exactly murderers row.

PK wrote:

East Coast Mustang wrote:I'm assuming they'll make this snoozer the parents weekend game in an effort to get a few more warm bodies in the stands. Hopefully the weather is beautiful and we bus in a bunch of kids for charity. I'm [deleted] about it, we all are, but playing Tech, Baylor, A&M, and TCU out of conference in one season is a lot.

We were begging to be in the big 12. Had we been accepted, we would be playing these teams, with the exception now of A$M, every year. There seems to be a disconnect here. On one hand we want to be in their conference, but on the other hand appear to not be capable of being competitive with these teams. Our coaches need an attitude adjustment. These are not warm up games that have no meaning, These are the games that are very important to the fans and need to be taken seriously.

My opinion is that if SMU was backing out it should have done so a year ago. With that said it's a brutal slate and I understand why they want out. The only GIMMES in league play are Memphis and maybe UConn, USF, or Temple. Everyone else is going to be tough.

WordUpBU wrote:My opinion is that if SMU was backing out it should have done so a year ago. With that said it's a brutal slate and I understand why they want out. The only GIMMES in league play are Memphis and maybe UConn, USF, or Temple. Everyone else is going to be tough.

How far in advance did Baylor back out of the game a couple of years ago?

Grant Carter wrote:

WordUpBU wrote:My opinion is that if SMU was backing out it should have done so a year ago. With that said it's a brutal slate and I understand why they want out. The only GIMMES in league play are Memphis and maybe UConn, USF, or Temple. Everyone else is going to be tough.

How far in advance did Baylor back out of the game a couple of years ago?

What game are you talking about? The 2011 game where we were FORCED to drop one due to the Big 12 losing teams? I imagine that would have been discussed in fall 2010 when it became known that we'd have to drop a game due to the Big 12 adding a league game.

The 2011 SMU game wasn't a voluntary choice. Realignment forced us to make a change due to the extra league game and we simply bumped the roadie at SMU game to the end of the series but will still play it unless I am mistaken. Most schools would take the road game away as you have to be a jerk to someone in that scenario. So drop TCU at home, drop FCS at home, or drop the road game and lose a home date? Pretty easy call for a money mindful AD.

We can't drop TCU, it's their SuperBowl.

bubba pony wrote: Our future looks bleak

Good gawd, man, get a grip. We're 3-1 in bowl games in the last 4 years and you're in armageddon mode. C'mon.

WordUpBU wrote:

Grant Carter wrote:

WordUpBU wrote:My opinion is that if SMU was backing out it should have done so a year ago. With that said it's a brutal slate and I understand why they want out. The only GIMMES in league play are Memphis and maybe UConn, USF, or Temple. Everyone else is going to be tough.

How far in advance did Baylor back out of the game a couple of years ago?

What game are you talking about? The 2011 game where we were FORCED to drop one due to the Big 12 losing teams? I imagine that would have been discussed in fall 2010 when it became known that we'd have to drop a game due to the Big 12 adding a league game.

The 2011 SMU game wasn't a voluntary choice. Realignment forced us to make a change due to the extra league game and we simply bumped the roadie at SMU game to the end of the series but will still play it unless I am mistaken. Most schools would take the road game away as you have to be a jerk to someone in that scenario. So drop TCU at home, drop FCS at home, or drop the road game and lose a home date? Pretty easy call for a money mindful AD.

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Pretty defensive response, you did not seem to have any trouble understanding which game I was talking about. Which other game could I possibly have been talking about?

I was just asking how far in advance it happened since you had referenced the late notice in this case.
It seems like you do not know how far in advance it was discussed, you just imagine it was discussed in fall 2010. For all I know the announcement was made in the fall of 2010, much earlier than this is being announced, I just don't remember. It was an honest question.

Also, while you say it was not a voluntary choice, you contradict yourself in the rest of that paragraph by laying out the other games that could have been dropped. That sure sounded like a choice the way you described it. An easy choice maybe, but still a choice. Incidentally, I would not say Baylor was being a jerk in that scenario, but it is your school so if you want to call it that be my guest.

Bergermeister wrote:

bubba pony wrote: Our future looks bleak

Good gawd, man, get a grip. We're 3-1 in bowl games in the last 4 years and you're in armageddon mode. C'mon.

Man, no kidding. So funny to see the Bifs and Buffys get their izods turned around on here.

Realize we won five out of our last seven by margins of 30, 31, 28, 8, and 33 points. Read that again: 30, 31, 28, 8, and 33 point wins in five of our last seven games.

Sounds like we need a step up in competition!!!!!! Bring on Baylor-they must be shaking in their boots all in fear of the great Talent Evaluator. Perfect example of guy that wants to gloat about mediocre performance but is too afraid to lay it on the line against a higher level of competition.