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SMU arrogance is interesting. We want a tough OOC with a tough BE schedule.

I wonder if the people who want that realize that the year isn't 1982 and no major conference team schedules like that anymore. Either we nut up and start acting like an AQ program or we'll be just as irrelevant in the Big East as we have been in C-USA.

you play a challenge, two should wins and an easy. The tough games are in-conference. No need to make it murderers row if winning your conference gets you into a BCS bowl.

gostangs wrote:you play a challenge, two should wins and an easy. The tough games are in-conference. No need to make it murderers row if winning your conference gets you into a BCS bowl.

Perfectly said. Bingo!

I agree with Mrydel and Stallion on this issue. We want to recruit top Texas kids. These kids want to play against some of their old team mates and rivals who have for the most part gone to Big 12 teams. Plus, you don't get better playing patsies.

Attendance numbers are still a very big issue. If down the line there is additional expansion to 16+ team conferences, attendance is going to be a factor in who gets invited and who is left behind.

Finally, I am tired of playing teams no one has heard of or gives a rat's [deleted] about. I would rather lose to a BCS team, assuming we do so competitively, than beat up on a D-1AA team.

PK wrote:I agree with Mrydel and Stallion on this issue. We want to recruit top Texas kids. These kids want to play against some of their old team mates and rivals who have for the most part gone to Big 12 teams. Plus, you don't get better playing patsies.

Attendance numbers are still a very big issue. If down the line there is additional expansion to 16+ team conferences, attendance is going to be a factor in who gets invited and who is left behind.

Finally, I am tired of playing teams no one has heard of or gives a rat's [deleted] about. I would rather lose to a BCS team, assuming we do so competitively, than beat up on a D-1AA team.

Oh we will gt our opportunity to play plenty BCS teams in the real soon. And you can only play D-1AA team each year anyway. Again keeping Baylor and TCU would be fine then a D-1AA and a MAC or Sunbelt team. Kind of the TCU strategy.

SMU 86 wrote:

PK wrote:I agree with Mrydel and Stallion on this issue. We want to recruit top Texas kids. These kids want to play against some of their old team mates and rivals who have for the most part gone to Big 12 teams. Plus, you don't get better playing patsies.

Attendance numbers are still a very big issue. If down the line there is additional expansion to 16+ team conferences, attendance is going to be a factor in who gets invited and who is left behind.

Finally, I am tired of playing teams no one has heard of or gives a rat's [deleted] about. I would rather lose to a BCS team, assuming we do so competitively, than beat up on a D-1AA team.

Oh we will gt our opportunity to play plenty BCS teams in the real soon. And you can only play D-1AA team each year anyway. Again keeping Baylor and TCU would be fine then a D-1AA and a MAC or Sunbelt team. Kind of the TCU strategy.

So if keeping TCU on the schedule and playing one other D-1AA school would mean we would be playing TWO D-1AA schools each year. Cool, I like that. Two seems about right.

you only can get credit for one victory over a Division 1AA team to count for bowl purposes. You would need to slide a NTSU or now Texas St or UTSA in there since they soon will be Division 1A

To me, our first issue is getting more butts in the seats and you are not going to do that by playing a team that brings 50 people. TCU is playing Grambling State this year at TCU. Smart move...Grambling State, D11, will bring a lot of fans. I've been saying to schedule them for yours. We played them back in the Dickerson-James years and they drew 51,000.+ I'm all for bringing in some non BCS teams for our out of conference schedule, but we can't afford anymore games that only draw 14,000. BYU would also be good, and the Circle of Champions etc., (who I appreciate very much) need to realize that we may have to schedule a game or two at the Cotton Bowl or Jerry's from time to time to earn attendance/money.

Very few people will agree with this but UNT is an obvious choice for an OOC series. Always draws a big crowd. I wouldn't want to make it an annual rivalry game like the one with TCU, but for the time being it will sell tickets. Certainly a better option than Rice or Tulane.

Topper wrote:Very few people will agree with this but UNT is an obvious choice for an OOC series. Always draws a big crowd. I wouldn't want to make it an annual rivalry game like the one with TCU, but for the time being it will sell tickets. Certainly a better option than Rice or Tulane.

and we have a future home and home series with them for several years as I recall. That's good "local" scheduling that we will need as a member of the Big East. Should be playing them in hoops, too

We start our series with UNT in 2014.

I hope June makes an in home visit to Walling, I read somewhere the UNT coaches were planning on making an in home visit to him,

It sounds like his parents are visiting SMU this weekend and he is planning on making a visit on the 27th, unless they can talk to the coaches about moving up his visit. He has no other offers and his decision will come down to SMU and UNT, which seems like a no-brainer, setting any bias aside.

JohnMcK wrote:Looks like his offer was pulled from UNT so it looks like he only has one choice.

source?