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Please stop with the lacrosse suggestions. The national championship was played today in front of about 10k fans, lacrosse is a small/fringe sport that would only play into the negative stereotype of SMU. Baseball is international in appeal and growing. This campus is more accessible and has been working hard to integrate itself more into the city of Dallas, baseball would be a great treat.

We have a billion soccer fans in dallas and draw flies for that too

I don't recall any attempt, other than the 1988 SMU homecoming game my senior year, to get me to an SMU soccer match. Advertise!


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Lacrosse Lacrosse Lacrosse- forget baseball.

ponyboy wrote:I don't recall any attempt, other than the 1988 SMU homecoming game my senior year, to get me to an SMU soccer match. Advertise!


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Hey ponyboy — come out to soccer games next year! ALL of them.
(Does that count?)

ponyboy wrote:I don't recall any attempt, other than the 1988 SMU homecoming game my senior year, to get me to an SMU soccer match. Advertise!


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They made a big push the fall of 1987 as well for homecoming.........maybe 2000 in total attendance for the first half. It was the first and last soccer game for many of us.

CBpony wrote:Please stop with the lacrosse suggestions. The national championship was played today in front of about 10k fans, lacrosse is a small/fringe sport that would only play into the negative stereotype of SMU. Baseball is international in appeal and growing. This campus is more accessible and has been working hard to integrate itself more into the city of Dallas, baseball would be a great treat.

If by international you mean North America (plus SA countries north of equator), Korea, Japan, and a few spots in Holland, then yeah, it has international appeal. But why does that even matter? Soccer and cricket way outdraw American football globally but no one goes nuts at SMU for them.

i vote for a cricket team.

for me, it's the same as lacrosse in that I have never player either of them, nor do I fully understand the rules.

FC Dallas averages 15,000+ per game. I imagine our ticket prices are cheaper than theirs, our field is closer in and with some promotional effort we ought to average 4000-5000 for soccer. College soccer has more scoring, less faking, and we are an elite program. We are also in one of the top soccer conferences in the country. UConn, USF, UCF, SMU, Tulsa have all been top 25 programs in recent years.

We are an elite soccer program? Since when? We haven't been a player on the national level in soccer in a decade.

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ponyboy wrote:I don't recall any attempt, other than the 1988 SMU homecoming game my senior year, to get me to an SMU soccer match. Advertise!


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Hey ponyboy — come out to soccer games next year! ALL of them.
(Does that count?)

Will you be there?

ponyboy wrote:

PonyPride wrote:

ponyboy wrote:I don't recall any attempt, other than the 1988 SMU homecoming game my senior year, to get me to an SMU soccer match. Advertise!


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Hey ponyboy — come out to soccer games next year! ALL of them.
(Does that count?)

Will you be there?

Of course — If there's no conflict with a football road game, I'm at every soccer game.

I don't see us adding any additional men's sports in my lifetime

EastStang wrote:FC Dallas averages 15,000+ per game. I imagine our ticket prices are cheaper than theirs, our field is closer in and with some promotional effort we ought to average 4000-5000 for soccer. College soccer has more scoring, less faking, and we are an elite program. We are also in one of the top soccer conferences in the country. UConn, USF, UCF, SMU, Tulsa have all been top 25 programs in recent years.

The highest avg NCAA attendance is UC Santa Barbara at just over 5k. The next highest avg is 3200. Number 50 (we aren't in the top 50) in avg is at 700. How do you realistically see us becoming the number two most attended NCAA soccer team in the country; strong promotions?

And UConn is the only team in our conference that avgs in the top 50 (usually 2nd).