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Oldmins wrote:

Charleston Pony wrote:

smubrooks wrote:$1 beers, $1 dogs, free admission. Then run the score up for entertainment. We’d build a fan base pretty fast!

Don't need free admission but family packages dirt cheap and finding a way to make the Boulevard more inclusive is the path to really becoming Dallas' college team...just like the Cowboys had to beg for fans before they became a playoff caliber team

Yeah, right, we need the Boulevard to include 5% Asians, 12% African Americans, 17% Hispanic, about 53% "whites", and maybe 1% Indian (Native Americans, Indigenous, etc). Then our football program will find life again. Is this somewhere near that word "woke" that I keep hearing?

Tell me you're an ignorant bigot w/o telling me you're an ignorant bigot.

mustangxc wrote:

Charleston Pony wrote:

smubrooks wrote:$1 beers, $1 dogs, free admission. Then run the score up for entertainment. We’d build a fan base pretty fast!

Don't need free admission but family packages dirt cheap and finding a way to make the Boulevard more inclusive is the path to really becoming Dallas' college team...just like the Cowboys had to beg for fans before they became a playoff caliber team

To that end SMU needs to host a BBQ cook-off on the boulevard. Invite all of Dallas to show off their BBQ skills. I'm sure people would rally around that. Winners announced at halftime of the game. Tie it in to a game we wear the Dallas jerseys. Maybe even make it a recurring theme. Whenever we play Tulane have a cajun cook-off where the best gumbo, etouffee, etc. wins and winners are announced at halftime. Good food appeals to pretty much everyone so many would probably show up to taste the good food. Many would also show up to compete and bring along friends and family and stay for the game to find out who wins. It's not that complicated, we simply need to brainstorm ideas and put them to action.

Wow this is a great idea.

ponyboy wrote:SMU sports are doing as well as they ever have right now. How many other years can we say we’ve been ranked multiple weeks in football and been a probable tourney team in basketball? Serious question.

Are you serious? You seem to have selective amnesia. SMU was regularly a top 25 Sears cup athletic program. Right now, we are not even in the top 100. SMU athletics has never been worse even in our dark ages following the DP when football was winning 0-3 games and basketball plunged to the depths. Hart is not bad, he is horrible at what he does. Anyone who performed so poorly in Corporate America would have been fired within a year if not 3 months.

To say we are a probable NCAA tournament team in men's basketball is a gross exaggeration if not an outright sarcastic joke. It's not funny because it is truly maddening.

Look, I love cross country. I ran as well, and my future daughter in law was a captain at USC. My son rowed. But I’m talking revenue sports: football and men’s basketball. They matter; equestrian does not matter.

We’ll see if I’ve overestimated this year’s bball team. Maybe, maybe not. To these eyes, we look good enough to make it to the Dance. I think we’ve got a remarkably deep and dangerous team that will give other schools some fits.

To be clear, I’m no Hart apologist. Reseat and the MOB. But, being our AD, he does get credit for how we are doing in the revenue sports. He gets credit for the good and blame for the bad. The Dallas Triple D thing is genius. Having Lashlee lined up before SD was out the door was genius. And, while I may be more patient than some with Jank, he looks to have a helluva team right now. We are seeing glimmers of the old Moody Magic.

Enjoy!

Does SMU have any revenue sports?

Ball has some talent. bid pretty good with no K. D.

Sorry new phone.

mustangxc wrote:

ponyboy wrote:SMU sports are doing as well as they ever have right now. How many other years can we say we’ve been ranked multiple weeks in football and been a probable tourney team in basketball? Serious question.

Are you serious? You seem to have selective amnesia. SMU was regularly a top 25 Sears cup athletic program. Right now, we are not even in the top 100. SMU athletics has never been worse even in our dark ages following the DP when football was winning 0-3 games and basketball plunged to the depths. Hart is not bad, he is horrible at what he does. Anyone who performed so poorly in Corporate America would have been fired within a year if not 3 months.

To say we are a probable NCAA tournament team in men's basketball is a gross exaggeration if not an outright sarcastic joke. It's not funny because it is truly maddening.

Thank you for this. I guess getting 4th place in every sport is now Mission Accomplished for our goal of "competing for championships".

And also, men's basketball RPI is like 200 something with a strength of schedule in the 300s. Sorry but we're not making the tournament. That's like saying football almost made the CFP.

ponyboy wrote:Look, I love cross country. I ran as well, and my future daughter in law was a captain at USC. My son rowed. But I’m talking revenue sports: football and men’s basketball. They matter; equestrian does not matter.

We’ll see if I’ve overestimated this year’s bball team. Maybe, maybe not. To these eyes, we look good enough to make it to the Dance. I think we’ve got a remarkably deep and dangerous team that will give other schools some fits.

To be clear, I’m no Hart apologist. Reseat and the MOB. But, being our AD, he does get credit for how we are doing in the revenue sports. He gets credit for the good and blame for the bad. The Dallas Triple D thing is genius. Having Lashlee lined up before SD was out the door was genius. And, while I may be more patient than some with Jank, he looks to have a helluva team right now. We are seeing glimmers of the old Moody Magic.

All sports matter, some may matter more than others but they all matter. All help with our graduation rates, overall athletic program, and having elite rowing adds prestige to the university.

As for basketball, we have a very good team, but have no chance at having an at-large resume unless we win a conference championship. That is the product of horrible scheduling and losing to teams we shouldn't have lost to and not beating any tournament caliber teams in the non-conference schedule.

Sure, we’d have no chance at a bid if NET rankings were frozen today.

In addition to the football schedule, losing Memphis, Houston, etc. from our basketball schedule will be horrible. Wonder if Hart will do another reseat? How empty will Moody be with UNT, UTSA, etc.? Cox Business class should do a case study on how to alienate your customer/fan base overnight.

Hey, we will replace those great programs with North Texas, UNCC, Rice, and others. We should be thankful for Hart's forsight here. (I will now removed my tongue from my cheek).

Is it groundhogs day? Fire him already!

This thread is tiresome. The sun rises ... Fire Hart. The sun sets ... Fire Hart.

No one wants a better future conference alignment for SMU than me. However, our situation and support for FB remains a work in progress. Any feeling of entitlement is a waste. We can find fault with Hart, but I doubt he could have changed the Big XII criteria for membership or their decision.