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Did any of you attend the camp on the Hilltop this morning, or are planning to tomorrow?

I wonder if the threat of bad weather hurt Saturday's attendance.

My son is a wide receiver for HP. We never even heard of the camp. Was it advertised?

You'd think if they were going to do a camp or a clinic, they'd send us a news release, so we could throw out an announcement and a link to registration. Maybe if they had one, it was invite only. Maybe PonyPride heard something, but I think he was out of town last weekend.

I don't think they can do invite only camps. Listen, I don't want to jump to conclusions here, but when you have a high school football player who's an absolute SMU fanatic -- and who lives less than mile from campus -- and you don't hear about it until after the fact. Well, that seems a big problem.

ponyboy wrote:I don't think they can do invite only camps. Listen, I don't want to jump to conclusions here, but when you have a high school football player who's an absolute SMU fanatic -- and who lives less than mile from campus -- and you don't hear about it until after the fact. Well, that seems a big problem.

That high school player needs to find out what's going on in the 'hood.

There is another camp scheduled for July 28th in Dallas at SMU. Found this on SMUMustangs.com under "Camps".

http://grfx.cstv.com/photos/schools/smu ... ochure.pdf

If you are interested in what is going on re: SMU athletics, probably should be checking the official SMU Athletics web site - SMUMustangs.com.

I'd like to sell a product. I think I'll wait for customers to google my company name instead of reaching out via advertising, direct mail, email, phone calls, billboards, or face to face meetings. That will work well.

ponyboy wrote:I'd like to sell a product. I think I'll wait for customers to google my company name instead of reaching out via advertising, direct mail, email, phone calls, billboards, or face to face meetings. That will work well.

+1

My son has thrown the ball with Kyle Padron and Cole Beasley. He knows Kelvin Beachum and J.G. He's been on the sideline during games. He was invited to Bobby Chase's wedding. For goodness sakes we had our family Thanksgiving football game on the field at Ford Stadium two or three years ago. It's not like we're hiding out in Bandera or Durant, Oklahoma. I'd love to be wrong here, but couldn't a little more be done to reach out?

ponyboy wrote:My son has thrown the ball with Kyle Padron and Cole Beasley. He knows Kelvin Beachum and J.G. He's been on the sideline during games. He was invited to Bobby Chase's wedding. For goodness sakes we had our family Thanksgiving football game on the field at Ford Stadium two or three years ago. It's not like we're hiding out in Bandera or Durant, Oklahoma. I'd love to be wrong here, but couldn't a little more be done to reach out?

Perhaps then you should be making your point with June or the Athletic Department. I don't know the inner workings of the football program, but if they want to get information out to high school football players, I would suspect that they would send notices to the high school coaches to let their players know about the camps rather that just to individual players. If that is the case, then perhaps those high school coaches are the people you should be complaining to.

Having said that, I have heard in the past that JJ is only interested in players that are interested in "SMU" (i.e., JJ). The thought about actually going out and persuading someone to be interested in "SMU" has evidently not occured to him. Perhaps your son's interest in "SMU" was some how missed by said coach.

I would suggest at this point that you fill out the form for the July 28th camp.

I will reach out, PK. Thank you. And I can solve the immediate problem of signing up for the camp. I guess my point is that I've been following Mustang sports for many, many years and I've seen very, very, very little effort to reach out to folks since Mustang Mania. My son is not Division I material, but the camp website says, "Per NCAA rules, all sport camps and clinics conducted by Southern Methodist University are open to any and all entrants." That doesn't sound like an invite only camp -- or something where you wouldn't want to reach out to any and all high school football players within at least a 100 mile radius of campus. Or seven tenths of a mile.

Rant over.

I've seen it advertised somewhere ... something on the SMU site, I think, and I saw a bunch of brochures somewhere, although I can't remember exactly where.

Anyway, it's a shame the message didn't get to you directly, but it sounds like the July 28 camp is a good answer to this. (Plus, I doubt the camps are on an invite-only basis, since they always say there are a lot of walk-ups who didn't sign up in advance.)

That's really cool that your son knows so many Mustangs. I bet he'll have a blast at the camp.