Frisco Bowl

[TreeFiddy]

24 minutes ago, ipd054 said:

I am just going to leave this here:

Frisco Bowl Attendance:  14,419

New Orleans Bowl Attendance: 24,904

That is 10,485 more tickets sold....

That is just sad.  One team has a 30 minute drive and the other only has 4 hours. Ugh.  The stadium looked to be about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 full at its fullest so there were even less butts in seats. 

I saw where each team receives $100k for playing in this bowl.  Even a local team will lose money playing in this game.  Double ugh.

[Huff]

My dad used to say "misery loves company".   Maybe that is why I enjoyed seeing SMU get pounded even worse than we had.   Their players looked like they really did not want to be there and that was certainly true after the middle of the first quarter.   It couldn't happen to a more deserving group.

[GMG_Dallas]

1 hour ago, TreeFiddy said:

I saw where each team receives $100k for playing in this bowl.  Even a local team will lose money playing in this game.  Double ugh.

That needs to change...

[UNTexas]

15 hours ago, emmitt01 said:

Remember what it was liks to beat La Tech this year?

 

SMU doesn't

Remember what it was like getting blown out by SMU? I sure do. 

[GrandGreen]

I think SMU performance was awful, but at least they have plenty of excuses.   To me even more damning is their lack of support at a bowl 22 miles from their campus.   They were actually happy to have sold out a 5000 allotment. 

How this team continues to beat NT in recruiting is a mystery to me. 

[MeanGreenHoops]

29 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

I think SMU performance was awful, but at least they have plenty of excuses.   To me even more damning is their lack of support at a bowl 22 miles from their campus.   They were actually happy to have sold out a 5000 allotment. 

How this team continues to beat NT in recruiting is a mystery to me. 

I'll give you a hint. M$ney

[Cerebus]

32 minutes ago, GrandGreen said:

They were actually happy to have sold out a 5000 allotment. 

If they sold that many tickets it was because someone bought them in bulk to save face.  No way there was actually 5000 SMU fans at the game.  

[MeanGreenHoops]

1 minute ago, Cerebus said:

If they sold that many tickets it was because someone bought them in bulk to save face.  No way there was actually 5000 SMU fans at the game.  

To be fair, there's no way there are 5,000 SMU fans in Texas

[Cerebus]

4 minutes ago, MeanGreenHoops said:

To be fair, there's no way there are 5,000 SMU fans in Texas

I mean  if you count cemeteries... 

[TreeFiddy]

I blame @emmitt01 for making me waste 10 minutes of my life I will never get back by reading the PonyFans thread about the bowl.  One funny post was where someone was scorching the players for the way they were playing and why they didn't even have enough pride in the program to show up to the game.  

My first thought was that the players probably looked up in the stands and saw that about 1,000 smoo fans had braved the elements and ventured outside the 635 loop to the frozen tundra 'up North' and thought to themselves F this. 

They really should just shut the football program down and focus on soccer or fencing.  I bet those donors for the IPF are feeling pretty awesome right about now.

[gruu]

24 minutes ago, MeanGreenHoops said:

M$ney

Under the table "M$ney"

[greenminer]

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=21832611

Check out the speech at 1:03.  The struggle is real and familiar.

[NorthTexan95]

26 minutes ago, greenminer said:

http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=21832611

Check out the speech at 1:03.  The struggle is real and familiar.

If you know you're going to make a presentation after the game perhaps you should hold off on the drinks 

[AAC Fan]

La tech fans should not be to over excited about winning over SMU.  SMU looks like a team that rather be eating a good pizza. Appear to have no interest in this game. Yes, lost coach, different group working with them. It's not really a feather in SMU's cap by beating a 6-6 C-USA team, prestige FOR SMU to be motivated is not there,  yes even though La Tech has beaten SMU in past years.  Likely players were looking forward to a better bowl match, however really, a better match or bowl was really not earned this season.  

And C-USA fans, winning most of your bowl games against weak opponents is not really all that much to get excited about. 

 

Edited December 22, 2017 by AAC Fan

[AAC Fan]

10 hours ago, TreeFiddy said:

That is just sad.  One team has a 30 minute drive and the other only has 4 hours. Ugh.  The stadium looked to be about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 full at its fullest so there were even less butts in seats. 

I saw where each team receives $100k for playing in this bowl.  Even a local team will lose money playing in this game.  Double ugh.

SMU fans did not show. They have\had little interest in this match.  No prestige to beat La Tech, the teams lack of "interest" or excitement also confirms this, oh well. I expect the bowl will survive.  There could have been worse matches for this bowl.  

[Rudy]

28 minutes ago, AAC Fan said:

La tech fans should not be to over excited about winning over SMU.  SMU looks like a team that rather be eating a good pizza. Appear to have no interest in this game. Yes, lost coach, different group working with them. It's not really a feather in SMU's cap by beating a 6-6 C-USA team, prestige FOR SMU to be motivated is not there,  yes even though La Tech has beaten SMU in past years.  Likely players were looking forward to a better bowl match, however really, a better match or bowl was really not earned this season.  

And C-USA fans, winning most of your bowl games against weak opponents is not really all that much to get excited about. 

 

Good Lord, that was tough to read.  I though they had tougher entrance standards. 

[TreeFiddy]

27 minutes ago, AAC Fan said:

La tech fans should not be to over excited about winning over SMU.  SMU looks like a team that rather be eating a good pizza. Appear to have no interest in this game. Yes, lost coach, different group working with them. It's not really a feather in SMU's cap by beating a 6-6 C-USA team, prestige FOR SMU to be motivated is not there,  yes even though La Tech has beaten SMU in past years.  Likely players were looking forward to a better bowl match, however really, a better match or bowl was really not earned this season.  

And C-USA fans, winning most of your bowl games against weak opponents is not really all that much to get excited about. 

 

Typical AAC apologist.  The AAC is 1-9 in bowls against other G5 teams in bowl games over the last 4 years.  The secret is out, the AAC is not good.

If the AAC is lucky, SMU, Tulsa, and Tulane will shut down their football programs.  What a joke they are.

[VideoEagle]

Just now, Rudy said:

Good Lord, that was tough to read.  I though they had  entrance standards. 

Fixed it for you. 

[Rudy]

8 hours ago, Cerebus said:

I mean  if you count cemeteries... 

I don't think dead hookers count as fans.

[Rudy]

33 minutes ago, AAC Fan said:

And C-USA fans, winning most of your bowl games against weak opponents is not really all that much to get excited about. 

 

You couldn't beat a 6-6 La Tech team, so you really shouldn't be talking about beating a "weak opponent".

[southsideguy]

So if the  players at SMU are not happy can they leave and not have to sit out for a year because of the coaching change?

[oldguystudent]

12 hours ago, Rudy said:

Good Lord, that was tough to read.  I though they had tougher entrance standards. 

They do! 

 

 

[BTG_Fan1]

20 hours ago, southsideguy said:

So if the  players at SMU are not happy can they leave and not have to sit out for a year because of the coaching change?

Have to sit out unless they are a grad transfer 

[UNTLifer]

On 12/21/2017 at 8:59 PM, AAC Fan said:

La tech fans should not be to over excited about winning over SMU.  SMU looks like a team that rather be eating a good pizza. Appear to have no interest in this game. Yes, lost coach, different group working with them. It's not really a feather in SMU's cap by beating a 6-6 C-USA team, prestige FOR SMU to be motivated is not there,  yes even though La Tech has beaten SMU in past years.  Likely players were looking forward to a better bowl match, however really, a better match or bowl was really not earned this season.  

And C-USA fans, winning most of your bowl games against weak opponents is not really all that much to get excited about. 

 

And SMU wonders why people hate them. Telling the other team they should not be excited about a win over My Little Pony because they don't have the proper bloodlines to excite the Dead Hooker faithful is so condescending. And then to throw around comments like "prestige" is just hilarious.

The problem is that SMU has delusions of grandeur playing in a conference afflicted with the same condition. Once you realize you are just another G5 in just another G5 Conference with the support of a MAC cellar dweller, you will understand the real reason for your program's current place in the CFB pecking order. 

[UNTexas]

On 12/21/2017 at 10:09 AM, TreeFiddy said:

That is just sad.  One team has a 30 minute drive and the other only has 4 hours. Ugh.  The stadium looked to be about 2/3 or maybe 3/4 full at its fullest so there were even less butts in seats. 

I saw where each team receives $100k for playing in this bowl.  Even a local team will lose money playing in this game.  Double ugh.

NO paid 500k, which we split with the rest of the conference. After travel and all the associated expenditures do you think UNT made out like a bandit? I don't.

Personally I'd rather see us play in Frisco in front of a sold out stadium, which we've never done, then play in an empty stadium that looks embarrassing on TV.

The money is irrelevant considering it's split with everyone else.