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DentonStang

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  1. How do we celebrate the beginning and end of a storied 1 year conference rivalry? https://twitter.com/espn/status/1697583247071338525?t=575oZFlZEA5SJGY67LD7fg&s=19
  2. Excellent. Finally our spot in a P3 conference. Good thing that TCU game is rolling off the schedule. Is does nothing for SMU to play an OOC game against a lower conference.
  3. Could be just P2. Might be P4. There's a lot of big state schools with congressmen left out with just P2 but who knows. But it very, very likely won't be beyond that. There's almost no cost to us trying beyond boosters who want to spend the money. Why not try? Worst case is we're back where we are today. No loss.
  4. You're welcome. It can be hard to understand for the hoi polloi outsiders.
  5. You're right. Joining the ACC is NOT a guarantee we'll stay in the game. But you know what IS a guarantee? Staying in the AAC guarantees we WILL be left out. If we can get the chance to try, now is the time to take it.
  6. There's 10-15 pledges at various levels to cover the $200M+. That's $20M each or less. A lot to us, but just not that much to these guys. Regular people like you and I can pop over to Perry's with the wife for the awesome pork chop and a few drinks, maybe a dessert, and it's no big deal. Or go someplace a tier up for a nice special dinner. But someone who works at Target pushing carts wouldn't dream of dropping a couple hundred bucks like that for a generic dinner. Someone like that considers Cheesecake Factory a special night out and Wendy's a generic dinner place. None of those things are good or bad, just an example of how what's a lot to some is not a lot to others. When you net worth starts with a B, $20M is just not significant. Here's an SMU alum dropping $20M on flying a whale around. Tell me that's not dumber than buying into the ACC. https://www.si.com/extra-mustard/2023/08/03/colts-owner-jim-irsay-20-million-saving-whale-jonathan-taylor-contract
  7. You don't seem to realize neither of us have anything to lose. All of us in the AAC and MWC are about to be the equivalent of DIII or DII or whatever you want to compare to. We, and you, have nothing to lose. Not even money, we make almost nothing in the AAC anyway.
  8. Every man has a price. For an ACC spot..... I'll do it. No pictures of my face though.
  9. Go look at those games. I'm not saying they were a good team or didn't win the games - they obviously did. But they had every break go their way imaginable. Multiple games where the opponent had their starting QB out. Multiple games with turnovers exactly at the right time, penalties at the right time. Lost their own starting QB to end up with a Heisman candidate backup QB they didn't even want to start. And they capitalized on them. They did earn their way to the championship game. But they were not anywhere near the #2 team on talent and there's no way they will get that far again. They will have to fight and claw to stay competitive at they level they want to be, and us buying players, giving them a loss OOC, etc is a detriment to them. We damn near beat them last year and we were not anywhere near as good as them overall. That would have killed their season. And for what? They get no credit for beating us. Only we can gain.
  10. Yes. That's literally what I'm saying and why they cancelled. We don't benefit them, only potentially hurt them.
  11. You, me, and TCU all know they made that game from phenomenal luck. They are good but not that good. They are absolutely vulnerable in recruiting now in the B12 sans UT and OU. They will continue to lose conference prestige and they will need to stay razor sharp to combat that. Having us be a legitimate recruiting competitor is only bad for them.
  12. We beat them 2 of the last 3 years, plus they have had NIL shortages and we stole some great players from them. It only hurts them to play us and only benefits us. In short: they are scared.
  13. We were cheated by the UT- enforcement complex angry that we were successful and targeted because we are small and private. The Pharaoh demanded we be killed, and now we have wandered the desert for 40 years. But finally we are, perhaps, reaching the promised land and have our chance. You describe us like we.have power,.but in football we are the salt of the earth. The every man. You should be supporting us as we show that it is still possible to bootstrap yourself up in the conference game, not side with our big state school oppressors. We are just giving unto Caesar what is Caesars. Isn't the 7 year term poetic?
  14. I'm not sure you understand how this works. Whores get paid, they don't do the paying. We are more like someone patronizing a quality escort service. It's like when you have a series of evening business engagements but are single, and need a quality, skilled +1 who can both look the part and play the part. We spend money, we get prestige and other benefits back
  15. You would rather miss out on a shot at being P4 because it's not a "good look"? That's some insane, baby boomer, career $100k first-level manager thought right there. Insane.
  16. This is such a weird thing that keeps beining brought up. SMU will not be bleeding money. We only get $7M from AAC and you get less. We still have football teams. Media money doesn't keep our athletic department floating, nor does it keep yours. Ours is supported by donors already. Yours is less ethically funded by student fees and tax money. The situation isn't changing in the ACC. It can only go up. There is literally no downside. Being back here in 10 years is the worst outcome. So why would we not try?
  17. Yeah, and if Boise was in a better market they would have moved up too. And if Northwestern hadn't been in the B10 for decades they wouldn't be there either. So what. Do what you can to survive. Our admin woke up and took the shackles off way too late, but we might just sneak in. In 10 years we'll do what we can again.
  18. Its not "fixing" anything. Its keeping us from being flushed into FCS with the rest of MWC Sunbelt and AAC.
  19. Yeah.....so? For the next 7 years we are out the piddly AAC payout. That's easily covered in one donation. You could raise that money at UNT. It's not huge. We miss out on the ACC payout we aren't getting anyway. But we DO get the conference prestige, recruiting, and media coverage of a P4. We will play real teams people have heard of, and establish ourselves as a P4 school. That is invaluable and the media coverage alone is worth more than what we're paying. Its massive increases the profile of the school which will improve donations AND applications. More importantly the screw job with the playoff and the big split is coming very soon. We're buying our way on the last life raft. Being in a P4 when that happens is ultra critical because every who isn't is going to be totally screwed over and shut out of the playoff AND access to playing P4 teams unless you are a total guaranteed win. They are already talking about trying to force too 12 teams and no auto bids. So you have to be top 12, but you will always start the year ranked low, you won't have a chance to play anyone good, and you'll end the year outside the top 12 because you don't play anyone good. The fix is in. And the absolute worst case is we end up right back here in the AAC. So where's the downside? It's the end of the game, you're down by 1 score, and have 1 play left. Do you throw the hailmary or do you knee it out and take the loss to avoid the embarrassment of a failed hailmary?
  20. Depends on how you look at it. We're only actually LOSING the $7M/yr we get in AAC which is nothing. ACC full share payouts are about $40M/yr
  21. Its just a business deal. They need more money for their internal issues, we pay, we get what we need. Its no different than the girl at the gentlemen's club working her way through college, or when you bonus the young irrelevant guy at your company to make some quiet changes in the accounting ledger because as the owner you're too visible and will be noticed.
  22. It would not be in SMU's interest for you to be in, but you should be aware anyone on ponyfans is half looney and anyone sane is on the paid boards now
  23. This guy is still dealing with grief with this crazy wishful thinking. The conference could be created, and it's better than current AAC (dear god please put us in the West), but the money he's throwing out is insane. It wouldn't be remotely close to that per school. Look what MWC, AAC are getting and what PAC was offered with much more valuable programs included
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