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Poneez

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  1. Interestingly enough, our bowl package is less expensive than either TCU's bowl or the National Championship. Now I am not talking about the prestige factor, but simply in terms of location, I would rather spend a week in Hawaii than a week in Arizona or LA for the same price. You are right, not everybody is able to go but thank goodness after our long bowl drought we are not ending up in Ft. Worth or some other place like that. New Orleans would have been fun.

  2. I was getting a little concerned about that, too. Then I began looking and SMU's great JUCOs from Navarro and Troy's highly-rated JUCO class have no signed LOIs either. Maybe the universities just don't feel an urgency in reporting; I don't know.

    Marquis Frazier from Navarro signed with SMU today.

  3. Ouch...sorry to have struck such a nerve....

    I'm not sure what a typical SMU xxxx is exactly....I think I'm just your average person for the most part...I have a family, I'm gainfully employed (my boss is a FL Gator not a Mustang) and I'm kind to children, animals and old people. I've attended almost every SMU game, home and away, since 1979. I have been to games at Ohio State, at Notre Dame, San Diego (Holiday Bowl), Hawaii (Aloha Bowl) and such exotic places as Hattisburg, Miss and Jonesboro, Arkansas so I think I've logged my share of the travel miles...not that it makes any difference...

    Guns Up, my friend....glad we were able to make your day.

  4. I went to the Texas Tech game too because my daughter is a Freshman out there. The post was pretty accurate. One thing missing was the absolute negative fan support I saw by SMU. So, Poneez, let's talk about fan support. I'll bet you a sandwich UNT took more fans to LSU that SMU took to Lubbock. My guess you'll drop this argument pretty fast. YOur fan base is pathetic unless its a sure win, convenient and the "right crowd" will see them there. Still just a status thing, I guess, at SMU.

    I'm not trying to argue, just making an observation. I just found it odd that someone would make a big deal about how crappy SMU played instead of going to their own game. No more, no less.

  5. Kind of funny you aren't happy that he stayed in town and went to your game during a tropical storm. He might have out numbered your fans at the game. It's funny that even SMU's fans make fun of people that go to their games...

    I'm pretty sure he didn't go for the benefit of SMU..lol...so, whatever...just thought it odd he would skip his own game...maybe he just wanted to get his guns up...

    I traveled to Lubbock for the game; however, many of our fans were stuck in Dallas because Love Field was closed on Saturday.

  6. Do you have a problem getting them into the stadium from the tailgating area? Many of our tailgate participants seem to forget the reason for the party and linger the game away in a parking lot stuper.

    Yes, we have that problem too, primarily with the students. So its definitely an issue. The CSC folks hassle them so much inside the stadium that many of them just don't go in. When I was in school many years ago, the drinking age was 18 so being drunk at the game was perfectly acceptable. :) In fact, we (somewhat) openly carried it into the stadium.

  7. Hello Poneez, SMU was 1-11 last year, how do you guys get 900 people at that price to come to lunch? And where does the money go? UNT might could use some cash too!

    Honestly, it was not heavily promoted but they had a big response. No doubt due to the excitement over the hiring of Coach Jones. But we had about 500 last year which I thought was a nice crowd. I don't think we really make much money off of the luncheon---I am sure the Anatole is expensive---and there was a major donor/sponsor. I am sure any proceeds go to the athletic department.

  8. Under Phil Bennett, the SMU practices were closed. In fact, he had a big blue tarp put up around the practice field fence to block the view. One of the first things that Coach Jones did was take down the blue tarp and welcome the alums to come watch. Its nice when you just can't wait for football season to get here to at least be able to go watch practice.

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