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3 hours ago, DeepGreen said:

SMU tailgating is equal to or better than LSU tailgating?  That right there is a joke of a statement!  I've seen LSU tailgating in person.  Hell, they tailgate on the lawn of the LSU President's on campus residence!  SMU.  Give me a break!

LSU tailgating is if you expanded the Boulevard over dozens of acres. The two aren't comparable. 

SMU has a very cool tailgating setup for a G5 program that struggles to get more than 23K in the stands. But its absurd to consider it one of the best tailgating scenes in the country. 

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10 hours ago, meangreen11 said:

Hate SMU like the rest of us but their Boulevard tailgating setup is impressive to say the least. 

It's true. I've been a few times because a good buddy went there. It's fun except for having to try not to puke from all the red and blue. The good news is you don't have to watch them play, just stay on the boulevard and drink.

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On 7/18/2022 at 7:17 AM, dodgefan said:

I've been to tailgates across the country, including Wisconsin and Ole Miss, SMU's Boulevard is very impressive. If they ever figure out, how to get a high percentage of those people into the stadium, they would really be onto something.

The only reason it is “impressive” is that is in the middle of old money Dallas.   I think media types see this especially ones who didn’t grow up in a metro center like DFW are impressed with a modest event for this area.  Hell, you impressed with SMU “tailgating”, let me take you Taste of Addison on a day unseasonably cool for late spring or early summer here.  
 

Also the clueless with no real grasp of the culture here look at SMU as a Miami or USC in waiting just because of its major metro location.  While Miami was playing in a double decker stadium that hosted one of the one of the original bowl games, SMU played in Owby Stadium with less than 25,000 capacity.  SMU has never been close to having local fan buy like USC, or Miami have.  Also they don’t have a name represntative of their geographic region like those teams do.  They don’t have a public serving medical center with branches all over the state like Baylor.  To be honest from a branding standpoint it would be better to be named North Texas.  🤷🏽‍♂️  That isn’t a shot because if you hooked them to a lie detector they would agree.  The power conferences aren’t looking to add another Vanderbilt, Northwestern, or Wake Forrest.  

The potential for SMU is not there in its current form.  Major changes that they can’t just buy and that many alumni would hate it they did.  Those would be

1.  Doubling enrollment (almost tripling undergraduate enrollment while at it)

2. Lowering the academic standards for acceptance 

3.  Lowering the overall cost per academic credit hour significantly 

It would take several years and very uncomfortable growing pains to implement all this.  And once they are achieved the football team would have to have some consistent winning for them to be upgraded in the media pecking order.  AND STILL it may not work.  Boise State has maximized every opportunity it has had and they are still on the outside looking in.  PAC 12 would already be in talks with them as an addition if the decision was based on a program’s effort to get better and remain consistent.
 

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16 hours ago, DentonStang said:

SMU tailgating is radically deficient in hairy purple hair chicks in PJ pants smoking flavored vapes. They should try learning from UNT.  

But you have the market cornered on coked up dead hookers and young ladies working on their Mrs. degrees.

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