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Seriously? I have nothing to add about the aggies other than this https://houstonsportsteams.com/spalm/TexasAM.html Tech has won quite a few bowl games, is ranked nationally frequently, and still struggles to sell out their stadium despite hosting name brand opponents. Not sure what point you're making with these.

We get there by investing in a coaching staff that has a proven track record of success. Anything short of that is a waste of time and money. If anyone thinks that people show up for any other reason, you're delusional. its not how it works anywhere. There is no program in existence that has a big time following that either doesn't have a rich history of winning or is currently winning. I'm tired of people putting blame on alumni and students for not showing up to watch a historically bad program. Its just not how it works anywhere. OU, Michigan, UT, Bama have huge followings because of a history of success, it didn't just happen one day randomly. The bulk of their fans are T-Shirt fans, they don't gave a rats ass about anything else. Why would we think it should be any different here? The masochists on this board (myself included) who will watch shit year after shit year because of our allegiance to the school are the exception.

Those of us who got the Dodge experience knows what a completely unsalvageable defense looks like. There is no fixing this, it is fundamentally broken. It probably doesn't matter if he gets canned now or in the off-season, but someone new obviously has to be brought in. If that doesn't happen all hope is lost for next year too

not sure why we even need to sign 5 year contracts on unproven coaches. with the transfer portal its not like its a 4 year commitment for the player anymore

Obviously i'm glad EM swapped to Rogers, but it still should make everyone question his ability to evaluate talent. What in God's name went on in camp to put this guy on the bench over Earle

No doubt. Caponi has to be gone immediately. He obviously has no idea what he is doing and I don't even know how a defense could possibly look any worse with no DC at all

this is the type of defense that sets your program back many years. even invested fans will start tuning out it honestly looks like were playing with 9 players out there with how much room they have to operate

Rogers throws quicker and is just more decisive. Its immediately obvious

What is the point of this defense. We have an extra db yet nothing but wide open space for every receiver

This is one of the ugliest games I've ever seen. I didn't want to knee jerk after the cal game but it appears it was indeed warranted. There's no excuse being this bad. Rebuilding or not, they're just grossly unprepared. We would be losing by 20 against a competent team.

DFW sports fans would never support a college team that isn't currently winning or have a rich history of winning. Its just how it is. When you see someone wearing UNT gear, you know there is a 99% chance they either went there or has a child that goes there. SMU has the same problem. Even though they've had better on the field success, nobody cares unless you're ranked in the top 25 consistently. Breaking that cycle is extremely hard and requires some luck, which is why its so rare

This is why I think it'll work fine for conference play. It's not suited to deal with a larger team with a strong run game. That said, the game plan for cal was pretty bad. I just hope they actually learned something and are capable of adjusting

No ethics lol. You act like he's shilling for vladimir putin, come on man, he's a beat writer for a college football team

It's because college sports fans are insecure and are afraid they'll be left behind. I think they make a ton of sense

I honestly can't tell if you're attempting to troll. You can't possibly think this is the same thing.

I'm not calling out any particular player. It's the objective truth that their roster has much higher ranked recruits based on every single recruiting outlet. That's not the same thing. I'm also not even saying that you have no right to criticize. But making a post labelled "Stone" only to crack jokes at him is just childish and tacky. It's a low class move and sad that you can't understand this. Just a reminder to everyone that sometimes these posts make their way back to the players, how about give them just a little respect? Is that too much to ask for of UNT students that work their ass off to represent us?

Cal has 3x our budget, better athletes and more experience at almost every position. Sure, it was bad enough to make me feel not great about the conference slate, but I'm not going to write the season off until we are up against similar talent levels. It's not just our fan base, but college sports fan bases are the most entitled, whiney, thin skinned, and dramatic bunch I've ever seen. Don't take it personally when you get whooped by a p5 program. How can you even really know how effective the scheme is when your players are just simply not as talented.

this is just tacky. we shouldn't be shitting on our student athletes like this. i thought he made a tremendous effort under the circumstances. couldnt run the ball, poor game plan inferior athletes around him. was he perfect? of course not. but stone wasnt even in the top 5 reasons why we lost do better.

this scheme will probably perform better against pass heavy teams (mostly everyone on our schedule) and weaker athletes (everyone else on the schedule). this is a terrible matchup for us to roll out this defense with, but yeah, definitely not a promising start

Lucky for them half the ACC are Vanderbilt quality football programs.

It can't really be explained to you because you're too tone deaf to understand. Buying access is never a good look, its just not. Its just a pathetic last ditch effort to be relevant from small insecure people. Being openly willing to spend 200 million to buy a ticket to a better conference is just gross. If you can't understand that then you never will and is exactly why SMU has no local support. SMU will never be relevant in DFW sports. You people share a common attitude that is just repulsive and off putting to any new prospective fans. Good luck, can't wait to see it fail spectacularly.

You're just further reinforcing my point. Funny thing is when the next wave of consolidation happens you're going to be right back where you started.

I just like watching my team play. Worrying about being in an exclusive club is kind of juvenile tbh. Especially when youre willing to fork over up to 200 million to do it. It's just kind of sad really how insecure these boosters are. At the end of the day it comes across as desperate and pathetic. DFW will never care about SMU and stunts like this is the reason why. How are you going to pick up a fan base when this is your story? A story of buying access with excessive wealth. Who is going to get behind that? I'm guessing the boosters already know this which is why they would never move up without bribes.

No they didn't. These conferences were created by whoever had the must alumni in their state houses to lobby for their team to be a part of the "in" club, or sheer luck or convenience. What did wazzuu, oregon, state oklahoma state, texas tech, baylor, etc to do "earn" anything? We still have g5 powerhouses such as Boise State excluded after doing EVERYTHING to do deserve it. Lets not pretend that the P5 universe was somehow based on merit. The landscape has always been built by insecure alumni in politics who wanted to elevate their school by punching downwards towards anyone not them. That said, what SMU is doing feels worse because its just overtly corrupt. In the past it was all behind closed doors. I can't wait for this to backfire spectacularly though