How bad do you want it?

[Eagle1855]

Clearly you missed the point.

For the record, you're wrong. And you do not understand what going to bowl games means to the players and for perception related to the program. 

The Bahama Bowl may not mean anything to you, the expert marketer, but it means a lot to the kids actually playing the game.

Edited September 11, 2015 by Eagle1855

[untjim1995]

I'd take the win over SMU. Very few will care if we make the Bahamas Bowl and play Toledo or Akron. Beating SMU helps way more in recruiting than a hypothetical bowl berth in the Bahamas.

That said, if the bowl game offered was another Heart of Dallas Bowl to play a B1G team, I'd take that in a heartbeat over beating SMU.

[MeanGreenTexan]

Do you really think that a recruit says "I should go play for this school because they go to the Bahamas Bowl?"

Let's expand on this a little, because this seems kinda baited...

"I should go play for this school because they to to A bowl (Bahamas Bowl, or any other bowl)."   ... meaning they are a winning program.
"I should go play for this school because they whipped SMU."  ... but didn't go to a bowl, meaning they are not winning.

Which would any normal recruit choose?

[meanrob]

To answer the question in the post topic-

 

F&#kin bad. 

Edited September 11, 2015 by meanrob

[Got5onIt]

I don't know, we went 8-4 and beat a sort of someone in the Heart of Dallas bowl. How did that do for recruiting?

It will jump start you but quickly fall off if you can't sustain it. 1 season over .500 since 2005 doesn't do a whole lot of good for your program's perception. Think about that for a minute. Only one season with 6 wins or more in the last 10 years. No wonder this program has a problem recruiting..... 

Edited September 11, 2015 by Got5onIt

[MeanGreenTexan]

It will jump start you but quickly fall off if you can't sustain it. 1 season over .500 since 2005 doesn't do a whole lot of good for your program's perception. Think about that for a minute. Only one season with 6 wins or more in the last 10 years. No wonder this program has a problem recruiting..... 

So add to that perception, yet beat SMU?
Or take a step to change that perception?

[UNT90]

The good news is we are a poor man's Texas Tech.

 

 

 

For those that don't understand:

Rivals/ think they are rivals (in descending order):

OU vs Texas / Texas vs A&M / A&M vs Tech (notice where Tech is in this heirarchy)

Poor man's version:

Baylor vs TCU / TCU vs SMU / SMU vs UNT