Publicity Stunts

[Mad Hatter]

Maybe the week before the NT-SMU game, someone ought to go down to their campus and put UNT stickers on all of their cars. I bet they'd be pretty ticked.

[TIgreen01]

I've got a better idea....one that would garuantee a pissed off SMU....let's just not let them into the stadium that day...Anyone wearing red&blue gets a kick in the rear and gets sent packing...kind of like they didn't let us into the SWC. There is historical precedence here, I'm telling you. Yeah, it might hurt attendance but I'd sure feel good about it!

[SCREAMING EAGLE-66]

Well, from my perspective, how about an Arkansas State team that whipped the MG's ace, took home the trophy from the school that had won the SBC during every year of it's existence, and did it in your face on your home field?

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No loss last year created a lot of "hate"... after all, almost everyone else kicked sand in our face last year. We can't single out one or two teams for special "hatred".

The games that hurt and cause rivalries are (1) a long history of competion, (2)having lots of games that mean something such as a conference championship or bowl bid to the winner, and (3) two schools in close proximity to each other so that alums and students have a lot of personal contact and compete for "local or regional" attention. No one wants to hear regularly that "Your Team lost". We are close to SMU now but we just mostly hate them because all of the dirty cheap things they have done to us. Usually it isn't the case that one of colleges is a complete jerk as SMU as been, they are sort of unique because of their arrogant SOB attitude....

TTU doesn't care for A&M much either for several of the above reasons. A&M hates UT more than Tech... I think UT hates OU more than A&M, at least nowdays. The whole deal is sort of odd in those rivalries, but schools tend to hate the ones that defeat them somewhat regularly and not the ones they usually stomp. Everyone hates Notre Dame, just cause they do.... they have won too much and get too much attention even if they have done very little lately to deserve it.

I really don't see anyone (other than SMU) that we will create a true rivalry with. That is because they are close (same media market) and most of us just hate them anyway because of their bad attitude. A Sunbelt rivalry might develop in several years if only two of us are the teams really competing for the Sunbelt championship every year. There are a lot of Sunbelt teams that hate us somewhat because we have defeated them regularly (not last year). On the other hand we don't hate them because they have done nothing bad to us....

PS: Wonder what happened to "Southern-Stang" Haven't seen his name posting in a long time....He seemed rather decent.........perhaps he has been converted over to the "Dark-Side"............ LOL

Edited April 13, 2006 by SCREAMING EAGLE-66