What's Techish is automatically writing off a high-performing team purely on the basis of fan support and attendance.Discussing fan support and attendance seems a bit Techish, just saying.
What's Techish is automatically writing off a high-performing team purely on the basis of fan support and attendance.
Writing off a poor-performing team because it has no compensating benefits like fan support or attendance isn't Techish at all. It's simply honest analysis.
They could sell scotch, burbon, vodka, etc along with its a steak and lobster meal for $5.99 and SMU still could not fill its own stadium with its fans.But they do sell BEER!
They may have sold 2000 tickets but there were not that many SMU fans in the standsFWIW we sent SMU 4,000 tickets and they sent back 2,000
I'll say it. I'm no fan of his, but I agree with just about everything he said in that column.
SMU is not committed to excelling at the top of college football. SMU brings no fans to the games or compelling reasons to play them. SMU is a real drag on our SOS, given that we also play one FCS team each year, and SMU is often no better than the FCS opponent. SMU players get all geeked for this game every year as their "Super Bowl," while TCU players approach this game as, "Meh. It's only SMU."
I get that this gamer is a 98-year tradition, but tradition doesn't make a genuine rivalry. For a real rivalry, both teams have to be at least semi-regularly competitive with each other -- and SMU winning this game only once per decade on average (two times in 20 years) doesn't qualify as competitive.
By the time the current series contract is completed. TCU will have been playing SMU for a century. or more. That is probably enough. We passed them by about 20 years ago, and now we're just being charitable. I love charity, but at some point charity must end and a person must learn to stand on his own two feet. We've propped up SMU's football relevance long enough.
This was this was the first meaningful smu tcu game in a long time.
not for the team.I love the idea of a future home and home with Air Force, would be a fun road trip...
I love the idea of a future home and home with Air Force, would be a fun road trip...
I love the idea of a future home and home with Air Force, would be a fun road trip...
I love the idea of a future home and home with Air Force, would be a fun road trip...