With all due respect your reply reminds me of Baylor, T.Tech, U.T., A&M fans when we were dispatched to the nether regions of NCAA football.
I understand your thoughts on no real return value for our playing certain teams but that arrogance does not serve well for our University or our community. Playing SMU serves a purpose for tradition and showing respect and class to all NCAA programs. Yes TCU fought through all the unfair treatment but don't doubt for a second it was because they thought it was an unfair value. They respected us enough to play us! We should not be snobbish and refuse to play any team.
I am not trying to be arrogant I am just stating facts with the current landscape. I have as much respect of the history of SMU’s program as the next guy, especially after they handed it to us on Saturday. That being said, my reasoning to quit the every year series is less about how much of a detriment it is to the program and more of a hindrance of the opportunities for our program.
Do you really think the NCAA and other programs respect us for keeping this series? No, it’s a joke that we give up a home game every other year to go play in their high school stadium. I realize how that sounds but it’s the truth. NO ONE else does this but us. If it’s all about moral high ground then I understand standing behind that. But there is legitimately no benefit.
And I don’t really follow that “they respected us enough to play us”. They had to play us because they were in the same conference or they chose to because we were in similar circumstances in lesser conferences. Roles reversed - SMU has a beautiful 50k seat stadium, is in the big 12, has baseball teams that go to college World Series, and TCU is this small school that manages to muster up an ncaa basketball appearance occasionally then I would be pissed also if smu cancelled our yearly football “Super Bowl”. But at least they would be trying to better their program. I realize how arrogant that may sound but the truth hurts.
Lastly, I am by no means saying we should refuse to play them all together. It should just be restructured to our benefit bc as it stands now it’s entirely to smu’s benefit. Heck maybe by taking a few years off, or cancelling the auto home and home, it may spark the rivalry even more and there might actually be excitement to the game when it’s been a few years off.