SMU boosters raise $159 million

[Ha Who]

The best talent almost always wins.......

Kentucky?

 

[JohnFSilver]

Was thinking about this and the disaster that is the CFP.

Only in college football do we:

1. Admire buying your way in

2. Hate the underdog who earns a spot

3. Put more interest into ratings, money, than performance.

Look at Tennessee fans for the playoff. It was an embarrassment of we are big time, we took over your stadium, we are SEC, “it means more.”They got put in a body bag in 10 minute.

The arrogance and bravado of the sport is staggering.

 

[noeynox]

Was thinking about this and the disaster that is the CFP.

Only in college football do we:

1. Admire buying your way in

2. Hate the underdog who earns a spot

3. Put more interest into ratings, money, than performance.

Look at Tennessee fans for the playoff. It was an embarrassment of we are big time, we took over your stadium, we are SEC, “it means more.”They got put in a body bag in 10 minute.

The arrogance and bravado of the sport is staggering.

It was glorious! The SEC got checked big time. The bigger problem is the lap dogs that work at places like ESPN. After the 1st game they were tripping over themselves saying Indiana doesn't belong. Tennessee got beaten worse and they didn't say the same thing about them. I wonder why? Couldn't be that the SEC is the apple of their eye could it?

 

[Ldandy]

It was glorious! The SEC got checked big time. The bigger problem is the lap dogs that work at places like ESPN. After the 1st game they were tripping over themselves saying Indiana doesn't belong. Tennessee got beaten worse and they didn't say the same thing about them. I wonder why? Couldn't be that the SEC is the apple of their eye could it?

They won't say anything that runs contrary to the narrative that they've created surrounding the SEC for the last 10-15 years. While admittedly the best team has come from The SEC Conference more often than not over this time frame, it doesn't mean that the overall conference is always the strongest or most deserving on a year-to-year basis. That's where SEC Circular Logic comes into play. Every win over an SEC Opponent is looked at as a great win because it is over another SEC Team, on the flip side most losses to SEC Opponents can be forgiven, because you guessed it, they were from another SEC Team. It is a self-licking ice cream cone. Hopefully the final 4 is ASU/UO and PSU/ND. That will help to push back on their nauseating S-E-C, S-E-C, S-E-C rhetoric.

 

[superjohn]

People here are so amusing.

Do you guys have any idea who and what types of people go to SMU. Their alums are supremely wealthy.

I've been hanging out all wknd with our oldest family friends. One of them went to SMU, and has lived in Dallas for the past 25+ years since he graduated. Everyone has money down there.

 

[superjohn]

SMU has the perception of being a rich school but the endowment does not reflect this. Endowments of some of SMU's aspirational. actual, and ACC peers, 2024 (in billions)

Stanford: $36.49
Notre Dame: $16.61
Duke : $13.23
Virginia: $9.80
Vanderbilt: $9.68
USC: $7.46
Rice: $7.24
Pitt: $5.48
UNC: $5.20
BC: $3.50
Georgia Tech: $2.94
TCU: $2.57
Tulane: $2.10
SMU: $2.04
Baylor: $1.96
Wake Forest: $1.90
Syracuse $1.89
Miami: $1.36

It is a rich school, their alumns are loaded.

 

[Tenspro2002]

SMU has the perception of being a rich school but the endowment does not reflect this. Endowments of some of SMU's aspirational. actual, and ACC peers, 2024 (in billions)

Stanford: $36.49
Notre Dame: $16.61
Duke : $13.23
Virginia: $9.80
Vanderbilt: $9.68
USC: $7.46
Rice: $7.24
Pitt: $5.48
UNC: $5.20
BC: $3.50
Georgia Tech: $2.94
TCU: $2.57
Tulane: $2.10
SMU: $2.04
Baylor: $1.96
Wake Forest: $1.90
Syracuse $1.89
Miami: $1.36

Rich alums who don't care about education. What is surprising?

 

[ZooCougar]

Rich alums who don't care about education. What is surprising?

You don’t think you can get a good education there?

 

[CJasmer]

Not hard to follow. Football is very big in Texas. High School games get big crowds. Star football players are treated like gods in Texas. Johnny Manziel could not go anywhere without getting mobbed when he was at Texas AM. Boosters will pay a ton of money to be successful in football.

 

[jdb50]

They won't say anything that runs contrary to the narrative that they've created surrounding the SEC for the last 10-15 years. While admittedly the best team has come from The SEC Conference more often than not over this time frame, it doesn't mean that the overall conference is always the strongest or most deserving on a year-to-year basis. That's where SEC Circular Logic comes into play. Every win over an SEC Opponent is looked at as a great win because it is over another SEC Team, on the flip side most losses to SEC Opponents can be forgiven, because you guessed it, they were from another SEC Team. It is a self-licking ice cream cone. Hopefully the final 4 is ASU/UO and PSU/ND. That will help to push back on their nauseating S-E-C, S-E-C, S-E-C rhetoric.

But then what would Paul Finebaum have to talk about? NIL could really upset the SEC/ESPN self licking ice cream cone.