(06-28-2019 05:04 PM)Stugray2 Wrote:  SMU has the bad fortune of being in DFW, the same metro as much higher profile TCU.

Dallas-Ft. Worth is the fourth largest media market in the nation. It cam certainly support two major college teams, only that while TCU has been resolute in its climb up the ladder, SMU is still living under a cloud from 1987 and is institutionally unwilling to commit to be the kind of program it is capable of.

It's easy to dismiss a #2 finish in 1983 and crowds of 50K at Texas Stadium as "well, they were cheating" (which is a misnomer, since they didn't cheat at the games but in the same recruiting tactics at most SWC schools other than Rice) but the point was they once had a fan base and a program which didn't shy away from scheduling major opponents. The home lineup for 2019? North Texas, Texas State, Tulsa, Temple, ECU, Tulane. No wonder SMU ranks 94th in Div. I in average attendance, about the same as UConn.