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[QUOTE="SMUPony, post: 4725952, member: 9219"]
SMU fan here. We are a small university.  We don’t have super large crowds.  If you don’t have a large alum base, that happens.  We also don’t play teams that anyone cares about.  UT and others made sure SMU, TCU, Rice and Houston were left out of the new B12 after the SWC dissolved.  Why?  The 4 schools in the 2 biggest recruiting hotbeds in the country.  They get the recruiting and the money.  TCU gets invited to B12 ONLY because they got an invite to Big East.  B12 doesn’t want schools poaching from Texas so it’s better to keep your friends close but your enemies closer.  Now  TCU and Baylor block us because they say we don’t add value….blah blah blah.  No, it’s really because they don’t want us to recruit on equal grounds and keep us financially inferior.  NIL just changed the game my friends!  SMU is a sleeping giant about to awaken from the fog of the death penalty.  Our NIL is probably top 20 in the country.  We sit literally in the hotbed of some of the most fertile football recruiting grounds in the country. We’re giving Syracuse and all the ACC teams the chance to come to Dallas to recruit against the B12.  This is terrifying to the B12. There’s tons of media types who are B12 Homers that will say horrible demeaning things about SMU just to help keep us out of a respectable conference.  They don’t want the ACC here in Texas.  It’s bad enough they have to compete against the SEC now.  SMU has been waiting for the chance to prove we belong.  NIL is flowing and our coffers are getting full.  We will not embarrass the ACC.
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