From Jon Wilner:
That’s right: SMU’s football potential is greater than any of the remaining 10 schools, save for Oregon, Washington and perhaps Utah.
Why do I say that?
Because SMU is located in a football hotbed with dozens of blue-chip prospects within a short drive of campus.
Because it’s a private school that can funnel resources as desired, with no bureaucratic impediments.
And because it has immense donor support, with a huge endowment ($2 billion) and wealthy alumni.
As one source told the Hotline: “Besides USC and Oregon, nobody in the conference could beat SMU’s resources.”
Our sense is that membership in the Pac-12 would provide the school — and its donor base — with the motivation to plow resources into the football program (hello, NIL!) and eventually lead to success that’s currently difficult to envision.
Does that mean the Mustangs would become a power? No. But they could quickly become a top-half football program within the reconstituted Pac-12.
That’s right: SMU’s football potential is greater than any of the remaining 10 schools, save for Oregon, Washington and perhaps Utah.
Why do I say that?
Because SMU is located in a football hotbed with dozens of blue-chip prospects within a short drive of campus.
Because it’s a private school that can funnel resources as desired, with no bureaucratic impediments.
And because it has immense donor support, with a huge endowment ($2 billion) and wealthy alumni.
As one source told the Hotline: “Besides USC and Oregon, nobody in the conference could beat SMU’s resources.”
Our sense is that membership in the Pac-12 would provide the school — and its donor base — with the motivation to plow resources into the football program (hello, NIL!) and eventually lead to success that’s currently difficult to envision.
Does that mean the Mustangs would become a power? No. But they could quickly become a top-half football program within the reconstituted Pac-12.
