SMU held a free youth camp on Saturday at Kincaide Stadium in Dallas for kids in the third to eighth grade, teaching football in a fun environment with the entire coaching staff and some players on hand. The staff got a DJ, food trucks and t-shirts for every camper in attendance.

97.9 The Beat, a hip-hop station in Dallas, broadcast live from the stadium and DJ'ed the camp. Every camper got an SMU Football t-shirt to wear while competing in the camp as staff and players ran them through drills.

Every one of the 400+ campers also received a corndog and a snow cone at the end of the two-hour camp.

The camp is a part of SMU’s outreach to the Dallas community to help build up support. #PonyUpDallas was one of the first examples of that. The camps continue that effort.

"Like #PonyUpDallas is more of a lifestyle. It doesn’t want to sound like a motto. We’re going to use Dallas companies for screen printing and buying t-shirts and services," director of football operations Anthony Crespino told Pony Stampede during spring ball. "We’re going to get behind the Mavericks and we hope they get behind us. That’s kind of the idea is we are Dallas’ team. We’ve been implementing the Dallas logo ,the “triple hashtag, tripled” we’re going to put that on a lot stuff going forward.

"Really this is Dallas’ team so we want people to come out and be at games and whatever way we can connect with them, we connect with everyone differently you know so finding other ways to make them tick and communicating that with them."

Due to NCAA rules, high school prospects were unable to attend the camp, but the staff will start skills camps for high school players on June 2. For the full list of camps, SMU has them listed here.

SMU wrapped up spring football practice on April 14, where the program held a controlled scrimmage in Ford Stadium. The first season under Dykes' direction begins on Sept. 1 at North Texas.

The Sonny Dykes Football Camps are designed to provide younger players with a solid foundation of the fundamentals of the game. The camp is run by the SMU coaching staff. These camps are designed to improve a players's beginning, intermediate and advanced skill levels. Fundamentals of all positions on offense and defense are taught in addition to life skills such as respect, responsibility, sportsmanship, teamwork and the importance of education. Participants are grouped based on age and skill level.