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Terry Webster wrote:I just wish we could find a coach who could figure out how to play defense.

Based on our recent history you might be asking too much.

I wish there was any pressure to win at SMU. There is zero.

mtrout wrote:I wish there was any pressure to win at SMU. There is zero.

You kind of get the feeling no one really cares except us few on here. Certainly not the administration.

All you have to do is look at the attendance for our games to know how few people really care

The people who control the future of Mustang athletics sit in glass Enclosed, air conditioned or heated boxes sipping wine and eating dinner, completely out of touch with the Grunts (to use a Marine Corps term) in the stands who are the real fans. I don’t think they really care enough to change the course of athletics at SMU.

Terry Webster wrote:I just wish we could find a coach who could figure out how to play defense.

Because of how HS football operates in Texas, there are a TON of offensive skill players out there. It is much easier to find someone to recruit because of the numbers.

Defense is another deal entirely. There aren't a lot of really good defensive players or OL that come out every year. It is a much harder area to recruit. Our philosophy, generally, should be to recruit high school for offense and focus more on the portal for defensive players. The other thing you have to do is what Patterson was excellent at - find running backs and wide receivers that can transition to defense and play DE, LB, CB, and S. Getting stud defensive players is when we will take a next step as a program. We have some nice young pieces with Samuels, Smith, both Burns, Farrer, Goree, Davis, Abiara, Sanjo, Jackson, Frazier, Eby, and Moses. Those are all a great step in the right direction, and so the new staff did a good job with pulling in most of those. We just need more of that.

Look all around college football and you will see really inconsistent defensive performances. Look at that Ole Miss/Arkansas game yesterday with over 1200 yards of offense and 3 players running for over 200 yards. South Carolina hung 63 points on the # 5 team in the country that most people thought might have a shot at the Final Four. Our defense has been consistently bad but we are not alone

Arkpony wrote:The people who control the future of Mustang athletics sit in glass Enclosed, air conditioned or heated boxes sipping wine and eating dinner, completely out of touch with the Grunts (to use a Marine Corps term) in the stands who are the real fans. I don’t think they really care enough to change the course of athletics at SMU.

Ark- you are exactly correct. IMO that group is only there to visit with each other rather than see a game. Nothing will change until the admin and a lot of the board changes. so very sad.

redpony wrote:Ark- you are exactly correct. IMO that group is only there to visit with each other rather than see a game. Nothing will change until the admin and a lot of the board changes. so very sad.

I don't see that ever happening here. It's just everybody slapping each other on the back.

Nearly every team in the country prioritizes a high-powered offense over a stingy defense, and JasonB is right: high schools usually play most or all of their best athletes on offense.

Ditching Lashlee at this point is laughable. There were some who wanted Tom Landry canned after his first season, too.

This is so danged funny! On this board year after year after year, we are either all-world or the suckiest thing since the invention of polio.

We have a new coach. He’s got a winning record. It will be ok. Hahahaha. So predictable, the bipolar nature of this group.

Enjoy mediocrity. That’s the best we should hope for to some. I suppose it’s better than just winning one or two games a year…

Mustangs_Maroons wrote:Enjoy mediocrity. That’s the best we should hope for to some. I suppose it’s better than just winning one or two games a year…

We tried those one win seasons in the years right after the death penalty. That wasn't much fun. Expectations are a little higher now so we are on a little bit of a roller coaster ride...along with the majority of programs playing D-1 football

We could be the Aggies. Talk about high expectations with low delivery. They deluded themselves into thinking that they would be relevant in the SEC. 90K Koolaid drinkers at every game grabbing their doodads and seeing their mediocre team. Or we could be the Hogs, who have never gone anywhere in the SEC while being a National name in the SWC. Or we could be Texas which despite its pick of Texas players can't win in the Big XII and who will be a bottom dweller in the SEC. We could be the Sand Aggies, who keep thinking they might win something and never do. Now they're in the toaster leavings of the Big XII. Those shiny clothes of the Big XII looked really pretty 30 years ago. Now, they are pretty much tattered. The TV suits destroyed the SWC and tarnished every team in it. Baylor's reputation is still recovering from its player problem. TCU is having a good year, but wait until they play Georgia, if they manage to stay undefeated until then. We don't have a huge fan base, we have been bad to mediocre for decades, and now we're trying to dig our way out. Things could be worse, we know.

EastStang wrote:We could be the Aggies. Talk about high expectations with low delivery. They deluded themselves into thinking that they would be relevant in the SEC. 90K Koolaid drinkers at every game grabbing their doodads and seeing their mediocre team. Or we could be the Hogs, who have never gone anywhere in the SEC while being a National name in the SWC. Or we could be Texas which despite its pick of Texas players can't win in the Big XII and who will be a bottom dweller in the SEC. We could be the Sand Aggies, who keep thinking they might win something and never do. Now they're in the toaster leavings of the Big XII. Those shiny clothes of the Big XII looked really pretty 30 years ago. Now, they are pretty much tattered. The TV suits destroyed the SWC and tarnished every team in it. Baylor's reputation is still recovering from its player problem. TCU is having a good year, but wait until they play Georgia, if they manage to stay undefeated until then. We don't have a huge fan base, we have been bad to mediocre for decades, and now we're trying to dig our way out. Things could be worse, we know.

I agree with all of the above...
But I would gladly trade what we have for their "misery"