Re: Dement Must Win This Year
Posted: Thu Oct 23, 2003 9:49 am
Do you think there are any D-1 teams we can beat in football? Maybe Buffalo? Our Sagasrin rating in f'ball is lower than about 35 D2 schools
Read your own posts...you said "6 wins".Originally posted by QuietManDisciple:
Florida Mustang: Last year's win at Tulsa was historic for US! It's the toughest place to play in the WAC and very few visitors are able to overcome that jam-packed, hostile environment.
As for your comment that "Sooner or later, Dement is going to lose his job," well, we're all going to grow old and die someday, too. If you mean it is only a matter of time until Dement is fired for failing to get to the NCAA tournament, I can only hope that the powers-that-be keep in mind SMU must win the WAC tournament because the selection committee will never chose us over Fresno and Tulsa. And don't kid yourself. Conference USA will be no different. We'll discover soon enough that this conference switch is a lateral move.
Pony Fan - Look again at the results for 2002-03. SMU beat San Jose, Rice, Tulsa, Boise State and UTEP on the road during the regular season. That's five without the tournament win.
I haven't missed a game at Rice in 12 years and agree last year's victory was impressive. However, I don't see how you can call it the Mustangs' "best road game" of 2003. Neither the Owls, their coach (the most overrated in the WAC) nor the atmosphere (Rice fans can't even fill tiny Autry Court for SMU!) can compare to Tulsa.
Hoop Fan - Surely you don't believe the football and basketball programs having anything in common. The out-of-our-element nonconference schedule doesn't explain much less excuse the depths to which Mustang football has sunk. We're one of four winless teams in Division I-A and looking down the barrel of a 0-12 season. Bennett may be the coach of the future, but he has lost ground and momentum while Dement keeps on winning.