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by pjpony
Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:29 am
Forum: Other Sports
Topic: Losing is contagious
Replies: 28
Views: 6997

It will be interesting to see how recruiting goes this year for the top players in the country. We have held our own in the past and McClements has received a lot of credit, but it should be interesting nonetheless considering how poor the results were this season.


I suspect that recruiting ...
by pjpony
Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:06 am
Forum: Other Sports
Topic: Losing is contagious
Replies: 28
Views: 6997

No team will make it every year, teams will have down years where you lose players to injuries. This team not only had tons of injuries but last players to the MLS.

All this talk about injuries and players going pro early are just excuses. When you compare us to UCLA you have two traditional ...
by pjpony
Sun Nov 16, 2008 3:35 am
Forum: Other Sports
Topic: Losing is contagious
Replies: 28
Views: 6997

Comments like "He is a proven inept loser..." and "...TM found a way to turn them into losers..." are both inaccurate and cowardly, and simply underscore the thought many here have had that you're either one of the candidates who didn't get the job or a friend of one of the other candidates ...
by pjpony
Thu Nov 13, 2008 3:01 am
Forum: Other Sports
Topic: Losing is contagious
Replies: 28
Views: 6997

just saw the guys lost 3-0. what a disastrous season for smu soccer. orsini dropped the ball letting mclements take over the program when schellas left. mclements needs to get canned

Home crowd, 1st round 3-0 demoralizing spectacle. How humiliating to lose to a #103 ranked team in that fashion ...
by pjpony
Wed Nov 12, 2008 7:11 pm
Forum: Other Sports
Topic: SMU/Kentucky
Replies: 22
Views: 6008

He has trashed nothing. Guarda, Geppert and Oliva were supposed to be major parts of this season, and none has played. Mirsky and Manuel and da Silva have been banged up. Injuries have prevented the Ponies from reaching our expectations - so far - but it's not McClements.

You can say that but ...
by pjpony
Wed Nov 12, 2008 5:39 am
Forum: Other Sports
Topic: SMU/Kentucky
Replies: 22
Views: 6008

Coach McClements took a previously weak program at Vanderbilt and built it into an NCAA Tournament team - winning a conference Coach of the Year award along the way, for which he defeated, among others, our own Schellas Hyndman - and might still be there if the school hadn't yanked the program out ...