ORSINI'S HANDS TIED?

[originaloverthehilltop1]

so 6-6 is not an entitlement to a bowl. some 6-6 teams are just lucky to get one. fine. next year 6-6 won't keep a head coaching job at smu.

[bigdaddy08091]

We need to seperate some of the factors, comparing last year this year.
1. Our defense last year was goooood. We had to solid mature corners and two lolid mature safeties. We also three damn good linebackers, where our starting middle backer this year barely got on the field. We will be better on defense this next year due o maturity. We started a defensive back at linebacker and basically had two first year starters playing DB. Three of our linemen battled injuries throughout the year. We will be better on defense next year, but youth and injuries killed us this year. If you noticed when we got scored on, 75% of the time it was youth that got us beat. It's going to happen!

2. The offense was leaps and bounds better than last year. We never made ESPN, or any other media outlet last year. the DMN barely covered us, what a shame. We will be better next year!! D Mart has to be healthy and the O-Line has to improve and get some depth.

3. Everyone keeps talking about Bennetts recruiting classes. All of the players are not Bennetts players. This is all he could get, because it is SMU. This is gonna sound stupid, but if PB could have gotten Peterson or Bomar, or other great names, don't you think he would have. We can only recruit what we can recruit, and it will not get us to many 10 or 11 win seasons until we can get on the map with several years of 6, 7, and 8 win seasons. The Metroplex is full of great players. can we get some of them? Re-read all you post, it all points back to the administration. At every school, it starts at the top!

Another thing, I was at the TCU/Air Force game yesterday, boy what a crowd and what a support that school gives to the football program. I am not for sure if that will ever happen again at SMU?

[Stallion]

oh sure it will-about 4-5 years after the SMU administration makes the same commitment that TCU's administration has. There are well documented differences between the way TCU and SMU approach college athletics

also we will not be better od defense next year unless we go sign a few stud JUCO defensive players-I'm pretty confident of that prediction.

[GrapevineMustang]

Plus, the service academies have fans nationwide. I'm sure Air Force added a decent contingent to the crowd.

[bigdaddy08091]

oh sure it will-about 4-5 years after the SMU administration makes the same commitment that TCU's administration has. There are well documented differences between the way TCU and SMU approach college athletics

also we will not be better od defense next year unless we go sign a few stud JUCO defensive players-I'm pretty confident of that prediction.

Man, I love you Stallion. It does start at the top. I wonder what is keeping the admin from making the committment. We have the young talent to start this thing in the right direction and Orsini has made some moves with marketing and such. What else do we need besides more players.

[EastStang]

I noticed about four 6-6 teams going to bowls this year. Oklahoma State, Miami and Alabama among them. With the now relaxed 1-AA win rule permitting one of those games to count toward bowl eligibility, I see the BCS filling all their slots from now on. That leaves bowl eligible teams from smaller conferences in the lurch. However, those teams are also feasting on 1-AA teams and there are still the occasional 1-AA upsets (like Delaware, Furman, New Hampshire and Maine).