Davis is a good spread option QB

[StallionsModelT]

Go back and watch that UNT game. We were physically WHIPPED by a team that will probably finish in the bottom third of CUSA. June Jones deserves a ton of the blame for the coaching and scheme but you know what? UNT manhandled our kids. Now if you're saying a new coach can come in here and turn this thing around to winning a handful of games next year without massive roster turnover then I say lock him up to a lifetime contract b/c that man is a miracle worker.

[1983 Cotton Bowl]

I've been saying that the SMU Football program was "stair-stepping down" in talent for 3 years but wow that last step is off the cliff. I don't think there is any excuse why SMU didn't win 4 games this year -other than I think June REALLY screwed up recruiting at the QB and RB position and it came back to bite him in the [deleted]. But there are other factors such a weight and conditioning and player development that simply are inexcusable. I'm not around the practice field but these coaches did not develop the talent they did have. We should be beating NTSU, Tulsa etc. A transition from a Run and Shoot team is always difficult because you got so many of those tiny receivers, no TEs and pro-style QBs that often don't match well with the new offense of the new coach

Yeah, I didn't expect a whole lot this year. But I have to admit I've been a bit shocked at the wholesale collapse in all phases of the game. Seems to me there is enough talent to at least win a few of these games, but we really haven't even threatened to win a single game so far.

Re. the transition, at least the new coach will have a quality (or at least very athletic) dual-threat QB (Davis), a pretty well-regarded tight end (Gaines), and a couple of backs (Gresham, if healthy and Nlemichi, if he continues to improve) to work with next year. Do we have a single legit wide receiver though? I can't think of one. And the O-line. . . oh the O-line. . .

And of course our defense is an unmitigated disaster this year. I don't see much to work with there at all next season, unless we bring in like half a dozen jucos.

[footballdad]

Go back and watch that UNT game. We were physically WHIPPED by a team that will probably finish in the bottom third of CUSA. June Jones deserves a ton of the blame for the coaching and scheme but you know what? UNT manhandled our kids. Now if you're saying a new coach can come in here and turn this thing around to winning a handful of games next year without massive roster turnover then I say lock him up to a lifetime contract b/c that man is a miracle worker.

I'll go out on a limb and say we beat UNT next year and chalk this year up as a June Jones anomaly.

My massive roster turnover was outlined above with the hopeful addition of a stud OL transfer/juco/recruit.

[footballdad]

I've been saying that the SMU Football program was "stair-stepping down" in talent for 3 years but wow that last step is off the cliff. I don't think there is any excuse why SMU didn't win 4 games this year -other than I think June REALLY screwed up recruiting at the QB and RB position and it came back to bite him in the [deleted]. But there are other factors such a weight and conditioning and player development that simply are inexcusable. I'm not around the practice field but these coaches did not develop the talent they did have. We should be beating NTSU, Tulsa etc. A transition from a Run and Shoot team is always difficult because you got so many of those tiny receivers, no TEs and pro-style QBs that often don't match well with the new offense of the new coach

Yeah, I didn't expect a whole lot this year. But I have to admit I've been a bit shocked at the wholesale collapse in all phases of the game. Seems to me there is enough talent to at least win a few of these games, but we really haven't even threatened to win a single game so far.

Re. the transition, at least the new coach will have a quality (or at least very athletic) dual-threat QB (Davis), a pretty well-regarded tight end (Gaines), and a couple of backs (Gresham, if healthy and Nlemichi, if he continues to improve) to work with next year. Do we have a single legit wide receiver though? I can't think of one. And the O-line. . . oh the O-line. . .

And of course our defense is an unmitigated disaster this year. I don't see much to work with there at all next season, unless we bring in like half a dozen jucos.

I think Darius Joseph has showed he can play, and I bet Sutton starts as our bigger target outside. From his very limited time he showed flashes and a definite physical presence.

[Digetydog]

I've been saying that the SMU Football program was "stair-stepping down" in talent for 3 years but wow that last step is off the cliff. I don't think there is any excuse why SMU didn't win 4 games this year -other than I think June REALLY screwed up recruiting at the QB and RB position and it came back to bite him in the [deleted]. But there are other factors such a weight and conditioning and player development that simply are inexcusable. I'm not around the practice field but these coaches did not develop the talent they did have. We should be beating NTSU, Tulsa etc. A transition from a Run and Shoot team is always difficult because he got so many of those tiny receivers, no TEs and pro-style QBs that often don't match well with the new offense of the new coach

Agreed, June & Co. have been an ever worsening disaster in all aspects, not just recruiting.

So if June retires last year, and we hired Morris or Herman, would this have been a .500 team with Davis at the helm of their style of dual-threat offense? With Nlemchi & Gresham in the backfield, Gaines at TE/Hback, Sutton in the mix out wide?

Huge hypothetical I know

Without a historically bad offense and with a real special teams coach, the defense might not have been on the field 75% of the time.

[1983 Cotton Bowl]

I've been saying that the SMU Football program was "stair-stepping down" in talent for 3 years but wow that last step is off the cliff. I don't think there is any excuse why SMU didn't win 4 games this year -other than I think June REALLY screwed up recruiting at the QB and RB position and it came back to bite him in the [deleted]. But there are other factors such a weight and conditioning and player development that simply are inexcusable. I'm not around the practice field but these coaches did not develop the talent they did have. We should be beating NTSU, Tulsa etc. A transition from a Run and Shoot team is always difficult because you got so many of those tiny receivers, no TEs and pro-style QBs that often don't match well with the new offense of the new coach

Yeah, I didn't expect a whole lot this year. But I have to admit I've been a bit shocked at the wholesale collapse in all phases of the game. Seems to me there is enough talent to at least win a few of these games, but we really haven't even threatened to win a single game so far.

Re. the transition, at least the new coach will have a quality (or at least very athletic) dual-threat QB (Davis), a pretty well-regarded tight end (Gaines), and a couple of backs (Gresham, if healthy and Nlemichi, if he continues to improve) to work with next year. Do we have a single legit wide receiver though? I can't think of one. And the O-line. . . oh the O-line. . .

And of course our defense is an unmitigated disaster this year. I don't see much to work with there at all next season, unless we bring in like half a dozen jucos.

I think Darius Joseph has showed he can play, and I bet Sutton starts as our bigger target outside. From his very limited time he showed flashes and a definite physical presence.

Oh, ok. For some reason I thought Joseph was gone after this season.

[PerunasHoof]

Soooo....a great deep throw and running around in circles in the end zone and almost got us a safety

[LakeHighlandsPony]

Anybody have Morphine?

[Big12Mustang]

We are running the RnS, to Davis' defense...

[sbsmith]

Soooo....a great deep throw and running around in circles in the end zone and almost got us a safety

And he's all ours