Not good news

by **PonyTales** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 12:53 pm

If Cox and Mouton are, in fact, gone for good, that means there are two new scholarships available. Just a hunch, but I'd watch for a late DT addition. And considering all he's been through with the knee injury and the suspension, the fact that we're going to keep Desmond Jones on board seems like a major bonus -- gives him a year to get himself back on track and to further rehab that knee. A lot of folks say it's the second year after such an injury that a guy really can return to his original form. Doing it this way allows him to get his strength and trust in the knee back without losing a season of eligibility. The DTs are going to have to overachieve, to be sure, but it could have been worse.

by **KnuckleStang** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:23 pm

Can't help but wonder what "team rule" DJ violated. For a year suspension, I'm thinking it would have to be a lot more than Budweiser in the dorm. I'm just glad he's back for '06.

by **Ponymon** » Sat Jun 11, 2005 1:29 pm

I heard that Desmond Jones issues were academic and Brandon Bonds is also on the bubble. Keeping these defensive lineman at this school eligible is a MAJOR problem :!:

Seems like we may have to convert some OL to DL. Also, I wonder if some of our "greyshirts" will now have scholarships for the fall semester?

by **RGV Pony** » Sun Jun 12, 2005 1:42 am

Beginning last year at about the 2nd quarter of the TCU game, I was hoping for '05 when we'd have Mouton and Jones starting as the D-linemen, and we'd have a better chance of matching up and stop getting pushed around by the huge O-lines everyone but SMU has.

Now? We're screwed, I'm afraid. Smallish d-linemen mean once again, option plays kill us, our LBs are going to be vulnerable and their injury frequency will skyrocket. Why couldn't Coach B. look at 300+ d-linemen the way he has begun to look at qb's?

Someone reassure me, please. Tell me there aren't going to be multiple games with 40, 50+ scored against us.

And Clayton Cox? Homesick? Girlfriend? Really, really hard not to name-call with that one.

by **Ponymon** » Mon Jun 13, 2005 7:17 am

It seems like we should have a shot at some homesick kids, but it rarely seems to happen!

by **ponydawg** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 11:19 am

it is always something with us......
Don't know how you people that were in your 20's in the 1980's are still here, I am going on 10 years and I am begining to hate everyone.

by **Diehard Pony** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 12:06 pm

ponydawg wrote:it is always something with us......
Don't know how you people that were in your 20's in the 1980's are still here, I am going on 10 years and I am begining to hate everyone.

It has not been easy, and gets increasingly difficult each year. Maybe this is the year things will turn, but I have been saying that every year for longer than I can remember.

by **Dooby** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:09 pm

Diehard Pony wrote:
ponydawg wrote:it is always something with us......
Don't know how you people that were in your 20's in the 1980's are still here, I am going on 10 years and I am begining to hate everyone.
It has not been easy, and gets increasingly difficult each year. Maybe this is the year things will turn, but I have been saying that every year for longer than I can remember.

It is an offshoot of the old "It is better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all," I guess. Top 90 aside, my greatest memories as a student were beating Houston at Ownby in 1992 and tying A&M in 1994. Pretty pathetic memories.

Is it better to have never been emotionally attached to the glory days and witness the current disaster or simply be a part of the present disaster with no memory of the past glory? I dunno. All I do know is that I have short attention span and don't know how much longer I can really put up with the futility of it all. If there is one thing you have to give credit to Stallion and other for, it is that they have stuck things out this long.

by **Hoop Fan** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 2:39 pm

I'd hate to see Dooby give up on the Stangs and leave, but that might be the only way we get rid of Kathy Bates. Hmmm.

by **LakeHighlandsPony** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 4:37 pm

Ponymon wrote:It seems like we should have a shot at some homesick kids, but it rarely seems to happen!

You right- How come the countless players that sign with Iowa State and Minnesota don't get homesick and come back to Dallas to play for the Stangs. I had high hopes for Clayton Cox-maybe the next TD Briggs.

by **SWC2010** » Tue Jun 14, 2005 10:37 pm

Hoop Fan wrote:you can't sugarcoat this. Its getting real old. Thats basically 3 defensive starters we just lost on an already thin and unproven squad. Discouraging to say the least. So much for our JC recruiting wins, 2 of them never set foot on the field.

C'mon HoopFan, it's a serious matter but you overstated a few points:

[1] Cox was NOT projected as a starter. If you watched the same Spring Game I saw, he was always pursuing the play, except when he stepped into a passing lane once... and the ball hit him in the hands (no Int).

[2] I saw Mouton as a "Project", not a starter. He's been hurt/sick/injured since he was a Jr in HS.

[3] As to Desmond, he's a loss BUT players do have to obey the rules, whether they be academic, team rules, dorm rules, etc.

by **Danny Noonan** » Wed Jun 15, 2005 7:30 am

we didn't need then anyways

by **Corso** » Thu Jun 16, 2005 8:51 am

Riiiiiiiight. Who needs those 300-pound DTs? And who wants a big LB, strong enough to play some DE? I foresee a lot of 3-4 this year. That's not a bad thing, necessarily, and Coach Bennett had said before that we'll see some of that, anyway. But losing Mouton and shelving Jones for a year would make that more likely, I'd think.

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