ESPN Radio Beasley Interview

[vielsiehorsepower]

I don't think ponyboy is wrong in his assertion that without June Jones SMU probably wouldn't be in as good of a position as it is today. Those bowl appearances, minor or not was enough to get SMU bumped up to the Big East. Without that on field performance we'd be sitting around looking like Rice. The Big East enthusiasm then led to Larry Brown which lead to multiple years of top-25 basketball which has us in the national basketball discussion. June Jones is a lot of things, but if we crap on him we should at least be able to recognize the good he did do. Had he not ASU'd the SMU situation and/or had SMU fans backed up the team after starting 5-1 and butt spanking UCF then I think the story might have been a little different. Regardless I'm glad we have Chad now.

How can you blame the fans at all? 5-1 so what. If that was a 12-1 year then maybe you could start expecting am increase for that 2012 season but the team [deleted] the bed and went to another crappy bowl.

Because they were 5-1 and just demolished the previous year's conference champs and all the team had to show for it was a 1/5 full stadium. Multiple players and June made note of how discouraging that was. It clearly killed momentum and is one of the reasons I think they showed up so flat against USM. USM wasn't that much better than us. If you want to hold June accountable for his awful recruiting and lackadaisical approach that put us in a hole, that's fine. But accountability goes to everyone - fans, administration, players. etc. For what it's worth I had tickets to that game but decided not to go for some BS reason. I'm to blame too.

So 25 years of being irrelevant is supposed to be erased by defeating a team that finished 5-7, getting demolished by aggie, and beating #20 tcu on a day where the Rangers were also playing. Yeah, totally. [deleted] it, let's give up the season.


Edit- UCF game was on Rangers day.

[SMUer]

USM was bigger, better, faster at just about position against our offense that day. We came out flat and couldn't execute our predictable pass at all in the first half (offense was pure Z.Line)...just like we could not in so many games against medium-to-good teams. By the time we got our 3 yard hitch-and-catch really grooving, we were down big. Our defense helped us out tremendously by forcing picks and fumbles...couldn't convert to save our lives. If seeing a half-full but enthusiastic crowd did that to them, they didn't deserve to be on CFB field.

[RGV Pony]

Okay well can the 20 of us or so that went to USM still [deleted]? From that day until the following Saturday and Tulsa, that was probably the biggest wetting of the bed I'd ever seen. And don't get me going on Tulsa.