Bennett: "Recruited Aldridge But Couldn't Get Him Into SMU"

[ALEX LIFESON]

Stallion said..."Its time for each of you to decide if you want SMU play Division 1A Football or not."

Ok Stall, I'll play along. Let's say, each of us has decided we want SMU to play Division 1A football! Now what? Do you lead us in a storming of Perkins? What is it, that you are going to lead us in?

[abezontar]

He's not, he's going to continue [deleted] on this board and wait for someone else to do it. That's his MO.

[tristatecoog]

Even if it was true, was that very smart of PB to bust on Anthony "Quick Six" Alridge days before you travel to Houston for a nationally televised game? At least wait until after the game.

According to Rivals, Ell Ash had a 970 SAT and a 3.3 GPA in high school. While he initially enrolled at UT, he was certainly qualified out of high school.

SMU definitely needs to make transferring easier. Just look at Cal's entrance profile. They used to have a football team average SAT in the 700s. If they can do it, surely SMU can.

And, yeah, Ganaway briefly committed to Rice, then visited Tulsa and then switched to UH. Therefore, I'm confident he was admissable to SMU, or should have been.

[perunapower]

Even if it was true, was that very smart of PB to bust on Anthony "Quick Six" Alridge days before you travel to Houston for a nationally televised game? At least wait until after the game.

According to Rivals, Ell Ash had a 970 SAT and a 3.3 GPA in high school. While he initially enrolled at UT, he was certainly qualified out of high school.

SMU definitely needs to make transferring easier. Just look at Cal's entrance profile. They used to have a football team average SAT in the 700s. If they can do it, surely SMU can.

And, yeah, Ganaway briefly committed to Rice, then visited Tulsa and then switched to UH. Therefore, I'm confident he was admissable to SMU, or should have been.

Sshh... Phil's forgotten more about logic and common sense than we'll ever know.

Didn't "Goneaway" commit here too? I think he made the rounds in C-USA West.

[bigdaddy08091]

See Houston Preview thread with kudos to mrydel for pointing this out. This is the second time we have heard this claim. Remember Ganaway Fan reported the same thing a week or so ago. So you guys keep thinking SMU does not get beat by the UTEPs, the TCUs, the Tulsas and the UHs by kids that SMU Coaches can't get into school. All those schools beat us with precisely the players we can't get into school. They are difference makers. We're not even bringing up the 8-10 Division 1A transfers UH has run through that program in the last few years. Open your eyes and learn. If you are not informed don't make conclusions on matters you don't understand.

Stallion, shut the hell up! I live in Denton, Tx and watched JWills Denton Ryan Raiders beat the hell out of Aldridge and Denton High for years. There is no way this kid could have gotten into SMU if he would take any test 1000 times. Where the hell are you people getting this [deleted] info? Do you want me to fax you his report cards for all of HS years? He is a great athlete, but he could not get into our institution of higher learning because he is a football player going to school, not a student playing football. Please get your facts straight and stop trying to [deleted] people on stuff you know nothing about. I will give you his phone number and you can call and ask Aldridge?

[jtstang]

I'd like his report cards and his phone umber, please.

[bigdaddy08091]

I'd like his report cards and his phone umber, please.

Give me a couple of days and I will get it from JWill!

[jtstang]

I'd like his report cards and his phone umber, please.

Give me a couple of days and I will get it from JWill!

Can you get me a lost of Justin's girlfriends too?

[tristatecoog]

FWIW, it's "Alridge." While we're at it, how about JWill's report cards?

I thought SMU loosened up its standards 2-3 years ago. A few years ago, I remember seeing SMU's average football team SATs in the mid-to-high 900s and in the company of Vandy and Rice. Stanford consistently has the highest entrance requirements and yet beat USC on the road.

[Pony in SA]

Been out of town and just reading some posts and all I want to say is I told you this was coming. I posted last week what PB and Orisini's quotes were at the coaches stop about getting whoever they wanted, and now this.

Again, we have problems in all areas. Certainly the "model" as some have called it is part of the problems, but also we must acknowlege we need better coaching, better attention to details in recruiting (at least contacting players, making sure the letters we do send have names spelled right, etc.), better details to contacting former players to get them involved, etc.

Nice to have some of these other kids, but we don't. Still doesn't explain why we can't even contact Marcus Wright especially after his 7 TD playoff peformance last year and he is one of the fastest players in the state, especially when other conf-USA schools do and Tulsa wraps him up. And yes he would get in SMU just fine as he is an honors student and has tested just fine.

[bigdaddy08091]

I'd like his report cards and his phone umber, please.

Give me a couple of days and I will get it from JWill!

Can you get me a lost of Justin's girlfriends too?

Not that close. Have to talk to JWills dad, get his number, tell him what the deal is, get A's # and get it to you and you can ask him for yourself. SMU to hard to get into for most athletes. We do get a few, but a few not enough to win! Remind me in post because I work for a living and will forget. Should I get the numbers of the starting WR at Baylor, Justin Fenty, running back at Mizzo, Earl Goldsmith, starting corner at Hawaii, Myron Newberry, who went to JC in Athens (?), Derrick Lokey at UT, Brian Smith formerly of Mizzo, Jarvis Moss formerly at Florida. Where does it end? This is institutional [deleted] and stop trying to make it a coaching issue! Start making all your post to Turner and the Board please! These are only a few of the metroplex players we could have. What is the real deal? Is it a black thing or a grade thing?

[Pony81]

Sorry but SMU can recruit from a deep pool of players. Maybe not as deep as a UCF but certainly deep enough to win in CUSA.
Remember - we are the only team not to go to a bowl in CUSA.
That means our coaches are not good evaluators of talent and can not coach up the talent in place.

I give you Coach Graham at Rice as Exhibit A of how to coach up talent and win in a weak league. He took talent recruited for the option and won with in in a spread offense.

SMU is a good (not great) coach away from consistent winning and the occasional CUSA championship.

Lets face it Cavan and Bennett were a disaster.

[bigdaddy08091]

Sorry but SMU can recruit from a deep pool of players. Maybe not as deep as a UCF but certainly deep enough to win in CUSA.
Remember - we are the only team not to go to a bowl in CUSA.
That means our coaches are not good evaluators of talent and can not coach up the talent in place.

I give you Coach Graham at Rice as Exhibit A of how to coach up talent and win in a weak league. He took talent recruited for the option and won with in in a spread offense.

SMU is a good (not great) coach away from consistent winning and the occasional CUSA championship.

Lets face it Cavan and Bennett were a disaster.

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[PK]

What i'm trying to figure out is how ANY of you can deny the performances of Thomas, Sam, Aldridge and Tomlinson were NOT a significant disadvantage.

Exactly who the hell on this board has ever said that the performance of those players were not a significant disadvantage for us? Don't put words in our mouths Stallion. Pull up the post ...show us the evidence as you require of everyone else here that has an opinion. Otherwise preach your convictions about the model, et al, all you want, but stop making inane accusations that the rest of us are too stupid to recognize the problems as well as you or are much too unsophisticated or too naive to recognize or understand the great truths you have revealed. Other than [deleted] on these boards, you haven't done squat to get the changes you say are absolutely necessary. So don't go bagging on the rest of us.

[George S. Patton]

What i'm trying to figure out is how ANY of you can deny the performances of Thomas, Sam, Aldridge and Tomlinson were NOT a significant disadvantage.

Exactly who the hell on this board has ever said that the performance of those players were not a significant disadvantage for us? Don't put words in our mouths Stallion. Pull up the post ...show us the evidence as you require of everyone else here that has an opinion. Otherwise preach your convictions about the model, et al, all you want, but stop making inane accusations that the rest of us are too stupid to recognize the problems as well as you or are much too unsophisticated or too naive to recognize or understand the great truths you have revealed. Other than [deleted] on these boards, you haven't done squat to get the changes you say are absolutely necessary. So don't go bagging on the rest of us.

This argument is going nowhere. The bottom line is that the university needs to be direct with its alums and fan base exactly when these supposed changes are going to be implemented and not give ballpark timeframes.

Detailed information to the masses is the key. The sooner they get this out, the better it gives the new coach and his staff a chance to sell this across the state of Texas or wherever they choose to recruit. The timeframe for future recruits may not be what we all desire, but we're going to have to start somewhere.

Or else we're running on a treadmill. But the key is to make better evaluations on players. Bennett's biggest fault in recruiting is that he took too many reaches on the offensive and defensive lines. Most went bust.


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