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

[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?

You are the one who spouted off that you could get us Alridge's number and report card. Now it's let me ask someone, to ask someone, who knows someone, who knows Alridge.

You sir have no credibility. You also have very little if any knowledge about the game if you can't see that this team was poorly coached.

JWill has his number, I will get it from him. The report cards will be at the DISD admin building. Give me some time. I want people like you to understand that coaching, whoever it is has an uphill challenge. Sue there were some bad play calling, it happens everywhere! Good teams overcome bad playcalling. Who cares about credibility on a message board? Thanks for calling me sir. At least you have respect for your elders.

[bigdaddy08091]

BigDaddyDonGarlits:

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?


Hey BigDaddy-have you not figured out we are making the same argument.yet? I'm using English-so what's so hard to decipher? This thread says it all. Most of you are simply happy to continue losing for years and years to come. You complain about getting beat but refuse to put the pressure on the administration to make the changes necessary to get the same profile of athletes that have beat us for 20 years. This thread explains all I need why I'm not interested in joining the Mustang Club-just a bunch of kiss-[deleted] Cheerleaders that are not willing to stand up for a strong athletic program. You can not intelligently [deleted] about getting beat by UTEP, TCU, UH, Tulsa, Southern Miss, ECU, UAB, Marshall, UCF, Texas Tech, Baylor without understanding that they admit the profile of players SMU does not and that they are the difference in many cases between winning and losing. I encourage all Mustang Club members to stop all donations to the Mustang Club until this issue is resolved. Just cut them off.

Okay, sorry!

[SMUer]

Wade Koehl had a pretty good game against y'all last year. I guess Bennett recruited him but couldn't get him into school either since he only had a 1500 on the SAT.

Probably couldn't get our committ Robert Griffin past the past the admissions Nazi's there, despite the fact that Stanford offered him.

Fine, fine reporting/points sir.

On that note, does everybody on here really believe that SMU couldn't earn its way into a bowl game either this year or last? That it just plain didn't have the talent to even grant it the possibility to win 7 games? A majority of people on here are speaking of how the University forces-that-be are aligning themselves against SMU Football like its some cosmic battle preventing us from getting the players that we need, but lets step back for a moment. Our immediate goal for these last two seasons was not to be a Top 25 team (that's the LT goal) but simply to get into a bowl game. I have a hard time seeing anything that the University did that twarted a 1st and goal against rice. This year, did UTEP call more than two differnt plays on their final 4th quarter and OT drives!?! We didn't need player SAVIORS for those games. That's what has made me frustrated about SMU football. It's not the fact that we're not competing with UT-system schools for 4,5-star athletes, it's the fact that we are utilizing so poorly what we have. Sure, we are going to have to change things academically (or at least be more creative with recruiting) if we are going to become a CUSA dynasty or a Top 25 program but let us not forget that Phil told Orsini last year that he had everything he needed to win and go to a bowl game this year. He may have wanted an EDU major but he told Orsini he didn't need one to get to a bowl. I think we should be upset about that telling failure first-and-foremost before we start talking about why we aren't recruiting LTs and demanding that our avg SAT slump down to 700 (or whatever a poor SAT score is now...1300 or something).

[Stallion]

Blah Blah Blah-you are so full of complete [deleted]. What do you think we've witnessed for 18 years? Why do we have longest drought in the history of SMU FB andBB since the DP? Why are we the MOST UNSUCCESSFUL PROGRAM IN AMERICA. Yes it T-A-L-E-N-T. The recruiting services show it. The Football and Basketball records show it. The Play on the field shows it. The unparrellel inability to stop both the running game and passing games shows it. What is it about reality that you can not grasp. We are not fast enough, quick enough, big enough, strong enough, and not agile enough. We are completely outclassed by the superior athletes like Thomas, Sam, Arldridge, Forte and every WR on our opponents roster for 2 years. Take a look Sunday Nite-this time with your eyes open. Last year was a mirage built against Paddy-Cakes. We did not have a winning record against Division 1A Football. We are not as good this year as last. We are not bowl material. We didn't deserve a bowl last year.

[EastStang]

So again, what's the solution. Add an athlete friendly major, change formula for transferability hours, what else. Offer non-qualifiers?

[Pony94]

We are not as good this year as last. We are not bowl material. We didn't deserve a bowl last year.

No, we are not as good as last year...you got that one right. No, we didn't deserve to go to a bowl last year, because we didn't win at Rice. They won, they went.

HOWEVER, had we won at Rice, then we would have been worthy. The question still stands...if we have no talent, how in the world did we manage to win 6 games last year?

[SMUer]

Whining about other people's failure can do wonders covering up for your own. If you guys are correct and the only thing is a talent desparity, in the interest of honestly, I would love to hear more football halftime speeches go like this:

[Coach] "Well men, you've played hard so far tonight and I'm gosh darn proud of you for it. Sure, you've allowed nearly 200 yards on the ground and 300 yards in the air on defense in one half...and sure, you couldn't score more than 10 pts dispite 5 turnovers and a 1st and goal from the one...but you know what? That's SMU's fault, not yours. You weren't ever good enough to win this game anyway. Look around you..."

*team looks around, important players make significant eye contact with each other*

[Coach] "You guys are too smart to play football and that's something to be proud of! Hell, you were the only players I could recruit because of SMU's high academic lofty ideals for itself. I know, I know, you guys look like you couldn't tackle stilts-walkers out there but you were the best of the worst I could get..."

[Anon. Player] "Coach what are we going to do about the second half, what can we do to be better?"

[Coach] "Jeff, I'd try to coach you men but you don't have any talent to begin with, so I won't. It won't do any good. Football fundamentals are born not taught. It's in the blood. Thus, I don't know what the hell you should do. Run around, look confused...I don't care. Call your own plays! All I know is that I can't help you because you already are losers. But remember, you're smart and the best SMU can offer given that. All right, are you ready boys? Lets Fight!"

[SMUer]

I've always been of the opinion that coaches are able to develop talent, not just put it on the field. And...how much talent do you need to develop a fullback for that Rice game.

Recipe

-Take any runningback
-Add 30-50 lbs

[bagice]

I also have to agree with the Talent argument. I really didn't like Phil as a Head Coach and scratched my head at a few of his calls, but I think its silly to suggest that if we had a better "x's and o's" coach we would be a MUCH better team going to bowls. We simply don't have enough good players that can make a difference.

Now whether that was because PB was a bad recruiter or because his hands were tied, I don't know for sure but feel it is probably a bit of both. Would be nice to have all the things Stallion has talked about addressed and fixed, but it would have also been nice if Phil could have brought in some better talent from the pool he had to work with.

[Stallion]

Our new resident Genius claims that he doesn't think SMU has been beaten by our opponent's individual "saviours" during the last 2 years. Let's revisit those individual performances:

RUSHING:
1. Forte 349
2. Aldridge 225
3. Thomas 212
4. Arnold 159
5. Battle 138
6. Fletcher 109
7. Sam 106 + 88 receiving=194 TO
8. J. Thomas 100

RECEIVING:

1. Fitzgerald 327
2. Trae Johnson 158
3. Amendola 149
4. Dilliard 145
5. Johnson 139
6. Allison 138
7. Jackson 133
8. Quinn 132
9. Moss 120
10. Clay 108
11. Crabtree 106
12. Davis 100

Do you think this is NORMAL Pal to give up 20 over 100 yard performances in 20 games? ? How about 4 performances over 200 yards? Does this rekindle any lost memories of SMU getting torched by great individual performances? Do you actually watch SMU play Football. Does SMU have 1/3 of these types of performances during the last 2 years. This is a defense that is Physically mismatched against its quality opponents. By the way I believe each and every person on that list except maybe Davis from Tulane either was, is or most certainly going to be an All-Conference player in his conference.

[Billy Joe]

You forgot to mention the Okla. St. receiver who scored a record number of tds on us a few years ago. I also believe there are several players from other teams who have record / career games against us all the time that were not mentioned above. Point is well taken though.

[sarcoog2010]

Nobody said A was not smart, just no smart enough to get into SMU!

Ya I guess he was "no smart enough".

The irony is just unbelievable.

[BRStang]

I also have to agree with the Talent argument. I really didn't like Phil as a Head Coach and scratched my head at a few of his calls, but I think its silly to suggest that if we had a better "x's and o's" coach we would be a MUCH better team going to bowls. We simply don't have enough good players that can make a difference.

Now whether that was because PB was a bad recruiter or because his hands were tied, I don't know for sure but feel it is probably a bit of both. Would be nice to have all the things Stallion has talked about addressed and fixed, but it would have also been nice if Phil could have brought in some better talent from the pool he had to work with.

Who was that kid on another team who made sure Bennett saw him pancake one of our players since Bennett did not recruit him, either?

[bigdaddy08091]

Nobody said A was not smart, just no smart enough to get into SMU!

Ya I guess he was "no smart enough".

The irony is just unbelievable.

Another spell checker? Damn stay off the board and go to class, obviously you did not play the game and do not play the game, because the football team is at practice now. Another freaking spell checker. This board is full of spell checkers. No wonder we loose games, we have to many spell checkers. I want all the names of numbers of spell checkers. I am gonna kick some spell checker butt.

[Stallion]

Now that was kinda fun-e!!! Stay in school!!!