Bottom 10
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:37 pmNobody's posted this yet? TCU took #5 in the Bottom 10!
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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:37 pmPosted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:46 pmWhen was the last time our Ponies weren't even on the waiting list... at the end of last season? Hmmm....
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:08 pmHouston, TX (U-WIRE) -- Southern Methodist University skyrocketed to No. 95, according to TeamRankings.com, after the Ponies zapped, now No. 75, Texas Christian 21-10 Saturday.
It certainly ranks as the most important win for the Ponies since 1989, when the SMU program was reincarnated after suffering the NCAA version of the death penalty in 1987. SMU dispensed more than $600,000 to Mustang football players through boosters during the "Pony Express" era of Eric Dickerson and Craig James.
Among other debilitating punishments meted out by the NCAA, the Mustangs were forced to cancel the 1987 season. When the NCAA allowed them only seven road games during the 1988 campaign, the Mustangs canceled play that year too.
The Ponies have experienced one winning season in the past 15 years, going 6-5 in 1997.
The NCAA ultimate punishment, like a nuclear bomb, destroys its target completely. The NCAA has previously refused to slap other teams, such as Alabama, with the death penalty when the Crimson Tide got caught red-handed committing numerous recruiting violations, while on sanctions from previous rules infractions.
With the stunning SMU first victory over a ranked team since 1986, the Ponies drop-kicked the Horned Frogs, their biggest rival, into the Mountain West Conference and created the perfect backdrop for the upcoming C-USA race.
All this occurred a mere week after TCU opened the season with a 17-10 upset of perennial Big 12 power Oklahoma, in Norman.
Two weeks into the season, SMU (1-1) sits tied with Houston, behind UTEP (1-0), for second place in the suddenly spicy West. The Cougars visit Sun Bowl Stadium Friday for a game that promises to blossom into another Southwest rivalry with slightly more salsa than simply C-USA bragging rights at stake.
The Mustangs visit the Cougars November 12 for a matchup the Mustangs have been waiting for since after the 2000 season.
As fate would have it, that first game back from the death penalty pitted the poor Mustangs against a potent Cougar team coached by Jack Pardee, who gained notoriety after revolutionizing the game of college football with his wide-open "run-n-shoot" offense.
Against the hapless Mustangs in 1989, Pardee left eventual Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware and the UH first string play well into the fourth quarter of the 95-21 slaughter. SMU head coach Forest Gregg refused to shake Pardee's hand after the game.
While the Cougars' schedule is dotted with terrific matchups from days of yore thanks to the recent C-USA shuffle, Nov. 12 holds the potential to be the biggest game of the season for long-suffering Mustang fans.
With TCU out of the way, the Cougars now sit at the top of SMU's "to do" list. The Mustangs are running again, led by red-shirt freshman DeMyron Martin, and nothing motivates a team like revenge.
(C) 2004 The Daily Cougar via U-WIRE
It certainly ranks as the most important win for the Ponies since 1989, when the SMU program was reincarnated after suffering the NCAA version of the death penalty in 1987. SMU dispensed more than $600,000 to Mustang football players through boosters during the "Pony Express" era of Eric Dickerson and Craig James.
Among other debilitating punishments meted out by the NCAA, the Mustangs were forced to cancel the 1987 season. When the NCAA allowed them only seven road games during the 1988 campaign, the Mustangs canceled play that year too.
The Ponies have experienced one winning season in the past 15 years, going 6-5 in 1997.
The NCAA ultimate punishment, like a nuclear bomb, destroys its target completely. The NCAA has previously refused to slap other teams, such as Alabama, with the death penalty when the Crimson Tide got caught red-handed committing numerous recruiting violations, while on sanctions from previous rules infractions.
With the stunning SMU first victory over a ranked team since 1986, the Ponies drop-kicked the Horned Frogs, their biggest rival, into the Mountain West Conference and created the perfect backdrop for the upcoming C-USA race.
All this occurred a mere week after TCU opened the season with a 17-10 upset of perennial Big 12 power Oklahoma, in Norman.
Two weeks into the season, SMU (1-1) sits tied with Houston, behind UTEP (1-0), for second place in the suddenly spicy West. The Cougars visit Sun Bowl Stadium Friday for a game that promises to blossom into another Southwest rivalry with slightly more salsa than simply C-USA bragging rights at stake.
The Mustangs visit the Cougars November 12 for a matchup the Mustangs have been waiting for since after the 2000 season.
As fate would have it, that first game back from the death penalty pitted the poor Mustangs against a potent Cougar team coached by Jack Pardee, who gained notoriety after revolutionizing the game of college football with his wide-open "run-n-shoot" offense.
Against the hapless Mustangs in 1989, Pardee left eventual Heisman Trophy winner Andre Ware and the UH first string play well into the fourth quarter of the 95-21 slaughter. SMU head coach Forest Gregg refused to shake Pardee's hand after the game.
While the Cougars' schedule is dotted with terrific matchups from days of yore thanks to the recent C-USA shuffle, Nov. 12 holds the potential to be the biggest game of the season for long-suffering Mustang fans.
With TCU out of the way, the Cougars now sit at the top of SMU's "to do" list. The Mustangs are running again, led by red-shirt freshman DeMyron Martin, and nothing motivates a team like revenge.
(C) 2004 The Daily Cougar via U-WIRE
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:19 pmWhat was the joke the following year at pigskin review?
-How do you spend your free time, coach?
-Countin' to 95 by 7.
Great stuff MM65, looking forward to whippin' the Cougs.... but not yet. Uno game at a time.
-How do you spend your free time, coach?
-Countin' to 95 by 7.
Great stuff MM65, looking forward to whippin' the Cougs.... but not yet. Uno game at a time.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:07 pmThadFilms wrote:What was the joke the following year at pigskin review?
-How do you spend your free time, coach?
-Countin' to 95 by 7.
Great stuff MM65, looking forward to whippin' the Cougs.... but not yet. Uno game at a time.
I can't remember all the details, and I'm probably going to mutilate this story but...Jerry Glanville's first year as head coach of the Falcons matched him against Jack Pardee in his first year as the Oiler's coach. In that game Glanville's D murdered the Oilers, and Glanville took the liberty of running up the score a little.
He sent the Game Ball to SMU from that game. Does anyone else remember this story? Was Rossley the connection with the Falcons there?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:34 pmWhat does this discussion have to do with the bottom 10?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:38 pmEmeraldCityPony wrote:What does this discussion have to do with the bottom 10?
It always happens that way. Starts on one topic, then....off on a tangent.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:42 pmI'll take two brats and beer... oh... uh, I'm sorry, what were we talking about?
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:46 pmOr as Terrance Mann (aka James Earl Jones) would say "Dog and a beer".
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:46 pmand they fail to mention we already got some revenge for the 95-21 game. In 1992 SMU walloped the Coogs in Dallas.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 3:58 pmEastStang wrote:Or as Terrance Mann (aka James Earl Jones) would say "Dog and a beer".
"No... What do you want?"
The way James Earl Jones says "dog and a beer" - I just laugh thinking about it.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:31 pmThadFilms wrote:When was the last time our Ponies weren't even on the waiting list... at the end of last season? Hmmm....
Actually we were well off the list by the end of last season but we were on the preseason waiting list this year.
TCU on bottom 10 is rich
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:38 pmSometimes the Bottom 10 is for humor and sometimes it is serious. When we were on it, that was serious. Having TCU on it is funny.
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 4:55 pmPosition #5 is the satire spot. That is where TCU is and where OU was last week. 
Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 5:02 pmWouldn't it be great to knock A&M to the 5 spot this coming weekend. 