Just Made It Back From Tulsa

[Captain E J Smith]

Just got back from Tulsa, It was great to have the Band there. They kept us in the game. Unfortunately I saw Copeland there.

I was hoping the bus driver would leave him someplace along the road and I would pass him hitchhiking home. No such luck.

[ponyrider1947]

I don't get to go to many games because of health issues, but I have family in Tulsa and we all drug our sorry asses up there and out to the game. We ended up sitting not too far from Copeland and Turner and their entourage.

Yes, it would have been nice if Copeland would have acted like he gave a damn. No emotion from Copeland whatsoever.

Obviously, he wasn't at the UAB game because he and all of them in their little box started putting their coats on when the clock was around 3 minutes or so (after the idiotic play on the 1 yard line).

And while I'm on a rant, would it kill Copeland and Turner to stick around at the end when the boys come back and stand before the band. Would it kill them to let us see their pony ears?

They WERE still there for that play that killed us on the 1 yard line. I asked around if Romo were allowed any audibles and the people around me laughed their [deleted] off. They said, "OF COURSE NOT! Bennett is still controlling everything." That was a HORRIBLE CALL and changed the game. I agree. Let someone just push it thru. Kennedy could have dragged 3-4 people with him and pushed it thru. But throwing it backwards! I agree with Pony Pride that he doesn't get the ball enough!

In my opinion, these boys seem to work very hard and so many times (last week being the exception), the coach or coaches lose the game for them with their dumb [deleted] play calling. I've worked in a lot of businesses and made a lot of money, and I can tell you that NO ONE would get a shot at a top position in business for FOUR YEARS, if they had such little success, without some heads rolling.

You all can talk all you want about SMU not having this or that to support a football program, but seems like every game I have been able to go to, there was very bad game-day coaching decisions made that have affected the game in a negative way.

I don't know that changing coaches now is the the answer, but what is more troubling to me is the lackadaisical attitude of the AD. Everything I read appears to be a little too pollyanish and/or my heart's not into it mentality.

[HPPony]

Who was sitting in the "box" with Copeland and Turner? Who were those other guys?

[PonyPride]

.... Obviously, he wasn't at the UAB game ....

Actually, he was. He's at every game.

.... Kennedy could have dragged 3-4 people with him and pushed it thru. But throwing it backwards! I agree with Pony Pride that he doesn't get the ball enough!

Great minds think alike, eh?

.... In my opinion, these boys seem to work very hard and so many times (last week being the exception), the coach or coaches lose the game for them with their dumb [deleted] play calling. I've worked in a lot of businesses and made a lot of money, and I can tell you that NO ONE would get a shot at a top position in business for FOUR YEARS, if they had such little success, without some heads rolling.

I've got to disagree with you there. First of all, the coaches didn't turn the ball over, and without the turnovers the last two weeks, we're sitting on a three-game winning streak and fighting off the hecklers who chide us for thinking and dreaming of a bowl game. And while we can always second-guess gameplans and play calls, this one wasn't bad .... except for the curious approach when we were near the tulsa goal line. (And we all know building a college football team is largely different from running a business -- you can hire unlimited people in business, pay them what you want, you're convincing adults to work with you rather than kids who might make a decision based on something other than what your selling -- academics instead of football, a girl he met on a recruiting visit, the color of the uniforms, the proximity to his mom's cooking, the kind of shoes the team wears, etc.... There are many similarities in managing a program and the way a team should be managed, but the construction process is significantly different.)