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...but they haven't used it as an excuse to throw the towel in after 2 games. But this is where real recruiting comes in. Is your recruiting deep across the board so that your 3rd team RB and 2nd team or 3rd team QB can come in and lead you to a top 10 season and 10-1 record.. Look at the evidence over the last 5 years at TCU. No excuses SMU. Assuming we've been recruiting all these great prospects every year that all the Cheerleaders keep telling us about-then Martin injury should just be a small roadbump in the road to the Liberty Bowl-Right?

...I agree, Stallion...it baffles me that we do not have another running back on the squad that can give us some production, troubling. We have been "slow, but small" for 20 years now.....

haven't you all learned, all this means is that Mapps or Fitz will show signs of having real talent so by the end of the crappy season we will be saying "just wait till next year when "blank" has a year under his belt and can really play!"...........then nothing.

Same song different verse.

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Stallion wrote:...but they haven't used it as an excuse to throw the towel in after 2 games. But this is where real recruiting comes in. Is your recruiting deep across the board so that your 3rd team RB and 2nd team or 3rd team QB can come in and lead you to a top 10 season and 10-1 record.. Look at the evidence over the last 5 years at TCU.

I think that recruiting is a big part of it, but I think coaching is a bigger part of it. Every time they lose someone, they have a backup ready to jump in without having to significantly change the gameplan. Their backups are prepared to play, they know what their job is, and they are comfortable jumping into the first team. Likewise, the rest of the team continues to do their jobs regardless of who is in at QB or RB. They go into every game prepared as a team (with the obvious exception of one game last year).

Stallion, you remind me of Skip Bayless. Bayless is the master of the fake controversial position; he says everybody says something and then contradicts it, thus making himself controversial. The problem is that very few, if anybody, actually says it. For example, Bayless might say, "Everyone says Owens and Parcells will get along, but I don't think they can coexist."

I don't think anybody has said the Martin injury is an excuse for anything, nor should they.

All those kids who jumped in at QB or RB at TCU were at least 3 stars some 4 stars and all had 5 plus offers including BCS schools. TCU doesn't have to replace their stars with sleepers.

It's scary to learn that "Spend a Day with Stallion" might have more truth in it than I ever imagined.

Stallion wrote:TCU doesn't have to replace their stars with sleepers.

We start ours.

Hey SMUFootballBlog why don't you recalculate SMU's record this year based upon all those easy road games you seemed so sure of. You worry way too much about me and not enough how silly your season prognostication was.

Stallion, you really need to move to Cowtown so you can follow TCU more closely.

Stallion wrote:Hey SMUFootballBlog why don't you recalculate SMU's record this year based upon all those easy road games you seemed so sure of. You worry way too much about me and not enough how silly your season prognostication was.

Yeah, the predicted .500 road record, that was just waaay out there, wasn't it? All road games that before the season started, SMU would have been favored in and picked to win by nearly everybody. Hell, you probably would have picked the same, except (i) you never pick against the dreamy Todd Graham; and (ii) you never definitively predict anything other than the painfully obvious because you have a fear of being wrong. Oh, I am sorry about that last point, you said you thought SMU would win six games this year; something tells me the UNT game was one of those.

Stallion wrote:...but they haven't used it as an excuse to throw the towel in after 2 games. But this is where real recruiting comes in. Is your recruiting deep across the board so that your 3rd team RB and 2nd team or 3rd team QB can come in and lead you to a top 10 season and 10-1 record.. Look at the evidence over the last 5 years at TCU. No excuses SMU. Assuming we've been recruiting all these great prospects every year that all the Cheerleaders keep telling us about-then Martin injury should just be a small roadbump in the road to the Liberty Bowl-Right?

Recruiting is certainly part of it, but IMHO it is a LOT more about coaching. TCU's coaches just do a great job getting the most out of players that are not top tier talents coming out of high school. Is our recruiting better than 5 years ago? Yes, but Marcus Jackson, Jeff Ballard and Brandon Hassell were not very heavily recruited. I really like Bennett but I am completely shocked at what happened against UNT.

It was DeMyron who, who ran over TCU, who knew?

Bennett didn't. We might've beaten Baylor the week before.

FW Tech has outrecruited us, no doubt.

But as a backup to DeMyron, J Fitz showed incredible athleticism last season & in the Spring Game. I think he'll bring some excitement to the position this week.

Col. Nathan R. Jessep wrote:FW Tech has outrecruited us, no doubt.

But as a backup to DeMyron, J Fitz showed incredible athleticism last season & in the Spring Game. I think he'll bring some excitement to the position this week.

Demyron and Fitz are almost exactly the same size, 6-2 and 215 - 212 lbs. Now maybe he isn't as strong as Demyron, I don't know, but I would think Fitz should be able to run up the middle as well as around the outside. If nothing else, he ought to be able to hit the hole quicker than Demyron.