The Morning After Thoughts

[bagice]

Wanted to wait till the next day so that I didn't post something I would regret...

First of all, the better team won, I have no doubt that Houston is better than we are, but we still had chances to win.

The concensus of SMU going too conservative in the second half is spot on, no excuse to try and sit on a 10 point lead and hope for the best. Houston does deserve credit though, they picked up on a flaw that Willis has of holding on to the ball too long and of our offense not providing an outlet receiver....Mind you, he will learn and should end up near the top of SMU records for QBs but you can't stand back there waiting to be sacked....Was a great scheme by Houston though, rather than blitz, they dropped everyone into coverage and took away what he was looking for.

What happened to our famous 4 yard passes? This was the game to try them, but every short yardage play was some slow developing run that never worked. You cant be in the Shotgun with one back beside you and run the ball in short yardage, either spread the field and throw a 3 yard pass, or put a FB in and line up under center....don't go half and half.

Not sure what the answer is....all I know is that we have a lot of key seniors this year and will have some big holes to fill next year...things are looking pretty lean.

I hope we can beat Tulsa next week and have something to play for against Rice, but I really don't see us winning either one of those games, we certainly won't be favored and Rice may be the best team in the conference at this point.

[ponyfan84]

I agree 100%. Play calling was horrible.

Does anyone remember this one play in the second half where Willis rolled out on a PA and had Chase working a one-on-one and had a step on his man? But Willis dumped it off short for a two yard gain but the guy dropped it? I think that was on the possession following the FG that cut the lead to 24-17. While the play calling is bad, Willis must have better field vision.

[Stallion]

sounds like the play calling was fine-but Willis missed the read. I'm really having a hard time understanding all you people claiming SMU was too conservative-were you there? Willis was holding onto the ball looking downfied ALL DAY LONG.

[mustangfan01]

Did we break 8 yards on a run all day by a RB?

Hell, how can we even be conservative when we couldn't run the ball to save our lives.

[ALEX LIFESON]

I agree with Stallion on this one. There were times when Justin had insane amounts of time to look downfield. I'm sure he missed a few reads, but also our wideouts were having big time trouble getting open. Our ability to run the ball this year has been VERY poor, especially when you factor in the level of competition.

[LawSchoolPony]

yes, willis was looking for receivers, sometimes in vain, but did we ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO always run the same #&@% running play every set of downs!?!?! We always seemed do either the 1st or 2nd down w/ a run up the middle for 1 or 0 yards...never even varied the run game!!!