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Which was our best season since DP

Poll ended at Wed Sep 19, 2007 9:26 am

1996 5-6 (WAC) wins over Ark, New Mex, Tulsa, TCU, UTEP (Lost by 1 to an 8-4 Missouri, by 2 to 9-3 Navy, by 4 to 8-4 Utah)
11
35%
1997 6-5 (WAC) wins over Ark, Utah, Tulsa, UTEP, Rice, Wyo (3 pts loss to TCU)
14
45%
1998 5-7 (WAC) wins over Haw, TCU, UNLV, Tulsa, Navy (loss by 4pt to Missouri, 5pt to Wyo)
0
No votes
2005 5-6 (CUSA) wins over TCU, Rice, HOU, Utep, UAB (lost by 3 to MAR and by 5 to Bay)
1
3%
2006 6-6 (CUSA) wins over SHSU (1aa), ArkState, TUL, MAR, UAB, Tul (lost by 3 to UTEP)
5
16%
 
Total votes : 31

Which was our BEST post-DP season

Postby PhirePhilBennett » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:26 am

http://www.jhowell.net/cf/scores/SouthernMethodist.htm

Look here and figure it out - I say 1996 has more impressive wins and close losses

1996 Rossley
1997-8 Cavan
2005-6 PB
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Postby NavyCrimson » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:31 am

great poll!
BRING BACK THE GLORY DAYS OF SMU FOOTBALL!!!

For some strange reason, one of the few universities that REFUSE to use their school colors: Harvard Crimson & Yale Blue.
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Postby mrydel » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:37 am

Casimir Pulaski....now that was a great Pole.
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Postby 93Mustang » Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:39 am

You left out the 1992 team that went 5-6 and would have been 6-5 but for a missed 25 yard chip shot by kicker Russell Anderson against Tulane. That team played in the SWC and had wins over: NTSU (D2 at the time); New Mexico, TCU, UofH (revenge for the seniors who were freshmen during the Andre Ware 95 point beat down); and Arkansas.
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Postby Stallion » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:14 am

This really isn't close. The best FB team was the 6-5 MIKE CAVAN coach SMU team. They competed well against a much higher level of competition.
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Postby RGV Pony » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:20 am

Stallion wrote:This really isn't close. The best FB team was the 6-5 MIKE CAVAN coach SMU team. They competed well against a much higher level of competition.


wasn't that also the year with the OT loss to BYU at home? BYU QB at the time is now USC OC Steve Sarkisian
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Postby Stallion » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:20 am

Yes
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Postby RGV Pony » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:25 am

which reminds me of another question...how big was Luke Johnson?

btw...BYU is another team that would help us put somewhere in the neighborhood of 22-25k into Ford. 22k looked shabby at the Cotton Bowl, but at Ford you could preface the shabby with "not too"
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Postby jtstang » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:52 am

RGV Pony wrote:which reminds me of another question...how big was Luke Johnson?

Size matters not, for his ally was the force....
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Postby mr. pony » Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:59 am

Stallion wrote:This really isn't close. The best FB team was the 6-5 MIKE CAVAN coach SMU team. They competed well against a much higher level of competition.


That was Rossley's team - and it underachieved - big time. (here we go again.)
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Postby Stallion » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:11 am

I'll tell you what it achieved-the only winning or even .500 season against Division 1A competition and with a tougher schedule and much tougher recruiting restrictions and much worse facilities. What's Bennett's excuse.
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Postby George S. Patton » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:11 am

Stallion wrote:I'll tell you what it achieved-the only winning or even .500 season against Division 1A competition and with a tougher schedule and much tougher recruiting restrictions and much worse facilities. What's Bennett's excuse.


He hasn't checked with you.
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Postby Stallion » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:18 am

the 2005 team beat 3 bowl teams-2 on the road and the other one was a Top 25 team (10-1). That team performed better than the 2006 team which padded its totals with paddy-cakes.

I rated them

1997
1996
2005
2006
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Postby KnuckleStang » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:18 am

Stallion wrote:I'll tell you what it achieved-the only winning or even .500 season against Division 1A competition and with a tougher schedule and much tougher recruiting restrictions and much worse facilities. What's Bennett's excuse.


Restrictions or no, most of those players were recruited when the SWC had not disbanded yet. That's not being completely fair is it?
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Postby Stallion » Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:21 am

Which was our best season since DP was the question. If you think that Bennett's more handicapped than Gregg, Rossley and Cavan then you don't know much about college football. Bennett himself said " I would not have taken this job under the conditions those coaches worked under." Yeah its completely fair.
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