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I am ready to get rid of Tom Mason, SMU's defensive coordinator. In all of my years of scouting at the high school, college and NFL levels, I have never seen a worse job of coaching defense than Tom Mason. The players are constantly out of position and have been making very basic mistakes that a decent coach would drill the playres to eliminate.

If you agree with me please aign the petition at the link below:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/fire-tom-mason

Thank you.

You do realize that online petitions have no validity, don't you?

MrMustang1965 wrote:You do realize that online petitions have no validity, don't you?

Perhaps but it beats throwing a cup of ice at a wall.

Texasscout96, have you sent your CV to the AD?

Well I have always been a scout by trade. But the teams that I worked with had some very good defensive coaches. I have worked with Jon Tenuta, Jerry Gray, Gunther Cunningham, and Billy Maskill among others.

Jim W. Jones wrote:

MrMustang1965 wrote:You do realize that online petitions have no validity, don't you?

Perhaps but it beats throwing a cup of ice at a wall.

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Texasscout96 wrote:I am ready to get rid of Tom Mason, SMU's defensive coordinator. In all of my years of scouting at the high school, college and NFL levels, I have never seen a worse job of coaching defense than Tom Mason. The players are constantly out of position and have been making very basic mistakes that a decent coach would drill the playres to eliminate.

If you agree with me please aign the petition at the link below:

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/fire-tom-mason

Thank you.

Same exact thing was constantly said about PB's teams year in and year out. It's part coaching and mostly tremendous lack of talent.

im afraid so, lack of talent is the problem. look at phil at pitt, they're in the top 25

You, of all people, should know that it's the Jimmies and Joes and not the X's and O's.

Chill, and look at the Big Picture.

I saw nothing last night to indicate coaching problems. I saw a coaching staff modify their defensive strategies constantly over the course of the game to cover various weaknesses, and change things again when another weakness was uncovered. We blitzed, sat back, multiple formations, and no blown coverages with open receivers like we saw with the kids earlier in the season.

I thought fundamentally the defense was in the right place. We just don't have the players, specifically on the d-line, to make things happen right now.

Other teams' no-huddle drills are killing SMU's defense. Don't know whether that is a function of the new clock rules or opposing team coaches realizing that no-huddle works well against this D.

Outside of that, I thought the defense did their job.

a wise former SMU Head Coach once said for every true Freshman that plays a substantial role in your team he will make a least one mistake that will cost you a ballgame. Unfortunately, that will be proven wrong this year ONLY because we don't play a 15 game schedule.

On a related note why was Robinson playing CB on a key down in the 4th quarter allowing the winning TD. Its just too easy. Was there an injury-why was he in there in that situation.

Stallion wrote:a wise former SMU Head Coach once said for every true Freshman that plays a substantial role in your team he will make a least one mistake that will cost you a ballgame. Unfortunately, that will be proven wrong this year ONLY because we don't play a 15 game schedule.

On a related note why was Robinson playing CB on a key down in the 4th quarter allowing the winning TD. Its just too easy. Was there an injury-why was he in there in that situation.

What ever the reason, it must have been the same reason he was playing CB on the 4th and 22 against Tulsa when they threw a 33 yard TD over him. Jones says he is good and I will believe him, but that is a little too much pressure on a true frosh when you have Bell and McCann to play the postiion.

Did you see McCann come over to him after the catch and give him some basic instruction on how to play the postion and back peddle?

When Robinson is brought in to play corner, they move McCann to cover a slot reciever. He also blitzed twice from that spot, and I'm sure that was also part of the thinking.

Stallion wrote:a wise former SMU Head Coach once said for every true Freshman that plays a substantial role in your team he will make a least one mistake that will cost you a ballgame. Unfortunately, that will be proven wrong this year ONLY because we don't play a 15 game schedule.

On a related note why was Robinson playing CB on a key down in the 4th quarter allowing the winning TD. Its just too easy. Was there an injury-why was he in there in that situation.

I thought Pete Fleps was the one that got beat on for the winning TD.