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....that's what you will get with High School All-District Receivers. SMU must recruit game breaking home run threats at every receiver position for this offense to reach its potential. Kids that can take a 3 yard pass to the House. Its why last years recruiting class of High School All-District receiver recruits are not going to get the job done at this level and will have to be "recruited over". I'm sure they will make a lot of neat-o catches for 8 yards and a cloud of dust but in this offense you got to put it in the endzone. SMU has been very lucky to have two great receivers that fit the model for what is needed in this offense. Robinson and Sanders.

you guys would've been amazed at UTEP's defensive backfield configuration. There wasn't a safety beyond 6 yards of the line of scrimmage. They basically played 9 guys in a box all night long.

RGV Pony wrote:you guys would've been amazed at UTEP's defensive backfield configuration. There wasn't a safety beyond 6 yards of the line of scrimmage. They basically played 9 guys in a box all night long.

are you suggesting they didn't respect our team speed?

Charleston Pony wrote:

RGV Pony wrote:you guys would've been amazed at UTEP's defensive backfield configuration. There wasn't a safety beyond 6 yards of the line of scrimmage. They basically played 9 guys in a box all night long.

are you suggesting they didn't respect out team speed?

or more to the point Price accurately surmised that a) our QBs wouldn't be able to throw long, with Bo's sore shoulder, and b) we'd have crappy timing, and c) yep, no speed. As Stallion mentioned, that 4.75 All-District time doesn't really cut it.

Stallion wrote:....that's what you will get with High School All-District Receivers. SMU must recruit game breaking home run threats at every receiver position for this offense to reach its potential. Kids that can take a 3 yard pass to the House. Its why last years recruiting class of High School All-District receiver recruits are not going to get the job done at this level and will have to be "recruited over". I'm sure they will make a lot of neat-o catches for 8 yards and a cloud of dust but in this offense you got to put it in the endzone. SMU has been very lucky to have two great receivers that fit the model for what is needed in this offense. Robinson and Sanders.

Did you watch that game? I am guessing you did not because if you did you would not be blaming our WR play for a couple of QBs who went 9-24 and another one who went 4-12

RGV Pony wrote:

Charleston Pony wrote:

RGV Pony wrote:you guys would've been amazed at UTEP's defensive backfield configuration. There wasn't a safety beyond 6 yards of the line of scrimmage. They basically played 9 guys in a box all night long.

are you suggesting they didn't respect out team speed?

or more to the point Price accurately surmised that a) our QBs wouldn't be able to throw long, with Bo's sore shoulder, and b) we'd have crappy timing, and c) yep, no speed. As Stallion mentioned, that 4.75 All-District time doesn't really cut it.

I dont believe there was a WR out there who was timed at 4.7

Correction maybe Willis

And also why in Gods name would an All state WR want to come to SMU, and please dont say June Jones cause these kids in the DFW area do not know who June Jones is or they just dont care.

Then you may say well Bennet got Robinson and Sanders. Which is true but they get the ball thown there way like 15 times each. Yeah there gonna break free eventaully and actaully catch about 5 of those 15 passes.

jason54858 wrote:

Stallion wrote:....that's what you will get with High School All-District Receivers. SMU must recruit game breaking home run threats at every receiver position for this offense to reach its potential. Kids that can take a 3 yard pass to the House. Its why last years recruiting class of High School All-District receiver recruits are not going to get the job done at this level and will have to be "recruited over". I'm sure they will make a lot of neat-o catches for 8 yards and a cloud of dust but in this offense you got to put it in the endzone. SMU has been very lucky to have two great receivers that fit the model for what is needed in this offense. Robinson and Sanders.

Did you watch that game? I am guessing you did not because if you did you would not be blaming our WR play for a couple of QBs who went 9-24 and another one who went 4-12

How many dropped passes did you see?

pony warrior wrote:

jason54858 wrote:

Stallion wrote:....that's what you will get with High School All-District Receivers. SMU must recruit game breaking home run threats at every receiver position for this offense to reach its potential. Kids that can take a 3 yard pass to the House. Its why last years recruiting class of High School All-District receiver recruits are not going to get the job done at this level and will have to be "recruited over". I'm sure they will make a lot of neat-o catches for 8 yards and a cloud of dust but in this offense you got to put it in the endzone. SMU has been very lucky to have two great receivers that fit the model for what is needed in this offense. Robinson and Sanders.

Did you watch that game? I am guessing you did not because if you did you would not be blaming our WR play for a couple of QBs who went 9-24 and another one who went 4-12

How many dropped passes did you see?

Beasley had about 4, i think. Haynes had at least 2 that I remember.

How many of our UTEP receivers were even HS all district receivers?

Beasley...nope
Willis...nope
Bryant....nope
Haynes...maybe
Zimmerman...maybe but I dont think he was

White Helmet wrote:How many of our UTEP receivers were even HS all district receivers?

Beasley...nope
Willis...nope
Bryant....nope
Haynes...maybe
Zimmerman...maybe but I dont think he was

Beasley...District Co-MVP
Willis...First-Team DMN
Bryant...3-time all-district selection
Haynes...First-team all district
Zimmerman...No all-district selections.

Source: www.smumustangs.com

neither willis nor beasley were playing WR in HS

All but Zimmerman were all-district selections, weren't they? But keep working on it.

you do realize that's not what I mean by "All district WRs". It means that high school studs don't always have the size, speed, height, quickness or elusiveness-or some combination of the above and other factors- to project to be quality college football players. It mean we need to do a better job of projecting players that can be successful at the next level or pretty soon you turn around and realize that you are a tad too short at CB, too slow at LB, lack size in the OLine or lack game breakers at Receiver-kinda like our team.