Quick Fix

[Mickey]

SMU can be competitive next year if we sign some JUCOs. Need one player at several positions prioritized as follows:1.QB 2.DT 3.WR 4.CB 5.OL

This will provide some experience, balance and blend with some of our good recruiting classes,and allow time to develop a QB while not in a panic mode.

[Pony_Fan]

Haa Haa - good luck with that one!

[Charleston Pony]

actually, many of those "JUCOs" will arrive next year in the form of our RS Fr, who will have 2 yrs of post-HS physical development. I'm talking about Urbanas, Morton, Guidry, Denman, Johnson, Rogers, etc... When everyone constantly complains about our needing JUCOs, are you hoping for guys that are 20-21 yrs old in the trenches, or are you just assuming every kid who plays JUCO ball is a better player than what we have on the roster? Unless you can sign talented JUCO players, the mere fact they are 20-21 yrs old doesn't guarantee improvement. My guess is that guys like Jones & Bonds are going to hard to displace from that defensive interior. Would it have been nice to have a couple more guys so we could have redshirted everyone of this year's recruits? Of course, but ther's no such thing as a "quick fix" via JUCOs unless they are more talented than the guys we already have.

[Mickey]

CP- Obviously, you don't sign Jucos unless they are better than the ones on the roster. If they are, sign them as a "quick fix."

[This message has been edited by Mickey (edited 09-28-2003).]

[BUS]

YOu can't sign JUCO players if your not allowed to. That's the deal. Holier than thou attitude and we can do it without JUCO's.

MAJOR DEFECT in our MODEL.

[Charleston Pony]

BUS: from what I've read, the problem with JUCOs is the limited cirriculum SMU offers and the age old "transferable hours" issue. This appears to be a trend at every private school regardless of BCS affiliation. I don't see Notre Dame, Stanford, Duke, Wake, Northwestern, Rice, etc... loading up on JUCOs.

[BUS]

Who want's to load up. How about 4 TOTAL.

SMU will necer be a JUCO harlot but give me a break. No give the coaches and fans a break. Allow at least a few.

Tranferable hours.... BS I transfered into SMU. Had that extra year to make up what was not accepted.

It's an attitude - nothing else.
Turner, Copeland, Board of Trustee's ????
but attitude

[OldPony]

KU came out of the depths of football hell this year. They signed about a dozen JUCO's and are close to top 25. Coincidence?