DMN: Jones not wavering about Mustangs' turnaround
Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 12:42 amNice piece by Kate Hairopoulos in Tuesday's paper:
By KATE HAIROPOULOS / The Dallas Morning News
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UNIVERSITY PARK – Visitors to the SMU football offices still frequently hear "aloha" and "mahalo."
Receivers coach Jeff Reinebold's office décor features a surfboard propped in one corner. Giant-sized special teams coach Dennis McKnight keeps a tiny hula girl figurine on his desk.
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Coach June Jones, the man who once could've been elected governor of the islands, is the reason they're all here, in football purgatory, instead of paradise.
In Year 2 of their latest reclamation project – one Jones sought out – it's only more obvious: SMU sure isn't Hawaii.
Jones transformed Hawaii from 0-12 to 9-4 in 1999, his first season there. He and his staff's unique approach to coaching and their high-powered offense didn't produce the same miracle on the Hilltop in 2008.
SMU went from 1-11 to ... 1-11.
The Mustangs' breakthrough, it seems, will come on SMU time, which is currently a quarter century and counting.
But Jones, with complete confidence in his system, is undeterred.
To read the rest of the story, click on the following link:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... f5270.html
By KATE HAIROPOULOS / The Dallas Morning News
[email protected]
UNIVERSITY PARK – Visitors to the SMU football offices still frequently hear "aloha" and "mahalo."
Receivers coach Jeff Reinebold's office décor features a surfboard propped in one corner. Giant-sized special teams coach Dennis McKnight keeps a tiny hula girl figurine on his desk.
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Coach June Jones, the man who once could've been elected governor of the islands, is the reason they're all here, in football purgatory, instead of paradise.
In Year 2 of their latest reclamation project – one Jones sought out – it's only more obvious: SMU sure isn't Hawaii.
Jones transformed Hawaii from 0-12 to 9-4 in 1999, his first season there. He and his staff's unique approach to coaching and their high-powered offense didn't produce the same miracle on the Hilltop in 2008.
SMU went from 1-11 to ... 1-11.
The Mustangs' breakthrough, it seems, will come on SMU time, which is currently a quarter century and counting.
But Jones, with complete confidence in his system, is undeterred.
To read the rest of the story, click on the following link:
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... f5270.html
