The future..after Padron ran for his life tonight

[RGV Pony]

Sometimes it's nice to have a perspective from outside the forest. Walking back to the hotel from the stadium, three different people stopped me, thanked us for coming, wished us a safe trip home, and each of them said something to the effect of "man, that QB...he's a freshman?"

Like Stallion said, let's get an All-star recruiting class of WRs in here. I am looking forward to the year when Padron, JaGared, Taylor Reed, Margus, Darius Johnson are juniors.

[SoCal_Pony]

I have to say....Padron's success is giving me more confidence in Kaiser, or more importantly, in JJ's ability to identify QBs.

Not that I doubted JJ's ability.

[Mestengo]

Any back up at SLC can play. We need two years of developing & recruiting the trench, with out it you have nothing.

[Billy Joe]

I would like to see a more favorable non-conference schedule going forward. Why are we opening at TX Tech next year followed by TCU at home and Navy on the road? The AD is not giving us much of a chance. Let's get N. Texas, a Div. 1-AA team, and possibly another Sun Belt-type team to give us a chance at some wins. After a few successful seasons then we can add in a Big 12 team. The AD needs to look at this and get a little lighter non-conference schedule. Thoughts anyone?

[ponyscott]

I would like to see a more favorable non-conference schedule going forward. Why are we opening at TX Tech next year followed by TCU at home and Navy on the road? The AD is not giving us much of a chance. Let's get N. Texas, a Div. 1-AA team, and possibly another Sun Belt-type team to give us a chance at some wins. After a few successful seasons then we can add in a Big 12 team. The AD needs to look at this and get a little lighter non-conference schedule. Thoughts anyone?

The future schedule FYI also listed above in the thread titled 'Future OOC Football Schedule'---...get used to Navy, TCU and North Texas....I'm sure Orsini will try to put in a patsy in there every year and also is creating local Fan interest and rivalry's with TCU, N Texas and Baylor etc.( also cost saving with local travel)

SMU MUSTANGS

SMU FOOTBALL FUTURE SCHEDULES
2010

9-4 @ Texas Tech
9-11 TCU
9-18 Washington State
10-16 @ Navy
2011
9-10 Baylor
9-17 Navy
10-1 @ TCU
TBA @ Texas A&M

2012

9-1 @ Baylor
9-8 TCU
TBA Texas A&M
TBA Stephen F. Austin
2013

9-14 Baylor
TBA @ TCU

2014

8-30 @ Baylor
TBA @ North Texas
TBA TCU
2015

9-5 Baylor
TBA North Texas
TBA @ TCU
TBA @ Navy

2016

9-16 @ Baylor
TBA @ North Texas
TBA Navy
2017

TBA North Texas
TBA @ Navy

2018

TBA Navy

[huskerpony]

No. Tougher OOC is better. (Scheduling one cupcake game to get all the kinks out of the offense is ok, but otherwise you have to have some big games.)

1) You improve by playing better competition, not by amassing wins over cupcakes. Look what has happened to the Big 10 since they all starting scheduling like pansies. We play in the weaker division of C-USA. Plenty of easy games on the schedule already. Play the OOC to challenge yourself to get to the next level, leave the conference games for picking up the W's.

2) A lot of the OOC scheduling is about money. We should be getting a big payout playing the Big 12 schools. All you get from playing UNT is ticket money.

3) There is NO chance of a game like that getting picked up for tv. Coming off a bowl trip, CBS College Sports could pick up the Navy game, the TCU game may likely get back its old ESPN2 spot (depending on other games on that weekend.) Even Texas Tech could get a FSN spot if the Big 12 games all suck that week.

[smuuth]

If you want to play patsies then you don't belong in Division 1 football. We should be able to compete with all the teams in C-usa so why not load up your non-conference schedule? If you want to be a bcs bowl-buster then you have to have the quality wins. Lose all your nonconference games but win your C-USA schedule and you are in the Liberty Bowl. Win all your games including your four big-time non-conference games and you are possibly in the fiesta, Sugar or Orange getting ready to pocket $15,000,000. We have aspired to win six games and go to the Hawaii Bowl and here we are? I wonder if we had aspired to win 9 or 10 games if we would have beaten Navy and Washington State? Ya gotta think big. Recruits want to play in big-time games in big-time venues! TCU, Boise State and for you younger people Florida State. They hired Bowden and they went on the road without reciprocal games to beat the big boys and within ten years they were one of the big boys and in a major conference and winning National Championships!

[mrydel]

The only reason our schedule looks like that is because we are the patsy the others have been scheduling. As we improve, our schedule will look better without the teams changing.

[Billy Joe]

BCS bowl buster? Wow. I would like to have a few winning seasons for a change. Let's learn to walk first before we start talking about running marathons.

[ponyscott]

The only reason our schedule looks like that is because we are the patsy the others have been scheduling. As we improve, our schedule will look better without the teams changing.

Thats is exactly right...we HAVE been the Homecoming game for others as well.

[Charleston Pony]

nothing wrong with that non-conference schedule. We have Wash St at Ford next year so that should give us a chance for a win and I'd like to think we will compete at Navy. By 2011, I think we may be ready to compete with our former SWC mates

[Charleston Pony]

[quote="RGV Pony"]Sometimes it's nice to have a perspective from outside the forest. Walking back to the hotel from the stadium, three different people stopped me, thanked us for coming, wished us a safe trip home, and each of them said something to the effect of "man, that QB...he's a freshman?"

The really impressive thing is that Padron has played in 3 road games and only 2 home games and including that INT last night where he had little choice but to throw the ball up for grabs...he has 8 TDs vs only 4 INTs on the season. Pretty darn good for a true FR who didn't have a lot of H.S playing time before taking over at SMU.

[SMU89]

The only reason our schedule looks like that is because we are the patsy the others have been scheduling. As we improve, our schedule will look better without the teams changing.

Thats is exactly right...we HAVE been the Homecoming game for others as well.

Tulsa invited us to help celebrate their homecoming this year. : )

[San Antonio Mustang]

Lou Holtz has said that for a team in a spread conference to schedule Navy is crazy. I tend to agree. His point is when a defense is used to defending the spread they cannot get ready in time to defend a team like Navy. He also stated that the blocking schemes tend to cause more injuries to knees. I am sorry to see Navy on our schedule.