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“With adding these kids, and when we add another class next year, I’ll be disappointed if we don’t make a run like we did in Hawaii or like TCU has done. We’ve built a really good foundation, and we’re in pretty good shape to do some neat things.” — June Jones

StallionsModelT wrote:The kids from the past two recruiting classes are far more talented coming out of HS than any he had at Hawaii and he led them to the freakin' Sugar Bowl. This is why we pay him 2.5M a year. I'll trust a guy who has been there and done it. SMU will be the next BCS buster if we keep progressing on this path.

Dooby wrote:

“With adding these kids, and when we add another class next year, I’ll be disappointed if we don’t make a run like we did in Hawaii or like TCU has done. We’ve built a really good foundation, and we’re in pretty good shape to do some neat things.” — June Jones

http://www.dallasnews.com/sports/colleg ... -class.ece

Warbow wrote:

StallionsModelT wrote:The kids from the past two recruiting classes are far more talented coming out of HS than any he had at Hawaii and he led them to the freakin' Sugar Bowl. This is why we pay him 2.5M a year. I'll trust a guy who has been there and done it. SMU will be the next BCS buster if we keep progressing on this path.

I need to make one thing clear here. Hawaii's poor schedule had more to do with making the Sugar bowl then anything JJ did. For the talent Hawaii had that year, we should have won every game by 30 points or more. As a matter of fact, JJ almost blew a couple games that should have been blow out wins.

Warbow wrote:

StallionsModelT wrote:The kids from the past two recruiting classes are far more talented coming out of HS than any he had at Hawaii and he led them to the freakin' Sugar Bowl. This is why we pay him 2.5M a year. I'll trust a guy who has been there and done it. SMU will be the next BCS buster if we keep progressing on this path.

I need to make one thing clear here. Hawaii's poor schedule had more to do with making the Sugar bowl then anything JJ did. For the talent Hawaii had that year, we should have won every game by 30 points or more. As a matter of fact, JJ almost blew a couple games that should have been blow out wins.

Louisiana Tech (Took an INT at the end in the end-zone to seal the deal)
45-44

San Jose St. (Took a fumble recovery at the end and last minute drive for the game winning TD)
42-35

Fresno St.
37-30

Nevada (Game winning FG with seconds left to win it)
28-26

Washington (Another game saving INT in the end zone to end the game)
35-28

These close game were against very poor teams. Don't get me wrong, I totally enjoyed that season. But, being a realist, we were lucky not to have any good teams on that 2007 schedule. The 2006 team had better talent then the unbeaten 2007 team but they lost 3 games playing a decent schedule.

So I guess what I'm saying is, better talent doesn't always equal to more wins with JJ. I'm really curious to find out how your OOC schedule is looking since JJ's arival.