The unspoken being spoken

[B1GPonyFan]

Ok, so we saw the tweet from the former Coppell coach about the game Sunday and there was the story where the coaches in South Dallas County were talking about the lack of SMU's consistent presence in their schools.

You don't ever see this publicly. But why are we? Well, you can look it from the perspective that these coaches don't have any kind of relationship with the coaching staff so they have nothing to lose "calling them out". What is SMU going to do? Threaten them by not recruiting their players? No because SMU isn't doing that anyway.

A lot of the relationships built between college and high school staffs rarely if ever come to the surface. There's no reason for that to surface. And even if a player from the HS had a bad recruiting experience with a school (it's an isolated incident) then it's probably not going to get out in media circles anyway because of the history.

But in SMU's case, the credibility of your program is destroyed when articles/tweets like this occur. It's such bad PR, you can't overcome it and pretty much have to replace the current coaching staff and start over with a new one for the HS coaches to give you a chance. The fact that this staff has had seven years to do something so basic and yet been unwilling (whatever you want to call it) to do it tells you why 45-0 shows up.

I can also tell you that when several Division I kids were transferring (Keller Fossil Ridge DT Aaron Curry from Nebraska to TCU) were transferring from their schools back to DFW, SMU never reached out to those players or SMU wasn't contacted. Why? SMU no established relationships with coaches as a whole.

We all understand this.

IMO SMU's ability to recruit in Texas with this coaching staff is toast. This group will never make any headway because it reaped what it sowed.

[SMU 86]

There was also an article in the FWST that came out not very long ago where area high school coaches voted and said that SMU was the program that needed to step up their recruiting the most. That was not good news either.

[Rebel10]

I would tend to agree with B10PF.

[EastStang]

Phil Bennett was supposed to be "plugged in" to the DISD, and failed miserably in recruiting. JJ had some early success and then kind of seemed to lose interest. The fact is that we are not winning the battles close to home for players, and now that the D5 has come about, I suspect that ship has sailed.

[gostangs]

disagree. You don't have to be in there on the top 25. You just need to be there for the next 25 - and then when they ask for a favor from time to time be there to help. It takes a couple of years but then opens up - just like any other sales effort.