Quickest way back to relevance?

[BRStang]

You are AD. What's your plan for getting SMU football back to relevance in all aspects (winning, notoriety, and top 25) in the quickest way possible?

[Pony!Poni!Pone'!]

back up the truck and let the willing go rogue with recruiting; hire an enabling coach who will embrace same and make it happen on the (relative) downlow

[MustangStealth]

Suit up Leon Sandcastle

[WorldStang]

Pack it up. It's too late to be relevant in football. The party has already started w conference realignment and p5 bs; we're left in the rain. Concentrate time and money in basketball.

Kenneth Pye's final nail might have been today in football.

[gostangs]

World - sorry but you are just wrong. That is a loser mentality. This would be the easiest program to turn around in the country. All you have to do is recruit your [deleted] off and never stop recruiting. It will work.

[floridianstang]

World - sorry but you are just wrong. That is a loser mentality. This would be the easiest program to turn around in the country. All you have to do is recruit your [deleted] off and never stop recruiting. It will work.

We are in the recruting hotbed in this country. I don't see why any coach would not want to come here.

[CoxMustangFan]

Thank you go. SMU has some of the biggest crybaby fans in America. Progress isn't linear and it can't be bought simply because you throw a couple of million at it (not suggesting we shouldn't have received more for the money spent). We're no where close to the "end game" as there is no end game.

SMU is one of a handful of programs in great shape IF we don't act like a bunch of quitter pu$$ies throwing a fit because we aren't in a P5 after only a few years post head removed from [deleted].

This season is going to suck. We'll all need to self-medicate, direct your fire in the right direction, and THANK GOD for HCLB.

Pony up!!!

[covok48]

Thank you go. SMU has some of the biggest crybaby fans in America. Progress isn't linear and it can't be bought simply because you throw a couple of million at it (not suggesting we shouldn't have received more for the money spent). We're no where close to the "end game" as there is no end game.

SMU is one of a handful of programs in great shape IF we don't act like a bunch of quitter pu$$ies throwing a fit because we aren't in a P5 after only a few years post head removed from [deleted].

This season is going to suck. We'll all need to self-medicate, direct your fire in the right direction, and THANK GOD for HCLB.

Pony up!!!

This AGAIN?! Ok tell me, have we made any meaningful progress in the last 25 years?

We are an absolute terrible program from top to bottom. Oh yeah we're a bunch of crybabies because we don't like being in the bottom 10 at least once every decade.

Jesus, all we want to do is beat the teams we're supposed to beat and stay competitive against the teams who over match us. That's really not hard to ask for.

Yes people are panicking and goddamn if there's any good time to panic, it's right now.

[WorldStang]

Agreed - a recruiting hotbed for those who recruit to teams in the p5. It's over, we're not relevant in football. We're in the equivalent of the cfl and who would want us in their conference??? Why??? We command nothing in way of ratings and have wet the bed since the death penalty as it relates to beating top 25 teams. Now we're getting throttled by north tx.

Two years ago, I would have said there's a shot to get back. Now, no way. It's church.

[Stallion]

Seriously
First assistant hire - Desoto's Claude Mathis and hope he can convince his superstar Junior QB Tristan Wallace and Proche follow. Wallace's parents went to SMU

[PoconoPony]

Pack it up. It's too late to be relevant in football. The party has already started w conference realignment and p5 bs; we're left in the rain. Concentrate time and money in basketball.

Kenneth Pye's final nail might have been today in football.

I hate to concede that you are right. The train is pulling out of the station for our consideration for a future P5 opportunity. We needed at least 5 years of credible performance to catch that train. I am afraid we have lost the chance and will never again be in a position to move up.

[floridianstang]

Recruiting hotbed. Top 5 city. Playing Big 12 opponents every year.

SMU WTF

[San Antonio Mustang]

World could be correct. I hope not. The problem I see is P5 teams have at least 20 million to spend on their programs including legally paying players and we have just a few million and can't legally pay players. How do you recruit enough quality to be competitive with the P5 teams? And as World says we do not have a fan base to support us. Dallas folks don't care about SMU. They only care about UT, A&M, & the Cowboys.

[Rebel10]

We'll see what happens this week.

[San Antonio Mustang]

Despite what I posted about World possibly being correct, I hope we keep trying. We have not had great salesmen on our coaching staffs in my memory. If I were AD, I would try to find the best salesman in coaching. I would want him to hire adequate coaches who are also adequate salesman. But even if the head coach is not that good at X&Os, if he can sell the program and then let the Assistants coach we will be better off. Mack Brown is an example of what I would look for.