Nationally Competitive

by **Mountain Mustang** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:47 pm

In the press conference it was said that SMU was now nationally competitive with recruiting. Does anyone know what this specifically means??? Juco's, special admits, etc.

Also, realistically what are the odds of some of the Texas recruits that were going to Hawaii changing and coming to SMU? I'm not as familiar with how this works, I would assume recruits can easily change oral commitments but am not sure.

by **Stallion** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:51 pm

I'd say we have a 50-50% shot at Hawaii's Texas recruits especially the QB and WR but not much of a shot at the Hawaii kids. I think that Top JUCO has been a soft commit for some time and was not really expected to sign with Hawaii. Looking at some big schools.

by **Mountain Mustang** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:53 pm

Thanks for the quick reply. Any ideas about the first half of the post and what it means specifically for us ie. the model??

by **Stallion** » Mon Jan 07, 2008 9:55 pm

Nope-going to wait and see.

by **KnuckleStang** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:09 am

I noticed that specifically in the pc, Jones said something to the effect that our model is now "consistent with where he's been." That's paraphrasing, but that suggests a significant change, if accurate. We ain't never been like Hawaii before.

by **Stallion** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 3:03 am

All I'm asking for is a system like TCU, Tulsa or to a lesser extent Houston. If there is a great 3-4 star prospect from a Division 1A school(which means he was fully qualified out of high school) that we find a way to get him in to school as long as he hasn't done serious time in prison.

In addition, I want to be able to go after basically all JUCO transfers with clean records that can graduate from JUCO with a legitimate degree(not correspondence courses). UTEP, UH, TCU, Tulsa Marshall, Southern Miss, ECU, Central Florida, Memphis, UAB can all get these kids in school.

I want to be able to add a 3 star and 4 star SEC transfers like Tulsa will next year at an already loaded WR position. I'm talking about 2-3 Division 1A Transfers and 4-5 JUCOs per year depending on need but I'm not talking about the leftovers we get from these sources now-I'm talking about the 3-4 star players.

There are 150 players in FB and what about 70 in BB each year from DFW-plenty of them transfer and plenty should be considering the home town team. We got a Coach who by past record definitely believes in this philosophy-there can be NO DISPUTE about that. He built his success on that philosophy without question. If we don't see this develop then something is still wrong. If we do see tangible evidence of this type of recruiting then SMU may have finally be ready to compete and this is the dawn of a new era.

by **SMU_is_bowling** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:26 pm

that almost sounded positive Stallion . . .

by **PerunaPunch** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:40 pm

Stallion, ya friggin' shiner! :lol:

But props for your cutting the latest regime some slack.

I'll remain cautiously optimistic until I find out we can't get in some monster we desperately need.

Like you, I'll be real curious to see if the administration delivers as promised. Nobody went in to specifics on this point in the press conference, but I was flabbergasted when both Jones and Turner said (without quoting specifics) that we were now competing on an even playing field.

by **abezontar** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:16 pm

PerunaPunch wrote:Stallion, ya friggin' shiner! But props for your cutting the latest regime some slack.

I'll remain cautiously optimistic until I find out we can't get in some monster we desperately need.

Like you, I'll be real curious to see if the administration delivers as promised. Nobody went in to specifics on this point in the press conference, but I was flabbergasted when both Jones and Turner said (without quoting specifics) that we were now competing on an even playing field.

I'm just hoping that it wasn't lip service like the commitment was when Bennett was hired.

by **The Falcon** » Wed Jan 09, 2008 6:55 pm

We have signed JUCOs before (not many) and we will accept
JUCOs now - the problem that never seems to get mentioned is that
SMU does not accept all of the JUCO credits nor, accorind to my sources,
have they tried hard to give the students the benefit of the doubt -
sometimes only a small percentage of the JC credits will be accepted
at SMU and when a prospect realizes he is losing lots of credit hours to
come to SMU - he goes elsewhere unless he has a strong reason for wanting to be here.

Nationally Competitive

Nationally Competitive

JUCO Problem

Who is online