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Horseshoes and Handgrenades

PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:25 pm
by Stallion
The Top 10 Close But No Cigar SMU Recruits:

1. Brian Bosworth OU
2. Tim Brown ND
3. Billy Don Jackson UCLA
4. Mewelde Moore Tulane
5. Egypt Allen TCU
6. Gerald Taylor TCU
7. Dexter Manley Oklahoma St.
8. James Lott UT
9. Paul Rice USC(later transferred to SMU)
10. Kendial Lawrence Missouri

PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:28 pm
by mrydel
Stallion you surprise me. We did not want any of those recruits......anyway.

PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:31 pm
by Stallion
I think I cried when Billy Don Jackson chose UCLA

Re: Horseshoes and Handgrenades

PostPosted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 11:45 pm
by StangEsq
Stallion wrote:The Top 10 Close But No Cigar SMU Recruits:

1. Brian Bosworth OU
2. Tim Brown ND
3. Billy Don Jackson UCLA
4. Mewelde Moore Tulane
5. Egypt Allen TCU
6. Gerald Taylor TCU
7. Dexter Manley Oklahoma St.
8. James Lott UT
9. Paul Rice USC(later transferred to SMU)
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100. Kendial Lawrence Missouri


I think you forgot a 0 in there.

Re: Horseshoes and Handgrenades

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:58 am
by expony18
StangEsq wrote:
Stallion wrote:The Top 10 Close But No Cigar SMU Recruits:

1. Brian Bosworth OU
2. Tim Brown ND
3. Billy Don Jackson UCLA
4. Mewelde Moore Tulane
5. Egypt Allen TCU
6. Gerald Taylor TCU
7. Dexter Manley Oklahoma St.
8. James Lott UT
9. Paul Rice USC(later transferred to SMU)
.
.
.
100. Kendial Lawrence Missouri


I think you forgot a 0 in there.
1. I'm disappointed but we still have "the truth". we knew this would be a lucky pick up, but the kind of pickups JJ is going to need in the future or we can just bring back PB. 2. I like tim brown @ 1.

Re: Horseshoes and Handgrenades

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:02 am
by MustangIcon
expony18 wrote: 1. I'm disappointed but we still have "the truth". we knew this would be a lucky pick up, but the kind of pickups JJ is going to need in the future or we can just bring back PB. 2. I like tim brown @ 1.


as usual we know that is your dream come true

Re: Horseshoes and Handgrenades

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 1:23 am
by expony18
MustangIcon wrote:
expony18 wrote: 1. I'm disappointed but we still have "the truth". we knew this would be a lucky pick up, but the kind of pickups JJ is going to need in the future or we can just bring back PB. 2. I like tim brown @ 1.


as usual we know that is your dream come true
that's not one..but he would make a great DC once JJ starts geeting some players

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 4:43 am
by mathman
Stallion wrote:I think I cried when Billy Don Jackson chose UCLA


Wasn't his nickname PaPa Daddy? And as I remember it didn't turn out to well for him there.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:14 am
by papawasamustang
Stallion wrote:I think I cried when Billy Don Jackson chose UCLA


Is the great Billy Don still in prison?

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:39 am
by Nacho
Shaq

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 8:39 am
by White Helmet
Larry Johnson...oh wait he did pick us and then... :x

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:49 am
by Ponymon
White Helmet wrote:Larry Johnson...oh wait he did pick us and then... :x


and then Kenneth Pye stepped in and told him that he would have to sit out his freshman year because his grades weren't strong enough. That IDIOT Pye really did a number on both BBall and Football.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:36 am
by OC Mustang
Ponymon wrote:
White Helmet wrote:Larry Johnson...oh wait he did pick us and then... :x


and then Kenneth Pye stepped in and told him that he would have to sit out his freshman year because his grades weren't strong enough. That IDIOT Pye really did a number on both BBall and Football.



:roll:

Please...Larry Johnson under Dave Bliss? Yeah, wonderful assets to the university they would have been.

:roll:

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:36 am
by George S. Patton
Ponymon wrote:
White Helmet wrote:Larry Johnson...oh wait he did pick us and then... :x


and then Kenneth Pye stepped in and told him that he would have to sit out his freshman year because his grades weren't strong enough. That IDIOT Pye really did a number on both BBall and Football.



He was my president when I was on campus. The man who personally tried to kill the engineering program and convert SMU into a big liberal arts college. :roll:

And as for OCMustangs, BBI strikes again.

PostPosted: Mon Jan 19, 2009 11:41 am
by RGV Pony
OC Mustang wrote:
Ponymon wrote:
White Helmet wrote:Larry Johnson...oh wait he did pick us and then... :x


and then Kenneth Pye stepped in and told him that he would have to sit out his freshman year because his grades weren't strong enough. That IDIOT Pye really did a number on both BBall and Football.



:roll:

Please...Larry Johnson under Dave Bliss? Yeah, wonderful assets to the university they would have been.

:roll:


well, Larry Johnson under Tark...pick your poison. I don't think UNLV minded the national title.