SMU Beaten By Academic Risks, Part IV

[Stallion]

JUCO transfer and game MVP Aaron Haynes hit a jumper with :02 and led all scorers with 21 points and 5 rebounds which provided the margin of victory as Boise St beat SMU 61-59. Boise St was assisted by JUCO transfer Jermaine Blackburn, who leads Boise St in scoring on the season with a 15.8 ppg average, by adding 10 points and 5 rebounds.

<small>[ 01-31-2004, 06:27 PM: Message edited by: Stallion ]</small>

[Original Frank]

OK, I'm bored so I guess I'll do it...

Even granting you all the JUCOs and academic risks, which team had the best ability? Which team had the best potential as a basketball team irrespective of from whence they came? Who had the better athletes? If it was SMU - and I happen to believe it was - then on court stretgic planning, motivation, and other intangibles must have turned the encounter to the opponent. Until the JUCOs and academic risks create a opponent's team with better ability on the court, the origin of the athletes is irrelevant to discussion of on-court stratigic coaching. Coaching matters. And SMU is behind in this regard and it has been for about 15 years.

Having stated this, I continue to agree that I wish SMU had a plan in place to upgrade its abilities to recruit on par with its competition. Until SMU is apples-to-apples in regard to recruiting, SMU will lag behind. But this discussion has nothing to do with Dement's inability to coach. He may be a great guy, but that does not change the fact that he hasn't a clue, especially offensively. He should be replaced and he should be replaced immediately.

[angryfan04]

Stallion - why didn't you post this kind of stuff after the TX Tech game or the Purdue tourney or even after the Tulsa & San Jose games? Yes, we all know we don't have top 25 talent, so what was the point of your post? Are you happy we lost by 2 on the road just so that you can come on here and post that Boise has JUCOs?

[Charleston Pony]

Stallion just gets off on the whole JUCO issue, which after Bennett's football signings is obviously not as big an issue as it has been in the past. He conveniently fails to mention JUCO transfer Franco Harris who shot a blistering 1-7 from the field and 0-6 from 3-pt range or the other 3 JUCO players on Boise's roster who didn't even hit the floor.

Bottom line in yesterday's game is that we are every bit as talented as Boise. This was no physical mis-match. That's one team I expect we will be able to beat at Moody. With 5 of 9 "second half of the schdule" games at Moody, I still have hope these guys will find themselves before the WAC Tourney. Castro had a good game yesterday, Lowe played like you want a senior to, BHop shot well and even though Isham missed that last shot, at least he was a little more active yesterday.

[Bergermeister]

Y'all give the incessant poster the very reaction that he's looking for. Consider the source.

[Pony_Fan]

Originally posted by angryfan04:
Stallion - why didn't you post this kind of stuff after the TX Tech game or the Purdue tourney or even after the Tulsa & San Jose games? Yes, we all know we don't have top 25 talent, so what was the point of your post? Are you happy we lost by 2 on the road just so that you can come on here and post that Boise has JUCOs?

He has nothing better to do than Juco's research obviously. I doubt he even watched the game and saw that we should have won this one easily. I am going to stop responding to Stallion's posts - Stallion boycott folks??


Boise State hit only two of 27 shots from 3-point range and shot 34 % - you should not lose to a team that shots like that - PERIOD.

<small>[ 02-01-2004, 06:33 AM: Message edited by: Pony_Fan ]</small>

[Waz]

Yeah, but none of those shots were taken by JUCO's.

[SoCal_Pony]

I try not to focus on one particular game, or for that matter, one particular season, but try to look at the larger picture. Anyone can have an off night, teams have bad seasons, heck, Larry Cole had a ‘bad decade’. Unfortunately, our problems run deeper than a ‘bad decade’.

Our FB record post-DP is legendary and speaks for itself. Over the past 16 years, only those football stalwarts Buffalo, Temple and Kent State have worse Division I-A records than us.

How many of you realize that we also have a LOSING all-time WAC basketball record as well. That’s right, as weak as this conference is, especially among its lower-tiered schools; our BB record is sub .500 versus WAC opponents.

So for those of you who focus on a particular opponents shooting percentage one night or Brian Miller’s inability to hit an open shot, consider this; we have yet to seriously compete for a WAC FB or BB championship in any one season.

So clearly something is fundamentally wrong with the way we operate. Stallion calls it ‘The Model’. Until this model is fixed, I for one hope he continues these somewhat uncomfortable and annoying posts.

<small>[ 02-01-2004, 09:25 AM: Message edited by: SoCal_Pony ]</small>