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I dropped the ball today by not goin to the SOC game and watching shady.. but the playoffs are coming up and if we want him to come to smu, we should show up to his games in full smu clad..
Wear your SMU hats, shirts, socks, shorts, underwear, put smu stickers on your cars..

How cool would it be if there were 25+ smu fans at his upcoming games..
If i was a recruit (family member) I would notice and be like "Damn, these people really want me to come there"

Again I dropped the ball today, but as fans this is the only way we can actually do something to get him to come here (unless anybody wants to go 80's style on him)

Go out and show the recruit that you want him, by wearing SMU gear and cheering him on, it would pay off.

When's their next game?

Would this violate any kind of alumni involvement rule?

Pony Up wrote:When's their next game?

Would this violate any kind of alumni involvement rule?

only if you talk to him

Found this on ESPN's website:


Hoosier coach says team affected by rumors
ESPN.com


Indiana head coach Mike Davis said Monday that a segment of Hoosiers fans want someone with closer ties to the school to be the program's coach.

"Indiana needs to have one of their own," Davis said during a Big Ten weekly media conference call. "They need to have somebody that's played here so they can embrace him. They need that."

"I'm not upset about it, not disappointed about it," said Davis, who graduated from Alabama and replaced Bob Knight in 2000. "I think they need that. I really do, because these players deserve better."

Davis has been critical of Indiana fans who are calling for his ouster. A group of them wore black shirts to Saturday's game in Bloomington against Iowa, in which Indiana lost 70-67 to fall to 5-5 in the Big Ten and 13-8 overall.

"Like I said before, it's going to affect ... people involved," Davis said. "They want our guys to play through it, but how can they?"

Davis told ESPN.com's Andy Katz on Saturday that disgruntled fans are affecting his team's performance. He missed Saturday's game because of the flu.

Davis did not appear on his weekly radio show Monday -- the second time in three days he did not make a public appearance -- but did call in, saying he attended Monday's practice, "got a little excited, and had a setback" that required him to visit his doctor.

"We were one game out of first and that's what happens?" Davis said Saturday. "You can say what you want to me, but that affects the guys. I watched [Saturday's] second half and you could see we were playing with no energy. It's really a shame. They have no idea what they've done to the players."

He kept up with the theme on Monday.

"I know a lot of teams around the country that have been happy to be one game out of first and ranked in the country," said Davis, whose Hoosiers fell two games out of the Big Ten lead and out of the ESPN/USA Today Top 25 with their loss to Iowa. "But it's really taken effect on our players. Not just this year, but every year I've been here."

Davis is in his sixth season at Indiana. In his second year, he took the Hoosiers to the national title game against Maryland. The team has missed the NCAA Tournament the past two years, however.

"It's been a tough thing for six years," he said. "The ones who are affected more by it are the players. If they really care about the coach and want to do well for the coach, it's going to affect them."

Indiana plays at Penn State on Wednesday and at Illinois (No. 13 ESPN/USA Today, No. 14 AP) on Sunday.

"You can just see it in their faces," Davis said. "It's not the same team. Because we lost one game or two games on the road and it was like the end of the year. When you think about that, it doesn't make sense. At all."

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Translation: He's out of there at the end of the season, and he thinks Darrell Arthur should follow his cousin to SMU.

Here's the perfect opportunity to go see Slim vs. Kevin Durant - UT's prized recruit. Plenty of other talent on display on Saturday as well...

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/spt/stories/021506dnspoclassic.1291bd1b.html

SOC in feature game of DMN Classic

12:47 AM CST on Wednesday, February 15, 2006
By KATE HAIROPOULOS / The Dallas Morning News


The featured game of The Dallas Morning News Classic on Saturday will pit nationally-ranked Montrose Christian (Md.) and 6-10 Texas signee Kevin Durant against Class 4A defending state champ South Oak Cliff and 6-9 star Darrell Arthur.

The pairings of the four-game playoff event, at Oak Cliff's Ellis Davis Field House, were finalized Tuesday night after most area boys basketball teams wrapped up their district seasons.

All seven Texas teams involved in the Classic are ranked in the top 10 in the Class 5A and 4A state polls.

Perennial 4A powerhouse Lincoln will take on District 10-5A champion Richardson Berkner in the opening game at noon.

District 9-5A champion Carter meets high-flying Fort Worth Dunbar, the 8-4A champ, at 2 p.m.

Seagoville, which shared the 13-4A title with SOC and is led by Texas A&M signees Donald Sloan and Derrick Roland, gets a rematch with 5A power DeSoto at 4 p.m. The teams met in the championship game of the Dallas ISD/Coca-Cola Tournament in December, with DeSoto winning, 74-70. DeSoto (32-1), last season's Class 5A runner-up, won District 7-5A on Tuesday with a 54-46 victory against Duncanville.

Durant, the No. 2-rated player in the nation, will lead Montrose Christian against SOC in the nightcap at 6 p.m.

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THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS CLASSIC
Saturday at Ellis Davis Field House

Noon: Lincoln vs. Richardson Berkner

2 p.m.: Carter vs. Fort Worth Dunbar

4 p.m.: Seagoville vs. DeSoto

6 p.m.: South Oak Cliff vs. Montrose (Md.) Christian

Tickets: $10 to $30 at www.ticketmaster.com, 214-373-8000, the Majestic Theater box office or any Ticketmaster outlet

25 SMU fans to see Darrell Arthur play high school bball? The fact that there are 25 SMU fans is news to me.

MFFL02 wrote:25 SMU fans to see Darrell Arthur play high school bball? The fact that there are 25 SMU fans is news to me.

funny.

I will definantly be at the DMN Classic....Who else is going?

PerunaRaider wrote:I will definantly be at the DMN Classic....Who else is going?

I am heading out now...hoping to catch some of the 2pm game and stay through the last game. Should be fun.

hey tmustangp: can you make it your job to post the times (and locations) of his playoff games? i'll go, decked out in SMU gear.

Being a b-ball nerd, I watched all four games last Saturday. My thoughts:

Nathan Gibbs -Soph/DeSoto is a guy to keep an eye on. He's around 6'6" with a very nice low post game. IMO, he played the best all-around game of anyone....and that's impressive for a soph in a game featuring three Big XII signees.

Shady vs Durant - it was fun seeing two big-time talents go head-to-head. Durant was a little more tentative/passive than I expected, but he's going to be a good one.....long and tall (6'11') with the ability to handle the ball, shoot the three, and take it to the hole.

This was the first time I had really seen Arthur challenged. He outplayed Durant in the first half, but Durant is on a much better team and Arthur wore down in the second half. I believe Arthur has the better overall game. Durant has more of a perimeter game and being 6'11" gets him the higher ranking. If I had to choose one, give me Shady.

According to the DMN SportSay Blog, Coach Self was in town to watch Shady play last night.