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Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2006 1:17 pm**

SMU has beaten only two teams all year that currently have a winning record - Harvard (12-9) and Hardin-Simmons (14-9). Hardin-Simmons is not a D-1A school. SMU's 10 D-1A wins have come over opponents whose combined record is 65-166.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:27 pm**

That isn't very fun filled Frisco.

Maybe Hopkins will show up to play at his last home SMU game and we can upset someone.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:49 pm**

if it makes you feel better TCU is dead last out of something like 360 teams in the NCAA in FG % at 36.0 and shot 21% the other Nite. They are even lower rated than us in RPI and standing at 5-20. We are truly about an 10-18 type team that padded its schedule with horrendous cupcakes-but that's the way things are done to make us feel "good" here now in Cupcake Land.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2006 3:59 pm**

Only makes us "feel good" if we were winning....this way it only makes us feel less than [deleted].

Fear the Pony.

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2006 6:34 pm**

and therein lies our salvation for this miserable season...at least we beat TCU. Swept those suc kers in 2005-2006

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2006 7:16 pm**

That is nice (about beating TCU and they are terrible) but we still completely suck right now...so I don't feel any better

We dropped to 268 just below our old Conference powerhouse SJSU and TCU is 282

Posted: **Thu Feb 16, 2006 11:42 pm**

Good post Frisco..

To expand on it...this is what I said last year

SoCal_Pony wrote:Here are our 14 wins this year with our opponents RPI rankings in parenthesis:

Hawaii (140), LA Tech (155), Fresno State (166), Montana State (257), 2 wins against Boise State (259), 2 wins against Tulsa (261), Texas State (269), Baylor (273), 2 wins against SJS (293), Ark Pine Bluff (314) and UT Tyler non-division 1 (no ranking).

Next year we lose our top two rebounders and a third player, who, while rather unremarkable, did start 24 games this season while averaging almost 30 minutes per game.

So we can argue all we want about whether or not we will be better next season. Personally I donâ€™t see how we can get THAT much better

And here are the current RPI rankings of the teams we have defeated THIS year.

Harvard (176), Rice (196), So Miss (249), ECU (273), TCU (283), Long Island (300), Centenary (323), Texas-Pan Am (325), Texas State (326), Savannah St (332) and Hardin Simm non-division 1 (no ranking).

So the AVERAGE RPI for the teams we defeated last year was 251 and for this year it is 278.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:02 am**

It was very interesting seeing the type of schedule that the SMU men have played the last 2 years. What that says to me is that the SMU coach doesn't believe he has the horses to compete at a very high level. To me the real question is does the schedule prepare you for the conference tournament or the post season? I would gather to say no.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 12:30 am**

I'm afraid we'd lose to Baylor this year. And how did we beat La Tech? Or any team twice last year?

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:39 am**

Charleston Pony wrote:and therein lies our salvation for this miserable season...at least we beat TCU. Swept those suc kers in 2005-2006

We beat Froggie High in football, men's basketball and women's soccer, and lost to them in women's basketball and I think women's tennis. I would assume that if the Frogs ventured into the pool with us, Coach Collins' women and Coach Sinnott's guys would blow 'em away. Have we played them in anything else?

Damn nice year to be a Mustang, huh?

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 10:59 am**

not particularly-No. Perhaps you need to aim higher than mediocre and poor.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:31 am**

You wouldn't call it enjoyable to beat TCU in football and men's basketball after losing to them so many times in recent years?

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:33 am**

More enjoyable to win than to lose regardless of previous record against an opponent.

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:34 am**

It is enjoyable however I would take a winning season with real schedules in mens' bball and fball ....that to me would be enjoyable. If we lost to TCU, I wouldn't really care...

Posted: **Fri Feb 17, 2006 11:34 am**

I don't think anyone didn't enjoy beating TCU, I just think most of us would rather be beating them not because we either had a good day when they had an off day (football), or because they have gotten so horrible that practically anyone can beat them (men's basketball), but because they are good and we are just better.

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