June Jones on Norm-a-thon on 1310

[skyscraper]

Just got a Ticket text message saying JJ is their next guest.

[TidePony]

Ughhhhh

[skyscraper]

Didn't really want to listen... did anyone hear what he said

[smupony94]

We need to shut down if Chad doesn't succeed

[PonySnob]

Guessing it wasn't one of the more listened to segments today.

[JoeKidd]

Hopefully RGT wasn't listening....he was probably gleeful that he has permission to shut down the FB program if he can continue to undermine HCCM.

[Bergermeister]

It was a really weird interview. Lots of sidestepping. Said he continued to be in touch with his "recruits" on the 2016 team. But... whether sincere or not, he wished the program well.

[JohnnyRock]

Any questions on why he quit recruiting and did not put out an effort in recruiting? Any questions on why he quit on his team and SMU? He did a lot of great things but how he left was disgraceful. Our garbage AD Dept. allow him to come back when he tried to leave for ASU because there was no plan in place. I am tired of watching the under performing football team continue to lose and make excuses. I am surprised Chad Morris stayed around for at least another year when the promises for an indoor practice facility have already been broken.

[Bergermeister]

Our garbage AD Dept.

Until SMU makes a real commitment to athletic (football) excellence and hires an AD with gonads, we will continue to drift. The president of the university hinders and hope of progress. He's got a governor on the AD. Too many Daddy Warbucks donors want to call the shots. They're big ducks in a very small pond. Business as usual.

[Stallion]

oh geez

[Mexmustang]

I was at DFW, picking up some family and sat there and listened. I thought he was tactful in his comments and very supportive of Chad. Calling him a perfect fit for SMU. His comment as to becoming a basketball school had more to do with if Chad can't do it while implying that if the school won't give him the tools to succeed, we should just give up. He was extremely complimentary of the school, the education, the town etc. Everyone knows he gave up after the various powers reneged on several key promises. Inexcusable. June handled it poorly and forever lost his opportunity to come forward and call out what was happening.

Think we should move on and realize that just maybe the same record of broken promises are occurring with Chad. I for one believe his Baylor interest had less to do with Baylor and more to do with the sincere lack of support, not just the IPF, for the football program in general by our entrenched administration. Just remember we have no board of governors (43) we have a single membership chairman, as a result, we are governed by a social club. UT and A&M do have true boards at 8-9 members that their Presidents actually report to. But, the good news we finally made the top ten in something, our President's salary.

[StallionsModelT]

There have been three death penalties related to SMU football in the last 35 years.

1) 1987 Death Penalty
2) Ken Pye
3) Post ASU-gate June Jones

[Stallion]

Mexmustang: "Everyone knows he gave up after the various powers reneged on several key promises."

No not everyone knows this.

I know you want to deflect criticism from June Jones because you were one of the few who were so clueless that you actually thought he was doing a good job up to the bitter end. June Jones never earned his paycheck. June Jones never had a legitimate, rational recruiting strategy for a private school in Dallas, Texas. Chad Morris has shown every SMU fan what a recruiting strategy and committed staff actually look like-and it bears no resemblance to the fraud June Jones was committing every chance he cashed a check. June Jones failed miserably because he did not make recruiting a priority like all other SMU Coaching Staffs in FB and BB since 2008. Chad Morris is going to prove that it was the laziness of June Jones and his staff that was the problem and not some imaginary plot by Turner. There has been no unfair institutional barriers to SMU competing since 2008. And then when SMU has a strong FB and BB program hopefully you will shut up and stop your incessant whining about topics you prove you are fundamentally uninformed about

This is June Jones-the excuse maker and not surprisingly once again you have his back when all SMU fans should actually be asking for our money back based on the fraud June Jones perpetrated on the school

The great justice to the June Jones at SMU Story is that no one will ever hire this guy again

[One Trick Pony]

Is he the Antichrist?

[1983 Cotton Bowl]

I agree with Stallion on this one. June never had an organized recruiting strategy beyond just "hey, come play for the great June Jones". . . which actually did land a few good players at first based on the afterglow of the Hawaii/Sugar Bowl year. Although June and co. never compiled enough talent or depth to play with the majority of P-5 programs for 4 quarters.

But once the Sugar Bowl afterglow was in the rear view mirror for a few years and faded, the lack of an actual recruiting strategy became painfully obvious. Garrett Gilbert was able to paper over some of those deficiencies for a year by playing at such a high level. But once he went down, all the holes in our roster were brutally exposed.

It was June's fault for not actually building a sustainable program, and for quitting on SMU and the program when he got bored. It was SMU's fault for not recognizing what was happening soon enough, and for not having a strategy to move on in place before the wheels completely came off in 2014.

My two cents.