DT Mickey Dollens, Bartelsville, Okla.

[Stallion]

apparently visited SMU yesterday. Visited Colorado St last weekend. He is 6-4, 260 4.95(unverified). Offers from SMU, CSU, Louisiana Monroe and Tulsa. No rating or stories yet. Wasn't he a member of the great 60s kid rock band the Monkey's. Maybe they are putting Rivals on?

[SMU Football Blog]

I hear he and Michael Nesmith are a package deal.

Add Peter Tork and Davey Jones, and you have a very underrated front four.

Edit: For the record, I added my comment without reading Stallion's whole post. He beat me to the Monkees' reference.

[PonyPride]

apparently visited SMU yesterday. Visited Colorado St last weekend. He is 6-4, 260 4.95(unverified). Offers from SMU, CSU, Louisiana Monroe and Tulsa. No rating or stories yet. Wasn't he a member of the great 60s kid rock band the Monkey's. Maybe they are putting Rivals on?

Nope, he's a real player -- just not committed (yet?) Apparently he's grown an inch and added about 30 pounds in the last year, presumably projecting inside at DT, I would think.

[mrydel]

Davey Jones is too small for Div ! although quick. If he could move to CB maybe but he will struggle against the tall receivers. Tork is underrated and Nesmith would not get an offer if not packaged with Dollens. Not to mention that stocking cap he wears would not fit under the helmet.

[Stallion]

well I'm glad he's growing because some sources have him at 6-1.

[mrydel]

well I'm glad he's growing because some sources have him at 6-1.

Its that bushy hairdo he has!!!

[SMUPhil]

I don't know about Davey Jones, I hear bad things about his locker, and lockerroom/team chemistry is important to a winning program.

[giacfsp]

well I'm glad he's growing because some sources have him at 6-1.

I was wondering about that. I've seen 6'1" to 6'4" -- I bet he's somewhere in between, although hopefully (of course) he's closer to the tall end of that range.

[Stallion]

I'm convinced all SMU recruits immediately grow 2 inches the minute they commit to SMU.

[PonyPride]

I can't speak for all of them, but those that I've met in person seem fairly legit. For instance, Pete Fleps and Corey Slater are legitimately 6-foot-2.

[PonyPride]

And Joe Holmes is at least 6-2, if not 6-3, and Phillip Burley is at least 6-4 (he said 6-4.5). If there's any stretching going on, it's minimal, or it's not happening with all players.

[SMU Football Blog]

Davey Jones is too small for Div ! although quick. If he could move to CB maybe but he will struggle against the tall receivers. Tork is underrated and Nesmith would not get an offer if not packaged with Dollens. Not to mention that stocking cap he wears would not fit under the helmet.

For the record, after that show went off the air, Nesmith had by far the greatest impact. I believe he had the only top 40 hit of the post-monkees era by a bandmember. But his lasting contribution was the creation of what would later become MTV. He also won the very first video grammy.

Guess what I majored in at SMU? And now you know why I drive people nuts. And never lose a game of trivial pursuit.

Edit: And never forget, Jimmy Hendrix was once the opening act for the Monkees.

[mrydel]

There is another interesting bit of trivia about one of the Monkees but I am not sure which one or what it is. How about that for a statement? I think it is that Dolenz's mother (could have been Nesmith's) invented liquid paper or something to that effect. Now here is a dead horse being beaten or a thread that has lost control.

[ponyplayer]

i will beat the thing (horse) a little more......was Nesmith`s mother...friend of mine at Gillete said they bought her out for $40 million or somewhere close to that figure......

[SMU Football Blog]

Still beating...

Rumor: Monkee Mike Nesmith's mother was the inventor of Liquid Paper correction fluid.
Status: True.

Origins: Bette Nesmith Graham
Bette Nesmith and young Michael
(she was divorced from Michael's father in 1946 and remarried in 1964) came up with the idea of using a small bottle of tempera waterbase paint to correct her typing errors while she was an executive secretary with Texas Bank & Trust in Dallas in 1951. She supplied bottles of the fluid to other secretaries at her workplace (under the name "Mistake Out") for several years; then, in 1956, she improved the formula, changed its name to "Liquid Paper," and set out to trademark the name and patent her product. After IBM passed on her offer to sell Liquid Paper to them, Bette started marketing the product on her own. Liquid Paper, Inc., did not become profitable for several years, and it was not until the mid-1960s that Liquid Paper correction fluid began to generate substantial income for its inventor.

Liquid Paper was sold to the Gillette Corporation in 1979 for $47.5 million (plus a royalty on every bottle sold until the year 2000). Bette Nesmith Graham died in 1980, leaving half her fortune to her son Michael and half to philanthropic organizations.