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by **MrMustang1965** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:39 pm

Bobby Hauck - University of Montana
Joe Glenn - University of Wyoming

by **Hilltopper** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:42 pm

Chow is "too old"? That's insane. He's an offensive mastermind. However, there are two points to consider:

1. he'd be FAR more expensive than SMU will pay, even with the new Orsini-boosted budget.
2. our team has a coach, and both need our support, starting this Saturday.

Beat the hell out of Sam Houston, Ponies!

by **abezontar** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 11:46 pm

MrMustang1965 wrote:Bobby Hauck - University of Montana
Joe Glenn - University of Wyoming

Joe Glenn.....he's coaching football now!?! Is there anything that guy hasn't done, astronaut, senator, old astronaut, and now head football coach. Wow, that would be a coup.

and before you rip into me, yes I know the astronaut and senator was John Glenn

by **EastStang** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:40 am

Hey dreamers, go for the gusto. Joe Pa or Bobby Bowden? Stallion knows that the coaches who want to move up and who can turn a program around won't come here because of the restrictions they have. Older coaches who want to round out their resume's as a head coach are not what we need here. We need a great coach with energy. Bennett has the energy clearly, and he did well to sell the program until at 0-12 season. Let's let the season play out so we can debate the next great head coach at SMU, maybe we'll all be surprised that its Phil Bennett.

by **BRStang** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 9:04 am

RGV Pony wrote:Bo Pelini.

Pelini's daughter and my daughter are in the same Kindergarten class and are friends. I was thinking about somehow bringing the subject up with him one day, but then I thought: (1) Do we really want another DC as a head coach?; and (2) I would hate for LSU to lose him.

by **RGV Pony** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 1:23 pm

BRStang wrote:
RGV Pony wrote:Bo Pelini.

Pelini's daughter and my daughter are in the same Kindergarten class and are friends. I was thinking about somehow bringing the subject up with him one day, but then I thought: (1) Do we really want another DC as a head coach?; and (2) I would hate for LSU to lose him.

didn't SMU pass over Jimbo for the head job at some point? There would have been your OC head coach.

by **McAndless** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:18 pm

I'm not sure what direction we should firmly go, but I hope the athletic department employs someone to make decisions with this simple objective and realization...

Don't go hire a coordinator from a dominant program that remains competitive on the sole basis of better talent. That mentality doesn't work. Take conventional hiring wisdom and stick it up your [deleted].

Bring in a coach that doesn't make excuses and has the creativity to coach, recruit and run an overall program based on his own ideas, which are hopefully proven, and someone that has displayed a path of success with resources less superior than your competition. I know Stallion spends more time discussing the model than I do breathing, but if it isn't going to change, bring in a Leach-type that realizes there are other ways to cerebrally game-plan built around, oddly enough, ingenuity and strengths of what little talent you may have.

I appreciate Phil's efforts, but its time to let someone with an open mind, passion, even youth, to come in, relate to players (which never gets mentioned enough on this site) and motivate them to play for goals and objectives. It has been said enough, but once again, the most talented group of anything hardly wins because they're more talented. Of course it helps, but if your gameday organization and preparation is this inept, who cares how talented it is.

By this point, I would say I am 100% on board with Stallion's position with our model. Copeland had the chance to make an impact on the hire, but sadly he is a moron.

This is SMU, not Texas or USC. We're the start-up that is looking for someone with very fresh ideas, unbelievable passion and can relate to people to give them motivation. This time, please don't go pluck another coordinator from a powerhouse program that has simply been micromanaged by a HC and can only regurgitate what he has been taught, never actually utilizing his own concepts to see if they work or not.

And to the next coach, make football obviously fun for the players. We as fans suffer enough, don't let the players become less interested and apathetic than us, which they appear to be now. Kids today have so many other options, please realize that when it comes time for a kid to consider coming to SMU to run 3 yard outs on third downs only or going to Baylor and at least have six or seven fade routes in the first half. Hell with the model, I wouldn't want to come to this mickey mouse program either.

by **Higher Authority** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:21 pm

I want to see Coach Bennett win enough games to silence all the doubters. I was going nuts on the way home from Denton, but I've since realized he didn't miss a block on a punt, he didn't commit a personal foul and he didn't drop a single pass all game long. He steered this thing back on course last year after a slow start, and I'm hoping he can do it again.

by **BRStang** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:31 pm

RGV Pony wrote:
BRStang wrote:
RGV Pony wrote:Bo Pelini.

Pelini's daughter and my daughter are in the same Kindergarten class and are friends. I was thinking about somehow bringing the subject up with him one day, but then I thought: (1) Do we really want another DC as a head coach?; and (2) I would hate for LSU to lose him.

didn't SMU pass over Jimbo for the head job at some point? There would have been your OC head coach.

Jimbo Fisher is still at LSU as OC. Although, I'm with McAndless on this one--we need some extraordinary talent to come in here and make lemonade out of lemons. I don't know if a prototypical big school asst. will do the trick here.

by **PonySnob** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:31 pm

Higher Authority wrote:He steered this thing back on course last year after a slow start, and I'm hoping he can do it again.

Did he get us to a bowl game....or even a winning record when he "steered us back on course last year...."? Oh that's right, that three game winning streak to end the season gave us momentum for the current season....................... :roll:

by **WorldStang** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 2:54 pm

Jim Fruegel - Head Coach, Slippery Rock U.
Skipper Mabisky - Springfield High School

by **Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 3:14 pm

Coach Red Beaulieu

by **HFvictory** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 6:43 pm

Bob Davies.

by **SMUballboy** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 7:36 pm

If Miami fires Coker would anyone be interested in him although his offense is pretty much the opposite of ours

by **CalallenStang** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 8:38 pm

SMUballboy wrote:If Miami fires Coker would anyone be interested in him although his offense is pretty much the opposite of ours

Never thought too much of him.

My list is pretty short (though I do want to see what Bennett does for the rest of the season):

1. Rick Neuheisel
2. Al Groh (yes he will be out at Virginia after this year)
3. Frank Solich
4. [deleted] Tomey (the knock on him is his age)
5. Name any random COLLEGE coach
6. Gary Barnett

I wouldn't mind hiring Todd Dodge or Randy Allen as assistants, but not as the head coach.

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