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[Stallion]

the biggest changes in the admission policies occurred in the season BEFORE Cavan's departure. Get your facts straight Big10Boy.

[MustangIcon]

the biggest changes in the admission policies occurred in the season BEFORE Cavan's departure. Get your facts straight Big10Boy.

Don't you mean Big 11????

[Big10Ponyfan]

What I have written, I have written. Oh, and let us know when you have finished your glass of ego and plate full of arrogance. It's hard to understand you when your mouth is full.

[Billy Joe]

It all comes down to admission policies. Our competition makes it much easier for Juco and transfer players to get in their respective schools. They readily accept the credit hours whether or not the school actually has a similar class. When SMU can go to a player and say we will accept all of your credit hours just like UTEP, Houston, Tulsa, etc. then they will start getting better talent.

[Horseshoe]

Actually, the way it's been explained to me, more changes in the academic policies that affect athletics have been made under Coach Bennett -- far more. But since neither of us has any documented proof, it's a moot point to argue. The caliber of athlete, however, certainly has gone up under Coach Bennett, and we're starting to see some of the results of that.

[Stallion]

that's incorrect-they are just tinkering around the edges now since Bennett got here. The MOST important changes from a historical perspective have been the changes which allowed early offering of athletes before admission to the university and when they streamlined the admission process by instituting the 3 tier evaluation of athletes's transcripts and admissibility. Those were the policies that drove SMU into the ground. I said many times that SMU has made about 85% of the changes that need to be made. This is a much better job now than it was under Cavan who only had 1 player who actually made it on the field after the changes made circa 2000. To blame Cavan for failing to make changes which any idiot knew should have been made 15 years ago is total [deleted]. 16 years of incompetence and pressure from pissed alumni are the reasons the remaining obstacles have trickled in since Bennett. Going 0-12 will have that effect.

[smuwins]

that's incorrect-they are just tinkering around the edges now since Bennett got here. The MOST important changes from a historical perspective have been the changes which allowed early offering of athletes before admission to the university and when they streamlined the admission process by instituting the 3 tier evaluation of athletes's transcripts and admissibility. Those were the policies that drove SMU into the ground. I said many times that SMU has made about 85% of the changes that need to be made. This is a much better job now than it was under Cavan who only had 1 player who actually made it on the field after the changes made circa 2000. To blame Cavan for failing to make changes which any idiot knew should have been made 15 years ago is total [deleted]. 16 years of incompetence and pressure from pissed alumni are the reasons the remaining obstacles have trickled in since Bennett. Going 0-12 will have that effect.

And who are you to grade us at 85%??? I guess we should just turn over all academic decisions and decisions that have to do with the direction of the program to you since you have the magic formula.

[Stallion]

85% means that TCU, UTEP, UH and others get about 10-12 players on campus who we can't get in over a 4 year window. Those 10-12 players have given those schools a huge competitive advantage. Do you know how to spell recruiting?

[The PonyGrad]

Oh boy here we go again.

Can we move along now boys.

[smuwins]

Yep, was part of it. 10-12 is a number that is inaccurate. It more like 1 maybe 2 over 4 years. Of those 1 or 2, they usually never make it on the field anyway because they either quit or are ineligible.

[Stallion]

just in JUCOs and Division 1A Transfers it is more than 10 for each school. You obviously don't know how many Division 1A Transfers these schools have signed in the last 4 years. Stick to a subject you do know.. UH signed 9 Division 1A transfers LAST YEAR and UTEP about 6 and at least 20 over the last 5 years

[EastStang]

So Stallion, straight up, should Bennett stay or go? And if he goes what realistic chance do we have to do better?

[ponyboy]

Anybody who really knows SMU's history would agree that with SMU's heritage, the facilities and its location in Dallas the deepest recruiting area in the country that Craiig James is absolutely right in stating that SMU should be dominating CUSA West. These are all schools who traditionally have no business even being on the same field as SMU with the possible exception of Houston. Tulsa? UTEP? Rice? Tulane? Its hard for older alumni to understand why SMU shouldn't dominate these schools.For that matter what advantage does TCU have over SMU? And yet arguably TCU has outrecruited SMU in 16 straight years-without dispute in 14 out of 16 years. These are schools SMU has and should dominate. The reason we have not is just as easy to explain if you truly follow college football. There hasn't been a Coach at this school since the DP that would disagree with the exact reasons I have posted for years.

Excepting your self congratulation at the end, I agree with every word.

[Stallion]

I think SMU should wait for the end of the season to evaluate Bennett. Big difference between 5-7 and 8-4. I think every coach deserves at least 4 years but in SMU's case it should be at least 5 years.

[expony18]

I think SMU should wait for the end of the season to evaluate Bennett. Big difference between 5-7 and 8-4. I think every coach deserves at least 4 years but in SMU's case it should be at least 5 years.

whats your "number" for PB? i think 7-5 might save his job... although we shouldnt be in this position based on our schedule