Concerns...

[jtstang]

BS. Has the alum been banned as well? Or does his Mustang Club contribution buy him immunity?

[Alaric]

Don't forget part of the experience of going to college is getting away from home. A lot of kids don't want to go to college in their hometowns...I didn't. That along with local kids being wary of SMU are 2 smart reasons to leave the metro area in search of talent. BTW, when I was at SMU, almost all the good players were from out of town. We'll get local kids when these guys start going to fun, competitive, meaningful, well attended games at SMU, don't worry.

Wow - Since when has Stallion been worried about diplomacy? I did a double take after reading this:

Yeah that what we need to do-tell those South Dallas Coaches that we don't need their academically unqualified students but we'd be "happy to consider" your Division 1A talent.

Care for some Grey Poupon Mortimer. Bring the car around James I'm late for my Tee-Time at the Country Club. Thank God Doherty is more diplomatic than some of YOU.

[EastStang]

Don't forget part of the experience of going to college is getting away from home. A lot of kids don't want to go to college in their hometowns

Umm, I could buy that if there weren't so many going to Baylor. Why there? As the cheer down in Norfolk Virginia goes. We don't smoke and we don't drink, Norfolk, Norfolk. They don't do that at Baylor either, except for a couple of well documented exceptions.

[Treadway21]

Baylor has one Dallas kid.

http://baylorbears.cstv.com/sports/m-ba ... l-mtt.html

Baylor's record 15- 16 second to last in the conference.

Let's just get some good players from anywhere we can get 'em and keep 'em in school. If they are from DISD all the better, but everyone here will ultimately judge the program by wins and losses and NCAA tournament bids.

[ponyboy]

UT has zero DFW kids. A&M has about a third of its roster from DFW.

We could get our roster from Alaska for all I care. Twelve Carlos Boozers sounds pretty good.

[Ponymon]

Isn't Bennie originally from Garland?

This article referenced by The Ponygrad on a thread about Benny Rhodes listed on the Basketball message board references South Garland.

http://www.throwd.com/index-1.html

[originaloverthehilltop1]

stallion wrote:
Yeah that what we need to do-tell those South Dallas Coaches that we don't need their academically unqualified students but we'd be "happy to consider" your Division 1A talent.

please explain this logic: is it your contention we should be recruiting the div1 talented but academically unqualified? but only say so diplomatically? isn't the message we should send ALL high school athletes that they need to prepare academically for college and for life beyond? i understand 50% of ALL current houston isd students drop out without graduating these days. what message, diplomatic or otherwise, are you for sending them? will that be diplomatically different from what you will tell coaches?

there are those who have insinuated on this board that we hired tubbs (disd coach) so that the disd coaches would feel as though they "owed" us some talented players. i just don't think we should ever act as though somebody "owes' us players.

grey poop on you.

[smu diamond m]

one of the throwdest ballers

Wowowowow.

[Stallion]

What I think is that most inner city school coaches don't give a damn about SMU alleged academic superiority. I don't think they perceive a serious difference from a degree from UT, A&M, TCU or Baylor except that SMU ain't giving some of their kids a chance to attend college and play BB. I think they realize that there a helluva a lot of schools that will give their kids that shot and a chance to actually play on an NCAA Tourney team. I think they believe that if a kid can pass minimum NCAA eligibility requirements then they should be given a chance at a school like SMU-if not their loyalties will lie elsewhere. I think the only reason that SMU got any of these kids over the last 10 years is because of Jimmy Tubbs and for the next 3 or so years they'd just as soon see SMU fail miserably. Those are the cards dealt to Doherty and he's going to have to make the best of it for awhile which he appears to have done pretty well with his national contacts. BTW I have to believe-and would like to know-whether SMU has tripled its national recruiting budget because they got some real Sky Miles from this recruiting class.

[mathman]

[ i understand 50% of ALL current houston isd students drop out without graduating these days.]

Estimate is that 30% of Houston's seniors will fail the TAKS test and not graduate this year.

[PK]

there are those who have insinuated on this board that we hired tubbs (disd coach) so that the disd coaches would feel as though they "owed" us some talented players. i just don't think we should ever act as though somebody "owes' us players.

grey poop on you.

Actually, the DISD coaches pretty much let us know during the hiring process that if we didn't hire Tubbs, we could pretty much kiss any chance of landing a DISD kid goodbye. No they didn't owe us anything for hiring Tubbs...other than what they implied.

[Glenn Sosbee]

The Dallas kids will come. I was pissed when I learned Nowitski wasn't from the United States a few years back. There is no shortage of talent worldwide.

I believe we got some 7 footer from Poland coming in here. It's an international thing nowadays.

SMU used to bring in lots of quality foreign talent in mens track, back when we had a track team. Thank's Supreme Court, your right, women's sports do deserve at least half of all sports revenue. All of the empty seats in the women's NCAA basketball tournament are proof of this.

[EastStang]

It isn't the Supreme Court but your duly elected officials who passed these laws. One of "W"'s and the Republican congress' failures was that there was no break given to colleges. And its not women's basketball that bothers me, its having to have rowing and equestrian and no men's track because we have to meet the Title IX regulations that's the real kick in the rear. (Can't say groin, that would be sexist).

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

I was pissed when I learned Nowitski wasn't from the United States a few years back.

You've must have been hiding under a rock. It was all over the place that he was from Germany when Dirk was being mentioned for the NBA Draft.

[mavsrage311]

I was pissed when I learned Nowitski wasn't from the United States a few years back.

You've must have been hiding under a rock. It was all over the place that he was from Germany when Dirk was being mentioned for the NBA Draft.

I think he was being sarcastic...