Are you kidding me PB?

[ponyfan84]

This article from the DC says it all:

http://media.www.smudailycampus.com/med ... 0257.shtml


-keeping the "all out"?! What the hell? Why? Even UNT players are smart enough to realize it's coming. Oh and it 'worked for all plays except for one'...a) when did it work? we didn't get pressure on the QB all day, and b) the one play it didn't work....was a 49 yard TD pass.

-the wrist bands? sounds like a great idea, but you never implement ideas like that if the first time you ever use it is against a bigger and better team. Moron. If we opened against UNT or something then use it to get used to it against a worse team.

[ponyinNC]

I think I give PB too much credit...keeping the "all out"? after getting torched not only on the field but by ESPN announcers and sportscenter anchors??? that play call alone received more publicity than the game itself, and has become a public joke!!

Just imagine that this was a bigger game, a BCS game b/w top 10 teams and this "all out" joke affected the outcome of the game. Heads would role, and Def. Cor.'s or head coaches would be killed by the press.

But it's us...so we laugh. and we keep it in the playbook.

Top 25 in everything, right Steve? Well, then lets act like it, And coach like it!

[MustangStealth]

Some friends and I went out for dinner after the game still in our SMU shirts. Someone saw our shirts and told us how the ESPN commentators had been laughing at us about that. So, thanks for that Phil.

[MustangStealth]

Oh, and another quote from the article...

Right now, after this game, I thought we were further along than we are

Hasn't he said that every year after the first week?!

[Cadillac]

I'm not sure I understand the panic over the "All Out" call. It's a situational Blitz audible that varies from play to play. It's not like when they call "All out" they are committing everyone to the blitz or something, it's just a specific blitz call depending on the opposing formation.

Would it make everyone feel better if they yelled "Blue Dog!" instead?

-CoS

[edit] It varies from fromation to formation. My bad.

[ponyinNC]

Stealth,

I've got you beat...I handed out SMU shirts to my friends to wear to the bar here in NC while watching the game. Being good friends, they kept the shirts on even after the 49-9 loss. I always talk up SMU and have created a little Pony Up campaign, noting that we are on TV 9 times this year and that we will be bowling thi sseason. My friends response after the game and the announcers making fun of us..

"Maybe its not such a good thing you guys are on TV so much this year." Ouch.

[CalallenStang]

I'm not sure I understand the panic over the "All Out" call. It's a situational Blitz audible that varies from play to play. It's not like when they call "All out" they are committing everyone to the blitz or something, it's just a specific blitz call depending on the opposing formation.

Would it make everyone feel better if they yelled "Blue Dog!" instead?

-CoS

How about "Beef Enchiladas?" It could refer to a play, yet it could also throw the offense off just enough (from laughter) that they screw up.

[ponyinNC]

I think we should pull a 40 Year Old Virgin Waxing scene and just scream out whatever comes to mind..."Kelly Clarkson!!"

[OR-See-Nee]

When I thought we couldn't go any lower on the national level, we keep finding that next step down. Pride goeth before a fall Phil. Pride goeth before a fall.

[OC Mustang]

The problem isn't the blitz package...all it is is a zone blitz where they send 8 guys and put the defensive end in coverage. The 49 yard TD was simply not wrapping up. Had Smart done so, the guy gets a couple of yards and Punt. It's high risk, high reward, but since the neither standard 4-3, nor variations on it really worked against Tech's oversized O-line, the only way SMU's defense could get any traction was to overload it. And the only reason they got burned was a mistake...nothing negligent...just a goof.

[PonySnob]

This article from the DC says it all:

http://media.www.smudailycampus.com/med ... 0257.shtml


-keeping the "all out"?! What the hell? Why? Even UNT players are smart enough to realize it's coming. Oh and it 'worked for all plays except for one'...a) when did it work? we didn't get pressure on the QB all day, and b) the one play it didn't work....was a 49 yard TD pass.

-the wrist bands? sounds like a great idea, but you never implement ideas like that if the first time you ever use it is against a bigger and better team. Moron. If we opened against UNT or something then use it to get used to it against a worse team.

Remember that PB has forgotten more football than all of us will ever know!

[dcpony]

I'm sorry I didn't want to pile on after last week's debacle. Because I knew all you guys would come out in full force. While I didn't expect SMU to win, I did expect SMU to play competitively for more than a quarter and a half.

PB's quote on the blitz just enrages me. I don't care what big time programs this guy has been a DC for. He will always be a no talent bush league [deleted] clown of a coach to me. I don't care if SMU goes 7-5 and to a bowl game to get its [deleted] handed to them by a mid-tier BCS team like Iowa St or Shunned Belt Con Champ etc....this year... I'll still feel that way. IF SMU goes 7-5 it won't because of his coaching it will be in spite of his coaching.

I'm serious, any pot smoking Madden/NCAA football video game playing college student could call better plays than this dude.

It doesn’t' t take a genius to figure out if your passing game isn't working against TT's "vaunted defense", and your RB has shown that he can bust a few decent runs against TT's "awesome D" You run the ball!!! Not to even mention that fact that the longer your team keeps the ball out of TT's offense, its strength, your chance of winning increases.

Yelling: "all out!" when you're about to blitz…are you f'ing serious...I don't even think a Pop Warner coach would use that in a game.

My final point, I get the feeling everybody on this board is, or was dreaming of a 1995 Northwestern, 1999 Stanford Rose Bowl Season, or a Wake Forest 2006 ACC Championship type of run (I use these examples because I know a lot of you guys like to compare SMU to these schools academically and athletically. When in reality we're closer to Tulsa in academics and athletics, and should aspire to be like them in football. I won't event touch TCU and Boston College because year in year out for about the past 10 years these teams have been in a bowl game, and not even NU, Stan, and WF can claim that. )

Back to my point, this type of run will never happen with PB at the helm. If you can't see the difference...the exponential difference between PB and Gary Barnett, Ty Willingham, Jim Grobe, GP, and Tom O'Brien then you're smoking crack.


These guys compete or competed in arguably tougher conferences than us and have or had the same if not more recruiting restrictions than us during the last 6 seasons (I say 6 because that's how long PB's been at SMU) Oh and I forgot these schools have higher academic profiles than SMU. Anyway I've seen the teams I noted above play and one thing I noticed was that their coaches were always prepared, had an ability able to adapt to various situations during the game, develop game plans focused on their teams' strengths, exploit their opponents weakness on the field to their teams' advantage, and simply employ creative and innovative strategies to help their respective teams be more competitive with teams they were overmatched by.

Have any of you seen any of these characteristics in PB or his coaching staff?

Mr. Orsini if you decide to ask PB to resign please contact the following to gauge their interest in the SMU HC position.

Paul Johnson
Michael Haywood
Chris Petersen

I'm glad I got that out of me.

[mrydel]

Had Smart done so, the guy gets a couple of yards and Punt.

I think it was Haynes was it not?

[RGV Pony]

dcpony: Our boys scored 33% more points than did Haywood's offense led by a three-headed five star monster of freshman QBs.

[dcpony]

RGV,

What's your point?

Notre Dame's roster is younger, or as young as SMU's roster.

Notre Dame also plays a tougher schedule.

I suggested Haywood because one, I assume Mr. Orsini is familar with him.

Two, Haywood has recruited TX and the south and has a considerable track record of success.

And three,it's an opportunity for SMU to hire a an African-American HC I believe SMU would be the first former SWC school to hire a black HC if this happened.

And four, you could also argue Haywood has had more sucessful experience as an assistant at this point of his career than PB had when he was hired.