SMU FOOTBALL 7 ON 7 TOURNAMENT

[nafynop]

Now, that is some information all perspective athletes and their parents should consider, before signing the LOI.

[bigdaddy08091]

On paper the coaching staff we had is better and more experienced than JJ's crew, with the exception of JJ vs PB. PB was not ready to be a HC. It showed on game day. Practices were great.

Really? The previous staff screamed and cussed at players constantly. Not that they can't handle profanity - they're college students, so they hear it and many use it every day - but after a while, that gets old. The new staff teaches constantly. The new staff encourages players more in a day than the old staff did in a week, or maybe a month. The new staff praises guys when they do things right. The old staff had full contact all the time - the new staff believes in perfecting plays (in terms of knowledge and execution) before knocking the crap out of each other.

.... Copeland screwed this thing up on purpose, ( and I hope he is feeling beter, heard he was under the weather).

Oh my god.

First of all ... "under the weather"? Copeland has cancer. That's more than "under the weather." He is, if nothing else, a good man and deserves our compassion, regardless of whether we think he was a horrible AD or a great AD (I fall somewhere in the middle).

Secondly, why would he "screw this thing up on purpose"? Overlooking for a second the fact that you wouldn't know he had done anything on purpose UNLESS HE TOLD YOU THAT, what possible reason would he have for that? So he could leave a legacy that didn't cast him in a good light? He made some hires that worked, some that didn't, but to suggest his coaching hires that failed were intentional is idiotic. Some hires were made in part because of strong urging from outside parties, but yes, he is the one who made the hires. But there is no reason he would hire coaches in the hope that they would fail. If nothing else, he hires great coaches, they win, and Copeland looks like a genius. Hell, maybe there's a financial benefit in it: if he discovers the coach who rights the football and/or basketball ships, maybe Cope retires with a huge financial windfall.

He hired two coaches knowing they would not last through their contract. PB did because O had no replacement at the time any better. The BB coach before DOH signed a 4 year contract, making sure he would not get to coach any of his 5th year seniors. Copeland was fed up and left us in terrible shape.

No, he got a four-year contract because he never had been a head coach before and because part of Cope's job was to fill the position within certain financial parameters that aren't made public to the rest of us. If Coach Tubbs had won more games - a lot more games - he would have received a fat contract extension, at which point he could have coached all of his recruits as fifth-year seniors. Then again, he didn't redshirt any of his recruits (did he?), so there would be no fifth-year seniors to coach, anyway.

And for the record Bryce Hudman is walking on the the football team after getting his scholarship taken because the DB coach can't relate to the Houston thug. Our best defensive player has to walk on. Hud is better than every DB they had in Hawaii.

And you know how much about the DBs in Hawaii? Can you even name one without looking it up?
Didn't think so.

Myron Newberry! Former Denton Ryan standout. Two year starter at UH.