The good news

ponyte · Post by **ponyte** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:43 pm

That was embarrassing but it isn't the end of the year. We have a very young team that just got a lesson in Div 1 football.

We have a long week to prepare for Texas State (thank goodness). No major injuries. Plenty of time to review film and learn. Mitchell learned the level of athlete is a tad better than high school.

Jones and his staff have a better feel for this team and its abilities. Now they can make adjustments.

The measure of this team will be how they prepare and preform in the next contest. The team, staff and we fans have a lot to learn and patience will be a virtue.

03Mustang · Post by **03Mustang** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:45 pm

The bad news: if we lose to Texas State 75% of the people that have come on board because of JJ will give up "until next year"

cs09viking · Post by **cs09viking** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:48 pm

and the worst news: we just got blasted by RICE!!!!!

TheJumpShooter · Post by **TheJumpShooter** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:51 pm

Good news: Only 11 more games until the offseason.
Bad news: Still have 11 more games to play.

ponyte · Post by **ponyte** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:54 pm

Ron Meyer was 3-8 his first year. That included a loss at Rice and a loss at Memphis to then Memphis State. The offense will come around and improve. The defense has a long way to go. Hopefully, we will improve just a tad on defense.

Pony Soup · Post by **Pony Soup** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 10:55 pm

TheJumpShooter wrote:Good news: Only 11 more games until the offseason.
Bad news: Still have 11 more games to play.

Chill out dude

PonyFanSweetie · Post by **PonyFanSweetie** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:02 pm

I'm happy that we scored that many points personally. Most of these kids are freshmen and this was their first game. If people expected instant wins, they are unrealistic. You have to give JJ some time and these kids some time to develop. This team doesn't need to see the fans totally lose faith. Look at the positives and let JJ do his job that he is getting paid millions to do.

TheJumpShooter · Post by **TheJumpShooter** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:28 pm

Soup,

I'm fine. I had very little in the way of expectations for this game and the season. I figured SMU would lose tonight by 17-21 points. In fact, I think my prediction was 40-21. I thought the best SMU could do this year was 4-8.

I must admit though, even with minimal expectations for the game and season, I walked out of the game tonight in disbelief. Physically, SMU was whipped and outclassed - when Rice is doing that to you, man, you have got a long, long, long way to go. The D is small, slow and can't tackle and the OL was pitiful.

Again, I wasn't expecting a win or even a close loss but I was expecting to be entertained and to see a little promise. I wasn't entertained and I saw very little to be excited about.

I saw very little in the way of D-IA caliber players out on the field tonight. Most on here crush Stallion but the guy knows what he is talking about.

College football is about players. The team with the better players wins the great majority of the time. If Jones is gonna earn that $2M a year, he is gonna have to do it on the recruiting trail because SMU is woefully short on talent.

Warbow · Post by **Warbow** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:33 pm

Good News: BLM doesn't have the Timmy Chang NCAA interception record....(yet!)

SmooBoy · Post by **SmooBoy** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:41 pm

About the only good things I can take is that BLM has some experience now, and he had a sure TD dropped to go with his 3 TDs. Also, we dropped no less than 3 sure picks, which I think get caught in a couple weeks.

PonyFanSweetie · Post by **PonyFanSweetie** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:45 pm

TheJumpShooter wrote:College football is about players. The team with the better players wins the great majority of the time. If Jones is gonna earn that $2M a year, he is gonna have to do it on the recruiting trail because SMU is woefully short on talent.

Agreed. Thankfully, Jones is on his way to a great recruiting class for 2009.

TheBestAvailable · Post by **TheBestAvailable** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 1:36 am

PonyFanSweetie wrote:
TheJumpShooter wrote:College football is about players. The team with the better players wins the great majority of the time. If Jones is gonna earn that $2M a year, he is gonna have to do it on the recruiting trail because SMU is woefully short on talent.

Agreed. Thankfully, Jones is on his way to a great recruiting class for 2009.

Is it? Really? I don't know that i would go as far as saying the 09 class is anywhere close to Great. We need to get some good JUCO talent this year especially on Defense.

Stallion is correct in saying we are going to have to somehow start winning some of these recruiting battles with TCU, Tech, Ok. State, etc.

Finding a few diamonds in the rough is okay but we need a serious talent boost.

MiMiguys · Post by **MiMiguys** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 10:35 am

03Mustang wrote:The bad news: if we lose to Texas State 75% of the people that have come on board because of JJ will give up "until next year"

If 75% leave the board, They were not PONY FANS. I support this team and jj win or loss. I want this team to win. God knows under Bennett it was "Heart-Break Hotel". But put that in the past. I may have to put something strong in my kool-aid at times this season. But By Golly, I am not giving up on these guys.

davidpaul123 · Post by **davidpaul123** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:05 am

Smooboy, that was a good point. We had a number of dropped interceptions. Making those would have really made a difference.

The PonyGrad · Post by **The PonyGrad** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 11:13 am

The good news is that JJ has set the plate to show great coaching. The world knows how bad we are. Now if we in fact get better JJ will be seen as a good coach. If we really get better he will be seen as a great coach.

And the unis looked good.