Another coaching carousel update

[Stallion]

Syracuse has hired New Orleans Offensive Coordinator Doug Marrone as its Coach.


http://www.2theadvocate.com/sports/saints/36052104.html

[Jumpshooter]

Remember a year ago we were monitoring private jets flying around the USA speculating who will be SMU's next coach? Hopefully a year from today we will be posting our excitment on SMU's first bowl appearance!

That would be great but isn't realistic. Next year looks like a three-win type of season. Maybe get to .500 by 2010 (best case).

I know everybody gets excited when SMU gets a commit but a lot of the guys on the SMU roster don't belong playing I-A football. Even if Jones upgrades the level of player coming into the program, it still takes a couple of years in football.

SMU is still a long, long way away from having a consistently successful football program.

[Stallion]

I agree 100% with all your points-however I'm not sure you have to have a consistently strong, quality football team to go bowling in CUSA-better do what I do and add that caveat in. CUSA is really hate to say it but its pathetic. SMU might jump up and surprise CUSA in say 2010 but they won't qualify as a quality football team that can compete with the better football teams on our schedule for several more years even if everything goes well.

[jtstang]

Yes, but SMU needs that kind of luck--surprising a weak CUSA to get to the a bowl game, any bowl game--in order to get the recruiting cycle kick-started. The problem now is that, even with a level playing field, we are so far removed from being good that good players just don't want to come to a team they perceive as a loser.

We need to take what we can get for the next couple of years and figure out a way to win some freaking games with them. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

[Big Hoss]

Can't believe I am saying this, but I agree with Stallion. The CUSA pool of teams is not so amazing that we couldn't get 6 wins next year, which is all it took S Miss to get to a bowl game.

Yes, Jumpshooter, it will take several years before we could fathom being consistently good, but it's not out of the question for us to get to a bowl game within 2 years given the conference we play in.

The only team that has been consistently good in CUSA over the last 5 years has been Tulsa.