Thank God June Jones isn't listening!

[George S. Patton]

4. Backup QB -- very important in my mind -- is sitting out there.

Am I the only one who thinks the starting QB is still a very big question mark?

Not at all, my Plus I addressed that.

[Mustangsabu]

4. Backup QB -- very important in my mind -- is sitting out there.

Am I the only one who thinks the starting QB is still a very big question mark?

I had thought, and I may be wrong, that it is Bo, barring injury. Braden is #2, and the chap from New Mexico is #3.

[PonyKai]

Padron would be number three, Mr. NMSU won't be seeing the field at any point at all this year.

[StallionsModelT]

Not having expectations for your team is chicken sh*t. It says you don't have the stomach for the fight anymore. Hey, being a fan of SMU football is probably the most heartbreaking football experience ever. I don't pretend to know what it feels like to have gone through the early 80's when we were a national power to now a perennial doormat, but I know every year I go into that season "EXPECTING" something. Whether that is wins, progress, better recruiting, etc. I expect us to be building towards bigger and better things. Yeah, we've sucked for a really long time, but history has nothing to do with what we can do this year and in the years moving forward. We have a coach with a vision and the pedigree to get it done. You better damn well believe those people in charge of making decisions at SMU "EXPECT" June Jones to get us back to winning. But its a long, tough road and some people can't handle it.

[jtstang]

I'm not expecting any wins, but please for the love of God show me some improvement.

Don't kid yourselves. We are the worst team in the country. Period.

How much more of this garbage are people going to put with before they reach the breaking point? Its the same song, different verse every year. Only you could make the argument that we weren't the worst team in America for most of those years. This year there is no doubt in my mind there isn't a worse div.1a football team than Southern Methodist University and it isn't even close.

I can say without a doubt Bo Levi Mitchell is the worst starting college quarterback I have ever seen.

I'm baffled by the people who say we are making progress. Really? Where? We have the worst quarterback in the country, the worst defense in the country, we drop or can't come up with big turnovers, and we're shooting ourselves in the foot with dumb turnovers.

The only possible explanation for us not being the consensus worst team in America is that people simply haven't seen us play. Watch this team for five minutes and I dare you to find me a worse team.

What's truly sad is I'm glad we don't have any more games against D1AA schools b/c I don't think we'd win. At least we will lose only to D1A schools. Ahhh we set the bar so high at SMU.

[PonyKai]

I can say without a doubt Bo Levi Mitchell is the worst starting college quarterback I have ever seen.

Clearly you didn't watch any of SMU's quarterback play from about...oh 20001-2005.

[StallionsModelT]

It is truly saddening and frightening that you run through old posts. The difference between me and you (well that list is really too large to even fathom) is that I actually give a rats [deleted] and expect things out of my team. Being pissed off doesn't cloud the fact that I care. Nice try sugar mouth.

[jtstang]

...I actually give a rats [deleted] and expect things out of my team.

Just not wins.

[George S. Patton]

...I actually give a rats [deleted] and expect things out of my team.

Just not wins.

Jaws you have to change that line of thinking. Because we are paying a coach $2 million (well, the league of champions is) a season and because WE WERE TOLD the academic restrictions have been lightened, there should be little that prevent us from competing for solid players.

Or were we lied to about the academic restrictions and what we were told and what is happening are two different things?

[jtstang]

It wouldn't be the first time the SMU athletic department lied publically, but I don't think so this time. I think the restrictions have been lifted as much as they are ever going to be. The reason we can't win now, and I have no expectations of this team, have more to do with the reputation as losers we have developed over the last 20 years. Solid players want to play for winners. It'll take winning with less than solid players to get past this, and that's a tough road to hoe. Too much water under the bridge for me to have expectations, best I can do is have hope. So I hope we win a lot this season. Hope is free...

[mrydel]

Why is it so difficult to know the difference between wanting your team to win and expecting your team to win? I happen to know that jtstang wants SMU to win. He just does not expect anything at game time. He does not expect them to lose and he does not expect them to win. I am still tilting to the sunshine side in that I do expect us to win against a lower division team but would expect (not want) us to lose if we were playing UT for instance. It really is not a hard concept to grasp although it may be hard to practice.

[jtstang]

It really is not a hard concept to grasp although it may be hard to practice.

Eventually you become conditioned to it.