2009-10 Men's Schedule

by **papawasamustang** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:50 am

South Florida @ home on Nov 13

Texas A&M @ home on Nov 16

Add TCU & it looks like a real D1 home schedule for a change.

Add the tourney in Hawaii & I like the way the schedule is shaping up.

by **Stallion** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 9:57 am

http://www.kbtx.com/sports/headlines/51414067.html

by **bagice** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:01 am

Now we just need to play Texas A@M Commerce and I believe that will complete a full jaunt through the A@M school system over the last 2 years....

Looking forward to that game, you got to figure with all the Aggies in the area and the interest of SMU fans getting to see a rare quality non conference opponent that this thing will sell out.

Can hardly wait!!!!

by **George S. Patton** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:42 am

papawasamustang wrote:South Florida @ home on Nov 13

Texas A&M @ home on Nov 16

Add TCU & it looks like a real D1 home schedule for a change.

Add the tourney in Hawaii & I like the way the schedule is shaping up.

Yes, because we dominated the non-conference schedule with the spares we were playing last year in UAPB and UTSA -- :roll:

by **MustangIcon** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:53 am

Being that we played all three of the above mentioned teams on the road last year, it makes sense that they would be visiting us this season. I am also very excited about the tournament.

Looks like we are strengthening our schedule as our team improves (hopefully the team is improved this year!). Who would have guessed? Almost seems like our staff had some sort of plan all along, much to the chagrin/surprise of 90% of the posters on here. :wink:

by **George S. Patton** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 10:55 am

Then shouldn't Northwestern be coming to Dallas since we went to Evanston last year?

by **Stallion** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 11:21 am

I'm sensing an off season Basketball Cheerleader season trend-odd. I knew it happened every year in Football but really although I support sticking with Doherty through 5 years isn't it a tad premature to proclaim the program a great success. I consider the bandwagon to be stuck in pretty deep mud-not impossible but definitely in deep do do with mixed prospects and in desperate need of a really good recruiting class.

by **FriscoPMG** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 12:12 pm

MustangIcon wrote:Looks like we are strengthening our schedule as our team improves (hopefully the team is improved this year!). Who would have guessed? Almost seems like our staff had some sort of plan all along, much to the chagrin/surprise of 90% of the posters on here.

The plan also included flipping the record this year against a weaker non-conference schedule, but that didn't quite work out. So yes, the schedule is progressively getting tougher as planned, but it's the team's improvement that appears to be behind schedule with this master plan.

by **EastStang** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 1:15 pm

The schedule is progressing, the team is still a work in progress. Hopefully some of these kids have enough complementary skills and work their tails off to play cohesively and with passion. In basketball, passion, teamwork, good coaching and one highly skilled player can make a team viable. We have the highly skilled player, now we need to see if this team has the passion and the teamwork to start winning.

by **papawasamustang** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:11 pm

Hopefully Northwestern will make the trip to Moody.
Regardless, it will be nice to see some good D1 non conference games @ Moody for a change.

Good things to come for both the basketball & football team this coming season.

by **Hoop Fan** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 2:42 pm

hallelujah for Aggie coming to Moody. finally a game to look forward to. South Florida doesn't do much for me, but yes they are pseudo Big East so thats good on paper at least. Northwestern and TCU would make for respectable home slate.

Papa, as much as i like mccoy and williams, are you confident in your backcourt rating? Memphis is still going to have talent, and did we really pass up Houston and UAB? Houstons backcourt guys could fill it up last year. Tulsa has been building a decent roster too.

by **MustangIcon** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:23 pm

Hoop Fan wrote:hallelujah for Aggie coming to Moody. finally a game to look forward to. South Florida doesn't do much for me, but yes they are pseudo Big East so thats good on paper at least. Northwestern and TCU would make for respectable home slate.

Papa, as much as i like mccoy and williams, are you confident in your backcourt rating? Memphis is still going to have talent, and did we really pass up Houston and UAB? Houstons backcourt guys could fill it up last year. Tulsa has been building a decent roster too.

Agreed that there is no way we can claim our backcourt to be better than UH's this year. They return the #1 and #2 scorers in CUSA last year- Coleman and Lewis- and Zamal Nixon is a pretty nice player too (although he has been very up and down in his 2 years). Plus they have a couple 3 stars- Payne (Dallas kid who fared well his frosh year but got burried last season) and Wade (who started half their games last year as a frosh).

I don't know what Memphis has coming back, but I'm going to assume they have us beat too.

But after that, I could see the rationale to us having the 3rd best backcourt in CUSA. Williams and McCoy need no touting after we watched them play last year. However, I too am very optomistic about Clinkscales and think that Haynes (although really a 3 for us) showed me a lot during the final handful of games of last season.

by **MustangIcon** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 3:25 pm

papawasamustang wrote:They do have some good D1 talent & I expect a winning season.

I share your expectation.

by **George S. Patton** » Thu Jul 23, 2009 4:27 pm

If we get the guard play we think we have with McCoy, Williams and Clinkscales, that's huge.

To me, the key is what kind of season are we going to get out of Papa Dia. If he shows up and plays with purpose, then a winning season is possible. If he suffocates the front court and does little to nothing, then we're running in the second division.

As I said in an earlier thread, I really hope there has been some kind of Come-to-Jesus moment for him to where he gets it. Really gets it.

by **papawasamustang** » Fri Jul 24, 2009 9:57 am

MustangIcon wrote:
Hoop Fan wrote:hallelujah for Aggie coming to Moody. finally a game to look forward to. South Florida doesn't do much for me, but yes they are pseudo Big East so thats good on paper at least. Northwestern and TCU would make for respectable home slate.

Papa, as much as i like mccoy and williams, are you confident in your backcourt rating? Memphis is still going to have talent, and did we really pass up Houston and UAB? Houstons backcourt guys could fill it up last year. Tulsa has been building a decent roster too.

Agreed that there is no way we can claim our backcourt to be better than UH's this year. They return the #1 and #2 scorers in CUSA last year- Coleman and Lewis- and Zamal Nixon is a pretty nice player too (although he has been very up and down in his 2 years). Plus they have a couple 3 stars- Payne (Dallas kid who fared well his frosh year but got burried last season) and Wade (who started half their games last year as a frosh).

I don't know what Memphis has coming back, but I'm going to assume they have us beat too.

But after that, I could see the rationale to us having the 3rd best backcourt in CUSA. Williams and McCoy need no touting after we watched them play last year. However, I too am very optomistic about Clinkscales and think that Haynes (although really a 3 for us) showed me a lot during the final handful of games of last season.

I think our guard depth with McCoy, Williams, Clink & Walker is as deep as any team in the league. I like Tulsa's backcourt alot with Uzoh, Reese.
Donte Medder could be huge if he's as good as advertised.
East Carolina has Young & Abrams coming back but lost 2 of their top guards. Culpepper @ UTEP hurt us last year but Jackson is gone.
I agree UofH has a talented backcourt with Coleman & Lewis.
Put McCoy & Williams in that type of system & probably pretty equal #'s.
IMO, Faye will be the key to this years team.
Its July & I've got my blue & red glasses on & everything looks good for the Ponies.

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