DMN: Jones not wavering about Mustangs' turnaround

[PonyPride]

Nice piece by Kate Hairopoulos in Tuesday's paper:

By KATE HAIROPOULOS / The Dallas Morning News
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UNIVERSITY PARK – Visitors to the SMU football offices still frequently hear "aloha" and "mahalo."

Receivers coach Jeff Reinebold's office décor features a surfboard propped in one corner. Giant-sized special teams coach Dennis McKnight keeps a tiny hula girl figurine on his desk.

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Coach June Jones, the man who once could've been elected governor of the islands, is the reason they're all here, in football purgatory, instead of paradise.

In Year 2 of their latest reclamation project – one Jones sought out – it's only more obvious: SMU sure isn't Hawaii.

Jones transformed Hawaii from 0-12 to 9-4 in 1999, his first season there. He and his staff's unique approach to coaching and their high-powered offense didn't produce the same miracle on the Hilltop in 2008.

SMU went from 1-11 to ... 1-11.

The Mustangs' breakthrough, it seems, will come on SMU time, which is currently a quarter century and counting.

But Jones, with complete confidence in his system, is undeterred.

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[davidpaul123]

"I'll be really disappointed if we don't win enough to go to a bowl game this year."

Gotta love the confidence and enthusiasm. I hope the Mustangs will make it happen this year.

[mr. pony]

did we really have to be called "football purgatory?"

Facilities alone should get us out of that bracket.

[smu diamond m]

ditto.

Where is JJ's kool-aid? I want some

[DiamondM75]

ditto.

Where is JJ's kool-aid? I want some

Can you say Pina Colada?

[RednBlue11]

"This year, I won't have to instill anything," Jones said. "It will be the team making the young guys conform."

THIS is a key for this year.