Top 10: Bye week

[Letterman]

With the Mustangs enjoying a week off, the SMU players and coaches were left to find ways to pass the time before next week's game at Fresno State. With that in mind ....

From the home office, High on the Hilltop, the Top 10 ways the Ponies passed their time during their off-week:

10. QB Tony Eckert and his family spent week in court, denying allegations that they took on their surname after visiting a chain of drug stores

9. Erstwhile musician (and defensive end) Charlie Berry turned down repeated invitations to leave school to join former Mustang QB Kelan Luker's band

8. Coaches tried to figure out who swapped out the Fresno State game tape before a full-team film session, replacing it with TiVo copy of "The Apprentice"

7. New Boston (Texas) grad Cedrick Dorsey has been seen walking with a little more swagger since "his" Red Sox sent the Yankees packing

6. Welcomed Mike Modano, Marty Turco, Bill Guerin, Jason Arnott, etc., to practice, since their guests .... well, they have nothing else to do.

5. Defensive coordinator Jim Gush spent week imploring his players to hit harder in practice than Bush and Kerry hit each other in their campaign commercials; players whose hits go unnoticed earned the nickname "Nader"

4. Enjoyed rare night off when planned "footwork and coordination" seminar was cancelled after guest speaker Fidel Castro failed to show up

3. OL coach Ronnie Vinklarek insists his linemen deliver crushing blocks, not those "sissy little A-Rod slaps"

2. Slick-domed TE Derek Swofford and LB Rico Harris filmed commercial touting Turtle Wax as a scalp treatment product

And the #1 way the Ponies passed their time during their off-week:

1. All business majors responded to letters from a prison inmate in Alderson, W.V., answering questions about those oh-so-confusing insider trading laws

[giacfsp]

You started a little slow there, Letterman (don't even joke about Berry leaving for a music career!), but your top 5 are pretty good.

I was starting to wonder about you - keep 'em coming.

[Mustangs35SMU]

*sighs on #6*

[Corso]

Yeah, the hockey strike/lockout is depressing on a daily basis. They need to get to the negotiating table and solve it. Now!

Great list again, Letterman!

[Peruna88]

6. Welcomed Mike Modano, Marty Turco, Bill Guerin, Jason Arnott, etc., to practice, since their guests .... well, they have nothing else to do.

Bill Guerin was in attendance at the San Jose State game. Remember, it was "Park Cities Night."

[Higher Authority]

Love #5 - let's not have any "Naders" against Fresno!

[Vitale]

'Letterman' is a PTP-er!

[WildHorse]

Good list, as always!

But as for #2 .... no need to challenge the follically challenged among us, is there?

[PonyFan]

Thanks for the laughs, Letterman - I always dig these lists.

[Thumper]

Dorsey's got to be on Cloud 9, now that his Sox are up a couple games.