Some of you guys might get your wish next year. Jones could go to UCLA and we'll get another 'good' coach, perhaps as good as Phil Bennett. Lets face it we need someone better than just a good coach. SMU has been at the very football bottom for somewhere around 20 years. Coaches that are good elsewhere will fail at SMU. With Jones we've had almost instant success. I can guarantee you 70% of the American football fans look at SMU as a football joke. However, before Jones it was more like 95%. Think I'm wrong? Go to work Monday and ask everyone what they think of SMU? What about recruits. Until Coach Jones we couldn't get close enough to a four star player to say 'howdy'. Now we have them coming out to visit our campus. You'd better start supporting Jones or he'll be gone.
True, JPE. For a change, when I wear an SMU polo when traveling, I actually have people who ask about the school and complimented us beating TCU this season. That NEVER happened under Bennett, mainly because we rarely won, but also because no one noticed us.
jpe747 wrote:Some of you guys might get your wish next year. Jones could go to UCLA and we'll get another 'good' coach, perhaps as good as Phil Bennett. Lets face it we need someone better than just a good coach. SMU has been at the very football bottom for somewhere around 20 years. Coaches that are good elsewhere will fail at SMU. With Jones we've had almost instant success. I can guarantee you 70% of the American football fans look at SMU as a football joke. However, before Jones it was more like 95%. Think I'm wrong? Go to work Monday and ask everyone what they think of SMU? What about recruits. Until Coach Jones we couldn't get close enough to a four star player to say 'howdy'. Now we have them coming out to visit our campus. You'd better start supporting Jones or he'll be gone.
And watching #13 sub in for the Trojan D showed what a few scholarship losses can do to you. But JJ McD would never be able to capitalize on something like that because he can't pit the ball on the money right now. He needs 72 hours in TJ with some Song Girls to get right
I guess USC's out to. How about Miami, Florida, Tennessee, Nebraska...I'll bet someone will try to get him from us. Guys, my point is that Jones is not the problem. He is the solution. He just needs a little more time to bring in better recruits and build a winning attitude and tradition. We need to give him the support he needs. Most everyone on this board knows that to be true. However, some of us need to relax a little more and let Jones do his thing. PONY UP!
jpe747 wrote:I guess USC's out to. How about Miami, Florida, Tennessee, Nebraska...I'll bet someone will try to get him from us. Guys, my point is that Jones is not the problem. He is the solution. He just needs a little more time to bring in better recruits and build a winning attitude and tradition. We need to give him the support he needs. Most everyone on this board knows that to be true. However, some of us need to relax a little more and let Jones do his thing. PONY UP!
Agree. So many people want him to be what he's not when what he is has returned SMU from the graveyard.
USC is a PRIVATE University and is not beholden to the financial restrictions of BIG BROTHER.
But USC is going to be sticking with The Lanesta at least until the Scholie Restrictions are finished. No point in replacing him with someone else to suffer the inevitable downturn coming soon to socal.
June just needs to keep recruiting well and SMU will be fine.
I've won 17 straight National Championships as the head coach of the "digital" SMU Mustangs. And I retired from EA NCAA 7 years ago. How 'bout those credentials!
Eric Dickerson in Pony Excess
"I've love winning man, it's like better than losing." - Ebby Calvin "Nuke" LaLoosh
shadowman wrote:Not some burnout that is happy to go the Hawaii bowl each year....
I hope you JJ lovers saw today how bad our talent was, bad recruiting, bad offense, we need to let JJ ride off in the sunset back to Hawaii.
Look, we are committed to football, we have a blank check..but to waste it on June Jones is a mistake....Get someone that has some fire.
The curtains have been pulled back...after all that money, we have marginal talent and a coach with no fire.
Wake up pony fans, time to move on. We have been exposed as the frauds we are.....
We spend all this money, lets do something with it.
/cheers
Idiot... So you probably want some jerk wad fire and brimstone southern dummy coach!! No thank you!! I will take JJ all week long and twice on Saturday...
HB Pony Dad wrote:UCLA can not pay the big $$$ required to hire a top level coach as they are constrained by the Peoples Republic of California.
JJ is not taking a pay cut to go to a pressure cooker like UCLA!
Everybody chill on all the June bashing.
We just need a real QB.
Watching Luck and Barkley tonight showed how truly minor league SMU is in the QB department
Tonight's USC-Stanford game featured 2 quality QBs. It also featured 2 outstanding OLs. Did you hear the stat -- Luck had been sacked as many times tonight (2) as he had the previous games together (2). [deleted] -- 4 sacks the entire year????I could throw for 4000 yards with that protection. It aint all QB. Line play, smart receivers running the right routes and catching the friggin ball helps. Play calling is also integral toward success. Jones' play calling at times is plain ugly and predictable.