Is Doak Walker Looking Down @ SMU With Even More Shame?

[MeanGreenGem]

And now for SMU to create a Texas mini-neighborhood scandal using his very name? Someone who is not even here to speak his mind or express his opinon on any of this? From what I've heard and read, the great Doak Walker and integrity were one in the same, yet it's an abomination that the very award that bears his name and those who nominate those for the award seem to not have the same trait.

It is so blatantly obvious to the Metroplex media and sports fan where your school is always coming from when it comes to dealing with one of your very own Texas collegiate neighbors, ie, the University of North Texas.

It's almost comical how you all have stumbled all over yourselves to support some back-water Louisiana school for CUSA membership and now a La Tech RB just to avoid anything having to do with the national media popular running back from the University of North Texas, one Mr. "Super" Jamario Thomas.

Media Popular? You know, the UNT RB that has been on 1 of 2 national televised games thus far, the UNT RB that has been on ESPN+ here in DFW 5 of the last 6 weeks?

Funny thing is how I still can't seem to find a TV station in DFW to watch La Tech's RB. Apparently your Doak Walker Award committee members have found some phantom DFW TV station that televises La Tech Bulldog football. It just seems that the other 5.2 million of us in DFW cannot seem to find that phantom TV station.

A prominent Dallas Morning News sportswriter even threw Super Jamario's name into the Heisman race in a recent feature article based on his game vs a Big 12 school AND he was serious as a heart atttack about it; but SMU committee members who dominte the DW Award still choose to choose a (little known to Texas college FB fans) running back from La Tech, a RB that is having a fine season but one that citizens of this 5.2 million populated North Texas Metroplex have for the most part never seen on TV or heard of in our 2 major DFW newspapers. Imagine, SMU'er nominating a La Tech RB over a Texas High School product who chose to remain in Texas to go to a Texas university and one who has become quite a natonal story with ESPN, Fox and CFN.

Just today, you should have listened to what a TCU alum said to me today in my office on this matter concerning UNT's Jamario Thomas and what he described as the typical SMU snob, uh, I mean't snub when it comes to UNT.

This Horned Frog fan said green might be the color that now best descibes the adjective concerning SMU's attitude toward anything (or anybody) that has to do with North Texas. This Horned Frog said he was personally glad that TCU was moving up, out and away from its long time associaton with your school and said one TCU insider told him that the Horned Frogs would in due time drop SMU from its future football schedule.

SMU & the Big 12: Just like the SMU/Doak Walker Award nominators, the Big 12 Colorado Buffalos couldn't handle all this Super Jamario Thomas business, either.

J'Mo was heading toward 300 yards rushing against the Big 12 Buffalos until the clock just flat ran out on him and his Mean Green team. So how bout' that SMU'ers, you all do have something in common with a Big 12 school-- that is, neither you or CU can seem to put a handle on all this Super Jamario Thomas talk or business that will not go away because you choose to blackball this Texas HS football product from Longview, Texas.

Come recruiting time, I hope numerous Texas High School football products SMU might be interested will see how some of your SMU employees & alums who are on a selection committee treat one of their own.

[Cheesesteak]

Relax, the award/selection committee is not biased against UNT or its players.

[giacfsp]

You're barking up the wrong tree, friend.

First of all, the nominating committee is not made up of SMU employees and loyalists. The award is co-sponsored by SMU, thereby getting the award named after the great Doak Walker.

If anything, the nominating committee is accused of being too biased toward Texas RBs (remember Cobb, the guy at Rice who won the award? Nice player, but no way was he the best in the nation that year.) What you're looking at is not a slight toward UNT. Instead, it is a sign of giving in to pressure to include Adrian Peterson. Jamarrio Thomas is a terrific back, as is Peterson. The fact is that Peterson is on a national scale playing against Big 12 competition - Thomas is not. How well Thomas would do against national competition is something we won't know until he takes a crack at the NFL. He has done a great job under Coach Dickey and Coach Flanigan, and should be commended for it. Enjoy what you have in that young man.

And let's not be so foolish as to suggest the voters are "watching a phantom DFW station" to see Ryan Moats. First of all, I've seen three of his games - when he came in to play SMU, and when LaTech's games against Fresno and Nevada were on TV. And in this day and age, do you really think it's hard to get tape of one of the nation's top players? Call any school in the country and let them know you're voting for one of the nation's premier awards and that one of their players is a candidate, and you'll have tapes and DVDs up to your eyeballs the next day.

So please, as I said, enjoy Jamarrio Thomas - he's a fine back. I personally don't think he's as good as Moats, Peterson or Reggie Bush, but I don't know any better than you do. What I do know is that he plays against lesser competition and that he's not on TV. Not saying that's right, just that that's the way it is. Just don't come on here screaming conspiracy - that's just not the case.

[RGV Pony]

Am I the only one that had to read twice or more just to figure out what the h*ll MGG was talking about?

To listen to him, one would think Jim Copeland or Phil Bennett has the deciding vote for the Doak award.

[MeanGreenGem]

So please, as I said, enjoy Jamarrio Thomas - he's a fine back. I personally don't think he's as good as Moats, Peterson or Reggie Bush, but I don't know any better than you do. What I do know is that he plays against lesser competition and that he's not on TV. Not saying that's right, just that that's the way it is. Just don't come on here screaming conspiracy - that's just not the case.[/quote]
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Guess you missed the part where UNT's Super Jamario ran for almost 300 yards against the Big 12 Colorado Buffalos? Probably a better team than any that La Tech's Moats has played this Fall? I think so....

Sir, in a nutshell, Moats could not carry Super Jamario Thomas's jock strap.

The Mean Green's Jamario Thomas will be playing in his 2'nd nationally televised game this Fall on ESPN's main station on the 2'nd Tuesday in December, 7:00 PM, and at the NEW ORLEANS BOWL.

What bowl can I watch Moats?

[Sam I Am]

What MGG has revealed is his conspiratorial view of metorplex football. Talk about an inferiority complex. Get it over it bud, the world does not center on UNT or its football team. You are not important enough to SMU or anyone associated with the Doak Walker award to snub your player one way or the other. Instead of worrying about getting recognition for a good running back, maybe you ought to be promoting attendance at Fouts field since your AD is so worried about this year's lack of support for your New Orleans bowl team. Go back to being a big fish in the little Sun Belt pond and leave our board alone.

[Peruna_Ate_My_Rolex]

It's a conspiracy... A c-o-n-spiracy.

[PlanoStang]

Gee, the guy's got 3 more years. That's almost as much as Bush.

What if that guy you we're bragging about being on the cover of Texas Football beats him out for the position next year?

[Hal]

.... Guess you missed the part where UNT's Super Jamario ran for almost 300 yards against the Big 12 Colorado Buffalos? Probably a better team than any that La Tech's Moats has played this Fall? I think so....

Please do some homework before you make a point. Thomas had a terrific game against a Colorado team that's good, but not great. Better than any team that Moats has faced? What do you call Miami, Tennessee, Fresno State and Auburn (they of the No. 1 defense in the nation)?

Sir, in a nutshell, Moats could not carry Super Jamario Thomas's jock strap ....

Close - but you've got it backward. Thomas might well be the best running back UNT has ever had. But at least at the moment, he's no Ryan Moats.

[MrMustang1965]

Just today, you should have listened to what a TCU alum said to me today in my office on this matter concerning UNT's Jamario Thomas and what he described as the typical SMU snob, uh, I mean't snub when it comes to UNT.

This Horned Frog fan said green might be the color that now best descibes the adjective concerning SMU's attitude toward anything (or anybody) that has to do with North Texas. This Horned Frog said he was personally glad that TCU was moving up, out and away from its long time associaton with your school and said one TCU insider told him that the Horned Frogs would in due time drop SMU from its future football schedule.

Who gives a rat's a** about what a Froggie thinks?

[Really Fat Guy]

Please don't come onto our board and talk about former players or coaches. I say this not because it offends me, but because I don't want some relative of the Doaker to sign on and generally act pis*y and bitc*y like a certain family member of a former coach we had on yesterday.

[MrMustang1965]

The Doaker's family has more class than to do something like that. BTW, I'm looking forward to seeing DW's grandson, Ryan Wolcott, in action next year for the Mustangs.

[jtstang]

It's almost comical how you all have stumbled all over yourselves to support some back-water Louisiana school for CUSA membership....

You are the single most pathetic poster on this freaking board. With paraniod delusional alums like yourself being produced, no wonder nobody takes NT seriously. Enjoy life in the Sun Belt. If NT had been worthy of CUSA membership, it could have stood on its own merits, but no....

[HixsontoLeVias]

No, MeanGreen, IF Doak is looking down at all, he is not real concerned about some second rate teachers college in Dentonville, sorry to say.....

[Mustangs35SMU]

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