Playing Service Academies

[dirtysouthpony]

I hope I don't offend anyone with this statement, but I respect our kids as much as I do the midshipmen. We have some pretty high caliber kids on our team too.

[Statler]

I hope I don't offend anyone with this statement, but I respect our kids as much as I do the midshipmen. We have some pretty high caliber kids on our team too.

Our kids are not called on to make the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

[Statler]

Don't get me wrong-I am grateful for our servicemen and women and the service academies-but the whole game production felt like a complete buttkiss for Navy-

It was Veteran's Day weekend, all of the service branches were honored including Mustangs in the military.

[sbsmith]

Walking out of the game, I heard lots of people saying things like "It sure feels like he threw that game to make sure he only had 7 wins. That way we'd be most likely to go to Hawaii Bowl"

Beating Navy wouldn't have affected our bowl outcome at all. Where are they getting 7 wins from, we only have 6 and might not win again this season.

[Paladin]

I hope I don't offend anyone with this statement, but I respect our kids as much as I do the midshipmen. We have some pretty high caliber kids on our team too.

Our kids are not called on to make the ultimate sacrifice for our freedom.

Many of us from SMU have served in the military after college

[Water Pony]

and annapolis is easily our worst road trip. horrible, rude, backwoods people that essentially accuse you of being unamerican if you are respectfully rooting for the other team.

i love david robinson. i love roger staubach. i love our troops and america. but i hate the navy football team. we have to quit playing them.

i loved the trip to Annapolis last year, except for blowing the game in the second half. Rude? Backwoods? You must have gone to a different game.

[BIGHORSE]

I saw a lot of our fans honoring navy by wearing navy, and they will probably

be the same people wearing red at coog high SATURDAY.

[CA Mustang]

Where are they getting 7 wins from, we only have 6 and might not win again this season.

Is Rice that big of a concern? If SMU can't beat Rice at home on Senior Day, then the problems are deeper than anyone has imagined.

[Comet]

Walking out of the game, I heard lots of people saying things like "It sure feels like he threw that game to make sure he only had 7 wins. That way we'd be most likely to go to Hawaii Bowl"

That thought crossed my mind.

That's ludicrous. If that truly were his reasoning he'd take the win now and "tank" against Rice. Either way, this is a bunch of nonsense.

[sbsmith]

Where are they getting 7 wins from, we only have 6 and might not win again this season.

Is Rice that big of a concern? If SMU can't beat Rice at home on Senior Day, then the problems are deeper than anyone has imagined.

Yes, Rice is that big of a concern, they have a couple of good backs and a mobile QB, McD will make their defense look a lot better than they are.

[cs09viking]

Kick their damn asses during the game and show them absolutely NO respect before the game. And then AFTER we have beaten them.......THEN show respect to the good men in uniform. Until then.....F em! Sick of all the adulation of the men in uniform before the game.

LOL. I went to USAFA and BYU hated us (and, of course, we hated them)! They didn't give a rats [deleted] about the military component when it had to do with football. And in many ways, for Academy players and fans that can quite refreshing. The AF football players wanted to be treated like regular opponents too. When opposing fans get sick of the adulation, this is when the rivalries start forming. Good stuff.

[EastStang]

We don't play well against an option offense that we see once a year. Our offense on the other hand is not producing what it should. We should have had at least 35 points against Navy. McDermott threw that early pick by over-throwing his wide receiver badly. We were moving the ball fine. That gave Navy all the momentum they needed to get fired up and start taking over the game.