Where we Are Today

[Dwan]

We are a good, not great, Conference USA team. We will beat the Rice, Tulane, and Memphis' of the world and win four or five conference games and through in a non conference victory over a UNT type of school and we end of with 6,maybe 7 wins and go to a lesser bowl. Compare that to 10 or 20 years ago and it looks pretty impressive. And as somebody who is part of the so called lost generation, I genuinely am very happy with that.

But the issue is that i feel that when I say I'm happy with that, Im like a wife who has a husband who used to beat her and cheat on her, but now he only cheats on her. We have a competitive model for letting athletes into school, an amazing game day atmosphere, great facilities, and are willing to pay a coach over 2 million dollars a year. And Klemm showed us that if you put the effort in, we can attract BCS level players to SMU. All things that did not exist 10, 15, 20 years ago. We need to stop using how bad we were in the wake of the DP as a reason to accept being average

[SMU 86]

Well said.

[goldenstang]

Agree

[ojaipony]

That about sums up my feelings as well.

[Pony Up]

We're 0-1 and getting ready to beat a beatable team.

[gostangs]

well put. We have seen lesser schools pull this off in our state, so we are competitive and dont want to be the third best small private football school in this state. we want to be the best

[PonySnob]

We are the best private school in a mid-major conference in the state of Texas..........

[CalallenStang]

We are a good, not great, Conference USA team. We will beat the Rice, Tulane, and Memphis' of the world and win four or five conference games and through in a non conference victory over a UNT type of school and we end of with 6,maybe 7 wins and go to a lesser bowl. Compare that to 10 or 20 years ago and it looks pretty impressive. And as somebody who is part of the so called lost generation, I genuinely am very happy with that.

But the issue is that i feel that when I say I'm happy with that, Im like a wife who has a husband who used to beat her and cheat on her, but now he only cheats on her. We have a competitive model for letting athletes into school, an amazing game day atmosphere, great facilities, and are willing to pay a coach over 2 million dollars a year. And Klemm showed us that if you put the effort in, we can attract BCS level players to SMU. All things that did not exist 10, 15, 20 years ago. We need to stop using how bad we were in the wake of the DP as a reason to accept being average

Cosign

[Dwan]

Sadly there was another man who felt the same way and his name was Steve Orsini

[LA_Mustang]

We are a good, not great, Conference USA team. We will beat the Rice, Tulane, and Memphis' of the world and win four or five conference games and through in a non conference victory over a UNT type of school and we end of with 6,maybe 7 wins and go to a lesser bowl. Compare that to 10 or 20 years ago and it looks pretty impressive. And as somebody who is part of the so called lost generation, I genuinely am very happy with that.

But the issue is that i feel that when I say I'm happy with that, Im like a wife who has a husband who used to beat her and cheat on her, but now he only cheats on her. We have a competitive model for letting athletes into school, an amazing game day atmosphere, great facilities, and are willing to pay a coach over 2 million dollars a year. And Klemm showed us that if you put the effort in, we can attract BCS level players to SMU. All things that did not exist 10, 15, 20 years ago. We need to stop using how bad we were in the wake of the DP as a reason to accept being average

It's hard to argue with any of this. I believe we've only beaten two BCS teams under JJ - Wash St, who at the time was the worst BCS team in the country and Pitt, who was in total disarray with a coaching change, which has carried over to this year as they were thumped by Youngstown St Saturday. And if I remember correctly, JJ rarely beat a BCS school at Hawaii. There's definitely a trend with JJ vs. BCS schools

[San Antonio Mustang]

Dawn you nailed it. I don't discount anything that this coaching staff has done. We have come a long long way, BUT I am afraid with their recruiting ability they have taken us about as far as they can. Which leaves us as a competitive mid major ranked somewhere between 50 and 75. Not the top 25 we now see as possible.