Rick Hart on Twitter

[Stallion]

Mrydel is right-its too early for AD to publically discuss the Coaching situation. It would be a disaster for team and recruiting.

[SMU_Alumni11]

I think these 4 games have already been a disaster on any good recruit who consider smu over the summer... At this point say JJ is gone would be a boost for future recruits showing that we don't tolerate embarrassing performances game by game.

[SMUer]

Besides the Line family, who is going to be upset. Most of our guys are "oh boy, a D1 scholarship" not,"I want to play for June Jones"...seriously, as long as we hire someone exciting and competent, what momentum would we be losing? I have a feeling a majority if our current players would be relieved.

[MustangStealth]

Drop your income to $34,800/year or less for a while and we will talk.

I hope you are advertising to the U. of Houston Alumni Association.

[PoconoPony]

One of my biggest concerns is that our football program has not progressed for the past 3 years. It just seems as if JJ went on cruise control after the ASU debacle. Our past 2 recruiting classes are undistinguished and will not elevate us to the next level. Our 2014 commitments, but for several exceptions, are undistinguished meaning little potential for progress. At some point in the near future the current concept and organization of the NCAA is going to break up and there will be a new organization governing 4 Super Conferences of the big boys incorporating new rules and roughly the top 60 programs in the country. If we are not ready at that time ( when ever that may be) to be invited to be one of the big boys we will never again ever have the chance to join. In my opinion that time is just around the corner and we are absolutely not ready as we bring nothing to the table. LB and the basketball program may earn us some consideration, but it is the football program that either makes or breaks the deal. We can no longer wait to make huge improvements in the football program realizing that a new staff inherits 2 and possibly 3 poor recruiting classes and will need at least 4 years to be competitive. Another 4-5 years may be simply too late. We are either ready or forever left out.

[couch 'em]

Drop your income to $34,800/year or less for a while and we will talk.

I hope you are advertising to the U. of Houston Alumni Association.

hiw can someone making less than $34k afford the upkeep on a house

[lwjr]

I'm afraid the train has already left the station

[SMU_Alumni11]

I'm not buying into the exclusive playoff mode yet. Though the 60 schools would have a lot of fans behind it, I don't think the top division of football wants to be exclusive yet. There are a lot of people like me who if they're school gets dropped they will never watch college football again. With that WSj article, it sounds like they need to be open to the public. There's ok doubt that we need to hurry and find a coach who is the Iron man of football and make something out of nothing.

[Topper]

[quote="SMU_Alumni11"]I'm not buying into the exclusive playoff mode yet. Though the 60 schools would have a lot of fans behind it, I don't think the top division of football wants to be exclusive yet.

The smartest thing the NCAA ever did, maybe the only smart thing they ever did, was create the basketball playoff tournament which includes every D1 conference champion. College football is a model devised by a very small number of big schools that are addicted to money, and those school athletic departments are run by coaches and ADs who are getting rich on TV money. TV money that only pays peanuts to the "lesser" football conferences and hundreds of millions to the elites. Until SMU is in a conference on the level of the Big 12 or the SEC, we are going to be in the second tier of D1 assuming we can hang on to that.

[SMU_Alumni11]

Oh I understand topper I was just referring to the complete exusions of the "have-nots" too much potential money throw away since they know fans would stop watching all together if their school was matched up with like USTA, Temple, buffalo etc last thing a FBS school wants to be is a pseudo FCS team

[mrydel]

Drop your income to $34,800/year or less for a while and we will talk.

I hope you are advertising to the U. of Houston Alumni Association.

hiw can someone making less than $34k afford the upkeep on a house

First they buy a house within their income range.

Second they hope nothing major goes wrong.

Third If something major goes wrong I get to sell it to another family when HUD forecloses.

[couch 'em]

So you are like the ghetto used car lot of homes

[mrydel]

Actually I am like the doer of what the Government requires that I do.

[lwjr]

Actually I am like the doer of what the Government requires that I do.

Banker Slumlord.

[mrydel]

I shower when I get home every night.