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So everyone in the entire conference, plus every team in every conference worse than the AAC also has an embarrassing schedule?SMU2007 wrote:I consider the AAC to be a joke thereby making our schedule an embarrassment in the scope of college football as a whole (yes I understand the AAC is the best conference we could be in at this point in time. No, that doesn't make our conference schedule any less sad relative to the big boys).
Good to have a definition. Over half the teams in FBS have embarrassing schedule according to you. I guess everyone not in the top five conferences should hang their head in shame. You initial post made it sound to me like you thought SMU was an outlier.SMU2007 wrote:Compared to every team in the acc, big 10, big 12, sec, and pac 12, yes.
It was embarrassing that we dropped Baylor, I wrote hart and told him as much, but even with Montana state we were widely considered to have the toughest non conference schedule of any team. Just not seeing the embarrassment in that.mrydel wrote:The issue is that we have a very weak conference overall. And compounding that by playing weak OOC games makes it kind of embarrassing. I can see that. This is why we need to schedule better teams than our conference opponents if we ever want to be recognized, and why the big boys can get away with weak sister teams since they have better conference competition.
I have said basically that same thing twice in this thread.mrydel wrote:You will not find a bigger Hart supporter than me right now, but saying we dropped Baylor because the schedule was too tough embarrassed me, no matter what the overall ranking was.
I said I was embarrassed by dropping Baylor, I am not embarrassed by our non-conference schedule as a whole, just the fact that we dropped someone to get there. 2007 is saying that every team not in the top 5 conferences has an embarrassing schedule. I find that silly.mrydel wrote:Then you admit you were embarrassed so I have trouble finding where there is a difference of opinion.
JJ has coached 72 games at SMU. Only 6 times has he even defeated a team with a winning record, and of those 6 wins, only 4 were ranked at year-end better than 55.Lebanese4Life wrote:We are nowhere near the 55th best team in the nation. You're biased support for JJ is disgusting. Be honest, what is your relation to JJ?ponyboy wrote:We've earned upper second tier status. We're a top 55 school instead of a school in the 115 of 120 range pre JJ.
Before anyone goes there, it''s not good enough. Let's keep going. But we've earned *something*
Grant Carter wrote:Good to have a definition. Over half the teams in FBS have embarrassing schedule according to you. I guess everyone not in the top five conferences should hang their head in shame. You initial post made it sound to me like you thought SMU was an outlier.SMU2007 wrote:Compared to every team in the acc, big 10, big 12, sec, and pac 12, yes.
In your opinion does SMU have the least embarrassing schedule of any team not in one of those conferences?
Do any of the teams in the top 5 conferences have embarrassing schedules? For example, Arizona plays Northern Arizona, UTSA and UNLV.
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Hard to imagine that Fresno State is not on this list. They were not in the top 55 at year's end? Essentially the same Fresno State team that is currently 8-0 and ranked.SoCal_Pony wrote:JJ has coached 72 games at SMU. Only 6 times has he even defeated a team with a winning record, and of those 6 wins, only 4 were ranked at year-end better than 55.Lebanese4Life wrote:We are nowhere near the 55th best team in the nation. You're biased support for JJ is disgusting. Be honest, what is your relation to JJ?ponyboy wrote:We've earned upper second tier status. We're a top 55 school instead of a school in the 115 of 120 range pre JJ.
Before anyone goes there, it''s not good enough. Let's keep going. But we've earned *something*
TCU, Tulsa, Tulsa, East Carolina.
That hardly qualifies as a Top 55 program.
Still complaining about dropping Baylor, I see. How about we build a program worthy of earning true BCS respect? Let's do that - let's see how the Purple People in Ft. Worthless did it. You always talk about following their Model so let's see what they did on their rise to see their schedule (non-conference):Stallion wrote:The Mind of too Many Ponyfans: If we raised the number of AAC teams ranked above 100 in computer bowls from 4 to about 8 then we'd have a great shot at the BCS. How about instead we build a program worthy of earning true BCS respect
