Official: SMU vs. UCONN Thread

[PoconoPony]

I do not understand why Burcham was not in the game for the last series. I guess JJ is establishing his excuse for why the O does not do well next year. No experience at QB.

[lwjr]

I wish Acker would shut his trap when he makes a play. He is not good enough to talk that much trash.

Chris Parks is just as bad if not worse. He has NO room to talk trash as much as he is burned

[Rayburn]

I wish Acker would shut his trap when he makes a play. He is not good enough to talk that much trash.

I'm with you.

[East Coast Mustang]

Line is coming along. He'll get better

He needs to move to LB next year with Pope and Rambo graduating.

[Rayburn]

Line is coming along. He'll get better

He needs to move to LB next year with Pope and Rambo graduating.

That's not a bad idea.

[PoconoPony]

I wish Acker would shut his trap when he makes a play. He is not good enough to talk that much trash.

Chris Parks is just as bad if not worse. He has NO room to talk trash as much as he is burned

I fail to understand why they even play Parks. He has been a very weak link for 3 years. Prime example was on the first UConn TD ( as I recall ) involving a completed very long pass on the hash marks. Parks chose to cover the receiver from behind safety Scott who was also behind the receiver thereby allowing an easy completion. His responsibility was underneath where he should have knocked down the pass. Instead, he was totally out of the play behind the safety almost picking off Scott which would have resulted in a TD.

[Smerkins]

Announcer just said we've won 16 of our last 18 in our stadium. Umm...what?

Beaten lots of teams with losing records the last several years at Ford.........

In conference. SMU will be 17-2 at home vs CUSA/American teams since 2009 after this game (two losses were 2010 vs Houston in that game that was delayed by the storm and Rutgers this year).

UCF after we beat TCU????

[Grant Carter]

Beaten lots of teams with losing records the last several years at Ford.........

In conference. SMU will be 17-2 at home vs CUSA/American teams since 2009 after this game (two losses were 2010 vs Houston in that game that was delayed by the storm and Rutgers this year).

UCF after we beat TCU????

Yes, that was one of the wins. Not sure if that was the question or not. Lots of question marks.

[gostangs]

JJ trying to stack GG's stats for the draft. he will NEVER come out.

[ftworthmustang]

Why do our inside linebackers run right into the offensive lineman when they blitz? They did this numerous times and really made no attempt to get around them. Were they just occupying a blocker to ensure someone else had a better chance to get to the QB, or do they lack technique in trying to get to the QB?

[PonyKai]

Chris Parks looks like a lost child at an amusement park out there. Whoever is behind him must be blind, crippled, or have to left feet.

[SMUer]

His backup looked 5-10.

[feelthehorsepower]

Line is coming along. He'll get better

He needs to move to LB next year with Pope and Rambo graduating.

Line is part of our Running Back Corps. He's doing great. No linebacker crap for him

[ponyte]

Satisfying. That is how I would describe this game. We got ahead, we stayed ahead and finished the game.

Was it perfect, no. Did Connecticut compete and try to beat us? You bet! And they gave it their best (one can imagine the UConn teams and staff had this pencilled in as a win since last a spring).

UConn made adjustments and executed a good game plan all game. We made adjustments all game long. They found our weakness and exploited them. We corrected our weaknesses and found theirs.

We reduced penalties. No turnovers and sealed the win by getting a turnover.

UConn is a winless team but they are not a winless team like those in previous SMU seasons where we didn't have talent, didn't have good coaching and didn't have the desire to finish. UConn has talent, size, speed good coaching and they looked like they wanted to win.

I would have liked a more dominate game earlier by our O. The D started off well. But we did play all four quarters and we vastly reduced mistakes that have made such a huge impact on our previous games' outcomes.