Eric Dickerson is right...put phillips in or leave

[Stallion]

Proven me wrong over and over? How's that? Phillips has played a grand total of about 6 games in his freshman season when he was thrown in without preparation due to team turmoil and last year against Top 20 teams at the start of his sophmore season. What kind of moron gives up on a kid by his 2nd year who comes from the Dallas private schools playing at about the 2A or 3A level where he is being chased around by a bunch of "litt' Ross Perots". I know Ross Perot was in my senior class at St. Marks and for every Litt' Dickie Blaylock-who was also in my class-there are a bunch of slow undersized rich kids who don't provide much of a learning opportunity for College Level QB. If you can't develop the talent that Chris Phillips has when your QBs in the lower 2% of all Division 1A QBs then you are begging to get fired. And he will-you wait.

[SMU Football Blog]

Making predictions that Bennett will get fired and ultimately being proven correct will not get you a cookie.

[KnuckleStang]

I know Ross Perot was in my senior class at St. Marks.

Damn. Stallion is old.

[SMU Football Blog]

I know Ross Perot was in my senior class at St. Marks.

Damn. Stallion is old.

I assume he meant Junior. The guy that agreed that trading Jason Kidd was a good idea. Of course, he did sell the Mavs to Mark Cuban for 20% more than market value, so he can't be that dumb.

[KnuckleStang]

I know Ross Perot was in my senior class at St. Marks.

Damn. Stallion is old.

I assume he meant Junior. The guy that agreed that trading Jason Kidd was a good idea. Of course, he did sell the Mavs to Mark Cuban for 20% more than market value, so he can't be that dumb.

Whew.

[Stallion]

I meant Jr. You know its really too bad because I really do believe this team is improved at almost every position on the field. But this QB situation is going to really drag this team down. I wanted to be actually a little hopeful this year-that's why I said there is no reason that SMU couldn't compete with Baylor at home. That game was just sitting there for SMU to take-that was an important blown opportunity-and I feel very confident that what is going on at QB played a very big role.

[KnuckleStang]

Yes but we have yet to see what happens with Romo being allowed to play the entire game. You're probably right, he may well get bulldogged by TCU, but it looked to me like he was quite effective vs Baylor in terms of moving the ball down the field. I felt it was the inexplicable decision to put Eckert back in the game late that did us in. I don't think it's fair to blame Romo for that. The guy's never even started a game.

[SoCal_Pony]

For the record, I have no interest in seeing Eckert ever again.

That being said, playing Phillips now may be in the long term interest of this team, but Chris Phillips is not a panacea for 2005. I repeat, Chris Phillips is not the short term solution to all of SMU's problems.

Blog, most intelligent posters on this board thought we would win 3 or 4 games this year....that means no one player is a panacea for SMU. Because of this fact, I say play Phillips now.

You tell me, what can Romo offer that is so much better than Phillips...his running ability?...I don't think so.

[ponyboy]

I'd put Romo's running ability up with Phillips'. What Chris has though is size and swagger. I want to see Phillips now too.

[RE Tycoon]

Hoop Fan hit the nail on the head, Phillips is a PLAYMAKER. When you have three bad options, you have to go with the one that will hurt you the least. And for SMU that is Phillips, it will show margianl improvement in the short term and big gains for the next two years.

[Caballo]

To say that Bennett is not letting Phillips in the game because he is a racist is about the most ignorant thing I have heard in a long time. If Bennett thought someone could allow his team to win a game, he would probably play a one legged albino that called signals with a lisp.

Obvously, there is some reason Phillips is not playing. Attitude, ability, whatever, racism does not factor into the equation. To slander Bennett in this manner is simply moronic. Yes, who ever suggested that is a moron.

And as for black QB's at SMU, we have had quite a few that have been very successful here. Ricky Wesson, Don King, Ramon Flanigan, help me here with others. When we were recruiting the same players as everyone else we used to get that, "SMU is not the school to go to if you are black, they are all racists and rich kids." FU. When it came time to integrate in the '60's it wasn't the UT's and A&M's of the world that hung it on the line. It was Hayden and the boys at dear old SMU. Blow that racism argument out your [deleted]$$$ (extra "S's" added for emphasis).

Long live Jerry Levias, and all hail SMU.

[mustang_of_smu]

Phil Bennett will lose his job because he didn't develop Chris Phillips. I said it first about 1 1/2 years ago-it will come to pass. By nitefall of September 17 the SMU QB position will look like a disaster area. There is nothing wrong with a Coach going with the QB he feels best with-but there is also nothing wrong with evaluationg a 4th year coach on his recruitment, evaluation and development of QBs and for that Bennett gets a Big Fat F. This has been 4 of the worst QBed teams in the history of SMU football and Bennett makes Cavan look like a QB genius.

This is more the point I was trying to make. Read my post again. Many of you saw black and jumped to conclusions. Give the guy a shot. Don't let people draw their own conclusions. You are not an accomplished coach like Bill Parcells and you do not have the right to give us no insight into your decisions. Phillips started out as a college football player. Eckert and Romo didn't. Put in the player. If you don't then you have something to hide. I'm positive it isn't race, but I want to know why. Unfortunately I've got a bunch of scared people that want to make sure everyone in the world knows they are pc. I don't give a crap about that. I want to know why he hasn't been in the games (NOT SPECULATION). Eckert and Romo are gone at seasons end. We aren't going to any bowl games this year. Send them on their way. I don't want to see players that have no future with this team! Besides, I think Eric Johnson is the best next year starter. Not Justin Willis. Willis's arm leaves something to be desired. He is a player though and I hope to see him on the field.

[Charleston Pony]

we can speculate all day long as to why Bennett (presumably with input from Burns and others) is making the QB decisions he is and I'm certainly not close enough to the situation to have a clue...but from where I sit Chris Phillips showed physical abilities in his FR year that we haven't seen around here in quite some time. As for all this talk about a lack of work ethic, I know as a manager I always want to reward the one with the strongest work ethic...but Alan Iverson comes to mind here...I agree that what Bennett needs is to have the guy on the field that will give SMU a chance to win some games and to at least show well in the games we lose. If that doesn't happen in Bennett's 4th year when he now has pretty much his guys on the field, then recruiting will suffer and we will be talking about who the next savior (coach) of SMU football will be.

[SWC2010]

I would encourage some of you to leave the Blvd Happy Hour early and catch pre-game. You will see Chris is not even the 3rd best passing QB on the roster.

It may be lingering injury and 'mechanics', but the motion is not smooth. Maybe next year.

[MustangStealth]

Hoop Fan hit the nail on the head, Phillips is a PLAYMAKER. When you have three bad options, you have to go with the one that will hurt you the least. And for SMU that is Phillips, it will show margianl improvement in the short term and big gains for the next two years.

I'm on your side but I see the reasoning differently. I think we have 3 options (I wouldn't call them bad, just unproven), and I think we should go with the one that provides the most POTENTIAL to make something big happen. By that criteria, I would rank them Phillips - Romo - Eckert.

Of course, I'm also starting to get nostalgic for the glory years of Rodnick Phillips up the middle for 3 yards every play, so you can disregard my opinion.