Maybe surfer dude got the hint?

[redpony]

He actually did a pretty good job as a TV analyst. Perhaps a freudian slip but at one point he said 'when he was at SMU'. Past tense. I checked the coaches roster and he is still listed as a coach so perhaps it was just one of those SMU University f-ups.

GO PONIES!!!

[PonyKai]

Forget Bennett, but I wouldn't mind having Rusty Burns back. His offenses scored more points than anything June has put out and that's with inferior talent/recruiting restrictions.

Imagine the Rusty Burns offense with the Tom Mason defense!

Actually, I got curious if this is true. Let's compare:

I omitted both June's first year and Rusty's first year as that is an implementation year.

The following is the year, the number of points scored per game (against CUSA opponents only), and th enumber of points given up (against CUSA games only) per game.

year - for - against

Rusty/Bennett:
2005 - 22.125 - 22.000
2006 - 27.000 - 26.500
2007 - 31.375 - 41.375

June/Mason:
2009 - 28.500 - 27.375
2010 - 26.556 - 24.222
2011 - 24.625 - 23.000

Total Averages
Rusty/Bennett - 26.833 - 29.958
June/Mason - 26.560 - 24.866

So Rusty scored slightly more than June on average, and Mason is crushing Bennett, but only when you include the horrible 2007 year. They are quite similar with slight edge to Bennett without that year.

Interestingly scoring went up every year under Rusty, even in the 1-11 final year in 2007, but have gone down every year under Jones.

We can surmise from this that had Bennett not had a defense in 2007 twice as bad as the 2006 and 2005 defense, he may not have been fired.

How does offensive production affect defensive production? Does more or less points scored cause more or less points given up? When the other team scores often does the offense benefit from 'more' chances to score, or does a low scoring game where the opponent is going 3-and-out benefit offensive production? Perhaps a really good or really bad D benefits the O, whereas a mediocre D hurts scoring? I'll leave that to someone else.

Also, just from glancing at the scores, the Rusty/Bennett years had a lot more close games, both high scoring and low scoring, whereas the Jones years seem to have more blowouts. How does this affect offensive production? This ties into the previous question.

Appreciate you doing this. Very interesting indeed. How about that kind of relevant W-L stat comparison?

Justin Willis. Mustache found one more QB than June has to successfully run his offense for more than a game. Not using that as a defense for June, because he's a QB guru, and has run about half a dozen through the program already and our defensive improvement blows the offense out of the water. I suspect Willis in the pistol had a significant positive affect on it. 2005 was Willis' first year running QB...or was 2005 Romo?

[SMUfiji43]

[redpony]

perfect storm- sinking, sinking, sinking. ---------SUNK

GO PONIES!!!

[couch 'em]

Appreciate you doing this. Very interesting indeed. How about that kind of relevant W-L stat comparison?

Conference records are probably more similar than you think but I'll compare records and OOC tomorrow.

[squire]

Hope it's not a health issue.
Easy to forget that not too long ago, he had quite a battle.

[Stallion]

Maybe SMU got notice of his repeated secondary NCAA violations commenting on recruitable athletes

[gostangs]

you will all hear soon enough. Patience.

[redpony]

I suspect that it will all become public after the signing date.

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[SoCal_Pony]

He actually did a pretty good job as a TV analyst. Perhaps a freudian slip but at one point he said 'when he was at SMU'. Past tense. I checked the coaches roster and he is still listed as a coach so perhaps it was just one of those SMU University f-ups.

GO PONIES!!!

Using the past tense to describe a current employer is a bigger deal than saying SMU University.

Regardless, I wish him good health.

[goldenstang]

2 recruiters for 1, seems like a good trade.

[ponyscott]

I suspect that it will all become public after the signing date.

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Yep...

[SMU 86]

I suspect that it will all become public after the signing date.

GO PONIES!!!

I hope Reinebold does not go because some were saying that they were okay with Palcic being hired as long as he was not replacing Reinebold. That would mean our top 2 recruiters are gone and we are replacing them with one guy who can recruit in JP and one guy who is not a very good recruiter in Palcic. Overall that would put us down one good recruiter which could hurt us for years to come.

[ALEX LIFESON]

Big thank you to Jeff Reinebold, for all he has done for SMU. Good luck Jeff!

[soccermom]

I seriously hope he doesn't go.... Besides being able to recruit, I like what I know about him.