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BigT3x wrote:

Rayburn wrote:

smumustang1980 wrote:

I agree.

We hired Gregg because he was a highly recognizable and respected football figure with head coaching experience. It was as much about PR as football. We were starting over from scratch and just needed to get back on our legs. Forrest Gregg took an impossible job under tough circumstances.

And a great job of getting us back on our legs he did. Set us up for countless losing seasons and a WAC invite, woohoo.

Gregg has had enough recognition.

I think I will respond to your comments by asking you a few questions: 1. Were you around at the time, and what did you do to help the program survive? 2. If you were around, and you didn't take any affirmative action to save the program, then do us all a favor - please refrain from making sarcastic remarks about an individual who dedicated himself to his best ability in saving a program we love.

Now, please answer my questions.

PlanoStang wrote:We should do something special to honor him at halftime on the Connecticut game

He was the coach closest to a Larry Brown that we've ever had coach football

That would be great. The UConn game would be appropriate. Remember the Miracle on Mockingbird...

smumustang1980 wrote:
I think I will respond to your comments by asking you a few questions: 1. Were you around at the time, and what did you do to help the program survive? 2. If you were around, and you didn't take any affirmative action to save the program, then do us all a favor - please refrain from making sarcastic remarks about an individual who dedicated himself to his best ability in saving a program we love.

Now, please answer my questions.

Actually, I'm not going to answer any questions from you and I'm not going to refrain from making any comments.

I'm sure he was a great guy, but as a coach at SMU he was a failure. It's time for us to stop this ridiculous victim complex and stop constantly glorifying the culture of losing that this geriatric fanbase loves to wallow in and MOVE ON.

I wasn't around back then but I have read enough about the man to say that I respect him. Maybe like JJ he failed to make all the right decisions, I don't know, but, and again like JJ, he took the job no-one seemed to want, and for that I thank him.

BigT3x wrote:

smumustang1980 wrote:
I think I will respond to your comments by asking you a few questions: 1. Were you around at the time, and what did you do to help the program survive? 2. If you were around, and you didn't take any affirmative action to save the program, then do us all a favor - please refrain from making sarcastic remarks about an individual who dedicated himself to his best ability in saving a program we love.

Now, please answer my questions.

Actually, I'm not going to answer any questions from you and I'm not going to refrain from making any comments.

I'm sure he was a great guy, but as a coach at SMU he was a failure. It's time for us to stop this ridiculous victim complex and stop constantly glorifying the culture of losing that this geriatric fanbase loves to wallow in and MOVE ON.

Coach Gregg was not a failure as an SMU Coach or otherwise. He won games that few coaches could have won at SMU with the available talent. He was remarkable. You owe him and his team everything if you love SMU Football. Without those who go before us, we have nothing.

No one is glorifying a bunch of losers. No more than real Texans glorify the Alamo. Heroes deserve respect. Our first post-season death penalty team was comprised of heroes. They went out there and played teams tremendously more talented. Would you have had the guts to play against Arkansas, Texas, A&M... ?.

And, I didn't think you would or could answer my question because - as I surmise from your comments - were too young to have had any personal knowledge of the times. As someone who made sacrifices for the cause, I am greatly concerned that there are those like you who would carelessly squander your heritage.

In short, you've done nothing to deserve our respect and have only diminished yourself in our eyes by your absurd, rude comments. Perhaps in time you will see the truth...

Beat Tech.

Coach Gregg was anything but a failure. On the contrary, he was a great leader of men, and that's what that team was: men. Most of them weren't great players (sorry, guys), but they were the toughest bunch of high-character men I have ever seen. Coach Gregg had a team of guys who were deemed too small or too slow or just not good enough for almost every other team in the country. Every single team they faced was bigger and faster and more talented, and that included the NTSU and UConn teams they beat in their first year back. I can't tell the number of stories I have heard from players on those teams about how Coach Gregg did as much to help them grow into successful men as their own parents and teachers, and the fact that the team won any games at all the first couple of years was a tribute to him. Those players busted their tails, but they were physically overmatched each and every week, and Coach Gregg (and his staff) motivated them to practice hard and to play hard. It's no accident that so many of those guys are as successful in their professional lives as they are.

Lotus wrote:Coach Gregg was anything but a failure. On the contrary, he was a great leader of men, and that's what that team was: men. Most of them weren't great players (sorry, guys), but they were the toughest bunch of high-character men I have ever seen. Coach Gregg had a team of guys who were deemed too small or too slow or just not good enough for almost every other team in the country. Every single team they faced was bigger and faster and more talented, and that included the NTSU and UConn teams they beat in their first year back. I can't tell the number of stories I have heard from players on those teams about how Coach Gregg did as much to help them grow into successful men as their own parents and teachers, and the fact that the team won any games at all the first couple of years was a tribute to him. Those players busted their tails, but they were physically overmatched each and every week, and Coach Gregg (and his staff) motivated them to practice hard and to play hard. It's no accident that so many of those guys are as successful in their professional lives as they are.

Hubba Hubba.