Grantland Article on Morris and SMU

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yeah but it didn't hurt TCU and arguably this is the Golden Age of Rice Football in 50 years (albeit at a lower level)
"With a quarter of a tank of gas, we can get everything we need right here in DFW." -SMU Head Coach Chad Morris

When momentum starts rolling downhill in recruiting-WATCH OUT.
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StallionsModelT wrote:
SMU 86 wrote:
StallionsModelT wrote:[quote="skyscraper"]An excellent job distilling something we all know about this hire - if it doesn't get fixed now with Morris, it's never going to get fixed.


Correct. It is all or nothin' time.

All out.


Maybe he'll employ the same defensive strategy back at Ford next week :)[/quote]
He probably will he loves to blitz
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It was all or nothin time in 2011.
SMU-12 NCAA appearances, 1 Final Four
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The Falcon wrote:Perhaps even more devastating to SMU was the breakup of the SW Conference. Enough has also been written and spoken about that cataclysmic event. Two knockout blows like that
plus Strike 3 by Ken Pye have been difficult to overcome.

The breakup of the Southwest Conference is not a separate event from Pye's efforts to deemphasize SMU sports; it is actually a near-direct consequence of Pye's efforts. I've heard that the SWC was doomed the first time UT experienced the charms of the Ownby Stadium visitors' locker room, post-DP.
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Dukie wrote:The breakup of the Southwest Conference is not a separate event from Pye's efforts to deemphasize SMU sports; it is actually a near-direct consequence of Pye's efforts. I've heard that the SWC was doomed the first time UT experienced the charms of the Ownby Stadium visitors' locker room, post-DP.

Yes in deed, the visitor's locker room was located a block away in Moody. :lol: :lol: :lol:
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
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Dukie wrote:The breakup of the Southwest Conference is not a separate event from Pye's efforts to deemphasize SMU sports; it is actually a near-direct consequence of Pye's efforts. I've heard that the SWC was doomed the first time UT experienced the charms of the Ownby Stadium visitors' locker room, post-DP.

Yes in deed, the visitor's locker room was located a block away in Moody. :lol: :lol: :lol:
SMU's first president, Robert S. Hyer, selected Harvard Crimson and Yale Blue as SMU's colors to symbolize SMU's high academic standards. We are one of the few Universities to have school colors with real meaning...and we just blow them off.
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PK wrote:
Dukie wrote:The breakup of the Southwest Conference is not a separate event from Pye's efforts to deemphasize SMU sports; it is actually a near-direct consequence of Pye's efforts. I've heard that the SWC was doomed the first time UT experienced the charms of the Ownby Stadium visitors' locker room, post-DP.

Yes in deed, the visitor's locker room was located a block away in Moody. :lol: :lol: :lol:


Isn't there a great quote from an opposing coach about dressing for games at Ownby?
Back off Warchild seriously.
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Dukie wrote:
The Falcon wrote:Perhaps even more devastating to SMU was the breakup of the SW Conference. Enough has also been written and spoken about that cataclysmic event. Two knockout blows like that
plus Strike 3 by Ken Pye have been difficult to overcome.

The breakup of the Southwest Conference is not a separate event from Pye's efforts to deemphasize SMU sports; it is actually a near-direct consequence of Pye's efforts. I've heard that the SWC was doomed the first time UT experienced the charms of the Ownby Stadium visitors' locker room, post-DP.

Screw UT. Wimps.
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Screw our own administration, faculty, and community. it's their fault we're in this mess, not UTs. They rode coattails for years and wondered why they got dumped to the curb with those embarrassing facilities.
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Texas Stadium was not considered a poor facility at the time. The poor facilities came after the breakup of the SWC die was cast. True, our own administration screwed us over. BUT, that was after our conference mates screwed us and left us dangling in the wind. Pretty ballsy on their part to then complain about the lack of facilities when they were part of the problem to begin with. They initiated the mess by running to the NCAA and crying like little baby wimps. But for the NCAA we would still be whipping their tax fed little asses.
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