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Are you really trying to hype that coward Dennis Franchione that, once he figured out he couldn't cut it at the easiest job in the SEC, ran to the weaker Big XII and got fired a couple years later?[/quote]


Are you really that stupid to make that comment? Couldn't cut it? He went 7-5 and won a bowl game the year after the previous coach went 3-8, and then went 10-3 with losses to the #2 OU team that won the rose bowl and #7 Georgia team that beat florida state in the sugar bowl. won the SEC West and was ineligible because of the previous coach sanctions.

Was also given a contract extension at the end of that 10-3 season and didn't sign it because of unrealistic restrictions if he would choose to go elsewhere.

Look at the schedule and tell me he couldn't cut it. You are an idiot. Also Weaker big twelve ? A Big XII school played in the national championship game 3 of the 5 years he was there, both teams being in A&M's division, and one of them winning it

Oklahoma went 12-2 losing the NC, Kstate went 11-4, Texas went 10-3, Nebraska was 10-3 and OSU was 9-4 in the first year at A&M, and the trend continued for the next 3 years as well.


Middle Tennessee*
W 39-34  

at #2 Oklahoma*
L 27-37  

North Texas*
W 33-7  

Southern Miss*
W 20-7  

at Arkansas
W 30-12  

#7 Georgia
L 25-27  

#21 Ole Miss
W 42-7  

at #16 Tennessee
W 34-14  

at Vanderbilt
W 30-8  

Mississippi State
W 28-14  

at #14 LSU
W 31-0  

Auburn
L 7-17  

at Hawaii*
W 21-16  

Finishing with a #11 Ranking and being ineligible in his second year after the previous coach going 3-8

Someone has a serious [deleted] for Fran.

Not a [deleted], I respect him as a coach and what he's done everywhere he has been. He would put SMU back to where we belong and restore the program, and then, when it's time give it off to the hot young inexperienced entitled spavital type, who threatened to quit if he didn't get named OC are kingsburgy left and see what he can do with it.

Brad Franchione is that you?

Going with Franchione would certainly heat up the TCU/SMU rivalry.

Fran could be a good idea if he's hungry.

Whoever the next coach happens to be, he better be a he!! of a salesman and have a similar staff. He will also need to be able to build up the relationships (students, fans, alumni, former players) JJ tore down.

ftworthmustang wrote:Whoever the next coach happens to be, he better be a he!! of a salesman and have a similar staff. He will also need to be able to build up the relationships (students, fans, alumni, former players) JJ tore down.

Definitely agree. He's got to be someone who is willing to put in a lot of hours of work in recruiting - and that means both athletes and the SMU community.