Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 4:25 pm
Well then, maybe you are right and we should just quit once Jones fails. Gerald Ford's gonna be pissed he dropped all that green on a football stadium, but we'll have the nicest soccer field in America.
StallionsModelT wrote:Predicting that Jones will fail is saying that he won't accomplish what he's done at every place he's been. I'm certainly not ready to give up on this program b/c of a team of damn near all freshmen had a bad record.
SoCal_Pony wrote:ponyte wrote:Unlike Caven's massive suspensions before the TCU game which may have cost us a bowl, this is a relatively low risk move.
The suspension may not affect the results, but it will give some kids a lot more playing time. We are in future build mode and the more kids that get significant experience the better.
Also, the kids have seen what happens to suspended players (Willis) and there may be more surprises to come from these suspensions.
Glad Junes is imposing his program and expectation and not allowing the kids to push him around. It will pay dividends down the road.
Ponyte,
He is on a 5-year leash.
Year 1 - disaster
Year 2 - we can always hope for a 3 or 4 win season
Year 3 - I don't think the current talent on this team with the class he is bringing in makes us a .500 team
Year 4 - ????....but Stalllion says our recruiting class is C-USA "average"
Year 5- ALL IN!!!
Year 6 - back to Hawaii
Warbow wrote:StallionsModelT wrote:Predicting that Jones will fail is saying that he won't accomplish what he's done at every place he's been. I'm certainly not ready to give up on this program b/c of a team of damn near all freshmen had a bad record.
What? You better go back and check his lifetime record in the pros. Besides, do you realize it took him 9 years to get into the sugar bowl?
couch 'em wrote:jtstang wrote:We'd have the nicest D-2 stadium in the land and all of the best D-2 quality players would want to come to SMU. We'd be instantly good again.
Being the winner of the "Over 35% Body Fat" spring competition is not a real award!
AND, once we drop down, the administration will deceide to half-[deleted] that too, so we'll just be bad DII team.
SMUfiji43 wrote:http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-smususpensions&prov=ap&type=lgns
As if we couldn't get any worse. I don't understand this. If he continues to pull shenanigans like this we better see results. This is bull and seems to me like he hit the panic button a little bit. I was going to go to the Thanksgiving weekend game since I'll be in town, but I figure it will be a waste of time with our 2 most exciting players and our best defensive player out.
03Mustang wrote:SMUfiji43 wrote:http://rivals.yahoo.com/ncaa/football/news?slug=ap-smususpensions&prov=ap&type=lgns
As if we couldn't get any worse. I don't understand this. If he continues to pull shenanigans like this we better see results. This is bull and seems to me like he hit the panic button a little bit. I was going to go to the Thanksgiving weekend game since I'll be in town, but I figure it will be a waste of time with our 2 most exciting players and our best defensive player out.
I don't see how you can call applying discipline "shenanigans". It's disappointing to have 3 of the 4 best players on the team (Morstead is the other IMO) suspended for the last game, but I'm sure this is valid - football coaches aren't in the business of just suspending kids for no reason.
Honestly, there's a good chance they probably deserved it sooner and JJ just held off on pulling the trigger until we were obviously completely cooked.