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East Coast Mustang wrote:

Webmaster wrote:

LA_Mustang wrote:Unless we become JUCO U for a couple of years, the cupboard will be bare.

If this is true, I certainly hope the CofC has already identified a short of candidates.

I think we can relax (at least a little bit) on this subject. I've covered the Mustangs for maybe 15 years, and these kids are the most athletic we've had in that time. We're bigger, stronger, faster, deeper and that's a fact.

In my OPINION, our recruiting issues don't stem from lack of effort (every bye week you'll see a stream of coaches exiting Ford in coat and tie hitting the recruiting trail, every day June is rolling tape on recruits or opponents by 4 a.m.), it's in how we've allocated our scholarship offers to address injury and the natural turnover by position and the fact that we don't have hundreds of kids trying to walk on every year like you might at a large state school (because of SMU's high tuition, EVERY scholarship must count). And also throw in our admissions issues, which admittedly are WORLDS better now, but we're paying in 2013 for admissions decisions that were made in 2009-2011.

This year we're pretty deep (at least for SMU) at the skill positions. Where we're getting hammered is on the offensive and defensive lines. For example, we saw this one coming years ago when we weren't recruiting enough kids to replace an OLine that included LeRibeus, Beachum, Tennison, McJunkin and Brooks, who all "grew up" together and graduated together.

But if you look at where any of those guys started (with the exception of LeRibeus), you've got to be really excited about Briggs (6'5 300+ and maybe the most athletic lineman we've had since the DP), Chamagua (6'6 300+), I hear a lot of optimism about Fister, Lasecki (who as a sophomore has broken a bunch of all-time team strength records), McCarty (a true freshman who is 6'4 290 and is already getting some PT, Rice (a freaky good athlete for a big guy who earned PT as a true freshman), Jerry Saena (who is now 6'5 and skinny at 315; doesn't know what he's doing yet but is growing into a scary specimen), Weeks (6'5 300+ and is only a sophomore).

I can go on, but I point that out to demonstrate that there are no more 5'10 offensive linemen (all of whom were listed at 6'2 on the roster ). So whether it be June or someone else, from a personnel standpoint, we're light years ahead of where we've been. In fact, you could make the case that this team might even be pretty attractive to a potential coach due to the youth of some many of these players.

This. Not sure why everyone thinks the sky is falling.

Also, the DLine has been an issue at times this year, but we've got Nabusoshi (6'4 260+), Minor (6'3 275), Hollie (6'4 310), Lawler (6'4 240) and Gentry (6'7 255) all in the pipeline as Freshmen or Redshirts. Webmaster- any updates on how our younger DL guys look?

smu2004 wrote:Dino Babers for hc...carry on (assuming we can't get Morris)

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Insane_Pony_Posse wrote:EastCoast.....I agree
if we can't get the big name "shock the world" type guy,
Willie Fritz is a guy we should have on our list.
My gut tells me Coach Fritz would fit in at SMU...
be able to deal with Turner...
run a clean program
has Texas ties
is about the right age...not too young...not too old
has been a winner at lower tier schools
I wouldn't be mad if that's who we end up with
but it won't get much more than a blip on ESPN
and some are gonna cry foul if it's not a big splash hire all over ESPN

East Coast Mustang wrote:Agreed. But the days of 265lb starting offensive linemen are at least behind us.

ghost wrote:Two weeks ago Mac was on the way out too! One victory later the talk has disappeared and he is probably going to ask for an extension if they win all or maybe even lose one. So with winnable games coming up if they get to 6 wins the same will probably happen. Doesn't matter that so many of those teams are having down years.

sbsmith wrote:

ghost wrote:Two weeks ago Mac was on the way out too! One victory later the talk has disappeared and he is probably going to ask for an extension if they win all or maybe even lose one. So with winnable games coming up if they get to 6 wins the same will probably happen. Doesn't matter that so many of those teams are having down years.

Who the Hell is Mac?

East Coast Mustang wrote:

Webmaster wrote:

LA_Mustang wrote:Unless we become JUCO U for a couple of years, the cupboard will be bare.

If this is true, I certainly hope the CofC has already identified a short of candidates.

I think we can relax (at least a little bit) on this subject. I've covered the Mustangs for maybe 15 years, and these kids are the most athletic we've had in that time. We're bigger, stronger, faster, deeper and that's a fact.

In my OPINION, our recruiting issues don't stem from lack of effort (every bye week you'll see a stream of coaches exiting Ford in coat and tie hitting the recruiting trail, every day June is rolling tape on recruits or opponents by 4 a.m.), it's in how we've allocated our scholarship offers to address injury and the natural turnover by position and the fact that we don't have hundreds of kids trying to walk on every year like you might at a large state school (because of SMU's high tuition, EVERY scholarship must count). And also throw in our admissions issues, which admittedly are WORLDS better now, but we're paying in 2013 for admissions decisions that were made in 2009-2011.

This year we're pretty deep (at least for SMU) at the skill positions. Where we're getting hammered is on the offensive and defensive lines. For example, we saw this one coming years ago when we weren't recruiting enough kids to replace an OLine that included LeRibeus, Beachum, Tennison, McJunkin and Brooks, who all "grew up" together and graduated together.

But if you look at where any of those guys started (with the exception of LeRibeus), you've got to be really excited about Briggs (6'5 300+ and maybe the most athletic lineman we've had since the DP), Chamagua (6'6 300+), I hear a lot of optimism about Fister, Lasecki (who as a sophomore has broken a bunch of all-time team strength records), McCarty (a true freshman who is 6'4 290 and is already getting some PT, Rice (a freaky good athlete for a big guy who earned PT as a true freshman), Jerry Saena (who is now 6'5 and skinny at 315; doesn't know what he's doing yet but is growing into a scary specimen), Weeks (6'5 300+ and is only a sophomore).

I can go on, but I point that out to demonstrate that there are no more 5'10 offensive linemen (all of whom were listed at 6'2 on the roster ). So whether it be June or someone else, from a personnel standpoint, we're light years ahead of where we've been. In fact, you could make the case that this team might even be pretty attractive to a potential coach due to the youth of some many of these players.

This. Not sure why everyone thinks the sky is falling.

Also, the DLine has been an issue at times this year, but we've got Nabusoshi (6'4 260+), Minor (6'3 275), Hollie (6'4 310), Lawler (6'4 240) and Gentry (6'7 255) all in the pipeline as Freshmen or Redshirts. Webmaster- any updates on how our younger DL guys look?

Size, strength, and speed mean nothing if you aren't skilled at the game of football

sbsmith wrote:

ghost wrote:Two weeks ago Mac was on the way out too! One victory later the talk has disappeared and he is probably going to ask for an extension if they win all or maybe even lose one. So with winnable games coming up if they get to 6 wins the same will probably happen. Doesn't matter that so many of those teams are having down years.

Who the Hell is Mac?