Maybe surfer dude got the hint?

[Mitch McConnell]

And shut down his twitter account? Or at least stopped adding anything to it? Or maybe he left the coaching staff?

I wouldn't know since I don't look for it. I base it on others usually posting it.

Anyone know?

[redpony]

He's been busy in the broadcasting booth with fball games. Hasn't had any time to worry about recruits or posting info.

GO PONIES!!!

[SMU 86]

That is a bit unusual for him to run silent like that. I hope that he is calling and/or visiting his recruits.

[Dutch]

He's been busy in the broadcasting booth with fball games. Hasn't had any time to worry about recruits or posting info.

GO PONIES!!!

[Stallion]

Maybe he can get a full time TV gig-his reviews were excellent

[SMU 86]

Actually he just might be doing NFL Europe stuff. He maybe under contract for a couple of games or something like that.

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

Maybe he can get a full time TV gig-his reviews were excellent

yeah yeah maybe we can get Bennett back since it's the changes to the model and
just luck that it happened to be June and his lazy staff that just took us to three straight bowls after a twenty year drought! I bet Bennett and Cavan didnt golf or do any TV in Jan!

[couch 'em]

Maybe he can get a full time TV gig-his reviews were excellent

yeah yeah maybe we can get Bennett back since it's the changes to the model and
just luck that it happened to be June and his lazy staff that just took us to three straight bowls after a twenty year drought! I bet Bennett and Cavan didnt golf or do any TV in Jan!

Forget Bennett, but I wouldn't mind having Rusty Burns back. His offenses scored more points than anything June has put out and that's with inferior talent/recruiting restrictions.

Imagine the Rusty Burns offense with the Tom Mason defense!

[SMUer]

BCS baby!

[East Coast Mustang]

Maybe he can get a full time TV gig-his reviews were excellent

yeah yeah maybe we can get Bennett back since it's the changes to the model and
just luck that it happened to be June and his lazy staff that just took us to three straight bowls after a twenty year drought! I bet Bennett and Cavan didnt golf or do any TV in Jan!

When will you ever learn? Stallion will never come off his high horse (no pun intended) for long enough to give JJ a little credit alongside the "Model" he worships so dearly.

[ojaipony]

Sees writing on wall with JP hire. Joining another staff and bringing Dieter with him.

[NomAnor]

Well said

[couch 'em]

Forget Bennett, but I wouldn't mind having Rusty Burns back. His offenses scored more points than anything June has put out and that's with inferior talent/recruiting restrictions.

Imagine the Rusty Burns offense with the Tom Mason defense!

Actually, I got curious if this is true. Let's compare:

I omitted both June's first year and Rusty's first year as that is an implementation year.

The following is the year, the number of points scored per game (against CUSA opponents only), and th enumber of points given up (against CUSA games only) per game.

year - for - against

Rusty/Bennett:
2005 - 22.125 - 22.000
2006 - 27.000 - 26.500
2007 - 31.375 - 41.375

June/Mason:
2009 - 28.500 - 27.375
2010 - 26.556 - 24.222
2011 - 24.625 - 23.000

Total Averages
Rusty/Bennett - 26.833 - 29.958
June/Mason - 26.560 - 24.866

So Rusty scored slightly more than June on average, and Mason is crushing Bennett, but only when you include the horrible 2007 year. They are quite similar with slight edge to Bennett without that year.

Interestingly scoring went up every year under Rusty, even in the 1-11 final year in 2007, but have gone down every year under Jones.

We can surmise from this that had Bennett not had a defense in 2007 twice as bad as the 2006 and 2005 defense, he may not have been fired.

How does offensive production affect defensive production? Does more or less points scored cause more or less points given up? When the other team scores often does the offense benefit from 'more' chances to score, or does a low scoring game where the opponent is going 3-and-out benefit offensive production? Perhaps a really good or really bad D benefits the O, whereas a mediocre D hurts scoring? I'll leave that to someone else.

Also, just from glancing at the scores, the Rusty/Bennett years had a lot more close games, both high scoring and low scoring, whereas the Jones years seem to have more blowouts. How does this affect offensive production? This ties into the previous question.

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Usually he would still post something like:

COVERING NFL FOR SKY. ALWAYS GOOD TO WATCH THE PROS AND NOW SMU PLAYERS ARE MAKING THEIR NAME IN THE NFL TOO.

[ojaipony]

Forget Bennett, but I wouldn't mind having Rusty Burns back. His offenses scored more points than anything June has put out and that's with inferior talent/recruiting restrictions.

Imagine the Rusty Burns offense with the Tom Mason defense!

Actually, I got curious if this is true. Let's compare:

I omitted both June's first year and Rusty's first year as that is an implementation year.

The following is the year, the number of points scored per game (against CUSA opponents only), and th enumber of points given up (against CUSA games only) per game.

year - for - against

Rusty/Bennett:
2005 - 22.125 - 22.000
2006 - 27.000 - 26.500
2007 - 31.375 - 41.375

June/Mason:
2009 - 28.500 - 27.375
2010 - 26.556 - 24.222
2011 - 24.625 - 23.000

Total Averages
Rusty/Bennett - 26.833 - 29.958
June/Mason - 26.560 - 24.866

So Rusty scored slightly more than June on average, and Mason is crushing Bennett, but only when you include the horrible 2007 year. They are quite similar with slight edge to Bennett without that year.

Interestingly scoring went up every year under Rusty, even in the 1-11 final year in 2007, but have gone down every year under Jones.

We can surmise from this that had Bennett not had a defense in 2007 twice as bad as the 2006 and 2005 defense, he may not have been fired.

How does offensive production affect defensive production? Does more or less points scored cause more or less points given up? When the other team scores often does the offense benefit from 'more' chances to score, or does a low scoring game where the opponent is going 3-and-out benefit offensive production? Perhaps a really good or really bad D benefits the O, whereas a mediocre D hurts scoring? I'll leave that to someone else.

Also, just from glancing at the scores, the Rusty/Bennett years had a lot more close games, both high scoring and low scoring, whereas the Jones years seem to have more blowouts. How does this affect offensive production? This ties into the previous question.

Appreciate you doing this. Very interesting indeed. How about that kind of relevant W-L stat comparison?