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How do you build a program in Monroe, LA that can beat Arkansas and challenge Auburn?! look at our education, resources (Circle of Champions), facilities and proximity to recruits and I wonder why it is such a struggle. It's not like we are trying to talk recruits into living in some rathole for 4 years.

If you can build a winner in Logan, Utah (Utah State), Ruston and Monroe then my God what is the problem here?

Hint #1: It costs $2 million per year

Hint #2: It rhymes with "Loon Loans"

Thanks for that. I had a great laugh.

Atleast we still have the Cowboys...........

lol....when it goes bad, it all goes bad...

I am not a recruiting expert by any stretch, but I can see LA-Monroe and LA Tech because there is some major talent in the Louisiana/Mississippi area and if you have no academic standards you can reel in some studs. My understanding (and I may be wrong) is that schools like them and Southern Miss make a living bringing on talented guys who couldn't qualify and weren't recruited by SEC schools because of that. Someone with more knowledge can correct if I'm mistaken.

Utah State is frankly more of a mystery. Not sure where they are getting their players. California maybe?

The Louisiana schools have one big advantage we will NEVER have. They can actually admit non-qualifiers through their university and have them pay in-state tuition for one year and then go on scholarship. SMU's tuition is $50,000 a year so that's a no-go. Louisiana has a bunch of quality athletes with poor transcripts as SMU has seen. Don't know enough about Utah St except they have a stud reasonably young Head Coach who was passed over for BYU job after building a strong resume. He likely will be the New Kid on the block everybody wants at end of the year. First Bowl game, Upset of BYU(or was it Utah) in Week 1 and Kicker missed a chip shot FG Sat to lose to Wisconsin on road.

I agree, it's shocking. How could this team be so inept and worse, so unprepared, to play Baylor and A&M? With a #26 defense from last year and a "better" QB, we fans bought into the hype. Well, we truly had an opportunity to become something in the Dallas sports world and we (I mean THEY) blew it. I don't want to hear negatives about the fans any longer or the phrase "we do what we do" ever again. I want these coaches and these players to pull their act together and win us fans back. I am P....d Off. And THEY had better be as well. Something has got to change!

I wish we had more of a recruiting presence in LA and MS. Definitely tons of talent there. But it seems that due to academic standards and the $50,000 problem that Stallion mentions, we'd have to compete with the SEC schools for the qualifiers they are taking. Don't see us winning any recruiting battles there.

I'll be interested to see if A&M can start pulling in some of these guys. They'll need to if they want to build an SEC-caliber defense.

I agree with all above posts.

It's frustrating.

What about looking more closely at Stanford?? What the hell are they doing ??

Recruiting well especially because their kids stay in school more than at many recruiting powerhouses

Sonny Dykes at La Tech has a great pedigree...dad was Spike Dykes and he coached for Mike Leach for 8 or so years so he knows offenses. Makes $750k/year but is signed through 2017 so that would be a lot of quan to shell out (unless you're Jerry Ford). I think they outplayed TCU last year in their bowl game. Gotta think he's going to be holding out for a high major (Auburn when Chizik gets fired). Would he listen for $2.25MM/year when he knows he'll get more than that at a big school in a year or two?

3 guys SMU needs to look at if JJ is fired or leaves.

- Anderson- USU- Turning Utah's version of UNT into a team that has beaten each of their big bros in 2010 and 2011 respectively and taken OU & Auburn to the wire in the last 2-3 years.

- Willie Fritz- SHSU- 1aa team but took them from average to 14-1 and playing at a good mid-major level.

- Sonny Dykes- La Tech- If he can keep his staff intact

June isn't getting fired by the new AD. I do think he wins just enough games to stay here. SMU just has to painfully gut it out until he retires.