Good Luck Guys (and Gals)

[ReedFrawg]

Wish you luck the rest of the way. Due to the weather we didn't make the tailgate scene...hopefully next time around. I am sure you are happy to know that I will continue to lurk and make a fool of myself on this board from time to time.

[SMU_Alumni11]

With any luck we go 1-11 and then JJ has to be gone!

[Water Pony]

With any luck we go 1-11 and then JJ has to be gone!

Do you hope the players see your post? As an SMU alum and fan, I want them to go undefeated for the balance of the year, regardless of feelings toward JJ.

Go Mustangs. Beat UTEP Miners!

[sbsmith]

With any luck we go 1-11 and then JJ has to be gone!

Not sure we're quite that lucky

[SMU_Alumni11]

With any luck we go 1-11 and then JJ has to be gone!

Do you hope the players see your post? As an SMU alum and fan, I want them to go undefeated for the balance of the year, regardless of feelings toward JJ.

Go Mustangs. Beat UTEP Miners!

I hope players, coaches AD and RGT and COC all see the fury of the fans. Since JJ betrayal I want them to see this. Do I want mustangs to not look embarrassing sure, but I take one embarrassing season if it gets JJ out than mediocre wins that keeps us on this path off a cliff

[Mustangsabu]

With any luck we go 1-11 and then JJ has to be gone!

Never ever root against your team.

[SMU_Alumni11]

With any luck we go 1-11 and then JJ has to be gone!

Never ever root against your team.

Only if it can lead to better and brighter things for our team. Obviously game day ill be wearing my peruna hat, but before the game ill continue to say this in hopes that if this very possible future actually leads to the desired result of JJ getting the boot and getting someone who actually cares about SMU and knows college football

[Mustangsabu]

So you think getting what you want is more important than the kids on our team being successful?

[SMU_Alumni11]

So you think getting what you want is more important than the kids on our team being successful?

What they would get is faux success disguise as us pounding on future d-1aa teams... They can't achieve real success until they get a coach who can take them there, next year won't be like this, all we will have is Memphis...

[Mustangsabu]

I think you should write an open letter to the team telling them that anything they achieve this year is a mere illusion.

[mustangxc]

With any luck we go 1-11 and then JJ has to be gone!

You are a terrible fan. As a matter of fact you are not even a fan! I hope we go undefeated the rest of the way to finish 8-0 in conference play, go on to win the CUSA championship and bowl game. As some have pointed out, Jones may decide to leave even with a winning record once he realizes the mess he has created. While I realize we do not have the roster needed to compete for the Big East Championship and to challenge for a BCS Bowl bid and Top 25 status, I always want my team to win as much as possible. Get a life outside the team and you will gain the proper perspective as fan.

[ponyte]

One wonders if those fans that desire a HC change so much that winning and losing take on a perverted outcome are conflicted while attending SMU games.

Do they wear red and blue while cheering lustily for the opponent? Do they wear the opponents’ colors and complete the illusion of disappointed SMU fan? Do they enthusiastically cheer when key SMU players have season ending injuries (Ryan Smith as an example)? Do they complete their warped transformation and actually become boosters of opponents? Does the conflict and desire for failure extend to the Mustang Band? Does one take great pride on Sunday mornings when the DMN has headlines outlining the latest SMU defeat?

Are they so enthused by SMU defeat that they actually renew their DMN subscription? Does one take great pride in watching so many SMU fans, players, students and supporters suffer disappointment?

There are so many delicious ironies to contemplate when it comes to former SMU fans that now desire with unbound eagerness SMU defeats.

As for me, the HC position is beyond my control or opinion. Regardless of my desires and thoughts, the real decision makers will control the process without my input. And so be it.

In the meantime, I will support the Mustangs as I get more joy out of victories than defeat. Besides, I remember 20 years of consistent defeat and to my mind’s eye, it never helped us get a coach, recruit a player or improve the university’s image.

And I find it hard to contemplate the twisted logic that defeat brings victory.

[SMUSIC 07]

SMU_alumni11:

I'm guessing about four people in Dallas want JJ to stick around, but you don't see the others clamoring for the seniors on this team to lose every game just so the coach can get fired. He's doing enough on his own to appropriate cause, in wins and losses alike. Root for your team. Be happy when they win and upset, even angry when they lose. I know you think the WRs aren't trying, but that's no reason to wish a 1-11 season on the kids busting their asses out there everyday just so you can sit back in your office chair and anonymously berate them. Have a little bit of class: wear your Peruna hat in silence, and leave the comment section to the real fans.

[SMUSIC 07]

One wonders if those fans that desire a HC change so much that winning and losing take on a perverted outcome are conflicted while attending SMU games.

Do they wear red and blue while cheering lustily for the opponent? Do they wear the opponents’ colors and complete the illusion of disappointed SMU fan? Do they enthusiastically cheer when key SMU players have season ending injuries (Ryan Smith as an example)? Do they complete their warped transformation and actually become boosters of opponents? Does the conflict and desire for failure extend to the Mustang Band? Does one take great pride on Sunday mornings when the DMN has headlines outlining the latest SMU defeat?

Are they so enthused by SMU defeat that they actually renew their DMN subscription? Does one take great pride in watching so many SMU fans, players, students and supporters suffer disappointment?

There are so many delicious ironies to contemplate when it comes to former SMU fans that now desire with unbound eagerness SMU defeats.

As for me, the HC position is beyond my control or opinion. Regardless of my desires and thoughts, the real decision makers will control the process without my input. And so be it.

In the meantime, I will support the Mustangs as I get more joy out of victories than defeat. Besides, I remember 20 years of consistent defeat and to my mind’s eye, it never helped us get a coach, recruit a player or improve the university’s image.

And I find it hard to contemplate the twisted logic that defeat brings victory.

I think ponyfans has found it's Poet Laureate.

Well said.

[ojaipony]

I remember 20 years of consistent defeat and to my mind’s eye, it never helped us get a coach, recruit a player or improve the university’s image.

Exactly. I think a lot of perspectives are based on when one attended SMU. Alumni11 I'm assuming graduated just last year so he's young and used to going to bowl games (Hawaii Bowl was his freshman year and probably thought it would keep getting better from there). It's ok. I graduated in 1992. A winning season and a bowl game are pretty awesome from my experience, not that I don't want us to do better of course. I don't know anything else -- I would take slightly above mediocrity over zero win seasons (loved watching Ramon and Brian Berry play, though).