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UTSA at 8 and 4

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 10:25 am
by Pony in SA
I know most laugh at UTSA, but in only 2nd year of program they went 8-4 and 3-3 in the WAC with the 3 WAC losses to 3 good teams like La Tech, San Jose State, etc. who were ranked at one time or another. Their other loss was to Rice but they lost their QB who was only QB program ever had early and had to play kid who never really had snaps at the position. Still score was similar or a bit better than ours at Rice. Rest of schedule not that tough but they won games they were supposed to, won road games, etc.

Again, they are building process down here with a plan for future and my hope is our powers to be get that and start looking at where we want to be 5 to 10 years from now, especially as there will be more conference shifting so we are better positioned. Maybe it is because focus is on Dallas area but seems at times no real plan to get us to the next level or at least not made known. Here you can see the inroads Coker and his staff have made at Smithson Valley, Cibolo Steele, Judson, etc. for recruiting, and the almost 40,000 at the game this weekend puts their season average close to 30,000 even with playing some smaller schools. They have Arizona, Ok. State and others non-conferece coming up so attendance will only improve.

My hope is our recruiting improves, our attendance gets to an average of at least 30,000 per game or more, and we actually have a plan to take SMU to higher place in near future. If we are not going to strive to be better and big time, and do things right way to achieve that, then lets focus primarily on basketball or some other sport and make sure we excel there.

Re: UTSA at 8 and 4

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 12:28 pm
by MustangStealth
Keep in mind that only 2 wins came against full FBS members. The other 6 were against lower division teams (2 FBS transitional, 2 FCS, 1 D-II, 1 NAIA). (Don't give June any scheduling ideas!)

I would not be surprised to see them follow Western Kentucky, who went from 7-5 during their transition to 0-12 once they played a full FBS schedule.

Re: UTSA at 8 and 4

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 1:53 pm
by CA Mustang
MustangStealth wrote:I would not be surprised to see them follow Western Kentucky, who went from 7-5 during their transition to 0-12 once they played a full FBS schedule.
WKU made a coaching change after the 0-12 season, so there may have been more to the problem than simply the level of competition. Since then, Taggart them heading in the right direction: http://www.sports-reference.com/cfb/sch ... -kentucky/

Re: UTSA at 8 and 4

Posted: Mon Nov 26, 2012 2:38 pm
by Pony in SA
MustangStealth wrote:Keep in mind that only 2 wins came against full FBS members. The other 6 were against lower division teams (2 FBS transitional, 2 FCS, 1 D-II, 1 NAIA). (Don't give June any scheduling ideas!)

I would not be surprised to see them follow Western Kentucky, who went from 7-5 during their transition to 0-12 once they played a full FBS schedule.
Understand not tough schedule and said so, but our conference schedule was really not that brutal either and we were only 6 and 6. This is only their 2nd year ever of football and easily beat Franchione (sp. ?) and Texas State who does have some history.

Points trying to make were they won the games they should have won, even on the road, and have maintained pretty decent attendance in year 2 even with playing some of those lower division teams, but more importantly that they have 5 and 10 year plans they are working. We need to have a plan and goal where we want to be in 5 years or so when conferences shift again, and put 100% effort into it with our recruiting, marketing, fans in seats efforts.

If June is going to be here still and for the next 5 years or so then work your plan based on that. However if he is gone next year or the year after you may want a different plan so 2 years from now we are not starting from scratch with new coach trying to implement new systems, etc.