Reply With Quote
SMU deserves to be scorched off the face of the planet, high maintenance front tucking sons of es.
Nice lil preview here. I'll be thrilled if we can actually have a winning season for the first time in seemingly forever, or since we got raped with the death penalty.
PS. TCU is too scared to play us.
2006 Preview: SMU Mustangs
Pete Fiutak / CollegeFootballNews.com
Posted: 49 days ago
Full Preview | Offense | Defense | Depth Chart
In today's quick-fix world, everyone demands an instant turnaround. In football, things occasionally take time.
It's hard to preach patience when teams like UCF, Tulsa, and UTEP go from zero to contender in a season, but SMU has slowly been building under head coach Phil Bennett over the last four seasons.
He has had a team with no experience, he has had a team with no talent, and he has had a team with an ugly combination of the two. Now this is his team, his program, and his stamp on a program that has come up with one winning season in the last 20 years. It's also his best team yet.
Last year, the Mustangs pulled out of a nosedive to win the final three games of the season beating a bowl bound Houston and ruining UTEP's Conference USA le hopes. That proved once and for all that SMU really can become a player in the Conference USA race. It was the only team to beat TCU, and four of its six losses came by seven points or fewer. It's time for all those close losses to turn into wins.
SMU Mustangs
Team Information
Head coach: Phil Bennett
5th year: 11-35
Returning Lettermen: 42
Lettermen Lost: 14
Ten Best Players
1. RB DeMyon Martin, Soph.
2. SS Joe Sturdivant, Sr.
3. DT Adrian Haywood, Sr.
4. DE Justin Rogers, Sr.
5. WR Bobby Chase, Sr.
6. TE Ryan Kennedy, Sr.
7. LB Wilton McCray, Jr.
8. TE Vincent Chase, Soph.
9. C Ben Poynter, Jr.
10. DE Cory Muse, Jr.
2006 Schedule
9/2 at Texas Tech
9/9 at North Texas
9/16 Sam Houston State
9/23 Arkansas State
9/30 at Tulane
10/7 at UTEP
10/14 Marshall
10/21 at East Carolina
10/31 UAB
11/11 Houston
11/18 Tulsa
11/25 at Rice
There will be an interesting mix of fast, talented young players, a lot of inexperience, and good building blocks. Bobby Chase leads a deep and experienced receiving corps, DeMyron Martin is one of the league's best backs heading a very fast, very good backfield, and the starting five up front should be fine. However, there's no experience whatsoever at quarterback and absolutely no developed depth on the line.
The attack struggled throughout last season and was never consistent. Now it has various options in its spread formation with several pieces looking to find time in different formations to adapt and adjust on the fly. For a team that has averaged 17.7 points per game over the last 90 outings scoring 14 of fewer in 43 of them, any pop and explosion will be welcome.
The offense might have been bad throughout last year, but the defense has saved the day time and again keeping the team in several games. There's lots and lots of speed in the back seven, but little experience outside of safety Joe Studivant and linebacker Wilton McCray. The line will be fantastic with Adrian Haywood and Justin Rogers among the best in the conference.
Outside of the conference-opening loss to Tulane, SMU had a shot at winning each of the three league losses last year. For Bennett and his program, it's time for some good breaks to come their way. More importantly, it's time for the team to be good enough to make it's own good fortune.
The Schedule: If SMU's dream is to win the West, it has a decent enough schedule to do it with Houston and Tulsa coming to Dallas and missing UCF and Southern Miss from the East. The key will be getting off to a hot conference start with road trips to Tulane and UTEP that might make-or-break division le hopes. The non-conference schedule is nice and fluffy after the opening day game at North Texas with Sun Belters North Texas and Arkansas State along with Sam Houston State.
Best Offensive Player: Sop re RB DeMyron Martin. Martin exploded at times throughout his true freshman season ripping up TCU, East Carolina, Rice and UTEP, but he was held in check by Tulane and Marshall. He's a strong workhorse who'll be a 20-carry back from the start and a 1,200-yard runner if he can stay healthy.
Best Defensive Player: Senior SS Joe Sturdivant. The leader of the secondary didn't just lead the team in tackles last season, he led the team in tackles with 33 more than the number two man. He's like a free safety when the ball is in the air, and he hits like a linebacker.
Key player to a successful season: Redshirt freshman QB Justin Willis. The only SMU quarterback with even a lick of experience, Chris Phillips, is playing fullback/tight end. Willis has a ton of talent and the type of running ability to be a do-it-all playmaker, but he's going to need time to figure out what he's doing. Teams are going to load up to stop DeMyron Martin and the running game until Willis proves he can take advantage of what's being given to him.
The season will be a success if ... SMU has a winning season. There are way too many holes to win the West, but the schedule is nice enough to expect seven wins and a possible bowl bid. At the very least, it would be a disaster if this is another losing season.
Key game: Sept. 30 at Tulane. The Green Wave only won two games last year, and one of them was a 31-10 blasting at SMU for the only Conference USA blowout loss the Mustangs suffered. It's the league opener this year for SMU and will be a must win with a trip to UTEP coming up the following week.
2005 Fun Stats:
- Fourth quarter scoring: Opponents 110 - SMU 60
- Penalties: SMU 76 for 660 yards - Opponents 57 for 502 yards
- Field goals: SMU 18 of 22 - Opponents 12 of 23
The Last Time SMU…
…played in a bowl game…1984 (Aloha Bowl vs. Notre Dame)
…missed a bowl game…2005
…pitched a shutout…1998 (Hawaii)
…was shutout…2004 (Fresno State)
…scored 50 points…1999 (Northridge State)
…went undefeated…1982
…won a conference le…1984 (share, SWC)
…had a 3,000-yard passer…1978 (Mike Ford)
…had a 1,000-yard rusher…2003 (Keylon Kincade)
…had a 1,000-yard receiver…1978 (Emanuel Tolbert)
…had a first-round draft choice…1986 (DB Rod Jones and RB Reggie Dupard)
SMU deserves to be scorched off the face of the planet, high maintenance front tucking sons of es.
are you jelaous of the university?
granted they are quite snobbish on an undergrad level. But quite hot. And rich.
I have no problem with the students at SMU. Last year, they helped me find a bar in Dallas, and for that, they're ok in my book
are you jelaous of the university?
granted they are quite snobbish on an undergrad level. But quite hot. And rich.
ahh yes...
they know how to drink over there also.
They have some of the most superficial MHB's in the greater Texas Region, and virtually every male is a front tucking conservative with a fro hawk.
i must be on drugs becuase i dont know what a MHB is.
And yes the undergrads are predominantly conservative. By far. Its laughable.
MHBs = Money Hungry es
dude they are seriously 110% conservative. They defy statistics
There is a Pluckers off of I-75 right near the SMU campus and every time we go you see these frohawking frosted tips large belt buckle wearing emo kids talking about how they attended the latest Student Republican meeting....and their big tied MHB's are browsing pages of magazines to figure out what they're gonna buy next.
Highland Park is alot worse, it's a bunch of rich whiny HS kids. Way worse than college kids
no . the undergrads there are 98% heads. They are still milking mommy and daddy's teet and will be doing so for many years. That's probably why I have a grand total of 0 friends that were undergrads at that place, only the nutty and mostly liberal graduate students.
They still have some extremely good graduate programs and the school is still on its way back up athletically speaking.
So suck it.No reason to scorch the university off the face of the earth.
I should get my piece of paper from them one of these days.
And ya, Highland park is horrendous, but I only drove through there when I was attending classes up there. No way in could I afford to ing live there.
Guess who's on the cover of that website. Yeeeaaaaah we're coming!
i thought the death penalty already did that to their foorball program.
I wonder if Eric erson ever goes back there for anything at all. One of you guys must know. He probably hasn't been on that campus in 20 years. None of their old players has I'll bet.
Last edited by Quadzilla99; 07-08-2006 at 05:55 AM.
Shame what happened to SMU. I'd love to see 'em back in the hunt.
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
Posting Permissions
