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  1. 9 minutes ago, Eagle-96 said:

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Back to mediocrity for the phonies. Smooooo now employing our castoff coaches. DELICIOUS

    Wish I could share your amusement, but considering who is leading our team and where they have led us, I would take Jank in a heartbeat.

    Back on topic, this is typical Larry Brown MO.  Go to a program, build a winner, leave the program, the program ends up with sanctions.  SMU being SMU.  It is sad that the two programs in Texas with the most visible "incidents" of cheating/running a rogue program are tied to the Baptist and Methodist denominations of Christianity.

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  2. 4 hours ago, GMG24 said:

    I guess the way I read it they were including Joe Greene whose nickname was "Mean" which would give off the thought process that somehow it was named after him.  I guess I just don't understand why even do that.  Also, someone on here said who started the "Mean Green" chant while we were on defense.  I think it was a presidents wife or something similar.  Help me if I'm wrong? 

     

    Went back and re read it, and it does clearly distinguish.  Nothing new here I miss read something AND look like a doofus. 

    It was the SID's wife and Joe Greene's nickname in college was "Big Joe."

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  3. 1 hour ago, greenminer said:

    He has! But he has also, IMO, proven to be worthy of consideration for another HC gig.

    It interests me to think about how he would fair under a better budget and AD than RV.

    It is amazing to me how much more creative DD's offense's are when he is the OC as opposed to the HC.  He might suffer from what I call, "Norv Turner Syndrome," or "Wade Phillips Syndrome."  Great coordinators that just aren't successful as HC's.

  4. On ‎6‎/‎29‎/‎2016 at 10:41 PM, FirefightnRick said:

    Dickey also was hired after being fired from here several times and succeeded at adjusting his game and improving things along the way, helping lead Memphis to one of their greatest seasons in history and a drafted QB to boot.

     

    Rick

    Dickey has also proven to function better as a Coordinator than a Head Coach.

     

  5. This young man highlights how the star system works and how many young men that don't attend summer camps can get overlooked.  McCalister, in two years, has 31 tackles, 2 passes broken up and 1 interception on defense.  On offense, he has 117 rushing attempts for 499 yards and 7 TD's with 8 receptions for 112 yards and 1 TD.  Nothing really to write home about, 4.2 yards per rushing attempt, and overall, not much production, but his athletic ability is obvious, and he has participated in summer camps to exhibit his ability to many "recruiting experts."  I would love to sign kids like this, but I also prefer young men that produced on the field. 

    This is an area that Dickey excelled at when building our teams during the early Sun Belt run.  DD found young men that were overlooked because they might not have the exposure of others.  Patrick Cobbs and Johnny Quinn, two HOF members, are perfect examples.  I believe, that to really build our program and to make it attractive to the 3 and 4 star kids, we have to find these young men that just produce when the lights come on.  They run faster and harder during a game than against the clock and just produce.  Chris Hurd is another great example.  Gamers will allow us to build this program, and then once it is built, we will be able to attract the higher rated recruits that we are currently after yet rarely sign.  Just make sure we have a coaching staff like the one we have currently that are relentless on the recruiting trail.

    (Of course, after watching his highlights, I am not sure how accurate those stats are that are listed on his page.)

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  6. 34 minutes ago, GOMG2013 said:

    It's a popular belief that it takes a transfer player two years to get used to playing D1 football...So many are not counting on our new transfers and expect them to be ready in 2017.  But if this transfer/JUCO thing holds true, then should we expect James Gray, Jareid Combs, Courtney Finney, and Thaddeus Thompson to make a significant improvement on what they did last season and become solid D1 starters?  Or does this not count for those guys since it would get people's hopes up too high for this year...

    Well, Gray was solid last year, but Combs, Finney and Thompson didn't show much.  I hope that are solid contributors this year, but my point is that we are all really excited about the newcomers and history has shown there is an acclimation period.  I hope this year is an exception.

  7. I like what we have added but it seems like it almost always takes a year for transfers to acclimate.  Trice is a good example of this in recent years, and our old DT Michael Pruitt would be a good example during the DD era.  IF these additions can contribute year one, then I see us returning to the Trice/Orr/Lee led defense that had teams like Ball State, UNLV, etc... quitting in the second half.  I always love seeing the opposing team shy away from contact after getting knocked around by our boys.  I hope we see a return to this type of defense this year.

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