SMU adds ANOTHER grad transfer!

[TheColonyEagle]

5 hours ago, greenminer said:

Nope.  The history of the game suggests the people in the trenches are more important, and there’s just so many unknowns going down the SMU’s roster.

Cortland Sutton disagrees 

[meanrob]

5 hours ago, TheColonyEagle said:

My expectation is Seth Littrell will beat SMU. Anything less should be considered a severe disappointment from this coaching staff. 

This is exactly what I’m saying. 

As far as the trenches go, and this is off the top of my head, but I would say this game has not exactly featured good quarterbacks recently and so it came down to other positions. You could make the case this is the best group of skill position players we’ve ever had in a game against SMU. Take that with a good coaching staff and yeah, I fully expect the green to win or I will be disappointed. 

[FirefightnRick]

I don’t know about any of their 16 transfers other than Buechelle.  I’ve seen him play and he’s damn good.  Reads defenses well, quick footed, quick release.  What it may come down to is if he’s had enough time to gel with his receivers or not? 

What we have going for us is SMU cannot rely on last year’s tape and will have a limited time to study our new system.

I don’t just want to beat them at Ford,...I want to see a June Jones-style ass whipping there.  But that’s just me.

Rick

[ChiefTenBeers2015]

Anyone know what Vegas says the spread is?  

[RBP79]

Is the mental chemistry there for them?? Could be but odds are there not there two weeks into the season. 

[Rudy]

Someone sign them up for Tinder, so they can have their endless supply of hookers. 

[Tyler Maryak]

15 hours ago, Rudy said:

Someone sign them up for Tinder, so they can have their endless supply of hookers. 

I'm not sure you know how Tinder works...

I kid, I kid...

[MeanGreenTexan]

17 hours ago, TheColonyEagle said:

Cortland Sutton disagrees 

[TheColonyEagle]

6 hours ago, MeanGreenTexan said:

I don't know if I've seen a single player defeat us like he did....

Still have nightmares about him being triple teamed in the endzone and catching the TD

[NorthTexasWeLove]

[GMG24]

On 8/15/2019 at 2:17 PM, agw0038 said:

Generally speaking, i think grad transfer are a good thing. They can sure up some areas of weakness and possibly put you over the top. But 16 in one season is too many. It makes me think they're not very good. 

They are not all Grad Transfers, and most of the Grad Transfers they got have 2 years left. 

[agw0038]

5 hours ago, GMG24 said:

They are not all Grad Transfers, and most of the Grad Transfers they got have 2 years left. 

sounds like a good deal for them. Do you feel like 16 transfer in one season is a lot? 

[GreenN'walinsVet]

6 hours ago, GMG24 said:

They are not all Grad Transfers, and most of the Grad Transfers they got have 2 years left. 

so there recruiting class next year is already a 1/3 full then?

[scratch1976]

Dykes was on channel 4 sports two nights ago 8/16 and he said the team had 55 new players on the team for 2019. 

[RiseUNT]

Just now, scratch1976 said:

Dykes was on channel 4 sports two nights ago 8/16 and he said the team had 55 new players on the team for 2019. 

They have to practice how to practice.

[TheColonyEagle]

17 minutes ago, scratch1976 said:

Dykes was on channel 4 sports two nights ago 8/16 and he said the team had 55 new players on the team for 2019. 

what the hell?

[Coach Andy Mac]

56 minutes ago, scratch1976 said:

Dykes was on channel 4 sports two nights ago 8/16 and he said the team had 55 new players on the team for 2019. 

Wow

[DeepGreen]

1 hour ago, scratch1976 said:

Dykes was on channel 4 sports two nights ago 8/16 and he said the team had 55 new players on the team for 2019. 

All completely legal, I’m sure.

[ADLER]

Do these transfers count only against the 85 FBS scholarship limit, or do they also count as the annual 25 signee limit?

In other words, would a school theoretically be able to sign only grad transfers, and lots of them, every year as long as the school stays at or below the 85 scholarship limit?

 

 

Edited August 19, 2019 by ADLER

[Mean Green 93-98]

32 minutes ago, ADLER said:

Do these transfers count only against the 85 FBS scholarship limit, or do they also count as the annual 25 signee limit?

In other words, would a school theoretically be able to sign only grad transfers, and lots of them, every year as long as the school stays at or below the 85 scholarship limit?

 

 

They count against both.

[TheColonyEagle]

It seems like they could be a mess the first half of the year. As for our game. I think Ark St is going to beat them soundly. Their “fans” aren’t going to recover from getting beat by the “inferior” opponent. They for sure won’t show up for their home opener after that. 

[outoftown]

This needs to work out quickly for Dykes. He is building himself quite the scholarship hell for the two to three seasons down the road and if the results aren't really nice by then SMU will be a full on rebuild. Makes you wonder if he plans to be there long.

In any case, once the backend of this becomes problematic look for NT to be better than SMU for three to four seasons in a row. If NT also wins 2019 and 2020 before this even hits, then I don't think it is a given that the annual series would survive NT going 3 games in a row, especially if SMU also looks at their roster and only sees like 60 schollie players.

[greenminer]

9 hours ago, TheColonyEagle said:

It seems like they could be a mess the first half of the year. As for our game. I think Ark St is going to beat them soundly. Their “fans” aren’t going to recover from getting beat by the “inferior” opponent. They for sure won’t show up for their home opener after that. 

If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, ...

[PlummMeanGreen]

Again, my 6’th sense tells me the NCAA Rules Committee will be making quota maximums on how many of these a school can have in one academic year.  If so, SMU may have set all that in motion, but no rules prevented their over-load for this year truth be told. 

 

GMG!  

Edited August 19, 2019 by PlummMeanGreen

[DeepGreen]

SMU must have been running “football player” want ads in the Wall Street Journal since the end of last season.

Edited August 19, 2019 by DeepGreen