Here's a pretty good article on Graham's history and why he was fired: https://www.cbssports.com/college-football/news/how-ex-purdue-offensive-coordinator-graham-harrell-went-from-hot-coaching-name-to-midseason-firing/
The thing with SMU is that they also get this weird kind of sympathy from the CFB media for the Death Penalty. Even though it was well earned and well deserved, the media, both local and national act like it was just terrible.
It’s like people thinking Bonnie and Clyde were some kind of heroes for robbing banks.
According to the SRS (simple rating system) on sports reference, the 2024 team’s current rating is +3.67 which is good for 6th best in program history as it stands, behind ‘77, ‘78, ‘67, ‘66, and ‘59.
I like the SRS because it gives a good approximation of where a team stands relative to the field in college football that season, with strength of schedule and margin of victory playing roles. For example, SRS does not rate the early 2000s team very favorably among the entire field of FBS teams those years, despite winning the relatively weak Sun Belt. 2017 is a similar story. Meanwhile those late 50s-70s teams were performing well against legit competition.
According to SRS, this is our best team since returning to the FBS and one of only four teams with a positive SRS in that time frame.
2024 - +3.67
2013 - +3.05
2002 - +0.61
2018 - +0.58
Sibley had offers from OK St., CO, UH, Missouri, NE, Purdue, Sam, TX St. and Tulsa.
Young man has some wiggle. Just watch his video attached to this profile.
https://247sports.com/player/kiefer-sibley-46136112/high-school-285723/
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