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The best team that SMU had in roughly 40 years wasn't particularly competitive against a 6-6 Boston College.

I almost feel bad about being this petty, but it will crack me up if SMU blows $200MM of booster money on joining a conference that dies well before they see a dime of media rights money.

This looks like a very reasonable hire. A guy from outside the program with a history of success as a DC? That's all you can ask for. Some people really love to complain.

I think the argument for Dykes was "He was very bad at Cal, but that's a Cal issue, no one could have won there with the complete lack of resources. He was good at LA Tech and SMU, and he made both places better." I was sympathetic to this argument last year, obviously, but then he turned...

I didn't know this (I'm not saying it's wrong) so I looked up UT's defensive rankings (per Sports Reference) 2021: 99 2022: 28 2023: 12 Yeah, they were bad in 2021, but the defense was kind of good in 2022, hard to see why you would want a guy fired with that much improvement. For TCU, I see...

If Bama beats Georgia and Texas beats Oklahoma State, I imagine the following conversation with a Bama fan: Bama fan: We beat the Dawgs! SEC champs, you can't keep us out of the playoffs! Me: Georgia looked more impressive over the course of the season and has the same record as Bama, maybe...

There have been so many games, against a wide variety of talent levels, where Gillespie seemed totally out-coached and unable to make adjustments (Georgia, Colorado, K-State, Oklahoma). TCU had some personnel deficiencies on defense but I'm pretty confident in saying that they underachieved...

This defense was so fundamentally broken in so many ways, if Dykes doesn't think there needs to be a change he also needs to go.

One mistake most fans make is to basically think, "Others teams are exactly the same in every game they play, but my team has good performances and bad performances." I agree that Houston is terrible. I don't think Colorado is great. But I also think if you talked to Colorado players...

Kendal Briles in 2016, *after* his dad was fired for the rape scandal. I'm not trying to convince anyone of anything. If you either don't care who TCU hires, or you do in theory but think Kendal is fine and just gets a bad rap, fine. But I will personally be disgusted if TCU hires him, and I...

I agree. And maybe I'm a hypocrite for sticking with the team after they hired Kaz, but drawing the line at a literal Briles. But I'm still drawing the line here, even though no one will care. You can hit me with the "old man yells at cloud" meme, I probably deserve it.

I'm pretty bummed about this. Hiring Scrappy Doo Briles would be 1,000,000x worse than watching TCU get turned into a grease spot by Georgia. I emailed Donati to tell him I'm out if they make the hire (even though my stance won't make any difference). I guess there are other things to do than...

I stand corrected. SMU fans, go ahead and be mad. We're just as dumb as you.

I graduated a couple years before Fran arrived. I wasn't on campus, but the consensus among my friends and I was basically, "Of course you can't blame him for taking the job." Maybe there were people screaming about it on message boards, although I don't remember message boards existing at the...

I don't understand why SMU fans are mad. It wasn't a lateral move. TCU fans didn't act shocked and offended when Franchione left TCU for Alabama. Dykes left for a significantly better job, get on with your life and hope that SMU invests in building the program into something that matters.

Two things: (1) I live in the Midwest and am friends with some Michigan fans, and they are normal people, very unlike the weird douches who show up on this board telling stories with no beginning and no end, or the many Michigan bloggers who aren't content with just knowing that Michigan will...

This board needs to impose a character limit until Michigan fans move on. They all want to write a damn doctoral dissertation.

Claiming that a head coach "still owns" a guy who's an analyst on the other team is beyond dumb. I realize that Gary would have been happy to get a lot of the credit if Texas had won, that would also have been dumb. Sonny > Sark is a reasonable take here.

I've been thinking about this. The weird thing is he did a great job recruiting the offensive players on this team, but the defense was a mess at the end of his run. I'm not sure TCU was a top 100 defense in 2021. They do have some solid players that GP recruited (e.g., Tomlinson, Winters...

I'll always be grateful for what GP did at TCU - we would probably be in the AAC or worse without him. But just this once, I'll give myself a bit of a pass and say that when QJ scored an easy TD on a completely busted coverage, I thought, "Hmm, maybe Gary did help set up the coverages this week."