A member of the robust constituency of those with a deep and unyielding love for SMU, the St. Louis Cardinals, & misc. thoughts. There are dozens of us! dozens!
Gonna need
#SMU
fans to put on their big boy and girl pants. None of this “woe is us” crap.
10-2 this year. Shot at the title. KHJ is a *good* QB.
42-18 over the last 5 years.
Going to the ACC.
Don’t cry in your beer.
#PonyUpDallas
#SMU
is going to beat Tulane.
SMU will finish at
#23
in the CFP poll.
Liberty will finish at No. 24.
Peach Bowl. SMU.
Fritz is announced as the UH coach by 3:30 pm EST Sunday.
Welcome to Game Day.
#PonyUpDallas
Let’s be honest -
@SMUFB
should release a statement about how proud it is Samples and Uzo-Diribe were hired by the Super Bowl champs and national title winner.
Neither one ever actually coached for TCU.
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
#SMU
has gone undefeated in non-conference play for three straight season. SMU fans will understand what a massive shift that is for the program from eras past.
Tulane, SMU, and Liberty are a combined 32-3. Don Williams says fuck y’all none of you belong in the Top 25. Instead, numerous four loss “power” teams belong in the Top 25.
Clown on stilts.
I enjoyed my visit to Oklahoma Memorial Stadium. Wish it turned out a bit differently on the scorecard.
Very excited for the rest of the 2023 season.
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
A $110M football only operations center and additional revenue generating suites are not depressing. They are critically important to
#SMU
’s football future and eventually getting into a power conference.
SMU Barstool(Back2Back Equestrian National Champs)
TCU coach Sonny Dykes on the College Football Playoff proposal that would grant SEC and Big Ten teams a bye 👀
"Automatic first-round byes for the Big Ten and SEC is like the NFL saying the Cowboys get a first-round bye since they have more fans than the Bengals."
(via
@dwil
)
Multiple sources are telling me Arkansas has zeroed in on John Calipari. Barring any last minute issues, I expect him to be the Razorbacks new head coach.
lmao Sonny and co. punked. That’s hilarious.
Zach Evans told TCU coaches for weeks he would stay. They learned on Twitter he was transferring to Ole Miss.
Fun With Numbers:
#SMU
is 38-18 since the start of the 2019 season.
SMU is going to a bowl for the fifth straight season for the first time in school history.
Rhett Lashlee is 13-8
Rhett Lashlee is 9-3 in American games
Oh, and, SMU is going to the ACC.
FSU Board Chair Peter Collins says the board has been left "no choice" but to challenge the ACC's Grant of Rights. "We’ve exhausted all possible remedies within the conference. We must do what’s best for Floirda State not only in the short term, but also in the longterm."
#SMU
locking up Rhett (it wasn’t in doubt) as it enters the ACC is another subtle but notable data point that SMU is not coming in to be a doormat.
It aims to contend. Immediately.
#PonyUpDallas
Is it any coincidence that immediately after North Carolina State votes to add
#SMU
to the ACC, they go on a historic run to make the Final Four?
I think not.
It’s Tuesday, so, here’s my Iron Skillet week - I don’t want trash talk. I don’t want jabs or proclamations. I want the program to shut up, put on its big boy pants, and go win the game. That’s it. Don’t talk. Do it.
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
Weird. I’m seeing and hearing a lot of
#SMU
fans. But I was assured by very fine and reasonable people on Twitter not at all pushing a baseless narrative that we “didn’t bring anyone” and “don’t have any fans.”
#SMU
fans are really lucky to have
@JoeJHoyt
as beat writer. He puts out a lot of outstanding content and treats the school fairly. His most recent piece was excellent - a must read.
#PonyUpDallas
Chandler played an excellent game. He’s really developed. Certainly outplayed Stone and it wasn’t even close. He was throwing dimes.
I’m wrong. We lost. Wasn’t close.
Well, this is a bummer. It wouldn’t last forever, but, Joe is the best beat writer I can recall
#SMU
having.
He covered the program fairly & with interest. He did not unfairly highlight or single-out aspects of the program that were less than sterling. He provided context.
Well, it’s personal news time.
My time at The Dallas Morning News is ending. My last day is Aug. 23.
I’m excited to tell you what’s next, but this wasn’t an easy decision. I went from intern, to high school reporter, to colleges and more here. It will always be home to me.
#SMU
has a top five national transfer class. And now it’s focusing on high school recruiting. A 2024 class with two four stars—one of whom is one of the highest rated players in Texas. Hoo boy.
#PonyUpDallas
Talked all that crap about SMU, didn’t deserve the Fiesta Bowl invite, got absolutely drilled by Oregon (they took a knee - hah!) and brought no one.
Know your place.
Build the David B. Miller statue with his own fountain on
#SMU
's campus.
It's been his mission to get SMU to the Power Five ranks for well over a year now.
Today, the dream became a reality.
#PonyUpDallas
For
#SMU
fans, we aren’t that far removed from “bowl eligible” being a big deal. Obviously much bigger goals. But to again be bowl eligible—in October (!)—is worth celebrating.
#PonyUpDallas
That’s Rhett’s best win. Haven’t won there since 2009. Lose two QBs. True freshman who never took a snap. Missing two RBs. Missing 3 RBs. Homecoming. Road game.
Just really, really well managed. Very impressive.
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
Liberty didn’t deserve the Fiesta Bowl invitation based on its body of work compared to others.
Liberty losing by 50 to Oregon is irrelevant to that issue. But I don’t hate it.
A productive Texas native receiver is entering the transfer portal, you say? Would he perhaps be interested in moving closer to home, playing for a better team, catching more passes, and playing in the ACC?
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
Looks like Boise State WR Eric McAlister will be entering the transfer portal; he has 47 rec for 873 yards and 5 TD this season; not officially in yet
@mfarrellsports
Remember, the SEC “just means more.” Which is exactly why Vandy cancelled its series with
#SMU
and replaced it with a body-bag game because Vandy was worried it was going to get beaten like a rented mule on its half-built home field.
It. Just. Means. More.
A lot of hard work done over a long period of time by a number of motivated, focused, and driven people who have achieved significant successes in life.
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
“Aside from giving the Pac-12 access to the Dallas market, SMU has been one of the best Group of Five programs in the country and would instantly compete in the Pac-12.”
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
Six schools that the Pac-12 should consider adding
“What school is this.”
One that’s going to the ACC?
One that’s won a Heisman?
One that’s going to a bowl game?
One that’s eligible for a conference title game?
One that’s been around for more than five seconds?
One that’s won multiple natties?
Go sit in the corner quietly
Last night at the weekly coach's radio show,
@SMU
football head coach Rhett Lashlee suggested that the school add "Reverse Boulevarding" by extending the tailgate *after* the game due to the early 11am kickoff...even said he'd join fans on the Boulevard after a win 👀
#PonyUp
Counter-hypothetical:
#SMU
plays all of its games at Ford because we’ve been trying, for years, to fill that stadium with fans. All of those games will fill Ford stadium.
Hypothetical:
SMU plays one conference game at the Cotton Bowl each season during the state fair.
Imagine SMU hosting an opponent like Florida State, UNC, Clemson, Miami, etc. at the fair 👀
“…the fact that adding schools like a San Diego State and SMU can increase the amount of money the conference is worth in the long run.”
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
“Are we going to have to accept the 11-2, top 20, conference title winning team with an enormous NIL apparatus, an enormous source of booster funding that’s finishing up a $150M football facility and is already on par or ahead of most of the conference facilities wise?”
#SMU
Hi
@AJ_DonWilliams
, can you please explain why you’re the only AP voter not to rank SMU? It’s a top 25. There are 9 unbeaten teams. SMU is 7-0. Yet, for reasons beyond my understanding, you didn’t rank SMU. You must know something that every single other AP voter doesn’t.
Thoughts and prayers going out to legendary
#SMU
super-fan Paul Lane; an all-around good guy. Really hope he turns the tables on this illness.
Paul | CaringBridge
Rice was absolutely short on that fourth and one and in an act of stupefying buffoonery the line judge just said “yeah don’t even need to measure just give them a first down.”
Absolutely incredible.
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
#SMU
has slayed a lot of “since the 80s” the last couple years.
A few more remain. But, one less tonight.
@rhettlashlee
is the first SMU coach to win his opener since a Bobby Collins in 1982.
#PonyUpDallas
Joe has been, quite simply, excellent as
#SMU
’s beat writer this season. Enjoyable read on what was otherwise a pretty miserable day.
Massive, massive improvement in coverage over his predecessor.
I went long on what could’ve been — will inevitably be — the final game for Sonny Dykes at SMU, and the last 48 hours that made him say “I hate that it ended this way.”
Guys Gary Patterson actually spent part of his press conference during TEXAS week complaining at
#SMU
parodied his own folksy country music and quasi threatened to sue over IP infringement.
You can’t make something up more awesome than that. This is great television.
Dear
@rhettlashlee
: please win the presser by saying “I can’t promise I’ll never leave here. But I can promise I won’t leave here in the middle of the season to fuck our arch-rival.”
#SMU
#PonyUpDallas
Recap of today’s
#SMU
news:
-UVA OC drops out of bowl game
-SMU lands well regarded WR transfer out of UNC
-SMU hires really solid sitting DC away from a G5 team that just hammered its bowl opponent.
May tomorrow be even better.
#PonyUpDallas
Really disappointing having to the ESPN crew spend two hours carrying Memphis’ water instead of talking about how
#SMU
has owned the Tigers over the last decade.
Lol, not a single SMU fan boy coming at me because I triggered them is denying they're a stepping stone for Cal and stanfUrd and that they bought their way into a conference 😂😂😂
Well,
#SMU
friends - that closes the book on the longest, most draining, exhausting, roller coaster of an offseason….ever. Let’s never do it again.
The actual season starts tomorrow.
#PonyUpDallas
SMU board of trustee chair David Miller on the move to the ACC.
“It is the culmination of the collective investments made by many.”
That includes Miller, who has been very proactive in trying to get SMU into a power conference.
I know statues are a waste of money. And they’re expensive. And
#SMU
has plenty of needs requiring said money. But, it would be really nice and fitting to drop a giant statue of these three right outside the new ops center going in the south end zone.
#SamePonyNewExpress
#SMU
and San Diego State pitched as the two top options for the Pac-12 if they expand - Sports Illustrated All Cardinal News, Analysis and More
#PonyUpDallas
One day this realignment roller coaster will end. Let it be said that for years
@BillyEmbody
has provided, by far - and it’s not even close - the most careful, detailed, consistent, comprehensive
#SMU
coverage on the subject.
He should have charged us all more.
#PonyUpDallas
Way, way, way too much support being pumped into the program to be 2-3 and leading the nation in shooting ourselves in the foot.
Stop dropping the ball. Stop turning the ball over. Execute. Call sharper plays. Get it together —now. Inexcusable.
#PonyUpDallas
#SMU
That’s the most inexcusably shameful performance I can recall seeing in quite some time.
#SMU
should make an immediate change in leadership for the hoops program. Yes, after two years.