Umm...this game cannot come soon enough. We know, you have the better team historically. We are also well aware of our 3 win season(unlike you we saw the games).
I get the feeling you are not satisfied with the amount of praise we are heaping on USM and your all-world assistant ,turned head coach. As someone who has followed college football for a while I can inform you that you will never get the praise from other fans that you crave. Every team you play this year will think they are better than you. If they lose to USM opposing fans will not credit you, they will lament the mistakes they made.
This is how life is as a mid-major.
This difference is that USM is loaded with talent, while SMU is in shambles. We made the coaching change before we let our program get run into the ground. The talent is in place. We just needed a coaching staff that knows what to do with it in the modern era. Bower was a good coach. He was just stuck in the past. His offense just wasn't up to par any longer. Despite that, we won 7 games last year. SMU won 1. Big difference.
We've EARNED the right to be confident. ULL has not. You can pretend that the past doesn't matter, but intelligent people know otherwise. You're still having the same losing seasons as you always have. You're still getting trounced by every decent team you play. Until that changes, you can't toss the past aside and pretend that everything is rosy.
If you are on campus tomorrow and visit the Barnes and Noble bookstore, be sure to look up on the wall and see the reproduction of a Southern Miss vs. ULa-La program. It is one of many program reproductions you will find on the wall at the back of the building.
Interesting to note that the captains on the defensive side of the ball relish the "Nasty Bunch" moniker that USM defenses in the past earned. They feel that their goal this year is to earn back the name "Nasty Bunch"
WE actually hope for a return to the Nasty bunch. At times last year the looked more like the BRADY BUNCH!
It is not a given that your coaching change will be sucessful. Look at Nebraska (Solich), TexasA&M (Slocum), and LSU(Mac). These were sucessful(winning) coaches that could not win the "big one". They also ran conservative offenses their fans despised. Once the alums ran the coach off they brought in new schemes. The result were disasterous. I am not saying this will happen to USM, but history says it will.
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