SMU GETS THEIR STALIN ON

by Orson on Feb 12, 2009 3:25 PM EST

SMU just staged a purge of their roster that the Man of Steel himself would be impressed with, booting a total of nine players off their roster for "violating team rules or school policy." June Jones cares not for the blood of a single life, or even a million, so long as the people's will is done.

Mad props, Coach Jones. Na Zdorovie!

Coach Jones evidently takes the "scholarships are one-year agreements" definition very, very literally. For the record: Jones signed 29 last year and signed 26 this year, so overage is a slight but not massive concern.

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Signing only 29 players is weak. Let’s see some effort, huh!

oh yeah…..giggity, bitches

by Houston Nutt on Feb 12, 2009 3:48 PM EST reply actions

If they follow the SMU student pattern, “violating team rules or school policy” translates as “using a large amount of potent opiates and/or barbiturates, including some that most people haven’t even heard of.”

by gosouthgohard on Feb 12, 2009 3:59 PM EST reply actions

Now we know who the kulaks of SMU football are. Start practicing to count trees, petty bourgeois scum.

by DC Trojan on Feb 12, 2009 4:23 PM EST reply actions

Gosouthgohard is confusing SMU with UNT. These guys aren’t on drugs, they’re just trapdoored Mack Brown style for not being talented enough.

Orson is apparently getting his inner Soviet on. First the Moscow Boys Choir*, now this. Next we’ll see a clip from “The Hunt for Red October” with Sam Neill saying “I shall never see Montana…in the Fulmer Cup”. Dosvedanya, comrade.

I liked Nikolai Volkoff’s version better.

by Raider Red on Feb 12, 2009 4:35 PM EST reply actions

Will they also alter team photos to erase any memory of these players having played for SMU? Troy signed 41. If SMU is the USSR, what do we have to look forward to from the China of CFB?

by Crabapple Buck on Feb 12, 2009 4:37 PM EST reply actions

Let me guess, the mensheviks that were purged were recruited by the previous coach?

Good point Red Raider

by OhioDawg on Feb 12, 2009 5:49 PM EST reply actions

In honor of Stalin’s homeland, let me just point out that you can’t spell “Gulag” without U-G-A.
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by Conan D'Amato on Feb 12, 2009 7:46 PM EST reply actions