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It has been a whirlwind two weeks for the SMU football program.December 6th: Chad Morris abruptly announces he is leaving SMU to take the HC position at Arkansas. Chad takes almost his entire offensive coaching staff with him. A number of high profile recruits decommit and some also follow him to Arkansas. A huge gut shot to the entire SMU team just two weeks before their first bowl game for every player on the team considering they haven't been in 4 years.December 7th: Associate head coach and running backs coach Jeff Traylor is announced as interim head coach and will lead the team in the Frisco Bowl.The entire team loves coach Traylor and wants him to be the new permanent HC. They signed petitions and held player only meetings about it. They even met with the SMU AD about their wanting Traylor to be their next permanent head coach. They were extremely vocal about this.December 10th:Reports start coming out saying: Sonny Dykes will be the next head coach and the players went ballistic and were extremely vocal about their displeasure with this decision:https://twitter.com/kemonfreeman/status ... 2815896576https://twitter.com/Kayce_Medlock/statu ... 5670300673https://twitter.com/MDC2_/status/940027918620622848https://twitter.com/The_XavierJones/sta ... 6616241152https://twitter.com/demerick_/status/940038744446451713https://twitter.com/__mymy22/status/940028066427834368December 11th: Sonny Dykes is announced as head coach and offers Traylor to still coach the team through the bowl gameDecember 12th: Jeff Traylor announces that he will be leaving SMU to take a position under old HC Morris at his new school Arkansas. You can only imagine what type of impact this had on the SMU players, moral must had been very down.December 14th: While new coach Dykes is on the road making home visits and high school visits trying to salvage any verbal commits that are still left it is announced that Graduate Assistant GJ Kinne will be calling the plays for SMU from the box for the Frisco Bowl. Apparently Kinne has been working with SMU QB Hicks to formulate the gameplan for the bowl game. A graduate assistant calling the plays and making the game plan.MORE IN NEXT POST....