This was a song we used to sing on the SMU Mustang baseball bus as we were returning home from a loss. The title is a tribute to Coach Finley’s favorite expression (everything he didn’t like or agree with was “horseshit”), and thus became his affectionately coined nickname. I think the song originally was created by Tino Z (if this wrong I will be corrected I’m sure).
It’s catchy, a little whimsical, and all in harmless fun. We just added new verses over the course of several seasons with the hopes of leaving no one out.
Here is teammate Don “Smoke” Jarma with a perfect rendition, including some new verses from Smoke. Coach Finley always sat in the front seat next to the bus driver, and stoically never reacted one way or the other. Knowing his personality, he likely got a big kick out of it. In 1976, the number of losses in a row peaked at 22.
Little stories from the big adventure 