VIDEO: Rhett Lashlee on SMU return, 2022 staff, recruiting

[redpony]

One can always wish.

[SoCal_Pony]

Hopefully Little Ricky is gone before summer.

Oh is R.G.T. retiring before summer?

I can’t see RGT leaving until this Capital Campaign is complete.

I hope I’m wrong, though.

BTW, I’m enjoying these coaches videos and looking forward to more.

It’s like a beauty pageant to me. Hopefully one of our assistants will shine like Rhett did and be our next HC if/when Rhett leaves. He certainly looks like he’s assembled a quality staff.

[Bergermeister]

Hopefully Little Ricky is gone before summer.

With his blue ribbon list of accomplishments, other schools will be beating down his door to hire him away from SMU.

[Ikus]

You're right -- Rhett Lashlee is a very impressive interview. Looking forward to Spring ball.

[Dark Horse]

I don't know how to define "it" but Lashlee seems to have "it"

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

not in defense of SD but I have to wonder what happened that made him so antagonistic toward SMU. He really didn't seem like that type of individual.
Our history wiith JJ was not good, then the chadster bolted and left us in the lurch for a bowl game and then SD. IMO SD showed more hatred toward us than either of the other two and you have to question the reasons. Really just curious.

We've had 4 head football coaches in 9 years....

These departures....kind of like divorces....rarely end well.

it's either "that guy is incompetent and/or doesnt care" or "that guy is a sorry disloyal SOB"

It was June/ArizonaState, then Chad/Ark, next Sonny/TCU...
does 1 in 100 college coach departures end well?

We are in full "honey-moon phase" with Rhett right now....myself included.

but the nature of the coaching business is not pretty.

Go Mustangs!

[Charleston Pony]

not in defense of SD but I have to wonder what happened that made him so antagonistic toward SMU. He really didn't seem like that type of individual.
Our history wiith JJ was not good, then the chadster bolted and left us in the lurch for a bowl game and then SD. IMO SD showed more hatred toward us than either of the other two and you have to question the reasons. Really just curious.

We've had 4 head football coaches in 9 years....

These departures....kind of like divorces....rarely end well.

it's either "that guy is incompetent and/or doesnt care" or "that guy is a sorry disloyal SOB"

It was June/ArizonaState, then Chad/Ark, next Sonny/TCU...
does 1 in 100 college coach departures end well?

We are in full "honey-moon phase" with Rhett right now....myself included.

but the nature of the coaching business is not pretty.

Go Mustangs!

Pretty rare for any college football head coach to spend an entire career at one school...and for that career to end on a positive note. Joe Paterno comes to mind as someone who should have been able to go out on a high note but ended really ugly. I think of Darrell Royal's long run at Texas, but IIRC he bailed on a couple of jobs before getting the UT job. Tom Osborne at Nebraska comes to mind or maybe Lavell Edwards at BYU but these were all coaches of yesteryear. The game has changed and the money and pressure to win has made it really difficult for anyone to stay in one place his entire career. Would be really special for Lashlee to be that guy at SMU and establish the Mustangs as a perennial power, but realistically Mustang fans should just hope for continued success while bracing for more change down the road.