SMUGradCox wrote:SMU_Alum11 wrote:SMUGradCox wrote:This thread is very sad. I'm keeping my tickets because I love SMU. Some of you are acting like we just hired a lower-tier school's special teams coordinator as our head coach. Good lord.
That’s a great way to describe this hire!
What's your background? How do you know how to evaluate this hire to such a level of confidence? I'm not saying you don't deserve your opinion (you do), but you are acting like you have years of experience in athletics or even coaching. What is your background and what do you know?
Like you said, it’s an opinion. How did I get my opinion: looking at his recruiting classes at LA Tech (rankings 95-110) which is more comparable to us since both is G5. Like one person accurately put, he’s got a June similarity. He was canned and found an analyst job (no coach experience and probably wasnt thinking anything was coming for awhile). He doesn’t have anything that suggests “take to the next level”. On top of all that, it feels like June Jones deja vu.
Like I told XC, I hope im so so so wrong and that we succeed. I would love to come on here and say I was so wrong shame on me. I feel he might be able to “coach” but I don’t see him recruiting. So if we get 8 wins yay but if our recruiting class is 90+ I will consider it a huge failure.
I guess the other part of this is the fact we were probably denied by all the good options. If that’s the case, that realization that we are G5-for-life sucks.