HeyHey wrote:I'm hopeful Steve O comes through, but moving Erwin to the men's program makes me wonder. Erwin had a terrible reputation with both clubs and other colleges. Sting wants nothing to do with him, so he did everything he could to be chummy with Texans.
We haven't had a Sting player since Lewis/Hairston came over and the ensuing mess shut that door pretty darn hard. Hopefully they'll reconsider if we hire someone with integrity who means what they say.
HeyHey wrote:I hope if nothing else Orsini hires a women's coach and learned his lesson about bringing a men's coach in to coach women.
Brent doesn't even a good record as a *men's* coach. Looking back through the archives, he was 13-17-3 at UCF and yet this was Orsini's quote in the presser:
"Brent was an ideal candidate for this position," said Orsini. "He has extensive ties to the area and to SMU. Having hired Brent when I was at Central Florida,
I knew that he was well-equipped to lead a program and his success there only reinforced those thoughts. He understands our goal of being a top-25 program and I am convinced he will keep our program at that championship-level and help us continue our march up the national rankings." The italics are mine, but REALLY? What part of that pathetic record coaching men made him an 'ideal candidate' to coach a Top 25 women's team? I am very hopeful that Steve O is just darn tired of cleaning up the mess over there and brings in a quality coach to get us back to a genuine Top 25 team.
PonyTales wrote:Any candidates known yet? Has anyone even been contacted?
I've heard Cal's AHC, Patrick Baker, on a couple of forums but don't know any more than that conjecture. Orsini may know him since they were both in Florida during the same time period, especially since Baker had a great record as HC at FSU.
It seems our AD moves rather slowly during these searches so we'll just have to be patient and keep hope alive.