Best part of the press conference?

[giacfsp]

Not one question directed at Leigh Steinberg

[jtstang]

And yet he still made tons of money....

[RushStPony]

Two things:

1) Why would anything be directed at him? Normally these things involve the coach and the school officials.

2) Even if it had, why is that a problem? As evidenced by Orsini in the conference, Steinberg, in his agent role, carried this whole thing while JJ was still coaching Hawaii...While you can attribute this to him being his agent, he still is a major reason why we have JJ.

[giacfsp]

If it was a coach/AD thing today, Steinberg didn't belong up there with the other three.
Nothing personal - I just equate Steinberg with Scott Boras, and didn't want to hear him babble about things he knows nothing about (read: anything other than money).

[Duke Blue Blood]

People.

[mr. pony]

Orsini called Steinberg the MVP/

[Blue Horseshoe]

I don't know if most of you guys know, but June Jones was Steinberg's second client. They go back a long way.

[smupony]

Not one question directed at Leigh Steinberg

If you have read any articles written in the past few days you would notice that Steinberg was our cheerleader. Obviously he is going to do what is best for June, but is was quite obvious that he was impressed with us and led June to us.

In the PC June said he was urged to at least check out the Hawaii job 9 years ago and he did the same this time around.

I know everyone is going to jump all over my back with "he's an agent", "he's going for the money", etc, etc.

One article I read talked about Steinberg and Jones being very close.

This was a win win for everyone. Steinberg helped pave the way.

[MrMustang1965]

Steinberg has the SMU 'preppy' look down solid!
Blue blazer, chinos, topsiders, blue button down and red tie.

[Texas Red]

Yes, Steinberg's a great guy. Not every agent is a Scott Boras. In fact, most of them are not.

My personal favorite part of the press conference was the "There's nowhere to go but up here --- and I'm good at that."

Love the enthusiam.

[mustangblood]

The best thing was on the Ticket June Jones did not even know Gerald Turner's name he just said the President!!! This is the best day for SMU!!

The Long Horns better watch out...Beause there is a knew guy in Dallas named June Jones!!

[mathman]

Not one question directed at Leigh Steinberg

If you have read any articles written in the past few days you would notice that Steinberg was our cheerleader. Obviously he is going to do what is best for June, but is was quite obvious that he was impressed with us and led June to us.

In the PC June said he was urged to at least check out the Hawaii job 9 years ago and he did the same this time around.

I know everyone is going to jump all over my back with "he's an agent", "he's going for the money", etc, etc.

One article I read talked about Steinberg and Jones being very close.

This was a win win for everyone. Steinberg helped pave the way.

I got the same impression. I don't know that Jones would have even interviewed for the job if not for Steinberg. He certainly didn't hurt us any.