Advice: Get This Done Now

[TheBestAvailable]

SMU has been operating under a non-compete clause for the last several years.

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[SWC2010]

Bottom line is SMU could potentially save the equivalent of PB’s buyout ......

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How about sending that bill to Copeland?

What an idiot for extending that contract.

In 20 years, it will be looked upon as the dumbest move in SMU AD history

[westexSMU]

[quote="SMUFan"][quote="Stallion"]But hey we'll always have Coker because no body would be dumb enough to offer him a job.[/quote]I can't see why so many people think a guy who goes 60-15 and wins a national championship would be a "dumb" hire. My guess is that if Coker gets hired again, either at SMU or elsewhere, it is the folks at Rice who will look dumb for letting financial considerations get in the way of bringing him to Houston. Yes, he inherited talent at UM. He also got them to perform at a high level. The NCAA history books are filled with talented teams that underachieve, and the blame for many of those has to fall at least in part at the feet of their coaches. So Coker isn't 33 years old, or a Texan. Put some coaches on his staff with Texas recruiting ties, and my guess is we could do a whole lot worse. He's a proven winner, and winning is what each of us wants, right?[/quote].............60-15 sounds impressive right ?...Coker had a great start with the BEST program in the country at that time, Miami.....Who wouldn't ??? Coker was FIRED last year because Miami's athletic officials could see how much the program had fallen. Miami was BETTER than UT, Oklahoma, and USC when Coker took over. When Coker left, Miami would have gotten their [deleted] kicked by TCU if they had played last year...Now can you understand ? The guy took the best program in the country and turned them into average or a below average program....So the real question should be why some here really think he should be in charge of rebuilding our program ???

[Paul_Hugg]

If we hire Fran, let's just pay him what we pay him and not get buried down in bush league Poindexter-esque number crunching. Believe me, he's not my first choice, but I threw a few bucks at this dream like many of you did. Bottom line is we need a coach. This is still college athletics and we don't have to treat it like a get rich quick/public energy sign up/prepaid legal service/water filtration for your kitchen faucet scheme. Same deal with whomever we hire.

I'm 100% with Stallion in that we should hire Todd Dodge, but whatever. I'll still be there, and I have enough friends who went to A&M or college in general that I don't to want take a lot of lip about a contract that pays big money in years 4 and 5 and cack in years 1-3. We wouldn't to be done that way, and neither do they.

On to more serious matters. Pig Run is less than 4 weeks away. A lot of talk out there that Theta may sweep. But then again, Pi Phi and Kappa are also talking a big game. DG will always have Paul Hugg's heart, although Chi O crush provided some great nights. And, I don't like to talk about it, but one night after the Gamma Phi Christmas Semi-formal...............