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Orsini Recuiting Players For Team.....

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 8:48 pm
by ponydawg
per the blog....DMN blog that is:

Orsini receives NCAA waiver to recruit

Steve Orsini talks often of selling SMU.
Now the athletic director is officially a recruiter.

Along with having a full-speed football coaching search underway, Orsini and two members of his staff on Friday received a rare waiver from the NCAA allowing them to recruit football players.

SMU fired coach Phil Bennett on Sunday, though Bennett and his staff are serving out the remaining four games of the season.

Orsini and executive assistant AD Mike Vaught and director of football operations Randy Ross can initiate phone calls and send written correspondence to prospects until Nov. 10th.

Under traditional NCAA rules, only official members of the coaching staff can recruit.
“I am sure it will assist the recruiting process, as it provides an avenue to get critical information to these prospects with respect to the change in football leadership,â€

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:00 pm
by CalallenStang
Orsini and executive assistant AD Mike Vaught and director of football operations Randy Ross can initiate phone calls and send written correspondence to prospects until Nov. 10th.


Nov. 10 is Homecoming. Hence the rumor that we will have a new coach by Homecoming.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:29 pm
by Stallion
Do we have a Jerry Jones in the making? From Socks to jocks!!!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:33 pm
by Grider
He should pull a [deleted] Cheney and hire himself.

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:46 pm
by Insane_Pony_Posse
re: "Do we have a Jerry Jones in the making? From Socks to jocks!!!"

Hope so
I'll take 3 Championships
And a 4th in the making!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 9:52 pm
by Dwan
he is also growing a moustache

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:02 pm
by expony18
Image

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 10:27 pm
by ALEX LIFESON
"Do we have a Jerry Jones in the making? From Socks to jocks!!!"


Mob boss Orsini did spend 10 years with Jerry, and collected a couple of Super Bowl rings!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:17 pm
by Paladin
Man I like this guy... You just get the feeling he really wants to turn things around. Steve Orsini for President !

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:33 pm
by perunapower
Paladin wrote:Man I like this guy... You just get the feeling he really wants to turn things around. Steve Orsini for President !


No! Leave him as AD!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:38 pm
by Statler
DARTH LOVES IT!...

A man thinking outside the box. Getting a waiver to recruit? Who ever heard of that?!? Maybe we did hire that druid/wiccan/witch doctor already to get the evil spirits out!

PostPosted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:46 pm
by Grider
expony18 wrote:Image


The great Charles Landsdale Finn was in that movie (Dimpus Burger Guy)...a famous Phi and an SMU grad.


Image

PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 12:10 am
by expony18
wow didnt know that

PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 1:07 am
by LonghornFan68
Grider wrote:
expony18 wrote:Image


The great Charles Landsdale Finn was in that movie (Dimpus Burger Guy)...a famous Phi and an SMU grad.


Image


So he was a tool in real life, too. Interesting.

*ducks*

PostPosted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 5:58 am
by Grider
ouch :lol: