Gotta love what rivals.com has as their lead story for SMU

[gambino87]

http://smu.rivals.com/

I couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!!!!!!!!


WOW THIS HURTS! HOW WE PASSED UP TERRY BOWDEN, I WILL NEVER KNOW!

[PonyKai]

Maybe for the same reason everyone else in the flipping country passed on him. Hmmm...might be something to that.

[gambino87]

And I guess if everyone jumps off a bridge, there must be something to that,mmmmmmmm.........whatever

[PonyKai]

Oh please WHOA TERRY BOWDEN GOTTA HIRE HIM. What a terrible analogy. If over 10 Athletic Directors have passed over him with only ONE school giving him an interview while wrapping up their coach, Johnson, they must be just missing something that you have found. He's standing on the tallest ladder he can find and screaming that he wants the job at his OWN ALMA MATER. And guess what, he isn't going to get it.

So Bravo, you just must have uncovered some missing link that people paid thousands of dollars and place their own job security on missed themselves. Quick, everyone thinks Orsini is the heir apparent to Copeland, we ought to just hire you.

[gambino87]

I don't care if Terry Bowden is an ex-KGB agent, he could fix the broken horse known as SMU Football and that's all I care about.

[Hoss]

Maybe he could, maybe he couldn't. He inherited a loaded team when he was hired at Auburn, and had a terrific year .... and then got worse almost every year (while busily hacking off Auburn boosters). One interview in nine years suggests to me there's more to the story than what has been distributed for public consumption.

[Junior]

Well, I know this for sure. He sure as hell couldn't do any worse.

[perunapower]

Maybe he could, maybe he couldn't. He inherited a loaded team when he was hired at Auburn, and had a terrific year .... and then got worse almost every year (while busily hacking off Auburn boosters). One interview in nine years suggests to me there's more to the story than what has been distributed for public consumption.

Auburn was under NCAA probation when Bowden was hired. I would hardly say playing with your hands tied behind your back for someone else's mistakes is playing with a loaded team. Might want to check your facts before you spout off.

[smu2000]

I'm shocked nobody has brought up the fact that Bowden has been out of coaching for TEN years. That is a really long time and a lot has changed in that many years (not to mention his affair with a trustee's daughter).
Granted he couldn't do much worse but I think he's the wrong choice. 1) With so much time out of coaching, he could be a COMPLETE flop who we'd have too much invested in to get rid of quickly, and 2) even if he does a really good job, he won't stick around.

A guy like Francione has been in the big spotlight and didn't like it. He's not itchin' to get back in the big time and built a little program across town. Then, there's always Norm Chow. That would be a great hire.

[LakeHighlandsPony]

Yea and New England picked up Randy Moss for a 3rd round draft pick. Sometimes you have to have vision to see what others cannot. Orsini blew it with Bowden.

[ponyboy]

Orsini only blows it if we discover three or four years from now that his hire was a mistake.

[jtstang]

Ugh, like we did with Copeland's hire?? I can't take it.....

[SMU89]

http://smu.rivals.com/

I couldn't have said it better myself!!!!!!!!!!!!


WOW THIS HURTS! HOW WE PASSED UP TERRY BOWDEN, I WILL NEVER KNOW!

I wonder how many ADs make their coaching decision based on what some writer puts up on Rivals?

Maybe Kate will write something and we should just hire whomever she comes up with?

[SMUFan]

Well, I know this for sure. He sure as hell couldn't do any worse.

That's the goal? Not doing any worse?

I'm shocked nobody has brought up the fact that Bowden has been out of coaching for TEN years. That is a really long time and a lot has changed in that many years (not to mention his affair with a trustee's daughter).
Granted he couldn't do much worse but I think he's the wrong choice. 1) With so much time out of coaching, he could be a COMPLETE flop who we'd have too much invested in to get rid of quickly, and 2) even if he does a really good job, he won't stick around.

A guy like Francione has been in the big spotlight and didn't like it. He's not itchin' to get back in the big time and built a little program across town. Then, there's always Norm Chow. That would be a great hire.

That has been brought up. Not only has he been out of coaching for 10 years (or is it nine? Whatever.), but it has been reported that Georgia Tech is the first school to even grant him a cursory interview! There are other ADs out there looking to make a splash, or land a "name" coach, so there has to be more to the anti-Bowden sentiment than the fact that he hooked up with a booster's daughter.

Auburn was on probation, but had tons of talent. He did a fine job that year, to be sure, but it's not like he was coaching with his hands tied behind his back. Maybe that would be an apt description of the way he had to run his program overall, but as for the pure coaching side of things, he had a lot of bullets in that gun.

LakeHighlands .... wasn't it a fourth-round pick the Pats spent on Moss?
(The hiring equivalent in this case would be if SMU could hire Bowden - or any other coach - for far below market value. Doesn't sound like Steve-O is trying to land a coach at a fraction of the going market rate.)

[Dwan]

it looks like we are going to hire Fran or Coker....both of whom nobody else was interested in....so I'd still take Bowden