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I assume he is planning on taking the offer and if he does it will be tomorrow. If that is the case, wouldn't they have a Press Conference immediately?

mt327 wrote:I assume he is planning on taking the offer and if he does it will be tomorrow. If that is the case, wouldn't they have a Press Conference immediately?

They may have to switch to Sunday. It will be old news by Mon. I guess it would be a smaller crowd however (Sun.). Then again they may try to stretch it out to Mon.

Exactly, my assumption is that they want the PC to happen right after the news breaks to ESPN

mt327 wrote:Exactly, my assumption is that they want the PC to happen right after the news breaks to ESPN

We were just discussing that. It wouldn't be news by Monday afternoon. You need to run with the story's momentum.

You also need to do it when he says "yes". Jim Grobe said "yes' to Arkansas and they waited a day and he changed his mind. With Petrino, they had the presser at 10:30 at night! Git r done.

Congratulations Pony Fans!

Man that had to be one hell of a painful wait.

Now the next question is where does this leave you all in recruiting this year?

JesuitGreen wrote:Congratulations Pony Fans!

Man that had to be one hell of a painful wait.

Now the next question is where does this leave you all in recruiting this year?

We'll see next week. I'm still praying this deal is sealed.

This is my first post to any college message board. A quick background on me and I'll get to my opinion. I am a 1995 graduate of SMU and had a family member play FB in the early 80s. I have spent 10 years working in Media Relations at NCAA Division I schools (including TCU, where I got my graduate degree ... much easier there than on the Hilltop) and I just left the world of NCAA sports in the past couple of months, so I feel I can now post without consequence or repercussion.

No matter when the press conference is, it's never really done. Most recently remember the mind-changing of Dana Altman at Creighton, Billy Donovan and Florida, etc. The PC is just the announcement and satisfaction that the contract is signed. I would expect the PC to be Monday, no matter what, to capitalize on six days of solid news coverage and to be talked about during Monday's BCS national title game. It will not be old news on Monday. Even if it gets out today (which it will, trust me, it will), that's one more day of SMU being in the news. In fact, SMU had a headline in my local paper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and it was SMU, not Southern Methodist) and SMU's score is barely ever reported.

Just my two cents. I appreciate this board far more than other college boards I follow. You guys do your homework and most of you aren't to full of yourselves, at least that's my impression.

nice to hear from someone who knows WTF he's actually talking about.

so here's my serious question: if he does NOT accept, what happens at the press conference on monday? my unprofessional observation is that press conferences such as this are not regularly cancelled, so what is SMU PR's plan?

Not so full of ourselves?? You have not been following this board for long if you can come to that conclusion.

LasseKjus wrote:No matter when the press conference is, it's never really done. Most recently remember the mind-changing of Dana Altman at Creighton, Billy Donovan and Florida, etc.

Bill McCartney and SMU....

LasseKjus wrote:This is my first post to any college message board. A quick background on me and I'll get to my opinion. I am a 1995 graduate of SMU and had a family member play FB in the early 80s. I have spent 10 years working in Media Relations at NCAA Division I schools (including TCU, where I got my graduate degree ... much easier there than on the Hilltop) and I just left the world of NCAA sports in the past couple of months, so I feel I can now post without consequence or repercussion.

No matter when the press conference is, it's never really done. Most recently remember the mind-changing of Dana Altman at Creighton, Billy Donovan and Florida, etc. The PC is just the announcement and satisfaction that the contract is signed. I would expect the PC to be Monday, no matter what, to capitalize on six days of solid news coverage and to be talked about during Monday's BCS national title game. It will not be old news on Monday. Even if it gets out today (which it will, trust me, it will), that's one more day of SMU being in the news. In fact, SMU had a headline in my local paper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and it was SMU, not Southern Methodist) and SMU's score is barely ever reported.

Just my two cents. I appreciate this board far more than other college boards I follow. You guys do your homework and most of you aren't to full of yourselves, at least that's my impression.

Thanks for the information. I'm really hoping we have this deal locked up. I still have that 4th quarter, up by 3 feeling in the pit of my stomach.

FWMustangGirl wrote:

LasseKjus wrote:This is my first post to any college message board. A quick background on me and I'll get to my opinion. I am a 1995 graduate of SMU and had a family member play FB in the early 80s. I have spent 10 years working in Media Relations at NCAA Division I schools (including TCU, where I got my graduate degree ... much easier there than on the Hilltop) and I just left the world of NCAA sports in the past couple of months, so I feel I can now post without consequence or repercussion.

No matter when the press conference is, it's never really done. Most recently remember the mind-changing of Dana Altman at Creighton, Billy Donovan and Florida, etc. The PC is just the announcement and satisfaction that the contract is signed. I would expect the PC to be Monday, no matter what, to capitalize on six days of solid news coverage and to be talked about during Monday's BCS national title game. It will not be old news on Monday. Even if it gets out today (which it will, trust me, it will), that's one more day of SMU being in the news. In fact, SMU had a headline in my local paper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (and it was SMU, not Southern Methodist) and SMU's score is barely ever reported.

Just my two cents. I appreciate this board far more than other college boards I follow. You guys do your homework and most of you aren't to full of yourselves, at least that's my impression.

Thanks for the information. I'm really hoping we have this deal locked up. I still have that 4th quarter, up by 3 feeling in the pit of my stomach.

I was never sure if that feeling was because I always knew we were going to lose or because the fact that we were actually ahead had forced me to stay in the stadium and away from my beer for too long.

huskerpony wrote:I was never sure if that feeling was because I always knew we were going to lose or because the fact that we were actually ahead had forced me to stay in the stadium and away from my beer for too long.

LOL! We rarely were without alcohol in the stadium (hooray for frat boys with flasks in their Redwings), so I'm pretty sure mine was the dread of losing.

FWMustangGirl wrote:I'm really hoping we have this deal locked up. I still have that 4th quarter, up by 3 feeling in the pit of my stomach.

Isn't that the truth? I hope someday soon to forget what that feels like...