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Sooner or later, Steve-O will leave
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Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:36 pmby SMU00
Maybe not now, but eventually he will. Assuming it's sooner rather than later ....
When he does move on, who goes on the short list of candidates to replace him?
Re: Sooner or later, Steve-O will leave
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Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:41 pmby MrMustang1965
SMU00 wrote:Maybe not now, but eventually he will.
How prophetic.
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Mon Jul 07, 2008 11:52 pmby SMU00
Yeah, OK, thanks, smarta$$ .... I feel sure you knew I meant that his departure is going to come before, say, he retires .... like in the next few weeks, according to a lot of folks here.
So with that as the backdrop, let's just say he leaves within a year. Who is on the short list to replace him?
Posted:
Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:04 amby PK
Hmmmm...our short list (which doesn't count) or Turner's short list (which none of us knows)? Is this a boring day game...create a short list?
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:07 amby MrMustang1965
Things must be boring in Bangkok.
I want to see Steve O. stay at S.M.U. 'forever'! He's a mastermind.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 12:24 amby SMU00
Sorry, the smarta$$ comment was just a joke....
I don't know  I wanted Coach Hyndman at SMU forever.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:01 amby smu diamond m
He was here damn near forever, especially in the realm of coaching
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:34 amby DallasDiehard
If Steve-O gets the ND gig, would Tulsa's Bubba Cunningham be a candidate here? Does he want out of Tulsa (who wouldn't?), or is he interested just because he, like Steve-O, was a ND athlete (Bubba played tennis)?
Would he have any interest in SMU? Would SMU have any interest in him?
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:13 amby Nacho
Are there any SMU grads out there who are ADs?
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:51 amby diamond_tom
How about Charlie Waters?
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 9:53 amby Nacho
Not an SMU grad.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:05 amby Water Pony
If we lose Steve O. and then his replacement only stays two years, we need a list of possible replacements for Steve's replacement. We need to plan now.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:17 amby jtstang
Water Pony wrote:If we lose Steve O. and then his replacement only stays two years, we need a list of possible replacements for Steve's replacement. We need to plan now.
A.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:24 amby Roach
DallasDiehard wrote:If Steve-O gets the ND gig, would Tulsa's Bubba Cunningham be a candidate here? Does he want out of Tulsa (who wouldn't?), or is he interested just because he, like Steve-O, was a ND athlete (Bubba played tennis)?
Would he have any interest in SMU? Would SMU have any interest in him?
No idea if he'd be interested (rumor has it their soccer coach has applied for Coach Hyndman's job), but I would think we could do a lot worse. He has done some of the same things up there that Steve-O has done here: gotten coaches who appear headed for some success (men's basketball and football, anyway), and he has raised boatloads of cash for the football stadium renovation. Supposedly he is viewed in AD circles as a bright, capable, aggressive guy, so I guess he wouldn't be a bad candidate.
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Tue Jul 08, 2008 10:35 amby StallionsModelT
Not sure that many would consider SMU a significant step up from Tulsa at this point. Maybe we could go the Oregon route and just hire a Carl Sewell, Gerald Ford, or some other big money alum.