New men's basketball director of operations

[PonyPride]

SMU's own Gerald Lewis has returned to his alma mater. He started earlier this week.

[ponyscott]

This is great news and is a perfect choice!

[Lotus]

Welcome home, Gerald!

[ponyboy]

Man, somebody called that one. Outstanding news.

[HorsePower]

Congratulations!
He was one of my all-time favorite SMU players. Love the hire.

[diamond_tom]

This is great news! Welcome back Gerald.

Story from his last game as a Mustang -

http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1993-03-19/sports/9303190152_1_jason-kidd-smu-byu

Earlier, Brigham Young advanced into a Saturday game against second-seeded Kansas by beating Southern Methodist 80-71 in a game that wasn't very pretty. In fact, it was pretty ugly, although SMU guard Gerald Lewis and BYU coach Roger Reid would debate that choice of words.

"I don't know what was ugly about the game; we played hard," said Lewis, who fouled out after committing five of the 45 fouls called.

"It was not fluid," said Reid. "We did not knock down threes and change ends. It wasn't smooth. The hard play caused fouls, and all the fouls hurt continuity. But ugly? I wouldn't call it that."

Okay. So it was a hard-fought game with poor shooting, rough edges and plenty of fouls.

Each team exposed some weak spots as well as strengths as BYU's twin 6-foot-10-inch towers, Gary Trost and Russell Larson, hit nine of 15 shots en route to 26 points and nine of 11 for 19, respectively.

SMU battled to a 40-40 standoff in rebounding, despite a game-high 10 by still another BYU giant, 6-9, 225-pound Jared Miller.

"It seemed that everyone they sent in was 7 feet tall," said SMU coach John Shumate, the 6-9 former Notre Dame star who had to look up to gaze BYU pivotmen in the eye.

Even Lewis might have to consider "ugly" an accurate description of the Mustangs' shooting.

SMU shot .361 from the field, including 2 of 24 from three-point range. From the foul line, SMU made just 17 for 34 for a .500 mark.

Late in the first half, a major SMU shortcoming kicked in. Given an easy chance to go ahead, SMU hit only 10 of 22 free throws in the first half, enabling BYU to stay ahead 37-33 at the half.

"If SMU had capitalized on foul shooting in the first half, it could have been a different game," said Reid. "But frankly, they're not a good free-throw team, and we knew it."

[ponyboy]

That brings back memories. I believe that was a day game during the middle of the week. I was a broker at Fidelity and watched it on a tiny tv with rabbit ears up at work.

Kinda cool too the Jason Kidd article at that link.

[Monkeystang]

This is big time. I can't wait for the season to start up again.