Doherty working with Calvin Watkins?

[SoCal_Pony]

DBB,

I think that would be a foregone conclusion if you were talking about FB…might not be the same with BB.

If we have the success in BB that MD thinks we can, I suspect SMU would probably match any offer $$ for $$. Maybe the appeal WP is talking about might just keep him, I wouldn't rule it out.

[SMUltimedia]

No one has said what bar yet.... I wanna know where I can hang out w. Doh when I'm drunk.

[RGV Pony]

Spoke to him last night at a Bar. VERY GOOD salesman. If he is half the coach (which he is not) then we have a good guy.

He'll still be gone in a fews year, but hell, name the last time in the off season this board got this much press.

DBB

P.S. I may even take him to lunch. I said maybe.

DBB:

If we accept his premise that SMU is a destination job, he could be here for a very long and successful career. Naive? Don't think so.

DOH paid a big price to coach both Notre Dame and North Carolina, his dream job. I have always thought that coaches get crazy, when they continuously 'upgrade' their coaching jobs. Coaching at NC, Duke, Kansas, UCLA, Kentucky, etc. is practically unworkable, except for the truly gifted coaches.

Perhaps I am nuts, but if a coach creates sustainable success at any Division 1 school, he or she would be smart to stay and harvest the benefits for a very long time. When down years occur, you can survive it. At the above schools, you are gone (period).

In BB think of Syracuse, Maryland, Utah, Purdue, Georgetown, DePaul, etc. where coaches remained for a very long time and became icons at their respective schools. Legacies are worth it, only if you remain in place. The risks of job hopping magnify expectations and shorten the leash. DOH knows that. SMU could be a destination job. If he creates a winner, why go from a frying pan into the fire again?

Just my way of thinking. Joe Paterno, Bobby Bowden, John Wooden, Rupp, Coach K, Ray Meyer, Dean Smith, etc. didn't inherit the legacy, they created one.

My two cents.

Don't forget Jim Calhoun at UConn. When we all started watching Big East bball (i.e. were force fed it) back in the days of Ewing, then Chris Mullin etc., UConn wasn't much to talk about.

[Duke Blue Blood]

IF and this is a big if, he is successful, I would obviously love him to turn SMU into a "program". Just being realistic.

Remember..he has not even put a single team through practice, much less a game.

We should all evaluate his basketball accumen on the court.

For PR, he gets an A.

I HATE CAROLINA more than anything and I bought him a drink.


DBB

[itsaputon]

DBB,


RE:

I HATE CAROLINA more than anything and I bought him a drink.

I'm afraid you wasted your money, as Matt does not drink alcohol.

[White Helmet]

I think since the name of the bar hasnt come out we should launch an internal investigation to make sure it wasnt a gentlemens club...or worse.

[jtstang]

I think since the name of the bar hasnt come out we should launch an internal investigation to make sure it wasnt a gentlemens club....

What's wrong with having a heterosexual coach?

[White Helmet]

We dont want any Mike Price problems and besides JT at many of those establishments they have free buffets what if said buffet had burgers on it? What if the dancers used Cheer on their...uhm outfits? That would be a disaster.

[jtstang]

We dont want any Mike Price problems and besides JT at many of those establishments they have free buffets what if said buffet had burgers on it? What if the dancers used Cheer on their...uhm outfits? That would be a disaster.

As long as Max Williams is not there handing him twenties, I think he's okay.