Next Doherty assistant?

by **Stallion** » Sat Jul 01, 2006 12:18 pm

All things being equal, I'd trade a guy with great Chicago ties for a guy with great DFW ties any day. If everything goes right in a perfect world SMU gets 2 "good prospects" from Chicago. SMU with improved facilities and finally a "salesman" coach could build a program with DFW players. That being said I think its great we got a guy with strong AAU ties and think the effect will be felt more broadly than just in Chicago. That's "old-timer" thinking. Recruiting the AAU programs is national in scope.

by **d_pony** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:53 am

Mrydel - regarding your confusion over the term "Windy City", if you read the best selling NON-fiction book "Devil and the White City" (a best seller a year or so ago) it references the NewYork Times' (i think it was the Times but it may have been the NYPost) article dicusssing how Chicago beat out New York City for the Columbian Exhibition of 1892 (most historians consider this the all time best World's Fair). The article states that it was because of the unified effort of the Chicago Politicans who were "Windy" and goes on to state the "Windy City" (Chicago) deserves the honor of obtaining the Columbian Exhibition because of since a wonderful presentation by these politicans - the Columbian Exhibiltion introduced lots of diverse new concepts and things we take for granted today, AC electicity, crackerjacks, ferris wheel, the term "midway" to name a few - many historians believe that Walt Disney's idea of Disneyland germinated because of the Columbian Exhibition since Walt's father worked worked on the project and told his son how great and spectular it was -- In other words your local newcaster does not know what he is talking about --

by **mrydel** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:01 am

OK. I believe you and my mind is once again straight. But please do not ever think I take Ferris Wheels for granted.

by **jtstang** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:15 am

mrydel wrote:OK. I believe you and my mind is once again straight. But please do not ever think I take Ferris Wheels for granted.

Good for you mrydel. Then you'll know that they were named for Ferris Bueller, another great Chicagoan from Hollywood.

by **mrydel** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:29 am

jtstang wrote:
mrydel wrote:OK. I believe you and my mind is once again straight. But please do not ever think I take Ferris Wheels for granted.

Good for you mrydel. Then you'll know that they were named for Ferris Bueller, another great Chicagoan from Hollywood.

I assumed you gleaned this information form the sports section of the Dallas Morning News.

by **carolsmu** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 8:41 am

"Pacers assistant coach Chad Forcier recently turned down a job to be the associate head coach at Southern Methodist University in Texas. SMU is coached by former Notre Dame coach Matt Doherty. Forcier has spent the past two seasons with the Pacers."

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/a ... /607080428

by **Pony4Life** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 10:22 am

Love the fact that Coach Doherty is going after an NBA guy! Yet another asset he can sell to recruits.

by **RGV Pony** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 2:20 pm

Perhaps Doherty would like some old blood, a la Del Harris, and bring in one time Mavs and Notre Dame coach John MacLeod.

by **Lotus** » Sat Jul 08, 2006 5:02 pm

Please no. Not that he's a bad coach, I guess, but Coach Doherty has the right idea -- if he's going to try to land a guy with NBA connections, it's got to be someone young (or at least who was in the NBA somewhat recently). Recruits want to be told that an assistant coached Dirk Nowitzki or Josh Howard, or someone like that. Wheeling out John McLeod and saying "he coached Mark Aguirre and Brad Davis" likely would draw a response of "WHO?"

by **jtstang** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:04 pm

It's official. Now what about George Lynch, rumormongers??

http://smumustangs.cstv.com/sports/m-ba ... 06aaa.html

by **EastStang** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:51 pm

How many players on Michigan's Fab Five team came from Chicago?

by **Buddha** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:05 pm

Juwan Howard and Jalen Rose, I think.

Chris Webber is from the Detroit area, Jimmy King is from Plany, and Ray Whatshisname is from Houston, if I remember right.

by **LA_Mustang** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 1:13 pm

one

Howard - Chicago Vocational
Rose - Detroit Southwestern
Webber - Detroit Country Day
King - Plano East
Jackson - Austin, not sure what high school

by **d_pony** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:01 pm

George Lynch is the basketball strength and conditioning coach - not sure if that is his title but that is what he is doing

by **jtstang** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 2:03 pm

d_pony wrote:George Lynch is the basketball strength and conditioning coach - not sure if that is his title but that is what he is doing

When did SMU announce that? All the other assistants have had a press release. Is he an employee of SMU? What is your source for this information? Why is it not public?

I'm not saying it's wrong, but if it is true, this is another in a long line of PR gaffes at SMU. If you hire a recent ex-NBAer as an asst hoops coach, you publicize it. Come to think of it, now I suspect you are probably right, and SMU just laid an egg, as usual. And right about the time the new coach is trying to salvage something in recruiting.

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