assistant coaches

[Hoop Fan]

i hear through the non-SMU grapevine that a former Skyline coach is interviewing with Doherty for a position. I wont say what school, but the guy is supposedly on the staff of a major school in a major conference right now. Anyway, sounds like a good candidate with local ties to me.

[MustangIcon]

I would say this guy sounds like he would be an excellent fit. If its true I like that we are looking at qualified candidates who also have local ties as opposed to just plucking a local guy, who might or might not be ready to be a D1 assistant, for the sake of appeasing DISD.

Great info Hoop. Keep us posted please.

[McClown27]

Kind of guy we need.

[Stallion]

a former coach?-hasn't Skyline had the same coach-J.D. Mayo- for something like 20 years. I know he coached Larry Johnson and recently C.J. Miles. Are you talking former Skyline assistant?

[McClown27]

We could take a page out of Larry Brown's playbook and start hiring the fathers of bigtime recruits.

[abezontar]

that would be sweet, then we would get extra scholarships, and would get to overhaul the coaching staff every few years.

[Hoop Fan]

a former coach?-hasn't Skyline had the same coach-J.D. Mayo- for something like 20 years. I know he coached Larry Johnson and recently C.J. Miles. Are you talking former Skyline assistant?

yes, that was my understanding. This is nothing more than hearsay at this point, but it comes from somebody who met Doherty at a coaches clinic in San Antonio last week, so he hears things at these clinics like all high school coaches do. Sounds like Dohery is getting around.

[PonyPride]

Coach Doherty is everywhere. He already has been hitting area schools and AAU tournaments, and has made appearances in Houston, Austin and San Antonio, and probably elsewhere for all I know.

He said he hopes to have at least one of the two remaining assistant coach spots filled in 7-10 days.

[tristatecoog]

FWIW,

http://mb16.scout.com/fcoogfansfrm2.sho ... 9887.topic

[PonyFan]

Posted on that Houston site (and thanks for the link, tristatecoog):

"Jimmy Hicks reports "Ice" Lewis has been offered a fat contract to assist Matt Doherty at SMU....spin away"

Is this Kelvin Lewis?

A later post calls him a great recruiter and a big man coach .... both of which we need. Hope he takes the offer, if he's as good as those guys suggest.

[SMU Football Blog]

FWIW,

http://mb16.scout.com/fcoogfansfrm2.sho ... 9887.topic

That would be Kevin Lewis, the former TCU assistant, who has been at Houston for no more than a month. Also been an assistant at Baylor and New Mexico. Known as a good recruiter. He played for some school called SMU in the 80's. SMU's leading scorer in 1986.

[Bergermeister]

Bet he "knows the ropes" having taken Recruiting 101 from Dave Bliss.

[ponydawg]

Kind of interesting, in Calvin's last sentence in the "SMU's Doherty faces rift with DISD" article he writes:

Kevin Lewis, an assistant coach at Houston who played at SMU, said Doherty was a great hire.
"The coaches are upset that Jimmy's not there, but Doherty will do OK," he said.

[Stallion]

Of course from the resident recruiting expert's view-what I'd like to know is can we have his son too who is about a Texas Top 10 and signed with Auburn. If he never enrolls I believe he can sit the year out an be eligible in a year. Not so if he enrolls-isn't that correct. We probably wouldn't get him because he didn't really look hard at his father's previous stops at TCU and UH.

[PonyPride]

How big is his son?
Maybe the allure of playing for Dad and playing at Dad's alma mater would be greater? (I wouldn't look at TCU or Houston either! But then, I'm biased.)
Good idea, Stallion.