UCF poster on Mustang Maniacs

[Ponyfan4ever]

A UCF poster on Mustang Maniacs left this:

"I thought I would stop by and see how you like Steve Orsini thus far. He really did a great job for us at UCF and am sure he will do the same at SMU. Have you liked what you have seen so far?"

I thought that was rather decent of him. I like what Orsini has done for us so far, he definitely has us going in the right direction, especially starting with the big facilities push.

[FloridaMustang]

Orsini really pushed hard for the new basketball and football facilities at UCF.. most impressive perhaps was that he raised all private funds.. not a taxpayer dollar will help build or maintain the facilities. They're impressive facilities as well.. this new area of campus will be thriving once it is complete... not only is it a monsterous athletics complex, but its also a multi-purpose project with new dorms, retail space (barnes and noble among and a couple restaurants among other tenants), etc.

Hopefully during his tenure, we can raise the money to give Moody the renovations it REALLY needs!

[smu diamond m]

He will. He's already got a good chunk of it.

[PonyPride]

Moody renovations are in the plans, and the funds are coming in, from what I understand.

When Orsini was hired, I talked with UCF men's soccer coach Bernt Erwin -- a former assistant coach at SMU -- and he absolutely raved about Orsini, as a boss and as a person in general. He said that although he (Erwin) had only worked for Orsini for a year, the change in the athletic department was impossible to ignore, and that he fully expects Orsini to have a similar impact here.

[FloridaMustang]

Moody renovations are in the plans, and the funds are coming in, from what I understand.

When Orsini was hired, I talked with UCF men's soccer coach Bernt Erwin -- a former assistant coach at SMU -- and he absolutely raved about Orsini, as a boss and as a person in general. He said that although he (Erwin) had only worked for Orsini for a year, the change in the athletic department was impossible to ignore, and that he fully expects Orsini to have a similar impact here.

I did not know Erwin was the men's coach at UCF.. that explains why they played us so close last week!

[PonyPride]

They only lost, 1-0, to us in Dallas last year. He and Kevin Grimes (former All-America defender and assistant coach at SMU, now the head coach at Cal) know Schellas Hyndman better than any coaches in America.