"Best Coach in America"

TheRealTruth · Post by **TheRealTruth** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:32 pm

Didn't Orsini say last Sunday on ESPN that SMU would be going after the best coach in America? (I have a feeling Bill Belichick does not want the job). Anyway, if Orsini said that then why do we keep talking about all these average coaches. Orsini set the bar, so I think from here on out we should be thinking Best Coach in America. None, of the names mentioned on this bar is someone I would consider best coach in America.

peruna81 · Post by **peruna81** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:35 pm

Lombardi has to be awfully stale by this time....

Ponyx2 · Post by **Ponyx2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:39 pm

peruna81 wrote:Lombardi has to be awfully stale by this time....

At least he's younger than Rockne

EastStang · Post by **EastStang** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:40 pm

I think he meant "living coach" which would rule out Bryant, Paterno, Bobby Bowden and Stallings.

BUS · Post by **BUS** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:41 pm

Jimmy Johnson, Barry Switzer, are still walking and talking.

MS

SMU Football Blog · Post by **SMU Football Blog** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 12:44 pm

Does it have to be a football coach? Let's hire Phil Jackson!!!

Ponyx2 · Post by **Ponyx2** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:12 pm

SMU Football Blog wrote:Does it have to be a football coach? Let's hire Phil Jackson!!!

And we just missed out on Joe Torre

SMU Football Blog · Post by **SMU Football Blog** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 1:13 pm

Ponyx2 wrote:
SMU Football Blog wrote:Does it have to be a football coach? Let's hire Phil Jackson!!!

And we just missed out on Joe Torre

Either one would coach the [expletive] out of them.

BRStang · Post by **BRStang** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:04 pm

Actually, I think he said that we should be in a position to get "the best available coach in America to come to SMU."

I read that to have qualifiers. First, available: Pretty self-explanatory. Second, to come to SMU: Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but I think he could be meaning it like "that SMU could reasonably get."

As I have said all along, I am cautiously optomistic.

Nacho · Post by **Nacho** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:07 pm

You may be optomistc but I'm optimistic.

Marty, Marty, Marty

BRStang · Post by **BRStang** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:11 pm

Nacho wrote:You may be optomistc but I'm optimistic.

Marty, Marty, Marty

Sorry, I meant to say I'm a cautious optometrist.

(You're right. Thanks for pointing that out. Say, you don't happen to be a legal secretary looking for a job, huh?)

Ponymon · Post by **Ponymon** » Mon Nov 12, 2007 2:11 pm

Gerry Faust is available and he used to be the head coach of Notre Dame.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerry_Faust

If not Faust, how about Parseghian?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ara_Parseghian

If not Parseghian, take your choice of ex-Notre Dame coaches:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:N ... ll_coaches

:lol: