Qualifications for a New Coach

[ponyboy]

What We Need
1. Someone who can recruit Texas
2. Someone with solid leadership skills
3. Someone with thick enough skin to weather the inevitable [deleted] and moaning that will come when he doesn't win his first umpteen games out of the chute

What We Don't Care About
1. Someone that ESPN would consider a "splash"

I think we've gotten so hungry for wins that we've lost our sense of what it's going to take to get this team on track. Yes, a splash hire would feel good. If we can get on the front page of ESPN magazine with our hire, well great. But items 1-3 on the need list above are what really matter.

[NewPonyFan]

I agree with you 100%. There are things that matter, and things that are just "fluff". Fluff without substance is, well, like eating marshmallow fluff every day - it might be cool for a while, but you will get really sick of it soon. (Ok, maybe a bad analogy).

SMU needs a proven coach that has WON, and knows how to build a program but can work with what he's got from the first day.