New Orsini Blog Post

[OR-See-Nee]

Just wanted to drop in with a short update on the search - While I can’t go into great detail, I just want to leave you with a couple of notes from the process so far.

We are working to get the best available coach in America and I’m not willing to limit my pool of prospects. As I said at the press conference two weeks ago, we’re looking at a number of different options. We’re going after the best and sometimes that takes time. There is a sense of urgency to this hire, but we’re going to get it right and won’t paint ourselves into a corner by establishing a hard timeline. I entered this process with a plan and am pleased with how it’s being executed and its effectiveness. I am perfectly comfortable with where we are in the process and am confident that we’re on the right track.

Until next time, GO MUSTANGS!

Another interpretation--two messages!

[biggin]

So, basically - he's got bubkiss. You heard (although not straight) from the horse's mouth.

My big question for all you since this process started is and will remain, "How do you know that?"

Fair enough. I'll answer your question and disregard the other mean-spiritedness in the post. My job is in the sports/entertainment industry and so naturally I've made contacts over the years- some closer than others - that I can call on from time to time (not abuse). I have met many college and pro football coaches, some of who may be up for a new position this year. I have even spoken to a couple of would-be candidates for this job about their interest. I believe one of the rumor websites may have even gotten information based on a discussion I had with one.

[RGV Pony]

Turns out that if you look at the coding of the blog, the entry was originally written by Doherty. Take a look:

We are working to get the best available coach in America!!!!!!!!!! (and I’m not willing to limit my pool of prospects.) As I said at the press conference to Gerald Turner two weeks ago, we’re looking at a number of different options!!!! Gerald Ford said he loved options! He told me the other day when we had lunch at Snuffers!!!!!!!!!! Cheese Fries!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Pat Snuffer is the best! We’re going after the best and sometimes that takes time!!!! Yeah!!!! There is a sense of urgency to this hire, but we’re going to get it right and won’t paint ourselves into a corner by establishing a hard timeline!!!!

That reminds me, my daughter painted the greatest painting the other day. It was of a duck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! We put it on our Frigidaire refrigerator!!!!!!!!!!!!! Then we went to soccer practice. We had ice cream!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I entered this process with a plan and am pleased with how it’s being executed and its effectiveness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am perfectly comfortable with where we are in the process and am confident that we’re on the right track!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In all fairness, I really like Doherty's blog. I just find the name dropping and exclamation points amusing.

Thanks to you, I have an office full of subordinates staring through the window to my office wondering what the hell is so funny.

[George S. Patton]

So, basically - he's got bubkiss. You heard (although not straight) from the horse's mouth.

My big question for all you since this process started is and will remain, "How do you know that?"

Fair enough. I'll answer your question and disregard the other mean-spiritedness in the post. My job is in the sports/entertainment industry and so naturally I've made contacts over the years- some closer than others - that I can call on from time to time (not abuse). I have met many college and pro football coaches, some of who may be up for a new position this year. I have even spoken to a couple of would-be candidates for this job about their interest. I believe one of the rumor websites may have even gotten information based on a discussion I had with one.

The "mean-spiritedness" of the post as you call it I think you would agree comes from the fact that you made a lot of statements that were more general than specific.

I'll take your answer in good faith. But I think it's fair to suggest that you are dealing with a finite audience. There could be something all of us are overlooking.

Personally, I have not written who I think is getting the job who is this or that. So whatever the decision is, we're all going to have to live with it.

But I think you would also agree that this is the decision that will determine Orsini's tenure here (more than Doherty) and if his future as an AD will move to a BCS school, which is would I think his ambition is.

[biggin]

So, basically - he's got bubkiss. You heard (although not straight) from the horse's mouth.

My big question for all you since this process started is and will remain, "How do you know that?"

Fair enough. I'll answer your question and disregard the other mean-spiritedness in the post. My job is in the sports/entertainment industry and so naturally I've made contacts over the years- some closer than others - that I can call on from time to time (not abuse). I have met many college and pro football coaches, some of who may be up for a new position this year. I have even spoken to a couple of would-be candidates for this job about their interest. I believe one of the rumor websites may have even gotten information based on a discussion I had with one.

The "mean-spiritedness" of the post as you call it I think you would agree comes from the fact that you made a lot of statements that were more general than specific.

I'll take your answer in good faith. But I think it's fair to suggest that you are dealing with a finite audience. There could be something all of us are overlooking.

Personally, I have not written who I think is getting the job who is this or that. So whatever the decision is, we're all going to have to live with it.

But I think you would also agree that this is the decision that will determine Orsini's tenure here (more than Doherty) and if his future as an AD will move to a BCS school, which is would I think his ambition is.

What am I supposed to come on here and say my name is so and so and I spoke to so and so today who told me that he will under no circumstances consider SMU? Or - I spoke to so and so today, who is so and so's sports agent, who told me xyz....Next time I call him, he wouldn't talk to me. Don't look a gift horse in the mouth, even though I suppose you don't like the gift. Otherwise, just be happy with wild-eyed fantasies that Urban Meyer is coming to SMU.

Go Ponies!

[RGV Pony]

Fair enough. I'll answer your question and disregard the other mean-spiritedness in the post. My job is in the sports/entertainment industry and so naturally I've made contacts over the years- some closer than others - that I can call on from time to time (not abuse). I have met many college and pro football coaches, some of who may be up for a new position this year. I have even spoken to a couple of would-be candidates for this job about their interest. I believe one of the rumor websites may have even gotten information based on a discussion I had with one.

well then welcome to the board Rich Phillips. Or Chuck Cooperstein. But Coop would never say "Go Ponies"

[MrMustang1965]

Shhhhhh....biggin is really Dale Hansen.

[mrydel]

Shhhhhh....biggin is really Dale Hansen.

Apparently you have confused him with bigass.

[mustangbill67]

I give up. Would someone explain what "bubkiss" means and its derivation. I assume it is some kind of ghetto slang.

[mrydel]

It is an old word meaning "nothing". I am too lazy to look up the derivation. Of course [deleted] Bupkiss was a great linebacker.

[SmooBoy]

It is an old word meaning "nothing". I am too lazy to look up the derivation. Of course [deleted] Bupkiss was a great linebacker.

As the erudite Dallasite Edie Brickell once penned, "There's nothin' I hate more than nothin'. Nothin' keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothin'. Nothin' could cause a great big fight."

[LakeHighlandsPony]

Shhhhhh....biggin is really Dale Hansen.

Apparently you have confused him with bigass.

Once again Mrydel shoots from half court and drills it!!

[MrMustang1965]

It is an old word meaning "nothing". I am too lazy to look up the derivation. Of course [deleted] Bupkiss was a great linebacker.

As the erudite Dallasite Edie Brickell once penned, "There's nothin' I hate more than nothin'. Nothin' keeps me up at night. I toss and turn over nothin'. Nothin' could cause a great big fight."

Brickell attended Southern Methodist University for a year and a half before, in 1985, making the decision one night in a bar to get up on stage with a local band, New Bohemians.[1]

In the late 1980s Brickell was the lead singer of the folk rock group Edie Brickell & New Bohemians, whose 1988 debut album Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars was a critical and commercial success. The band's follow-up album, Ghost of a Dog (1990), fared less well. As a solo artist, Brickell released Picture Perfect Morning (1994) and Volcano (2003). In 2006 she reunited with some of the original members of New Bohemians and they released the album Stranger Things.

Brickell had a role as a folk singer in the 1989 film, Born on the Fourth of July. Her version of Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall is featured on the film's soundtrack. Many computer users might know her from the Good Times video which was included as part of the multimedia samples on the Windows 95 installation CD-ROM.

Brickell will release an album in 2007 co-produced by her step-son Harper Simon.

[westexSMU]

[quote="jkflamebo"]absolutely brilliant post[/quote]........I'll second that !

[perunapower]

Good post. Certainly a better coded message than I was getting...

We are working to get the best available coach in America and I’m not willing to limit my pool of prospects. As I said at the press conference two weeks ago, we’re looking at a number of different options. We’re going after the best and sometimes that takes time. There is a sense of urgency to this hire, but we’re going to get it right and won’t paint ourselves into a corner by establishing a hard timeline. I entered this process with a plan and am pleased with how it’s being executed and its effectiveness. I am perfectly comfortable with where we are in the process and am confident that we’re on the right track.

"It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know and I feel fine."

-R.E.M.

Hooray!