The First Step In Building A Program

[Stallion]

....is to implement a competitive Model with your natural and traditional rivals which will attract the highest quality Coaches to a Program

No need to talk about the second step until the First step is completed which it is not after 20 years. Without the first step in place, a Program will be stuck with inferior quality personnel to run its program. The response from top names on our list will tell the tale-positive or negative.

SMU still can not learn this basic business premise.

[George S. Patton]

You know, I've heard this somewhere before, and I just can't put my finger on where it came from. But this sounds familiar.

[mustangxc]

I don't think anyone outside of Orsini and Vicki Hill will argue with you about that. While I do think there is enough in place to win 6-8 games most coaches would not take that type of job unless some school offered bundles of money, which we are not. The latter is evident with the Baylor job. Mike Singletary himself turned them down, but then Baylor was crazy enough to offer a 7 year contract at $1.8 million per.

[SMUer]

stallion, if you haven't already posted your "42 points" on orsini's blog, emailed or reg-mailed it to him, you should go ahead and do it. obviously, you invest in SMU athl/have althl. dept. experience/know a lot of people in SMU athl...go ahead and do it. telling us your well thought out model does very little for change and i actually believe that Orsini reads comments on his blog and that it might possibly interest him. sure, we have our disagreements about SMU athl and what happened this year under Bennet (I'm a stupid loser, afterall) but I know you've put a lot of thought into it and so I hope you do it...