AP: Jones trying to decide Sunday night per Steinberg

[SMU Football Blog]

If Orsini let Jones meet with the search committee, it is done. Rest easy.

By what reasoning do you come to that conclusion?

Orsini has no interest in the search committee. I don't know anyone first hand on this one, but I talk frequently to people that were on the last one. The search committee met twice. Once at the beginning and once at the end. The meeting was called on less than an hour's notice. Not even everybody on the committee made it on time or at all. They didn't even know who they were meeting to talk with ahead of time. They met with Doherty no more than 15 minutes. They didn't even get to ask more than a couple of questions. One of them asked Orsini, "Who are the other candidates?" Orsini's response was, "There are no other candidates." He then asked them to take a vote on whether to make the already agreed-to offer to Doherty.

He wouldn't have let the search committee mit him if he didn't have an agreement.

The committee meeting with him just means he's the guy SMU wants. It doesn't mean the deal is done.

No. No, it doesn't. And Paul Johnson was the guy he really wanted, anyway.

[mrydel]

Maybe Bobby Bowden can call the Texas Governor and ask that he put in a good word for SMU.

Get over it already, will ya!!!!!!

Hey. You said it was the right thing to do. The Governor of Hawaii called Jones so I say lets fight back the Bowden way. You should be for that.

[SMU Football Blog]

I am telling you. I have felt very uneasy about this all day until I read that statement. I am all but certain there is a deal.

So, the press conference is tomorrow then? I'm betting you're right on this.

Hey, I freely admit I might be wrong. I just feel real good about it now.

[icehawks18]

I am starting to agree that Junebug's heart is not in SMU. I would go to Iraq for 2mil a year. I would rather have a coach like Fran that wants to be here and has something to prove.

I could not agree more!

Yep. It doesn't take a month or a week or a day to decide. It's clear to me and everyone here that his heart's at Manoi (or whatever).

I would like to now introduce you to Dennis Franchione, head coach of your SMU Mustangs!

[mrydel]

I am not in the Blog loop but I do know a member of the committee and when I have talked to him he has told me he knew nothing and would probably not hear anything until a coach was on board and then it would be just to meet him and sign off.

[BRStang]

I am not in the Blog loop but I do know a member of the committee and when I have talked to him he has told me he knew nothing and would probably not hear anything until a coach was on board and then it would be just to meet him and sign off.

How do we know he met with "THE search committee"? Could've been Turner, Orsini and possibly the big-wigs. Somebody call the student on the committee...he shouldn't be that hard to get a hold of.

[mustangbill67]

Maybe Bobby Bowden can call the Texas Governor and ask that he put in a good word for SMU.

Get over it already, will ya!!!!!!

Hey. You said it was the right thing to do. The Governor of Hawaii called Jones so I say lets fight back the Bowden way. You should be for that.

Well the Governor of Texas is a former Aggie yell leader, so forget that. In any event, do you remember what happened the last time a texas governor can involved with SMU football?

[RedTapestry]

I had wondered, as I am sure many others have, about the eerie silence from Blog over the weekend...figured it was either "very good silence" or "very bad silence" with negligible chance of "I got nothing at all silence"