Larry Brown talks serious according to Kate

[Oldmins]

Maybe someone could go up to Lexington and see if they could resuscitate Adolph Rupp, famed coach of the U of Kentucky. Larry Brown is OK, I guess, but good Lord, he's 71! I love old-timers (I'm one myself), but a 71 year old coach going into the home of an 18 year old to convince him to come to SMU? I don't get it.

[Kynd Tulsa Phan]

You are right I havent paid attention to next years guys coming in.

I just remember all the years of Eastern european spares.

[SMU89]

Maybe someone could go up to Lexington and see if they could resuscitate Adolph Rupp, famed coach of the U of Kentucky. Larry Brown is OK, I guess, but good Lord, he's 71! I love old-timers (I'm one myself), but a 71 year old coach going into the home of an 18 year old to convince him to come to SMU? I don't get it.

See these two rings.....nobody else has them

[CalallenStang]

If we land Larry Brown, will PF.com hire Allen Iverson to give practice reports?

[SMU 86]

so I looked up Marquette roster and only 2 from Wisconsin. the rest from all over. We're looking at their assistant or brown. OK, so recruiting in DFW is important but many teams can build NCAA contenders without local talent. If he can recruit DFW great, if not, go all over the USA. That said, I want Larry Brown and if he's here for 2 years and finishes .500 in cusa then .500 in BE that would be an improvement. Also, stop scheduling teams we never heard of. Let's step it up. SO padded the schedule for DOH and that is boring and produced bland basketball.

The schedule did not make the basketball boring and bland, it was our coaching that did that. But don't worry because we will get all the tough teams we want when we get to the Bid East conference play.

[hoopmanx]

You are right I havent paid attention to next years guys coming in.

I just remember all the years of Eastern european spares.

We've had 3 euro's on the team in the past 4 or 5 years. One was a frosh last year and is quite talented

[Mitch McConnell]

FWIW, the HCIW worked well at Purdue. Matt Painter came over from his Missouri Valley job (I think So. Illinois) and was on the bench in Gene Keady's last 1 or 2 years before he took over for Keady.

Boilermakers have been pretty successful. If this comes down like we're speculating, you could have Brown as your CEO type of coach and have Benford basically running gameplans, recruiting, etc...

But then again, this whole thing could go poof by Monday because of the "wizards" running this thing.

[redpony]

Obvious failure- too many of us want that to happen. The power brokers will over rule us on this idea.

[SMU Football Blog]

Has the "head coach in waiting" ever worked out for anybody? I can't think I'd one off hand.

[Mitch McConnell]

Has the "head coach in waiting" ever worked out for anybody? I can't think I'd one off hand.

I just wrote about it working at Purdue

[redpony]

blog- RTFF

[Stallion]

After the Muschamp Rule you'll never see another hot-shot young coach being named Head Coach in Waiting at least in Footballl because they are limited in off campus recruiting. Don't know if BB has the same rule

[redpony]

You can have a tacit agreement without the formal title.

[mrydel]

Just make Benford the HC and Brown the Assoc. HC. Both should be happy as should we.

[BRStang]

Has the "head coach in waiting" ever worked out for anybody? I can't think I'd one off hand.

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