The nature of the "search"

[Mustangsabu]

There is a great deal of talk about the SMU coaching search being a debacle, both on this board and in the media, and I must confess that I struggle to see what on earth they are talking about. It is impossible to know, at this point, whether we have found what we were looking for, we will only know that when we see what's on the court next season and the seasons following. But that is not my point.

We might have been turned down by 100 coaches, that does not necessarily make the search a debacle. When I was applying for colleges, I applied to the 6 top music schools in the United Kingdom, and I was rejected by 3 or 4 of them. I applied to all the music schools in Ireland, and was accepted to all of them. Does that make my search in Ireland superior to my search in the UK? Of course not.

The success of a search is the quality of what you find. If we had hired Larry Brown on day 1 of the search, no-one would be calling it a debacle. Hiring LB after aiming higher shows the nation (and LB) that we really expect results.

[CoxBizGrad]

I think a couple of the minions that think they have an inside track and insight to the program are angry because they had no clue this was coming. Unless you are one of the three donors tied to funding LB's salary, your opinions are just that... opinions. It's comical, yet sad reading some of the angry posts from the "experts." Go Ponies. Welcome to Dallas Larry B.!