Off the top of my head: Coaching list

[hoopmanx]

Hoopmanx...What are your thoughts on Bruce Weber? Looks like he has had some steller classes. All seem to be local kids too. Would that be a positive, or does that mean he won't recruit the south well.

I looked are Bruiser Flint's classes and there was not much there to be desired. I'm guessing that comes with the conference he is in?

Weber is a fine X & Os guy, but his downfall was the inability to get along/play the AAU game. For a school like Illinois, pretty important they look ChiCago up, and he didn't. SMU could certainly do a ton worse, but the DFW AAU scene is every bit the handout slippery slope that Chicago is, and the Big East is arguably a more brutal conference. That said, I'm struggling to find a great bench coach and elite recruiter that would really consider SMU, unless we back up the truck.

We'll see..I get nuggets on this search here & there, but Orsini is really good about keeping things tight-lipped, to his credit

[smupony]

Thanks for your insight.

[PoconoPony]

Danny Hurley is a real good candidate. His father is a coaching legend at St. Anthony's in Jersey City, he had an excellent college career, he paid his dues as an assistant Div. I Beast coach, coach of a high ranking St. Benedicts HS in Northern NJ which he loaded with foreign players and his brother Bobby the Duke legend as a possible assistant. Put those factors together with his proven foreign connections and direct pipeline to NJ and NYC players and you have a chance to be very good in a short period of time.

[CalallenStang]

He is a good candidate but supposedly he and Orsini wouldn't see eye-to-eye on a lot of issues