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Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:09 pm
by redpony
Ro used to be my neighbor when he lived in Dallas and played for the Mavs. Heck of a nice person and I would be happy to see him as a coach if he has the background.
GO PONIES!!!
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:11 pm
by MustangIcon
Stallion wrote:What's Rolando Blackmon doing these days. I've always thought he was respected by the media, loved by the Dallas fans, active in the community and communicated extremely well. He's Coaching somewhere-but I thought he'd move up faster. I don't know about his Coaching pedigree but he'd be a Homerun as a Face of the Program in Dallas. I think that's a guy that the general Dallas sports fan might pull for to do well at SMU.
If we went that route, hopefully it would turn out better than Drexler at Houston did.
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:15 pm
by CalallenStang
Don't believe Ro has ever been a college coach. Limited experience as an assistant in the NBA and in international leagues. Not ready to take a program into the Big East.
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:16 pm
by CalallenStang
Also, "Ro" rhymes with "Doh"
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:20 pm
by Pony ^
Shaka or Brad Stevens
Bob Knight even though he HATES Smu
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:30 pm
by ponyinNC
Pony ^ wrote:Shaka or Brad Stevens
Bob Knight even though he HATES Smu
Doubt we sniff any of those guys. They will get bigger, better offers if they choose to go.
This Paul Hewitt thing has me worried...not a fan.
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:33 pm
by Pony ^
ponyinNC wrote:Pony ^ wrote:Shaka or Brad Stevens
Bob Knight even though he HATES Smu
Doubt we sniff any of those guys. They will get bigger, better offers if they choose to go.
This Paul Hewitt thing has me worried...not a fan.
Knight is pretty old though...and he did take the Texas Tech job a while back (let me remind you that is in Lubbock
) I think we could have a legitimate shot
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:36 pm
by LHS81
I wished Marc Cuban was an SMU alumnus. He would have bought out "I can't coach DOH" 3 or 4 years ago. SMU probably wouldn't have even hired the cluster**** coach to begin with, if Cuban was on the search committee.
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:37 pm
by Pony ^
Maybe Rick Pitino will help us find somebody. He seems pretty adamant that the Big East needs to be very strong.
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 12:55 pm
by redpony
I wonder if SO has ever made any overtures to M. Cuban about becoming involved with SMU athletics. He would be a great asset to have in our camp. IMO.
GO PONIES!!!
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:32 pm
by RGV Pony
redpony wrote:I wonder if SO has ever made any overtures to M. Cuban about becoming involved with SMU athletics. He would be a great asset to have in our camp. IMO.
GO PONIES!!!
Doh met had Cuban visit him at his office at SMU within the first couple of weeks he was at SMU. IIRC that's why Doh started blogging
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 1:37 pm
by Harry0569
Travis Bickle wrote:Why not Hewitt? I don't know enough about him. Tell us the scoope if Doh goes.
I have watched him first hand over the past 8 years as he was at GT.
He could bring in some top notch recruits, but neither the players, nor the team as a whole ever lived up to expectations.
I spoke with my buddy who graduated from GT in '10, and he said he is a terrible in game coach, and that his final four appearance was complete luck. He said it would be an awful hire for smu.
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:01 pm
by RGV Pony
How about Jeff Capel. He was Shaka before Shaka was Shaka
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:06 pm
by smupony
I'm on the Amaker train, but it looks like Harvard fought hard last year to keep him from bolting to Miami...
http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2011/ ... r-amakers/
Re: Who is your realistic "dream" hire for SMU basketball
Posted: Thu Feb 16, 2012 2:10 pm
by LA_Mustang
Give Cuban an honorary degree. He deserves it alone for saving the St Paddy's day parade.
I like Amaker with his connections to Lin-sanity.