The "meeting" is a season review...and given our embarrassing season, SMU fans are fully expecting that Matt Doherty will be fired later today.
Stay tuned as we hopefully begin to make our basketball program less of an embarrassment.
UPDATE: Jeff Goodman is reporting on Twitter that Doherty has been fired.
Matt Doherty couldn't even cut it at his own alma mater. That should have risen a red flag to begin with.
Wonder if we'll see him on CBS College Sports as an analyst next season?
(03-13-2012 08:48 AM)BJUnklFkr Wrote: [ -> ]Matt Doherty couldn't even cut it at his own alma mater. That should have risen a red flag to begin with.
Yeah.
He's a nice guy and there was some feeling that the way things went down at UNC were unfair to him, plus his success at ND and FAU convinced our administration that he may be able to succeed in places not named Chapel Hill. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
Fired is a harsh term in this case. I prefer relieved of his coaching duties. He had a major role in getting $40,000,000 in donations for the new basketball facility. While he was not a good coach, he was a great ambassador of the program, reached out to the community unlike our football coach. I can see him becoming an announcer or moving into an athletic department somewhere in charge of fundraising.
(03-13-2012 10:32 AM)Pony94 Wrote: [ -> ]Fired is a harsh term in this case. I prefer relieved of his coaching duties. He had a major role in getting $40,000,000 in donations for the new basketball facility. While he was not a good coach, he was a great ambassador of the program, reached out to the community unlike our football coach. I can see him becoming an announcer or moving into an athletic department somewhere in charge of fundraising.
Nice guy and he was an excellent fundraiser, etc. But he was hired to be a coach and he failed in those main duties.
We had to make a move and we did.
Any word on the new candidates? Are there certain teams we should watch in the tournament that could have a future Mustang coach on their bench?
(03-13-2012 11:55 AM)BigEastHomer Wrote: [ -> ]Any word on the new candidates? Are there certain teams we should watch in the tournament that could have a future Mustang coach on their bench?
Our Scout reporter shared on Twitter (@LakenLitman) that three candidates are Scott Cross at UTA, Brooks Thompson at UTSA, and the coach from Indiana State.
But those are only three and represent the "lower end" of the possibilities. A supposed "insider" posted some other names on the insider part of our Rivals board. I doubt them because they are what I would consider "out of reach."
Realistic options, I think, include Marvin Menzies at NMSU, Reggie Theus formerly of NMSU and the Sacramento Kings, Paul Hewitt at George Mason, and Jeff Capel formerly of OU and currently on Coach K's bench at Duke.
We might also make a run at Tommy Amaker (Harvard) and Steve Alford (New Mexico).
If we end up with Rob Evans (TCU assistant), there may be a mutiny to remove our president. Seriously.
For the right candidate, the CoC (Circle of Champions - an anonymous group of boosters that pay our coaches' salaries) will pay up to $2 million/year.
This is a critical time for SMU basketball. If they don't make the right hire they could be almost permanently implanted as a cellar dwellar of the Big East. Climbing out of there is no easy task.
Hopefully breaking ground on the new $40,000,000 facility next month and the cash boosters have offered to put in will help
Reggie Theus would be by far the best, then Alford. Reggie coached under Pitino and would do good in SW recruiting.
Alford would be a great hire, I wonder if we can wedge him away from a good basketball school. SMU has the potential to be known as a decent-good basketball school, but the time is now. If we fail with this hire, we probably wont be able to climb out of it for a long time.
Now that you are in the BE, you can hire a good coach and get some recruits. You guys better be prepared to pay up for a good coach. Reggie Theus would be a decent hire. I would look at some BE assistant coaches as well.
Stay away from Chris Mack, I'd go for an up and coming guy with recruiting ties in Texas...
(03-13-2012 01:12 PM)SF Husky Wrote: [ -> ]Now that you are in the BE, you can hire a good coach and get some recruits. You guys better be prepared to pay up for a good coach. Reggie Theus would be a decent hire. I would look at some BE assistant coaches as well.
$2,000,000 is the amount ready to be spent. I do think that includes assistants but I am sure if the right person came around they would up the amount.
(03-13-2012 01:14 PM)Pony94 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-13-2012 01:12 PM)SF Husky Wrote: [ -> ]Now that you are in the BE, you can hire a good coach and get some recruits. You guys better be prepared to pay up for a good coach. Reggie Theus would be a decent hire. I would look at some BE assistant coaches as well.
$2,000,000 is the amount ready to be spent. I do think that includes assistants but I am sure if the right person came around they would up the amount.
Good. You should get a good coach then. Calhoun makes $3M at UCONN and Geno our women's coach makes $1.5M I believe. You guys will have to pay at least $1M for a good coach. I would look at coaches with Texas ties and/or NYC ties.
