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Why SMU’s Headline Hire of Larry Brown Could Actually Work Out

EJacoby — Mon, 23 Apr 2012 15:36:57 +0000

Evan Jacoby is a regular contributor for RTC. You can find him @evanjacoby on Twitter.

It’s been almost a full week since Southern Methodist officially hired Larry Brown to become the Mustangs’ new head coach, creating major headlines from a school that hasn’t had much to show from its program’s entire basketball history. The question surrounding the hire remains — Does SMU really expect Brown to turn around the program, or is the hire simply intended to draw publicity to a team in desperate need of some attention? We tend to think that the primary motive was the latter, but that [...]

Billy D… isney World?

rtmsf — Thu, 31 May 2007 18:31:29 +0000

Breaking news on all the major sites today is that Billy Donovan has been offered $42M over seven years to leave the University of Florida to become the new head coach of the Orlando Magic. According to team officials, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel, the wunderkind is expected to take the job. This comes on the heels of a week-plus of speculation as to why Donovan had not yet signed an extension worth reported $3.5M annually with the Gators.

We’ve been down this road before with Billy D. – a mere six weeks ago, in fact. But somehow with the ridiculous dollars being mentioned and the “nowhere [...]