Larry Brown to SMU

[Veteran_Picksetter]

http://espn.go.com/new-york/ncb/story/_/id/7825471/sources-larry-brown-agrees-become-next-coach-smu-mustangs

I didn't know Matt Doherty had been fired.

[Chef]

looking forwards to their point guards doing random spin moves after crossing half court.

"play the right way"

[Chef]

hopefully they didn't let him give out scholarships also. the 5 tallest kids at the school will get a full 4 year scholarship.

[Keetch]

What the hell is Larry doing?

[Veteran_Picksetter]

What the hell is Larry doing?

Yeah, I thought he missed his wife and kids in Philly and that his wife was too good southern cities....Maybe Dallas is good enough for her.

[Mustachio]

my condolences to SMU.

[Wolfpackbobcat]

Guess he's not that great of a coach after all

[Twan's Kin]

I wonder if that Hanners guy that used to be LB's assistant will be at SMU too.

[Scottley Crue]

Geez, if he had problems playing young guys in the league, what's he going to do with a bunch of guys younger than the ones he had little time for the NBA?

[BobCatsFanInTx]

Truthfully I think it would be good for SMU and college basketball to have Larry Brown back. I always felt that the NBA game had changed too much in regards to the play and control Larry was kept from for Larry to succeed at the highest level. I think it would be good for Larry Brown to have young players he can coach up and who are willing to learn. Larry can recruit his kind of players and does not need to work with what NBA GM's insist he take. Larry did not play young players in the NBA because he did not have the luxury of doing so. In order to win he needed the older guys with some known skill sets to play more minutes. Many of the young NBA players Larry had were not players he chose. In college he can get his kind of players and he can mold them. I believe at a school like SMU with no tradition to speak of he can build what he wants. They will not put unrealistic expectations on Larry.

[ohara831]

They are stepping up to the Big East in ball next year. Need the old fart for now. They have the guy from Illinois State who will be the "Coach in waiting" and he is pretty solid. So for now, good move for SMU. For Brown - oh how the mighty have fallen.

[BobCatsFanInTx]

They are stepping up to the Big East in ball next year. Need the old fart for now. They have the guy from Illinois State who will be the "Coach in waiting" and he is pretty solid. So for now, good move for SMU. For Brown - oh how the mighty have fallen.I don't know about this being about how far Larry Brown has fallen. It would seem that all the prime jobs with basketball schools of winning tradition are taken and this is right in Larry Browns wheelhouse. In the NBA Larry really could not get the kind of control he likes to have and in college at any level he is given more control. Especially in a school like SMU. Turning SMU into a traditional winner only would add to Larry's legend and should he fail at a school like SMU it would not hurt. So LB can not lose but for sure could win. If SMU loses LB and others will have believable excuses.

[ALong13]

Geez, if he had problems playing young guys in the league, what's he going to do with a bunch of guys younger than the ones he had little time for the NBA?

Larry Brown announced he plans on recruiting college dropouts in the 26-30 year old range. He's hoping he can find plenty of tall freshman dropouts that way they have several years of eligibility left. He's excited about teaching the game, and this will give him the best opportunity to do so.

[BobCatsFanInTx]

Larry Brown announced he plans on recruiting college dropouts in the 26-30 year old range. He's hoping he can find plenty of tall freshman dropouts that way they have several years of eligibility left. He's excited about teaching the game, and this will give him the best opportunity to do so.I don't get the bitter feelings where Larry Brown is concerned. He did what he was paid to do and he did it with less talent than many other coaches had to work with. We may have had our complaints with how he did things but the man is a proven winner. In only one job did he actually fail. Yes he does take most failing teams and makes them at least respectable. When other coaches take over Larry Brown coached teams they get guys who are fundamentally sound and better than when Larry took those teams under his tutelage.

We Bobcats fans enjoyed some success even if it was fleeting. Larry Brown had every right to want to leave the team when it became obvious the direction the team was going. At 71 Larry did not want to be a part of a rebuilding effort. Yes he did take a tough job at the college level but I believe this job offered him a chance to have more control and also a chance to deal only with young players as opposed to having to play young players lots of minutes in the pros where veterans were proven on a team he was expected to get instant results with. Playing young players extended minutes with a team lacking in talent to begin with was not conducive to winning. His job was on the line and he could not be patient with young men learning the game.

Veteran players require less coaching and thus they make Larry Browns job easier. Focusing predominantly on the young guys would have taken away from coach Browns job. Plus I am sure there is pressure for a coach to play young players when they are high draft picks but has it crossed anybodies mind that in practice these young guys were not earning their minutes. One thing I can say in regards to Larry Brown is that the players respected him most of the time even if they did not like him personally. With all the other coaches this team has had there seems to be a lack of respect. Sometimes that also came with a dislike. I will take coach Brown not being liked but respected if that means winning. That is what we had with coach Brown. I am guessing the bitter feelings are because he is no longer our teams coach. It would not have mattered with this rebuild. It may have kept us from being on the wrong side of making history but that is all. I hope we do not allow either Silas to coach our team. They are not the right fit.

[Black]

Larry Brown cutting SMU players

Starting point guard Jeremiah Samarrippas told the school's student newspaper that Brown basically told him that he "wasn't good enough to play for him."

Samarrippas, a 5-foot-10 guard who would have been a junior next season, averaged 6.9 points and 4.2 assists a game last season. He started all 31 games last season and was a starter most of his freshman season.

The Dallas Morning News, citing a source, reported that three non-starting forwards were also being removed from the team. Leslee Smith, Ricmonds Vilde and Eric Norman all would have been sophomores next season.

http://espn.go.com/dallas/ncb/story/_/id/7864558/larry-brown-tells-several-smu-mustangs-players-team

Cols as ice, LB.

[superb1]

http://espn.go.com/dallas/ncb/story/_/id/7864558/larry-brown-tells-several-smu-mustangs-players-team

Cols as ice, LB.

you beat me to posting this but as we see the Larry Brown reign of terror begins. This is funny enough to follow for the 2 years it will last.