Pete Boone
Pete Boone
Pete Boone is the former athletics directorfor the University of Mississippi...
knows success
He wanted to be here. He knows that he can be a success here. He's been a success before. He knows what it takes.
bright came looking
I was looking for a bright spot. But looking at everything (Thursday), I kind of came to a conclusion.
appreciate basketball game guy lead miss talked
I talked to him right before tip-off and told him that he was our man. I told him that you're the guy that we want to lead Ole Miss basketball for 10 years and he said, 'I really appreciate that.' I told him, why don't we talk after the game and he said that would be great.
coach next spent sure talking time works
He won't be our coach next year. I'm not sure how all of that works out, the terminology of that. I just don't know. We hadn't spent a whole lot of time talking about that.
admirable coaches dismiss experience fast four growing job three
He had three or four years of experience in his one year. If you go and look at the things he had to do ... he had to dismiss players, had to dismiss a coach. So many of the things he had to do, a lot of coaches go two or three years without having to do. I think he has done an admirable job in growing at such a fast rate.
few trying watching
We're going to be watching a few games. We're trying to get a little more familiar.
lead looking next pieces seemed together
With all of our background, and all of the things we were looking at, we put all the pieces together and it seemed like he was the one who would lead us the next decade.
directly discuss evaluation left season
We have some season left to play, and, as I do with every coach, we will take the season at the end of the year, then discuss my evaluation of it. I do that with every sport that I am directly responsible for.
hoping until work
We were kind of hoping things would work out until the end, and they just didn't.
bit conference waiting
We've kind of been waiting around a little bit for these conference tournaments to get through.
bring contact exactly fact folks meet scheduling start sure time
Those folks we've been able to make contact with, we'll start scheduling a time to meet with them and we will probably go to where they are. There's not a need (to bring them to Oxford) from my part. But they may in fact want to and they may want to bring their family. I'm not exactly sure what they'll want to do.
andy filtering folks names net newspaper perceived search start wide
I didn't know Andy Kennedy. There are a lot of folks who just like their names in the newspaper and want to be perceived as being part of the search for their own reasons. We wanted to see how wide a net we could cast, then start filtering out the ones who didn't fit.
certain coach extent miss national took university
Coach Vaught took Ole Miss football, and to a certain extent the University of Mississippi, into the national spotlight.
ask chemistry decides fits matches sit stuff talked
Once Ed decides who he wants, then he and I will sit down and I'll ask him why. He and I have already talked about (several issues). Getting the right person that fits what he needs. Chemistry and personality matches up and stuff like that.