Pete Boone
Pete Boone
Pete Boone is the former athletics directorfor the University of Mississippi...
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Not only did these remarkable student-athletes excel on the playing field, all of the former athletes also graduated from Ole Miss. That's a true testament to their character.
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If you're going to be successful in any venture, no matter what it is, you better hire the best people possible. Whatever it takes to hire them, you're either going to be a player or not. And we intend to be players in it.
I'm really not going to give it a whole lot more thought than what I've already said.
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If there is a significant pattern that develops, the NCAA has the right to look at it as a major issue. But that's not what they've done here. It's just one of those things you just always have to have your antennas up.
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Andy was passionately talking about being at Ole Miss, and John Hartwell handed him my compensation list, and he said, 'I'm not interested in that,' and turned it over. I liked that.
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The scholarship penalty is not going to be near as harmful to us as the bad publicity for not achieving what we're supposed to achieve. Even though your major sports and all your others are good, we still didn't do what we should have in one.
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That's 10-12 that we were really interested in. Of course, then we had to find who was interested in us.
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It's really hard to articulate the measure of success Mike's had, because you really have to consider where (the program was) when he started. We had had several years of poor performance and it's hard to get that turned around. But he's done it pretty quickly by being consistent and getting progressively better each year.
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If I'm any good at Ole Miss, I might not be worth a flip at Michigan because I might not fit the environment.
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I do think that he's got several folks he's talking to. I talked to Ed (Saturday) morning. I think he's still looking for the best fit for Ole Miss.
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You never know until you interview how mutual the interest is. We think they're very interested or else they wouldn't interview.
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You read newspapers and you read that people think you can't win at Ole Miss. You can.
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The list is still fluid in the sense that we may pick up another candidate, and we may not. It's much more narrow.