Pete Boone
Pete Boone
Pete Boone is the former athletics directorfor the University of Mississippi...
academic court monumental overcome poses practice recruiting trying
From a recruiting and academic standpoint, trying to practice on the same court poses some problems. They are not monumental problems, and we've been able to overcome them for some time.
I'm really not going to give it a whole lot more thought than what I've already said.
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.
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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.
becoming fairly five list obvious seconds talked talking
We've got a list, and it's becoming shorter. We've probably talked about 20 or 30 people, some for five seconds and some we're still talking about. It's becoming obvious that the list is narrowing down fairly quickly.
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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.
couple history
You have to look at the whole season, if not a couple of seasons, and see what history is there.
good start
You have to start narrowing it down to interviews, and that's pretty much been done. If you feel pretty good about your group, it can't be continuously open-ended.
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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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Coach Vaught took Ole Miss football, and to a certain extent the University of Mississippi, into the national spotlight.
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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.
newspapers people win
You read newspapers and you read that people think you can't win at Ole Miss. You can.
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Because Rod means so much to the Ole Miss family, this was a difficult decision. However, due to our lack of success in the Southeastern Conference, I felt a change needed to be made.
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When you come to a decision and all parties concerned, it's best to go ahead and talk with whoever you need to talk to and make that decision. Why not try to keep it quiet? ... Nothing's ever quiet. Any time a final decision is made on anything, if it's going to be public knowledge, try to get it out.