Pete Boone
Pete Boone
Pete Boone is the former athletics directorfor the University of Mississippi...
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.
athletic contact process starting
We're in the process of starting that. I would think that this week, we will have made contact with athletic directors.
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.
certainly
The only thing I really want to say about it is that certainly this has been a disappointing year.
couple history
You have to look at the whole season, if not a couple of seasons, and see what history is there.
ads coaches focused indication names sent stuff
Fans, being what they are, sent names and stuff in, but we're not even focused on that right now. When the season's going good, or bad, there are always coaches that you're watching, because you never know. But I wouldn't want that to be an indication we're doing that this season. ADs always do that.
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.
change difficult due felt lack means miss needed rod success
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.
ahead best decision final parties public talk time whoever
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.
business card chips fall playing smile top work
We did not do one thing that was unethical. Not one. This is one of those things that you have to work through. As long as you know that every card you're playing is on top of the table, then you smile and go on about your business and let the chips fall, because you know they're going to fall right at the end of the day.
coaches conduct particular pieces players respond talk
I think all you can really do (attending games) is see how they conduct themselves, their mannerisms, how the players respond to them and how they talk to the other coaches on the bench. I don't know if any of those in particular are earth-shattering pieces of information, but it's another piece to the puzzle.
major offense production
I think that, when it all boiled down, production of the offense was a major factor.
basketball change class coaching difficult due felt history lack means miss needed playing positive rod success throughout university utmost
Rod Barnes has been a very positive and important part of Ole Miss basketball history throughout his playing and coaching career. He has always represented the University with the utmost class and integrity. 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.