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.
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.
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.
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.
achieving bad harmful major near others penalty publicity sports supposed though
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.
andy handed interested john liked talking turned
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.
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.
bit conference waiting
We've kind of been waiting around a little bit for these conference tournaments to get through.
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.
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.
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.
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.
couple history
You have to look at the whole season, if not a couple of seasons, and see what history is there.
certainly
The only thing I really want to say about it is that certainly this has been a disappointing year.