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. |
We were kind of hoping things would work out until the end, and they just didn't. |
We're going to be watching a few games. We're trying to get a little more familiar. |
We're going to start looking into it. |
We're in the process of starting that. I would think that this week, we will have made contact with athletic directors. |
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. |
We've kind of been waiting around a little bit for these conference tournaments to get through. |
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. |
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. |
You have to look at the whole season, if not a couple of seasons, and see what history is there. |
You have to make those calls sometimes. |
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. |
You never know until you interview how mutual the interest is. We think they're very interested or else they wouldn't interview. |
You read newspapers and you read that people think you can't win at Ole Miss. You can. |