Pete Boone
Pete Boone
Pete Boone is the former athletics directorfor the University of Mississippi...
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.
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.
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.
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.
bright came looking
I was looking for a bright spot. But looking at everything (Thursday), I kind of came to a conclusion.
appreciate basketball game guy lead miss talked
I talked to him right before tip-off and told him that he was our man. I told him that you're the guy that we want to lead Ole Miss basketball for 10 years and he said, 'I really appreciate that.' I told him, why don't we talk after the game and he said that would be great.
certainly
The only thing I really want to say about it is that certainly this has been a disappointing year.
hoping until work
We were kind of hoping things would work out until the end, and they just didn't.
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.
few trying watching
We're going to be watching a few games. We're trying to get a little more familiar.
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.
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.
knows success
He wanted to be here. He knows that he can be a success here. He's been a success before. He knows what it takes.