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Great point Talon. Also glad to see Mike Balado is staying on to be an assistant for Rex. He had an opportunity to go to SMU with Matt as well and turned him down to help Rex build the FAU program.

Balado came from a JC in South Forida. Losing him to Matt would have given up some strong Florida recruiting ties.

It will be interesting to see who else Rex adds to his staff.
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Out of all that left he was probably the best to stay because of what you mentioned and he is supposed to be very good at it too. I the Rex is going to take his time in his selection unless he already has a crew in mind. It's going to be interesting for sure.
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I'm not the best judge of character but the way I read Walters in the press conference and after he appoligized to his wife and kids for moving around so much and the way he insisted to Angelos and Brogan he wanted the job, I would say he'll be there a while. I think he knows that in order to develop a team like George Mason or UF it takes time. It didn't happen in 4 seasons.

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Couldn't agree more I felt the same thing after listening to the conference myself. Illiowl I posted something on the "Hes Gone" thread that gave me the feeling of good ridden to a jerk.
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apetbrown said

Sounds like there are quite a few people there, maybe its just the position of camera.

It did sound like quite a few people. Does anyne know how many were there? Does the guy who kept getting up and down in front of the camera know the back of his head was filmed throughout the press conference?

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Ever since Doherty began interviewing for the SMU job, FAU has been in the news continuously.

Now that Walters has been named as the head coach, that story seems to be covered nationally in the news as well. Whats even better is the good recommendations Walters from Van Gundy, Riley, Doherty, Williams and a few others IN PRINT (news articles) for all the recruits in FL and the rest of the country to see.

If Walters has a pretty good up coming season, I think we can expect some good recruits to be looking at FAU.

FAU - THE REAL SLEEPING GIANT
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Media exposure. That's what I tried to convey in my thread about the positives which Matt actually brought to us. It stinks the way he left but we got something good out of it anyway.
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Your right O.G. take a negative turn it to a positive and Matt made just so easy. Illi these kids will see this and together with a decent season it's going to have a very positive effect on the future recruits.
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FAU couldn't have paid for better NATIONAL publicity than this. Sports Illustrated.

Its all very positive.

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2006/basketball/ncaa/04/28/bc.bkc.floridaatlanticc.ap/index.html

FAU - THE REAL SLEEPING GIANT
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Yep. He said Boca Raton in the article.

Directions: South of West Palm Beach and North of Miami on the "I" (95).

And no. We don't mean by Fort Lauderdale… 8-)
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