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SMU Should Be Wary of Hiring Brown

Leon Halip/US Presswire

Now that Southern Methodist is interviewing Larry Brown for its basketball coaching job, perhaps someone had better start going through the files. They might need the standard Larry Brown contract pretty soon.

What is that? We happen to have a copy right here.

Brown is, without question, one of the premier teachers of the game of his time. But he has also tended to wander off. Not every man can say he has been head coach for 30% of the NBA...

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