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hiring a coach with more connections to texas would help mend those fences. if doherty can bring in some talent and establish the program it will work out for both he and the school, but that is a big if.
do you think that any of the texas schoolboys will choose doherty and smu over ut, or osu, or tx tech, or even gillespie at tamu? to me that is what smu needed to do, get a coach who knows these texas high schoolers and their coaches to develop a team that can compete, so the next step of developing a program can be realized. tamu did it by going with a coach who knows the state, and now they look like they are on the upswing.
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That's an interesting way to look at it, but I'm not sure that a Texas recruit would be any more likely to consider SMU (no offense, Dooby) with a coach like Evans.
Doherty may have enough name recognition that he'll attract about as much attention and interest as a less known but more 'more familiar' local coach would. If he leaves after one year, it will have been a bad move for SMU; 2 years they probably break even; 3 years, they're coming out ahead.