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[VarsityShop]

Is UT the only school that has alumni living in Dallas?

Why is it even when A&M was much better than they have been lately....the Dallas Morning News still favored UT?

I sure hope the Dallas Morning News has to cover another OU "spanking" of Texas in the Cotton Bowl next Fall.

Lets make it four in a row baby! I love reading the Morning News the day after OU spanks the Horns in the Cotton Bowl! (Ha Ha Ha)

BOOMER SOONER when they play those arrogant Horns!

Go Ponies!

[VARSITY SHOP]

[Pony4Life]

TCU has a lot of alumni living in Dallas. So does Texas Tech. So does Baylor. Yet the Morning News cares only about UT and A&M. At least TCU is a nearly-local team. If they're going to cover non-Dallas teams because of a bowl appearance, at least it should be the little froggies.

And the comment about the Ponies not being covered by a local paper is painfully true. The DMN's coverage (Rick Alonzo's effort notwithstanding) is awful. The Park Cities People has gone from very good coverage a few years ago to almost exclusively covering high school sports (why, I don't know). And the Park Cities News has never covered SMU - it could well be the worst paper in the country.

At the risk of shamelessly sucking up to the web guys, the only legitimate coverage of the Ponies is here at PonyFans.com. This site is invaluable to PonyFans everywhere.

[DiamondM]

The thing that bugs me is the attitude of all the media outlets I have sent comments about this to: "No one wants to hear about SMU." Although some on this site spend a lot of time agreeing with this proposition, and pointing out why no one should care about SMU, there is a fundamental flaw in this "justification" for not reporting, discussing, acknowledging SMU. Like it or not, the media doesn't just report news, it MAKES it. The DMN, the Ticket, and all the other media outlets that marginalize and ignore SMU because "nobody cares" spend plenty of time making other "non-stories" into something that somebody cares about (not to mention reporting other things that people don't care about). If they even talked about us a little bit, people would start to be interested, pay closer attention, be aware of when games are, care if we lose. And the opposite is true. It's a self perpetuating cycle. When they ignore us, of course nobody cares.

The Cubs haven't done jack___ in a long time, but the Chicago papers still cover them plenty. And as a result, they ARE news -- whether they're winning or losing, and people care. And so what if we have fewer SMU grads in Dallas than UT grads? You think UT grads are going to start an uproar if the DMN starts giving a few more column inches to SMU instead of that meaningless story about the UT waterboy who went to HP? And I don't think the disparity is as huge as many think. There are a lot of people in this city with some sort of connection to SMU who certainly wouldn't mind a bit more coverage -- and perhaps more importantly, a lot of people with money and power with connection to SMU. That alone should merit a little more coverage of the hometown team.

[Stallion]

no-the Dallas sports fan ignores us because our program sucks-and nothing the DMN could do about it would change that. We've done that all to ourselves.

[Stallion]

no-the Dallas sports fan ignores us because our program sucks-and nothing the DMN could do about it would change that. We've done that all to ourselves.

[PonyTales]

Not to split hairs here, but ....

From DiamondM: "The DMN, the Ticket, and all the other media outlets ...."

DiamondM is very generous. The Ticket is not even close to being "media." And in terms of covering SMU, the DMN is nearing Ticket status.

[This message has been edited by PonyTales (edited 04-03-2003).]