DMN's Cowlishaw chats today, 7/11

by **mr. pony** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 7:58 am

Get your SMU football questions into the mix now at [email protected].

by **Buddha** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 9:55 am

Got a link to send them to?

by **LonghornFan68** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:07 am

I could be wrong, but I think he posted one in the original post.

by **Buddha** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:14 am

Please allow me to nominate myself for the dumbest post of the day. Or the week. Or month. Or .... damn, how embarrassing.

by **LonghornFan68** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:24 am

Buddha wrote:Please allow me to nominate myself for the dumbest post of the day. Or the week. Or month. Or .... damn, how embarrassing.

Your penance is that a Longhorn gets to give you crap about it.

by **McClown27** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:35 am

He didn't answer my question.

Tim, I am a big fan. You are way better than Woody Paige on ESPN. Are you involved in the conspiracy at the Dallas Morning News to marginalize SMU football? In other words, is Belo a puppet for UT's desire to dominate DFW recruiting?

by **EastStang** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 10:36 am

At least you didn't call him Coach Mac's love puppet.

by **mr. pony** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 11:35 am

[quote="McClown27"]He didn't answer my question.

[b]Tim, I am a big fan. You are way better than Woody Paige on ESPN. Are you involved in the conspiracy at the Dallas Morning News to marginalize SMU football? In other words, is Belo a puppet for UT's desire to dominate DFW recruiting?[/b][/quote]

I hope you really sent that in. He starts answering at 1:15 p.m..
(I believe Cowlishaw is a UT grad.)

by **PonySoprano** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 12:58 pm

I can already tell you what Colishaw's answer will be (if he decides to answer that question):

"SMU has done plenty in the past 20 years to marginalize its own football program. They do not need any help from me or anyone else that is part of the Belo Empire. Also, Texas does not need any help from Belo to 'dominate DFW recruiting.' All Mack needs to do is flash his National Championship ring, let the kids see the facilities and tell them how many Saturdays they will be playing on TV and the deal is sealed."

Seriously guys - this whole "Dallas Morning News is out to get us" thing is getting tiresome. What have we done that warrants coverage? When the Rangers or the Mavericks have bad years, they are relegated to page 6C of SportsDay. We have the best beat writer we have had in the past 20 years (Calvin) - if the DMN was really out to get us, we wouldn't even have a beat writer - why would the spend money on that.
If Coach B and the football team win 6 or 7 games this year and we earn a bowl bid, we will get coverage.

by **mr. pony** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:11 pm

What gets tiresome is this: 'when we do something worth covering, we'll get coverage.'

The wins over UAB, Houston, TCU and UTEP all rated top billing in SMU's hometown paper last season. We didn't get it.

Sure, Mack can flash his ring ... NOW.
Where the DMN helped UT tremendously was over that last ten years, roughly the minute the SWC went away. That's when they turned their attention to winning UT a national championship, and pushed SMU to the back.

by **jtstang** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:15 pm

mr. pony wrote:The wins over UAB, Houston, TCU and UTEP all rated top billing in SMU's hometown paper last season. We didn't get it.

Liar. The TCU win was page one sports coverage.

by **PonySoprano** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:26 pm

mr. pony wrote:roughly the minute the SWC went away. That's when they turned their attention to winning UT a national championship, and pushed SMU to the back.

That is a bold statement. Do you care to back that up with any facts? Do you think the Orlando Sentinel gives more coverage to Central Florida over Florida, Florida State and Miami just because Central Florida is the "home town team"?

I am pretty certain that the number of DMN subscribers that are Texas or A&M alums far outnumber SMU alums. The paper has to appeal to its subscriber base, which is what they are doing by covering UT and A&M. If SMU was turning out 8,000-10,000 graduates per year, and many of them settled in Dallas, the DMN would accomodate that large readership base.

by **LonghornFan68** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:30 pm

Is there more Sooner coverage than SMU coverage?

by **Corso** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:43 pm

by **LonghornFan68** » Tue Jul 11, 2006 1:49 pm

Well, I think that validates the theory that whoever buys the papers gets the coverage. There are a helluva lot of Sooners in Dallas.

DMN's Cowlishaw chats today, 7/11

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