New Story re: SMU/Houston on ESPN insider

[StallionsModelT]

What's in the northeast corner of the stadium? Just stands. Where would they move the coaches offices to? Didn't they just spend significant money renovating the current ones?

The plan that was shared to me involved a connection from the IPF to Ford on the northeast corner of Ford. I'm not sure what will happen to the coaches offices being renovated at the moment but the connection would include moving all coaches offices, training facilities, film room, etc. over to that corner of the stadium.

[Digetydog]

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In fact, Morris received encouragement from numerous head coaches around the nation, including Auburn’s Malzahn, Arizona State’s Todd Graham, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin.

“That’s the job, Chad,” Morris said, relaying fellow coaches’ thoughts. “That’s the one.”

To this

Morris said peers, including mentor and friend Gus Malzahn, understood the promise of the program. In addition to Auburn's Malzahn, Arizona State's Todd Graham, Clemson's Dabo Swinney and Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin were encouraging about the prospects at SMU.

"That's the job, Chad," Morris said, relaying fellow coaches' thoughts. "That's the one."

That is exactly my point. If they were both provided the quotes by the school (or by Morris), they would end up with substantially the same language in their story. In particular, the quotes should be the identical.

[Grant Carter]

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In fact, Morris received encouragement from numerous head coaches around the nation, including Auburn’s Malzahn, Arizona State’s Todd Graham, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin.

“That’s the job, Chad,” Morris said, relaying fellow coaches’ thoughts. “That’s the one.”

To this

Morris said peers, including mentor and friend Gus Malzahn, understood the promise of the program. In addition to Auburn's Malzahn, Arizona State's Todd Graham, Clemson's Dabo Swinney and Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin were encouraging about the prospects at SMU.

"That's the job, Chad," Morris said, relaying fellow coaches' thoughts. "That's the one."

That is exactly my point. If they were both provided the quotes by the school (or by Morris), they would end up with substantially the same language in their story. In particular, the quotes should be the identical.

You are missing the point that EJ's article is explicitly just a rehash of the ESPN article which is why it has the same content and error. He did not get that directly from the school he copied it from the ESPN article he was summarizing.

[malonish]

Academic paper writing:
1) Look up wikipedia
2) Copy paragraph
3) Reword so google won't find it
4) Work for DMN
repeat

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

Is anyone seriously surprised?

[smupony94]

Remember SMU to the SEC by EJ?

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56146

[Grant Carter]

The retweeter has continued to climb in the profession. That is the way the media game seems to work these days.

[SMU 86]

He is a blogger not a staff writer. At least he is blogging giving SMU some postitve press in the DMN when others there do not. I'll take whatever positive pub we can get right now.

[flockofseagulls]

first off, stop whining about EJ's "blogging integrity". totally irrelevant... now this:

"They're all-stars in coaching," said a coach in the state. "Those guys are going to be good for a long, long time. We didn't necessarily want to see them back."

you think it was briles or sumlin? it's entirely too complimentary to be patterson and i cant think of anyone else. definitely not the idiot in lubbock.

[Digetydog]

Remember SMU to the SEC by EJ?

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=56146

The fact that we are not in the SEC does not mean that we were not in discussions with the SEC.

Frankly, I would bet that we have been in "serious negotiations" with just about every P5 conference. With all the chaos that realignment has caused (and will cause), I suspect all of the conferences (their TV partners) and schools like SMU, UH, BYU, Cinci, USF/UCF and Memphis have had "serious discussions."

Furthermore, I am 100% positive that we have had talks with a different P5 conference. Were they "serious?" I think that might depend upon who you were talking to.

[CalallenStang]

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In fact, Morris received encouragement from numerous head coaches around the nation, including Auburn’s Malzahn, Arizona State’s Todd Graham, Clemson’s Dabo Swinney and Texas A&M’s Kevin Sumlin.

“That’s the job, Chad,” Morris said, relaying fellow coaches’ thoughts. “That’s the one.”

To this

Morris said peers, including mentor and friend Gus Malzahn, understood the promise of the program. In addition to Auburn's Malzahn, Arizona State's Todd Graham, Clemson's Dabo Swinney and Texas A&M's Kevin Sumlin were encouraging about the prospects at SMU.

"That's the job, Chad," Morris said, relaying fellow coaches' thoughts. "That's the one."

That is exactly my point. If they were both provided the quotes by the school (or by Morris), they would end up with substantially the same language in their story. In particular, the quotes should be the identical.

What you are missing is the the non-quoted parts is almost word-for-word.

[MV pony]

What you are missing is so what?