PonyFans.com

The new edition of D Magazine hands out its 27th annual Best & Worst Awards for 2004. There's a listing for "Mustang Mania" and here's who got the Best & Worst:

Mustang Mania

BEST The SMU Mustangs football team snapped a 15-game losing streak—the second-longest in the country—when it beat San Jose State 36-13. After the game, jubilant fans tore down a goal post.

WORST Head coach Phil Bennett took exception to Texas Tech’s trying to run up the score at the end of a 27-13 Red Raider victory. Bennett stormed across the field to express his displeasure with the opposing head coach, triggering a three-minute brawl.

Any publicity is good publicity!

click the link for a shot of classic Bennett!

http://www.dmagazine.com//article.asp?articleid=798

I will back Bennett everytime on that skirmish. Leach needs to be popped in the mouth.

Bennett should have floored (grassed) him on the spot!

School spirit

BEST An escort named “Sunny” advertised her services on a web site with a photo that rankled TCU officials. In the picture, Sunny—who said she was a college student though not at TCU—was wearing a cheerleading uniform with purple trim and lounging on a TCU
sign. TCU threatened legal action, and Sunny removed the picture.

WORST Plano killjoy James Amick got sick of tearing down (technically illegal) school spirit posters on public property every football season, so he complained to district officials. Now all Plano senior highs have had to abandon the tradition.

D Magazine is a waste of paper and ink -- I wonder who told them about the goalpost or about Coach Bennett's charge across the field, because you can bet your last dollar they weren't in Ford Stadium. They claim to be some source of great information and journalism, yet all they seem to run is the Best/Worst list (admittedly the best thing they ever run), "lists" (i.e. "top neighborhood schools" or somesuch) and pictures of who went to what party wearing what dress. Yawn.

Having said all that, it's always good to see the Ponies get some ink, even cheap ink.

Whoever wrote that comment was obviously either a Tech alum, didn't see the game, knows nothing about fooball or (most likely) a combination of all three.

BENNETT'S THE MAN, stood up for his team

StangEsq wrote:Whoever wrote that comment was obviously either a Tech alum, didn't see the game, knows nothing about fooball or (most likely) a combination of all three.

I seriously doubt whoever wrote that was a Tech alum. That would require: (a) literacy; and (b) a job with D magazine, much less any job.

If it weren't for Sand Aggies who would mow our lawns?

StangEsq wrote:Whoever wrote that comment was obviously either a Tech alum, didn't see the game, knows nothing about fooball or (most likely) a combination of all three.

For what it's worth, one of their editors, who often has a big hand in these lists they like to call "writing" is Tim Rogers (who, to be fair, is a terrific writer being wasted at that magazine). He went to Notre Dame. Of course, I don't know if he wrote this stuff or not.