Dallas American Statesman

[mr. pony]

At the Rice game, as SMU appeared to have the "W" wrapped up, I half-joked that the game story would probably make about page 6 in the Dallas Morning News sport section.
Lo and behold, that's exactly where it was.
(Knocked off the front page by a fluff piece on how great UT women's basketball is at recruiting.)
As I have repeatedly pointed out to these nitwits, SMU is the hometown Div IA team and deserves a little something for being that, WIN or LOSE.

Since the SWC broke up, the DMN has adopted UT as its hometown team.

[MrMustang1965]

Sadly, there are more UT & aTm alums living in Dallas than SMU alums. The DMN is in the biz of selling papers. Do the math. I no longer subscribe or buy the DMN. I read it online. Screw 'em.

[mr. pony]

Understand.
Being outnumbered has ALWAYS been the case, and I assume they have ALWAYS been about selling papers.
But, the coverage has changed and they need to hear about it. I shall continue to raise hell with them as I have for 10 years.
The next time you see them on the front page, (nonscandal related), you can thank me.
It's important. It goes to image and can affect recruiting.

[MrMustang1965]

Yep. My wife (an SMU grad) wrote a letter to the editor about it today, too.

[DallasDiehard]

This always has been a hangup of mine, and prompted me to cancel my subscription. Unfortunately, MM65 is right -- they're in the business of selling newspapers, not reporting news that actually takes place in Dallas.

However, when I was waiting this morning to get my car out of the shop this morning, I picked up the sports section in the waiting area. I wasn't surprised to see the story on the front page that suggested Mack Brown and his team walks on water. (While other local media outlets have chided Brown in the past for his stellar record in big games, the DMN continues to shamelessly kiss up to him .... thanks, I'm sure, to the heavy UT influence at the top of the Belo empire.) And I wasn't too surprised to see SMU buried in the back like it was.

What got my blood boiling today was that "fluff piece" mr. pony mentioned about the UT women's basketball recruiting. The comments in it about the campus, the school, the "hall of fame coach" that the recruiting assistant can sell amounted to nothing more than a nearly-full page recruiting ad for the UT athletic department.

I guess I shouldn't be upset, what with UT being as cash-strapped as it is....

[Stallion]

we have less than 5,000 season ticketholders. Enough said.

[DallasDiehard]

The first word in the name of the paper is DALLAS.
And the number of attendees does not make something news -- it's either news or it's not. If they claim to be a Dallas paper, they should cover news in Dallas.
To be fair, considering the lack of space he gets, I think Calvin Watkins does a fantastic job. He seems to get more stories in than past writers, and he seems both knowledgable and objective.
Whatever -- we've had this discussion before.

[Stallion]

No you are just so wrong. Look not everyone went to SMU and vast majority could care less. We are lucky to still get two home stories-NTSU doesn't. Deal with reality.

[DallasDiehard]

There are a lot of things that I might not care about, or you might not care about, but they make the paper. The editors are supposed to assign stories that are news, not stories that make the most people happy. That's the kind of garbage they do at papers like the Park Cities News and the Park Cities People, which is why those rags aren't viewed as a source of news, but only a place to find pretty pictures of your friends. News is news, and if a paper claims to be a local paper that covers news in a certain community, then it should. At a major metropolitan paper, it's fine -- or even necessary -- to include state-wide and national news. But that shouldn't take priority, or the name should be changed to the Texas Morning News, or somesuch.

[MrMustang1965]

Kinda makes ya nostalgic for the ol' Dallas Times Herald, doesn't it?

[Hoofbeat83]

NEWS FLASH: mack brown and the longhorns DO walk on water. they are an amazing team competing for a national championship and they deserve to be on the front page of every newspaper in texas. when we do something worth being on the front page, it will be on the front page. if you're so desperate for news about SMU, pick up the DC. this subject is about as tired as the re-tread about whether rossley or cavan was a better/worse coach. move on people.

[mr. pony]

"Amen" to Diehard.

I never said don't cover the Big 12. But SMU's games, especially home games, deserve a spot on the front page of sports in this city's 'newspaper of record'. This is DALLAS, and it's a DIVISION IA game in DALLAS.

As for dropping it, I'll drop it when it gets corrected. Maybe if more SMU fans let them hear about it, instead if taking like whimpering weasals, it might get changed.

[MrMustang1965]

NEWS FLASH: mack brown and the longhorns DO walk on water.

No they don't. And scheduling 'cupcakes' like Louisiana-Lafayette this year and Sam Houston State next year looks ridiculous for them.

[mr. pony]

Say, Hoofbeat.

Ever think that 'amazing team" from Austin ever has to worry about any news organization coming around asking questions about their program?

I'm sure Chip Brown would follow up on any shenanigans down there. Oh, yeah. He'd get 'em alright. Same for Whitwire. He's probably got a plaque in his honor in the athletic offices at UT for changing his vote last year.

[mr. pony]

Check that spelling. It's W-E-A-S-E-L-S.