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Taking a cue from the D magazine post today plus all of the media coverage of the June Firing/Eric Dickerson negativity/this dumpster fire of a season, it makes me wonder if the local media really wants to see SMU athletics succeed. It seems they would rather devote their attention and resources to the bigger schools - from a purely business perspective, they are right to do so - and continue to ignore SMU. They seem to enjoy perpetuating SMU as the rich kid, big money, country club school that is a punch line for sports.

Granted this is one of the many stereotypes about SMU that Larry Brown and crew blew apart earlier this year, but we still have a long way to go. It would be nice if someone in the local media would write about the potential benefit to Dallas if SMU had a top 25 football team.

SMU under Brown last year-deserved every bit of praise
SMU under Jones this year-deserves every bit of criticism

move on

i haven't taken he dmn in several years so i have no idea what they are saying nor do i care.

I have chatted with Bill Nichols at the DMN and he loves the school. He just has to report the facts.

Stallion wrote:SMU under Brown last year-deserved every bit of praise
SMU under Jones this year-deserves every bit of criticism

move on

Fair enough.

As it was rumored to have been Tweeted; was Thomas Eric Duncan really going to enroll in our SMU-in-Liberia Program next semester ?

All the Dallas media wants is a story they can sell, regardless of whether its good or bad. SMU writes the story, and the media tells it. Period. That's the way its always been. The DP did not result from some vendetta by the Dallas media against SMU. It resulted from a juicy, juicy story that SMU wrote over many years. . .and the Dallas media was only too happy to dig it up and tell b/c people wanted to hear it. Likewise, the Larry Brown/SMU story last year was re-told with great enthusiasm by the local press. . .because it was a great underdog/rags to riches story and people loved it. The current football shit-show is morbidly fascinating when you consider the historically-bad stats this team has put up on both sides of the ball. That's a story that's also going to get told.

if it sells, they'll write it. . .good or bad.

GoMustAAngs2007 wrote:Taking a cue from the D magazine post today plus all of the media coverage of the June Firing/Eric Dickerson negativity/this dumpster fire of a season, it makes me wonder if the local media really wants to see SMU athletics succeed. It seems they would rather devote their attention and resources to the bigger schools - from a purely business perspective, they are right to do so - and continue to ignore SMU. They seem to enjoy perpetuating SMU as the rich kid, big money, country club school that is a punch line for sports.

Granted this is one of the many stereotypes about SMU that Larry Brown and crew blew apart earlier this year, but we still have a long way to go. It would be nice if someone in the local media would write about the potential benefit to Dallas if SMU had a top 25 football team.

Not sure Larry Brown blew apart the stereotypes of SMU as the rich kid, big money, country club school?

His success has everything to do with his name, resume, and recruiting acumen, and very little to do with SMU. Perfect storm that SMU fans should enjoy while he's on campus. Could fade away just as quickly once he retires.

footballdad wrote: His success has everything to do with his name, resume, and recruiting acumen, and very little to do with SMU. Perfect storm that SMU fans should enjoy while he's on campus. Could fade away just as quickly once he retires.

Let's hope he's here for at least a few more years.

smupony94 wrote:I have chatted with Bill Nichols at the DMN and he loves the school. He just has to report the facts.

Exactly. The media wants to sell papers and drive TV ratings. That's it.

they might write/ tell the story that sells the most but don't tell me that I am missing that gleeful look Dale Hansen gets when he reports bad news about SMU as something other than that man hates SMU.

ClassOf81 wrote:

smupony94 wrote:I have chatted with Bill Nichols at the DMN and he loves the school. He just has to report the facts.

Exactly. The media wants to sell papers and drive TV ratings. That's it.

Sounds like you meant to answer 1983's post.

You're right. My mistake. But it applies to smupony94's comment about just reporting the facts, too.

And NewAgeMustang is right about Hansen, but of course, he really isn't media, anyway. When is the last time he actually covered anything? He covered the Cowboys a couple hundred years ago, but now he's little more than a game show host. And a slimy one, at that.

Stallion wrote:SMU under Brown last year-deserved every bit of praise
SMU under Jones this year-deserves every bit of criticism

move on

Would have to agree that.