"If SMU Weren't in Dallas They'd Be the Talk of the Country"

[Alaric]

If we were UT or A&M and based in Dallas, even though this is football country, we'd be a HUGE story

give it a little time, we've been in the desert for a long time and people have lost their roadmaps to us. LB is leading us out of the desert and we'll be a huge story very soon if we keep winning

[smusportspage]

Ok, let me get this straight. You have a sportswriter for the DMN, one of the largest newspapers in the country, and he is blaming the lack of coverage on SMU being based in Dallas????? What an incredible idiot Barry Horn is. Write the stories you dumbasses and we will get coverage.

Exactly! What fools. Oh my goodness, it is just incredibly weak stuff.

[GiddyUp]

Ok, let me get this straight. You have a sportswriter for the DMN, one of the largest newspapers in the country, and he is blaming the lack of coverage on SMU being based in Dallas????? What an incredible idiot Barry Horn is. Write the stories you dumbasses and we will get coverage.

haha - i think the coverage has been decent overall. Lots of national pub

[ParkyPony]

A couple of points here.

#1 It was sure nice to see SMU in bold black letters just in above of Texas in the AP Rankings.

#2 I mentioned this to someone yesterday, the 2013/14 SMU Basketball program led by Larry Brown has given SMU more positive national publicity AND coverage than anytime since the DP in '86. It seems that the national media has a greater interest in SMU than our own rag in our "back yard." Let's just face it, we will never overtake the Big 12 and now SEC bias the DMN thinks is "god almighty," until we reach sweet sixteen status on a regular basis year in and year out.

Just my 2 cents.

PP

[mustangxc]

Frankly, who cares if we are Texas' team? I want to be America's team! Let's compete with Kansas, Duke and Syracuse, not Texas and Oklahoma.

[Mexmustang]

I found the story interesting but not unique. He was criticizing his own profession here in Dallas. There was once a parable about never being a prophet it in your own home (town), just part of Larry Brown's legacy of binging SMU basketball out of the wilderness.

[StallionsModelT]

We are a small private school in a wealthy enclave of Dallas that has been a sports doormat for the last 25 years. Its going to take more than meaningless 6 win seasons in football and one good regular season in basketball to get the DMN to give us Texas or Texas A&M caliber exposure. We have to show Dallas that this thing is capable of sustaining itself and getting bigger and better. Honestly, how many of you thought we'd be talking about a season at Moody (even with the magnificent renovations) where we will sell out every game? We've had several big articles in various news outlets across the country that might not have even known SMU existed prior to this season. We are still in the growing stages of this program.

[Pony ^]

Frankly, who cares if we are Texas' team? I want to be America's team! Let's compete with Kansas, Duke and Syracuse, not Texas and Oklahoma.

Make a run in the tourney and we will be America's cinderella that everyone roots for

[StallionsModelT]

How much play does Butler get in the local media? Xavier? Marquette? I think that would be interesting to know.

[mr. pony]

The test:
Will The News send a scribe to SMU's tourney games?
Will The News send a scribe to UT's games?
And I don't care WHERE they're played.

[RGV Pony]

Indy star does a good job w Butler. They have beat writers for purdue and IU also, not unlike tu and aggy here. Butler generally more prominent there than smu in dmn. IUPUI gets about the same coverage as smu

[LA_Mustang]

First of all, I believe our media coverage has been appropriate nationally, and not bad locally. For Barry Horn to blame the lack of hype locally around our season is because this market doesn't care about basketball is foolish. Football will always be king here but basketball is firmly the second most popular sport in this market. LB points this out often. The Mavs currently have the longest home sellout streak in US pro sports - 500+ games and ten years. HS basketball in Dallas has become a national force in recruiting, 100k people showed up for the NBA all-star game at Jerry World a couple of years ago and the NBA is littered with players from Texas. Barry needs to stick to radio/TV ratings and leave sports opinions to himself.

[smupony94]

I see 8 SMU basketball articles on the DMN website ahead of bigger schools.

[ojaipony]

It's exciting no doubt. I think the true test for SMU is "is it sustainable?" Or, is this just a flash in the pan once LB leaves which won't be too long for now. On the surface, we should be fine as we are building pipelines/relationships with 2016 kids (and beyond hopefully) and having Jank as HCIW. I don't really know much about Jank, his recruiting, and his Xs and Os ability.

[LA_Mustang]

It's exciting no doubt. I think the true test for SMU is "is it sustainable?" Or, is this just a flash in the pan once LB leaves which won't be too long for now. On the surface, we should be fine as we are building pipelines/relationships with 2016 kids (and beyond hopefully) and having Jank as HCIW. I don't really know much about Jank, his recruiting, and his Xs and Os ability.

That why moving forward we need the story to be about our program rather than all about LB. Don't get me wrong, LB has been a godsend and deserves all the credit in the world for this turnaround but he's not going to be here forever - three, four more years? And let's be honest, the guys on our roster and Muiday chose SMU because of LB.