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...the 10:00 news on channel 8 actually had a nice little feature story on SMU men's basketball team and Jimmy Tubbs. Basically about how Tubbs is working to toughen up the team and get to the NCAA tourney.

Main thing is that Channel 8 hardly ever does an SMU story on a night that doesn't include a game. Every little bit helps.

I am amazed by this. Channel 8 rarely does a story about SMU, period, unless it's something negative. Don't tell me Dale Hansen did this . . .

Hansen did the lead in, but George Riba did the story.

Lest anyone forget our love affair with Hansen...the following is from his bio:

"In 1987, Hansen was honored with the George Foster Peabody Award for Distinguished Journalism. That same year, he won the duPont-Columbia Award for his contribution to the investigation of SMU's football program. As a result of this investigation, the NCAA prohibited SMU from fielding a football program in 1987."

PK wrote:. As a result of this investigation, the NCAA prohibited SMU from fielding a football program in 1987."

They should have said "from 1987 through 2004". That would be a more accurate statement.

Posted by PK:

Basically about how Tubbs is working to toughen up the team and get to the NCAA tourney.

Last season, I attended the SMU men's game against Rice. One of my thoughts after leaving Moody Coliseum was that the Mustangs would benefit from a month at Parris Island, SC.

Diehard Pony wrote:

PK wrote:. As a result of this investigation, the NCAA prohibited SMU from fielding a football program in 1987."

They should have said "from 1987 through 2004". That would be a more accurate statement.

Dale Hansen is the only person in that whole story who did his job right. Thank Clements, Meyer, Blount, et al. for the death penalty--not Hansen.

jtstang wrote:Dale Hansen is the only person in that whole story who did his job right. Thank Clements, Meyer, Blount, et al. for the death penalty--not Hansen.

Your statement is correct jt. However, Hansen has made numerous commentaries over the years decrying the terrible cheating, etc. going on in college athletics and yet when we committed ourselves to doing it his way, we got zero acknowledgement from him and only smirks and grins at how horrible our program had become. Bringing us down when everyone else was doing the basically the same thing was nothing more to him than a notch in his investigative journalism belt and a line to add to his bio.

Not sure what you expected him to do when Stanley comes to him spilling his guts, going all the way to the governor's mansion, PK...sit on that story? I think not.

You miss my point jt...if Hansen is going to espouse a philosophy of the need to run clean programs, then he needs to support those that do. Obviously it's all smoke and mirrors with him. Whatever gets ratings is all that really matters. As far as not following up on Stanley's rantings...that's hardly investigative reporting. Going after Texas with out a snitch to uncover the dirty deeds...now that would be investigative journalism.

One of my favorite reads was "Meat on the Hoof". That pretty much laid out a number of abuses in Darryl Royal's UT system. Of course the NCAA and the print media paid no attention to it because no reporter wanted to cross DR (a saint) and the UT Chancellor was president of the NCAA at the time.