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Don't think this has been posted yet, but not a bad blurb about SMU and Doherty, glad to see some print media recognition:

True Confessions
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Matt Doherty
Like 9-year-olds with acute ADD, we were all fixated on the firing of SMU basketball coach Jimmy Tubbs. Then--lookie, over here!--we got totally distracted by Matt Doherty. Cool! Sure it's silly and even unfair that Tubbs was sent packing for simply giving players free hamburgers and laundry detergent. But Doherty? We've actually heard of him! He may turn out to be the worst fad since ciabatta bread, but he did play with Michael Jordan and coach at North Carolina and Notre Dame. He gives the Mustangs instant cred, if not immediate success. The impact? Doherty, who boldly calls SMU the "Duke of Dallas," has put the Ponies back on the basketball map for the first time since John Koncak lumbered around Moody Coliseum. New athletic director Steve Orsini says the school has already raised 80 percent of the $13 million needed for a new practice facility. Illegal or otherwise, Tubbs couldn't have pulled that rabbit out of his hat.


For purists, here is the link:

http://bestof.dallasobserver.com/bestof ... &year=2006

I have always hated the amount of sheer cynicism and lack of intelligence exhibited in the DO. Whatever. Some press is better than no press? Right, guys?

smu diamond m wrote:I have always hated the amount of sheer cynicism and lack of intelligence exhibited in the DO. Whatever. Some press is better than no press? Right, guys?

If we really want good press from the DO all we need to do is change the floor in Moody from a pony at midcourt to a hammer-and-sickle.

Observer = Hilarious. I'm always entertained. I guess that makes me a commie...

Im a big fan of the Observer too, simply because they have a sense of humor over there, good stuff most of the time.