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Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:14 pmby mathman
This guy is a real jerk. His twitter back in 2012. He was the national writer for the Daily at the time.
Dan Wolken †@DanWolken
No surprise, but North Texas made a better hire than SMU.
7m Ryan Coatney â€
@DanWolken pretty sure benford was a finalist at SMU. apparently they didn't think he'd be a better hire.
Dan Wolken †@DanWolken Close
@_coat They were wrong. There's a reason North Texas has won at basketball and SMU hasn't.
Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 1:37 pmby Grant Carter
There were plenty of people on this site who thought the same thing. It is not a big deal.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:16 pmby GiddyUp
Dans a moron who used to work at the memphis paper
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:29 pmby CalallenStang
He also once wrote that the only way to get people to an SMU basketball game was to have a Prada giveaway
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:52 pmby ponyboy
It's a pretty good point.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 10:37 amby PonyKai
Dan seems to make a fair point here.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 12:16 pmby East Coast Mustang
I do seem to remember Dan being very complementary of SMU this past season and saying we were shafted by the committee.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 12:19 pmby SMU 86
I don't fault UNT or SMU for looking at Benford. He had a very good background.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 12:22 pmby Harry0569
Dan is an honest journalist.
He lives in Atlanta (somewhere), and I have invited him on Twitter to watch SMU games with me. Sadly, no response...yet
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 3:00 pmby CalallenStang
Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:SMU fans hate Dan because more often than not, he holds up a mirror in front of you, and you don't like what you see.
Dude outright lied about several schools' basketball attendances when he wrote for the Memphis paper. He has been more fair since he left Memphis, though
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 4:23 pmby mathman
Stlhockeyguy02 wrote:SMU fans hate Dan because more often than not, he holds up a mirror in front of you, and you don't like what you see.
Yeah, you're probably right. UNT did a lot better job in hiring Benford. What was I thinking.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 7:06 pmby PonyKai
Just because Dan might be wrong here doesn't mean there are instances in the past in which he was right.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 7:20 pmby Smerkins
Most people were wrong about the Larry Brown hire.
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 7:24 pmby East Coast Mustang
Re: Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires
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Thu May 01, 2014 8:16 pmby Smerkins
I've called him out multiple times on twitter about that too. The thing is if its pointed out Gregg will write an article about how wrong he is. He's good like that.