Flashback From Brown/Benford Hires

by **mathman** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 12:14 pm

This guy is a real jerk. His twitter back in 2012. He was the national writer for the Daily at the time.

Dan Wolken â€ @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 â€ @DanWolken Close
@_coat They were wrong. There's a reason North Texas has won at basketball and SMU hasn't.

by **Grant Carter** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 1:37 pm

There were plenty of people on this site who thought the same thing. It is not a big deal.

by **GiddyUp** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 7:16 pm

Dans a moron who used to work at the memphis paper

by **CalallenStang** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:29 pm

He also once wrote that the only way to get people to an SMU basketball game was to have a Prada giveaway

by **ponyboy** » Wed Apr 30, 2014 8:52 pm

It's a pretty good point.

by **PonyKai** » Thu May 01, 2014 10:37 am

Dan seems to make a fair point here.

by **East Coast Mustang** » Thu May 01, 2014 12:16 pm

I do seem to remember Dan being very complementary of SMU this past season and saying we were shafted by the committee.

by **SMU 86** » Thu May 01, 2014 12:19 pm

I don't fault UNT or SMU for looking at Benford. He had a very good background.

by **Harry0569** » Thu May 01, 2014 12:22 pm

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

by **CalallenStang** » Thu May 01, 2014 3:00 pm

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

by **mathman** » Thu May 01, 2014 4:23 pm

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.

by **PonyKai** » Thu May 01, 2014 7:06 pm

Just because Dan might be wrong here doesn't mean there are instances in the past in which he was right.

by **Smerkins** » Thu May 01, 2014 7:20 pm

Most people were wrong about the Larry Brown hire.

by **East Coast Mustang** » Thu May 01, 2014 7:24 pm

Gregg Doyel had the all-time worst take on it: http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketb ... right-kind

by **Smerkins** » Thu May 01, 2014 8:16 pm

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.