Ponymon wrote:It might have helped if the press (Cowlishaw) had actually paid attention to what was going on at SMU and hammered Jones' and his staff for their lousy recruiting when it was obvious that he had checked out a couple of year's ago. We didn't just get into this mess overnight and the press is just as accountable in my mind as the SMU administration (Orsini) is that saddled the school with a lousy follow-up contract that apparently did not have any penalties for nonperformance.
If you are the DMN, what is your motivation to cover SMU with even an ounce of intensity or motivation? The fanbase is practically non-existent now. The university response to the death penalty (15+ years of being an ostrich with their head in a hole) made it worse. Former players were embarrassed to see the team play, and were treated as persona-non-grata by the school for a long period of time. Then someone with money practically forces Turner to build a stadium and makes him realize that to be a big school in Texas....well....you have to have a football team. We get JJ, who grows into the role only to tank it in all aspects of the job. From recruiting, to engaging the media, the offensive genius turns into a carpetbagger, stealing money and running. So after several decades of either completely ignoring the football program or having a HC who doesn't talk to the media, in a football mad town, we are shocked that the DMN hasn't really covered SMU enough to ask the semi-hard questions? As we say in the military..."really....report and explain your sorry [deleted]."
