Fifty Most Powerful People in Dallas Sports

[carolsmu]

http://www.dallasobserver.com/Issues/20 ... whitt.html

"23. Matt Doherty. SMU's new basketball coach commanding a $600,000 salary and $12 million in improvements to Moody Coliseum.

22. Gerald Ford/Vic Salvino/David Miller. Without SMU's biggest boosters, Doherty would still be in Florida"

[ALEX LIFESON]

Don't forget the great Lamar Hunt!

[jtstang]

11. Lamar Hunt. NFL founding father also re-booting local soccer with Pizza Hut Park.

[RGV Pony]

:oops: 17. Kevin Weiberg. Big 12 Commissioner somehow keeps convincing Dallas that, despite not having a team within 90 miles of here, his conference is also our conference.

Anyone ever run across the CUSA Commish? Aren't they over in Las Colinas somewhere? Someone should tell him to take a page from Miles Brand. NCAA HQ moves to Indy, and guess where 1 out of ever 3 final fours are held?

[FordtoTolbert]

...did Stallion make the list?

[mavsrage311]

...did Stallion make the list?

he just missed.

Sources told me he was number 51, right in front of McClown

[PonyPride]

Leaving Steve-O off the list seems like a gross oversight.

[PK]

Leaving Steve-O off the list seems like a gross oversight.

It's the Obsever...enough said.

[jtstang]

Leaving Steve-O off the list seems like a gross oversight.

It's the Obsever...enough said.

PK, I hereby anoint you the Observer's mr. pony. Rant on.

[Corso]

PK's right on that one. The Observer is no more a viable "news" outlet than that SportsPageDallas rag (although at least the Observer has writers who made it past the third grade, and it's not just a printed version of The Ticket).

[jtstang]

Well, I'm certainly not going to debate you on the journalistic merits of the Observer--it is what it is. But it's free and informative, and I like to pick up a copy and read it every now and again, and every major metropolitan area has a free Observer-like weekly rag, many more than one, so take it for what it is.

PK, rant on about the lack of SMU coverage, please.

[jtstang]

Huh? PK is barely a blip on the radar as far as folks who complain about media coverage.

I was giving him the business about his quote re the Observer not talking about Orsini. I thought it was obvious. Thanks for asking.

[PK]

Leaving Steve-O off the list seems like a gross oversight.

It's the Obsever...enough said.

PK, I hereby anoint you the Observer's mr. pony. Rant on.

Hell jt...I read the Observer practically every week, but I certainly don't expect to read anything about SMU in there...at least not sports wise. In fact, if I want to know anything much about any sport, the Observer is not where I would go to find it. Richie Witt can at time be pretty humorous, but hardly a serious sports writer IMHO.

[jtstang]

You'll never maintain mr. pony status with that attitude. I just like to read the personals, uh...personally.

[MrMustang1965]

Anyone ever run across the CUSA Commish? Aren't they over in Las Colinas somewhere?

The Southland Conference 'home office' (Div. 1-AA) is located in Frisco, TX. Its commissioner, Tom Burnett, lives in the Park Cities in the shadow of S.M.U.