Lack of Coverage from Newspaper Hurt Attendance

by **McClown27** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:19 am

I watched the game on TV, and it looked like about 10K real people were there. It is unfortunate that the local media doesn't hype or profile the game when it is on NATIONAL TELEVISION.

by **jtstang** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:47 am

We had about a million days of coverage in a row from the newspaper. They are not our PR department, dumb@ss. It's called ADVERTISING, and you have to buy it, it's not free.

by **couch 'em** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 7:53 am

There was no attendance because it was Halloween, and a week day. People's kids want to go house-to-house, not watch football.

by **BrianTinBigD** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 8:02 am

I loved the way that we begged on the smumustangs.com website and Orsini blog about selling out the game for a national audience but there were no tickets cheaper that $8.50 for kids. Kids should have got in for a $1 and parents for $2. Also, every kid should have been given a free popcorn coupon as SMU's gift for Halloween. Maybe we could have gotten another 5000 people there.

by **2112** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:22 am

Marketing Department gets a BIG FAT.........F!!!!! It's not ALL their fault though, there is like around 10 cents in the budget.

by **mrydel** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:25 am

My assistant did not show up for work today. Dam(n) DMN.

by **SMU Football Blog** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:33 am

mrydel wrote:My assistant did not show up for work today. Dam(n) DMN.

Ditto, one of my paralegals. She didn't show up either. Damn DMN!

by **mrydel** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:35 am

SMU Football Blog wrote:
mrydel wrote:My assistant did not show up for work today. Dam(n) DMN.

Ditto, one of my paralegals. She didn't show up either. Damn DMN!

And to top it all off, when the DMN did write they mentioned that Martin played so there goes our Medical Hardship. Had they kept quiet we could have snuck him in. :lol:

by **jtstang** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:37 am

Hey, you guys better stop your Belo-bashing or they're going to read this thread and pull Kate Hairy off the beat in retaliation. Thanks, McClown.

by **mrydel** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:39 am

I am not worried. I am going to build an updated office to try and hire a better assistant.

by **Eddie P** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 9:52 am

I brought two cases of beer to the tailgate, one of bud light and one of coors light. I only have coors light left.

Damn the DMN!!

by **MustangIcon** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 10:00 am

The coverage in the DMN has been absolutely great ever since Kate took over. And although I was annoyed at first, I sort of enjoy the Burgers and Cheer guy that gives me the quick hit summary everyday :lol:

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A promotion for $2 tickets for kids or $5 tickets for anyone is costume or SOMETHING would have been better than nothing. Of course you actually have to advertise to let people know of special deals like that and our budget is not very extensive apparently

by **SMU Football Blog** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:42 pm

This just in, my missing paralegal showed up. Still not reported as breaking news in the DMN.

by **mrydel** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 12:47 pm

SMU Football Blog wrote:This just in, my missing paralegal showed up. Still not reported as breaking news in the DMN.

Was my assistant with her? I can't find anything in the paper or online.

by **ponynotsoexpress2007** » Wed Nov 01, 2006 2:23 pm

Doesn't hype it up. I think we got plenty of coverage. 10,000 were there because people that LIVE in Dallas didn't come to the game.

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