Promote the program? Come on Dale Hansen's job is not to promote the program-go buy some neat-o advertisements with touchdowns and cheerleaders for that. He asked the questions his audience want to hear. The SMU community does not define his audience.
Problem with Dale is that he chooses to focus on the negative rather than the positive for SMU...we got three commits in the past two days and he rehashes a story that is dying quickly???
Stallion wrote:Promote the program? Come on Dale Hansen's job is not to promote the program-go buy some neat-o advertisements with touchdowns and cheerleaders for that. He asked the questions his audience want to hear. The SMU community does not define his audience.
Couldn't agree more. I'm not SMU fan (no kidding) but even if I were I'd be hard pressed to say that interviews are meant to be "fluff" pieces.
If he interviewed Todd Dodge I'd expect questions like "So Todd, your team won 2 games last season...do you really think you can turn things around in Denton?" or "I've heard a lot of talk about a new stadium. Are you any where close to this being a reality?"
me@smu wrote:Problem with Dale is that he chooses to focus on the negative rather than the positive for SMU...we got three commits in the past two days and he rehashes a story that is dying quickly???
It's what the media does. Positive news doesn't get ratings. Again, I'm just glad to be on the news and have some buzz about the school. JJ makes the buzz positive.
Hanson made a career out of bashing SMU. Remember Hanson thinks of himself as the blue collar everyman who loves nothing more than pounding the "rich, spoiled" SMU.
To say we had good coaches over the past 4 years is ridiculous. I would say that Rossley was the only high caliber coach we had - who had the misfortune of having a bone head AD.
Ignore Hanson. He will always look for the black cloud when presented with a silver lining at SMU.