Will the C-USA tourney get DFW media respect?

Harry · May 22, 2017

I was pleasantly surprised to see on the front of the Dallas Morning News site the announcement of Frisco, Texas, being awarded the Conference USA basketball tournament. I did have to scroll down a long way, though.

(Two-finger scrolling on laptops is one of the most underrated developments in the tech world.)

I bring this up because the event could receive the skimpiest home media presence in its 22-year history. I do place a positive asterisk on that statement, however.

The Denton Record-Chronicle covers North Texas, and does it well. The paper has staffed a football game in Huntington, something a handful of C-USA area papers can say. There is an outlet in Frisco, the Frisco Enterprise.

But as far as Dallas goes, Southern Methodist was in the league from 2005-13 and let me tell you, the Mustangs were a buried blip. I don’t recall North Texas, situated about 40 miles from downtown Dallas, getting any more of a ride during my two visits to SMU.

And I don’t see Dallas giving this basketball tournament much respect. Certainly not as much as Memphis, Tulsa, El Paso and Birmingham.

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GrandGreen · May 23, 2017

Silly article, the tournament is not in Dallas unlike the tournaments in Tulsa, Memphis, El Paso and Birmingham. The DMN will cover the event, but not close to the coverage a home town relatively small newspaper is going to provide. In fact, the DMN circulation is greater than the sum of the major newspapers in those 4 cities. So you can argue that although the coverage will be less, the number of people reached will be much greater.

outoftown · May 23, 2017

Depends. What is going on in Dallas and surroundings at the same time. I don't recall a lot of other high level basketball tourneys being in the area at a time when Football is long over.

UNTFan23 · May 23, 2017

On 5/22/2017 at 1:36 PM, Harry said:

I was pleasantly surprised to see on the front of the Dallas Morning News site the announcement of Frisco, Texas, being awarded the Conference USA basketball tournament. I did have to scroll down a long way, though.

(Two-finger scrolling on laptops is one of the most underrated developments in the tech world.)

I bring this up because the event could receive the skimpiest home media presence in its 22-year history. I do place a positive asterisk on that statement, however.

The Denton Record-Chronicle covers North Texas, and does it well. The paper has staffed a football game in Huntington, something a handful of C-USA area papers can say. There is an outlet in Frisco, the Frisco Enterprise.

But as far as Dallas goes, Southern Methodist was in the league from 2005-13 and let me tell you, the Mustangs were a buried blip. I don’t recall North Texas, situated about 40 miles from downtown Dallas, getting any more of a ride during my two visits to SMU.

And I don’t see Dallas giving this basketball tournament much respect. Certainly not as much as Memphis, Tulsa, El Paso and Birmingham.

- See more at: http://www.wvgazettemail.com/sports-doug-smock/20170521/doug-smock-marshall-miami-football-opener-looms-large#sthash.IIOIekAR.dpuf

When was the last time a college conference basketball tournament held in DFW?