Will the C-USA tourney get DFW media respect?

[Harry]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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

[Army of Dad]

On 5/23/2017 at 2:09 PM, UNTFan23 said:

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

Just a couple of years ago:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_12_Conference_Women's_Basketball_Tournament