How good was SMU in 81 and 82?

#30
#30
I'm not old by any means but I can remember when Momtgomery and the surrounding area was "the country". You can drive up 45 at night at you seem to finally get out of "Houston north" when you get to Willis. Times sure have changed.
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#31
#31
TXVOL07 said:
I'm not old by any means but I can remember when Momtgomery and the surrounding area was "the country". You can drive up 45 at night at you seem to finally get out of "Houston north" when you get to Willis. Times sure have changed.
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No joke. The first year I lived out here 105 was two lanes...now it's six. Moved here from Spring to get away from traffic lol.
 
#35
#35
Ron Meyer will give you the pointspread winner of the BCS title game if you'll call his hotline for only $29.95.
 
#41
#41
KingNick865 said:
Maybe not hands down, but they were better than the national champions that year.
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What could you possibly be basing that on?


I think both teams in the Sugar Bowl that year were better. SMU had Dickerson, but Curt Warner and Herschel Walker weren't exactly slouches.
 
#42
#42
UTRavens said:
It's interesting how people always say that everybody was doing it, yet only SMU got all of these insane recruiting classes. That doesn't mean that others were clean, but it's misguided and paranoid to think that anyone was "just as bad as SMU."
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Meet Barry Switzer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia . Slickest of them all. Being born the son of a bootlegger came in handy.
 
#46
#46
I wasnt alive back then but that was an interesting thing to watch. I enjoyed it.
 
#47
#47
I was in diapers when this was all going on but I find it fascinating. The level of corruption in recruiting was so in your face in those days. The best part of that documentary was when they aired the interview with the Assoc. AD, Coach, and AD of SMU and gave him the letter that he sent to the player with money. How do you send an illegal payment to a player with university letterhead?! Incredible.
 
#48
#48
I remember watching Johnny B Good. That was a god awful movie loosely based on the SMU scandal with Anthony Michael Hall Robert Downey Jr.
 
#49
#49
UTRavens said:
It's interesting how people always say that everybody was doing it, yet only SMU got all of these insane recruiting classes. That doesn't mean that others were clean, but it's misguided and paranoid to think that anyone was "just as bad as SMU."
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That's not true. Oklahoma's recruiting classes were very similar, and they were probably just as worse as SMU was during that era. Hell most of the SWC was probably just as worse. As another poster mentioned SMU had one thing going against them the others didn't. They were in Dallas, a huge media center. I know one of the media guys from that time specifially mentioned in the documentary they didn't have the resources to camp out in towns like Norman, Fayetteville, College Station or Waco to get dirt on all those other programs.
 
#50
#50
hatvol96 said:
Penn State, Georgia, and Pitt would all have kicked the living Hell out of SMU on a neutral field.
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Doubt it considering SMU beat Pitt head to head. How do you know they would have beaten SMU on a "neutral field"? The only evidence we have at the time was SMU beating Pitt ON THE FIELD in a bowl game, no matter where it was played.
 
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