SMU Bowl Eligible

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#2
Good to see the Southern Millionaires' University climbing back out of the hole after all these years. I always felt like the stuff that they got nailed for was probably being done by several other successful programs of that era but SMU was an easy target. The Pony express was poetry in motion.
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Good to see the Southern Millionaires' University climbing back out of the hole after all these years. I always felt like the stuff that they got nailed for was probably being done by several other successful programs of that era but SMU was an easy target. The Pony express was poetry in motion.
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SMU was certainly high-profile about it.

An old joke, circa 1982, the era of Tony Dorsett, Ed Jones, and Earl Campbell:

Q: Who is the highest paid professional athlete in Texas?

A: Eric Dickerson
 
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Odd thing was that a Texas A&M booster bought ED the Trans-Am he drove in high school if memory serves. I guess it's not a major violation if your bribes don't result in a commitment?
 
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VolunteerHillbilly said:
Odd thing was that a Texas A&M booster bought ED the Trans-Am he drove in high school if memory serves. I guess it's not a major violation if your bribes don't result in a commitment?
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I don't know; Albert Means didn't wind up at Kentucky or Bama, and they wound up in the soup anyway.

I don't vouch for the joke's truthfulness--I was too busy concentrating on art class and nap time--but I don't think there is a lot of argument that SMU's program wasn't dirty.
 
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Yeah, I would never claim they were innocent. I just thought that it was pretty weak of the NCAA to lay the death penalty on SMU and not do the same thing to Oklahoma at the time, or Bama in the 1990s.

I read a good article awhile back in which it was speculated that the NCAA will never use the death penalty again because of what it did to the SMU program. If they tried that crap on a big state school in a BCS conference it would probably result in the end of the NCAA.
 
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cotton said:
SMU was certainly high-profile about it.

An old joke, circa 1982, the era of Tony Dorsett, Ed Jones, and Earl Campbell:

Q: Who is the highest paid professional athlete in Texas?

A: Eric Dickerson
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That was back in the early days of Letterman when I watched him religiously.

He had a top ten list, Top Ten courses for athletes at SMU. Number 10 was "Subtraction: Additions tricky pal" I use that to this day when someone at work screws up some numbers.

Ah, gotta love the interwebs

Extra Top Ten Lists
 
#9
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Glad to see the ponys back to some winning ways. June Jones must be a genius at turning programs around. I personally would like to add them to the MWC so that TCU could have a "true" rival within the conference. If we go to 12 teams add: Boise St., Fresno/Nevada, or SMU/Houston
 
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