To Kill A Football Team - SMU's Death Penalty

The 30 for 30 Pony Exce$$ is an all time classic "You had schools spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on players and only winning 3 games, now thats a definition of a loser"

Coming back to this story after SMU just finished the 2023 season in the AP Top 25, was in the AAC championship game, AND is now entering the ACC next year. Guess the turnaround is coming to fruition.

Didn’t Eric Dickerson say that when he went to the NFL he basically took a pay cut?

This video almost touches on it but doesn’t but it’s an open secret in Texas. SMU was NOT more brazen or more stupid than any other Texas school (gold trans am anyone?) SMU was chosen by the NCAA to send a message to the southwestern conference. The NCAA couldn’t risk killing one of its biggest brands (Texas or A&M) so they came down on SMU as a warning.

Trailblazers in recruiting strategy. They were doing NIL 40 years before the concept existed.

SMU won the 1982 Southwest Conference title thanks to an unbelievably terrible pass interference call vs Arkansas.

NCAA: “You are banned from postseason play for the 1981-82 season for recruiting violations.” SMU: “I’LL FUCKIN’ DO IT AGAIN!!!”

Nobody stop this video until it's completely over.

SMU class of '80 here -- I went to one game the whole time I was in school. I probably would have gone to more games but they insisted on playing in Texas Stadium. If they had played on campus I'm sure I'd have cared more about the football team. The school definitely did pay recruits, but they weren't the only school doing it.

Glad to see SMU just won the American Athletic Conference and will become a Power 4 school next year by joining the ACC

can't believe i didn't get recommended these two uploads we're back boys

I was on the ‘80 - ‘83 SMU teams. The ‘82 team was the best. A lot of guys on the team passed a lot of gas and it was due to the grain heavy diet we had

I can't believe how young Dale Hansen was in that clip. It's awesome that he's been breaking stories for so long.

For perspective, the $20 given to a kid in 1980 is worth about $80 in 2023.

Wait, Craig James did WHAT?

We back in the power conferences now baby!

Glad to have you back (again)

Oddly enough, this was not the first time the NCAA used the "Death Penalty". It was the third time. It had been used a total of five times. 1. The University of Kentucky men's basketball team for the 1952-53 season. 2. The University of Southern Louisiana (Now University of Louisiana at Lafayette.) men's basketball program for the 1973-74 and 1974-75 seasons. 3. The topic of this video. 4. The men's soccer team at Morehouse College, a DII school, for the 2004 and 2005 seasons 5. The men's tennis team at MacMurray College, a D3 school for the 2005-06 and 2006-07 seasons (Program was permanently killed off from it. MacMurray College was closed for good in 2020)

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SMU stood for Slush Money Unlimited.