mrydel wrote:I was the last (35th or 38th) player to sign with SMU my year and I believe that was our largest class ever. UT and UA as comparison would sign a minimum of 60 ( I believe that was the limit then) and then use scholarships from other sports to add more. The SWC also had set minimum SAT scores. Required scores for anyone at SMU were higher and athletes had to meet the higher required scores.
And let me add, as I have posted before, although I know it was best for Hayden to be let go when he was, he was and is still one of my favorite people in the world. He provided me with continued scholarship after I was hurt which he did not have to do, which allowed me to graduate. He had promised me in the beginning he would do so if something were to happen (I was on a year to year deal) and he stood by his word. He is a hero to me.
Was there also some kind of a footnote to the recruiting limits Fry had that additional players could be signed if they were blue chips? I did not fully understand (or remember in detail) the article I read in Texas Football or maybe the DMN. In the earlier day when Arkpony and I were in school I think the numbers were more or less unlimited, at least by the NCAA. Bear Bryant may have brought in about a hundred his first year in College Station.