No football program has been so severely sanctioned since, and many think no program ever will.
“As I’ve said for the better part of the last 25 years, you’re never going to see it again,†Hansen said. “ They’re not going to shut down Auburn. They’re not going to shut down Ohio State.
“It’s real easy to give SMU the death penalty. It has a minor ripple across college football. I don’t think anybody outside Dallas really cared.
'Death' from above: The year a football program was banished
