SoCal_Pony, Pye basically gave the keys to the athletic department to the faculty senate and what started out as a matter of over zealous booster involvement, administration improprieties and improperly paying football athletes suddenly became a matter of academics and an imposition of rigorous academic requirements for admittance of athletes to the university resulted. Once the authority had been given to the faculty senate, retrieving it became a delicate operation taking many years to accomplish. Mean time the athletic department and more exact, the football program rotted. So although Pye has been gone these many years, he created the monster that tried to destroy the football program at SMU.
BTW, I'm also not happy with what the man did when instead of investing in the civil engineering department to build it up, he shut it down.