# 48 Levias

[bubba pony]

http://smumustangs.collegesports.com/sp ... ts-48.html

now your into some real heros. here's a long standing record.

[Stallion]

I forgot where did Mike Romo finish in the Heisman Trophy race?

[Kiper]

Wow - you're incredible. Mike Romo did more simply by being the first post-DP player to sign a letter-of-intent than you could do in a lifetime sniping away from behind your desk. For god's sake, you need to recognize that some players younger than Eric Dickerson had a lot of talent and accomplished a lot. He probably didn't get enough stars on rivals because he can't see over the curb on the side of the road, but Romo was a smart, talented and extremely tough quarterback for SMU. We should be so lucky as to have more like him.

[PK]

Thanks bubba pony for taking up the slack. They were late getting #49 out and I had given up on #48 making it this week. Good job.

[MrMustang1965]

I forgot where did Mike Romo finish in the Heisman Trophy race?

You're just mean.

[PlanoStang]

http://smumustangs.collegesports.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/greatest-moments-48.html

now your into some real heros. here's a long standing record.

That 68 N.C. State game is probably in my top 10 favorite SMU games
that I have attended. If my memory hasn't embellished this a little, I
remember a smallish LeVias making a catch, and then dragging 3 players
from the 3 yard line into the end zone for a touchdown.

[HixsontoLeVias]

Stallions just angry / bitter....he's been "second string / choice" his whole life...

[PlanoStang]

Stallion's a lawyer. He likes to argue. He HAS to win his case. Probably a little mean too.

[Stallion]

so I get it the fact he signed a letter of intent and got beat up while throwing 5 yards passes all day and winning about .08% of his games(No. 48) justifies him being mentioned along with Eric Dickerson(No. 50) No. 3 in the Heisman race and LeVias(49) No. 5 as a WR in the Heisman race. Mike Romo's accomplishments simply have no business being mentioned in the same breath.

[Stallion]

Perhaps the single greatest performance by an SMU football player in history was LeVias' performance against Texas A&M in 1967 in College Station before a National TV audience. The game had been moved up to the opening game of the season. SMU was the returning SWC Champions but had been decimated by graduation and injuries at QB. SMU was forced to go to a 5-4 third string QB named Ines Perez due to injuries to Mike Livingston. In the final minutes with Texas A&M leading. Perez and Levias connected on pass after pass as SMU drove the field. LeVias was so winded he began hyperventalationg but returned to the game in the waning moments to make an acrobatic catch outjumping the Aggie defender in the corner of the endzone for a miraculous last second come from behind victory 20-17. In 1967 SMU had just about nothing on offense except LeVias. Get this SMU's LEADING rusher on the SEASON was Darryl Doggett with 172 yards. The Aggies went on to win the rest of their SWC games behind Gene Stallings and upset Bear Bryant's Alabama team in the Cotton Bowl.

[PlanoStang]

[davidsmu94]

That's beautiful (tear drop)

[MrMustang1965]

Thanks for the 'blast from the past' with the Bill McClanahan cartoon. Those cartoons were great! I'd read 'em during breakfast on Fridays and again during breakfast on Mondays.

[huntnfish]

Stallion,

The below still applies.

Show some respect, he deserves it! He played with more heart than most (and he was not getting paid like the teams of the early 80's, he played for the love of the game). He played until his two knees just gave out. What does your resume show? Nothing but criticizing those who actually laid it on the line for the program. When have you ever strapped it on and stepped between those lines? Just b/c you disagree with a stupid ranking does not give you the right to degrade a player who gave it his best.

I just don't see the reason to degrade a guy's accomplishments who will probably have a hard time walking later in life due to the sacrifices he made on the field for SMU when it was just getting started from the death penalty. Disrespect Copeland all you want and other guys who have not laid it on the line, but don't disrespect guys like Mike Romo!

[Stallion]

Hey Teddy Ballgame we are comparing SMU greats to SMU greats-how am I being any more disrespectful than you are to our past. After seeing every SMU player in the last 40 years I think it is disrespectful and degrading to compare a guy who probably couldn't even start a single game at another Texas Division 1A team to the true immortals of the game at SMU. I think it is people who add undeserving guys like Romo who are disrespectful to our past. So Romo could be honored as one of the players who brought football back to SMU but he was not and never will be one of the greatest SMU players of all time. Its you who have lost touch will reality and after seeing Romo, LeVias aqnd Dickerson play every game I feel supremely confident in my evaluation.