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Purple Wimple wrote:Help me with the abbreviation: LEC

something about tutoring, etc.?

smupony94 wrote:It was where the football players don't go

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smupony94 wrote:It was where the football players don't go

Purple Wimple wrote:Help me with the abbreviation: LEC

something about tutoring, etc.?

Purple Wimple wrote:Some of y'all make find this odd, but I cheer for SMU 11 games out of 12 during the season. A strong SMU helps TCU, in theory. Because it hasn't happened since the Revival, we're just guessing.

Purple Wimple wrote:if the 1930s were relevant in college football today, TCU and SMU wouldn't be on the outside of the cartel...

Purple Wimple wrote:if the 1930s were relevant in college football today, TCU and SMU wouldn't be on the outside of the cartel.

And in case you've missed more than football in the last 80 years, the Great Depression ended when America ramped up for another "Great War", which became known as World War II. Roosevelt died in his fourth term; Truman ended that war by using a super-bomb America invented; the Soviet Union stole it, and by the time America got revved up for another war, Nazis were old news, and Commies were all the rage. ’49 harry truman, doris day, red china, johnnie raySouth pacific, walter winchell, joe dimaggio’50 joe mccarthy, richard nixon, studebaker, televisionNorth korea, south korea, marilyn monroe’51 rosenbergs, h-bomb, sugar ray, panmunjomBrando, the king and I and the catcher in the rye’52 eisenhower, vaccine, england’s got a new queenMarciano, liberace, santayana goodbyeChorusWe didn’t start the fireIt was always burningSince the world’s been turningWe didn’t start the fireNo we didn’t light itBut we tried to fight it’53 joseph stalin, malenkov, nasser and prokofievRockefeller, campanella, communist bloc’54 roy cohn, juan peron, toscanini, dacronDien bien phu falls, rock around the clock’55 einstein, The GI Bill made college cheap, as long as you went to a state school, which put SMU and TCU at a distinct disadvantage. In the 1960s blacks stopped putting up with "separate but equal" and a lot of America-haters decided drugs, bad hair, and draft-dodging were cool. Worse still, college football adopted unlimited substition and two-squad play, which really put the screws on small private schools. TCU fell off the tracks, but SMU decided it could just pay players to win, and it did. By the time the last great American president (Ronald Reagan) took office, the economy was in tatters, the Soviets were hoping to set up bases in the Carribbean, and TCU and SMU were competing to pay recruits the most.

THe hammers came down on the Soviets when Reagan cut taxes and unleashed the American economy. The hammers came down on TCU and SMU when the NCAA got enough evidence of all the cheating to shut down their programs. Neither recovered for a decade or more, but TCU was first to get out of the gutter when it hired Fran and Patterson from New Mexico, built better facilities, and lucked into a fullback named LaDainian Tomlinson. Patterson took over in '01, and the machine is humming along nicely, now. SMU hired JJ away from Hawaii a couple years ago, and looks to be putting together a nice program.