FoxSSW: SMU's progress finally evident under Jones

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Pony Success: SMU's progress finally evident under Jones

By KEITH WHITMIRE
FOXSportsSouthwest.com
December 30, 2010

UNIVERSITY PARK, Texas -- SMU didn't get the storybook ending it wanted after falling short against Army, 16-14, in the Bell Helicopter Armed Forces Bowl.

However, SMU's recent success is writing a new ending to one of college football's darkest stories.

SMU's saga of cheating and scandals in the 1980s was retold recently in the excellent ESPN 30 for 30 documentary, "Pony Excess."

Out of control boosters and a complicit administration led to SMU receiving the NCAA's so-called death penalty in 1987 and suspension of the football program for two seasons.

The new tale of SMU football under the direction of Coach June Jones could be titled "Pony Success."

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