'Oh, s—, here come all the billionaires': How SMU came back
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2024 10:28 amFrom ESPN.com:
'Oh, s---, here come all the billionaires': How SMU came back from the dead
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff Writer
IN THE 1980s, SMU and Dallas became synonymous with free-flowing money in college football, a small school in a big city that turned into a playground for rich boosters who would spare no expense to make sure their team became a major player. It worked, albeit not for long. The Mustangs became pariahs, ultimately getting crushed by the NCAA's "death penalty" in 1987. SMU was the only program in history considered so corrupt that it had to be shut down.
If only those boosters could've fast-forwarded 40 years. The sins of SMU's past are now virtues in college football.
"We don't embrace the mistakes of our past," Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee said. "But we do embrace the history of our past."
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'Oh, s---, here come all the billionaires': How SMU came back from the dead
Dave Wilson, ESPN Staff Writer
IN THE 1980s, SMU and Dallas became synonymous with free-flowing money in college football, a small school in a big city that turned into a playground for rich boosters who would spare no expense to make sure their team became a major player. It worked, albeit not for long. The Mustangs became pariahs, ultimately getting crushed by the NCAA's "death penalty" in 1987. SMU was the only program in history considered so corrupt that it had to be shut down.
If only those boosters could've fast-forwarded 40 years. The sins of SMU's past are now virtues in college football.
"We don't embrace the mistakes of our past," Mustangs coach Rhett Lashlee said. "But we do embrace the history of our past."
To read this story in its entirety, CLICK HERE.
