Suddenly, the staff has to re-recruit

[LA_Mustang]

the entire roster. Obviously, getting Nic, MK and Tolbert to stay is paramount but what about Ben Moore, Sterling, Semi, Gu, Shake, Sed and Jarrey? wow! Someone has to keep the guys together and get an us verses the world attitude, otherwise this could end very badly.

[Puckhead48E]

That is why we have this staff. It is a challenge to get the players to stay, just as recruiting will be a challenge. The only positive of not appealing is that you know you get the postseason ban out of the way. If you appeal, you are recruiting with kids not knowing whether that ban will be removed or not. You know every other team is going to jump on every opportunity to point out that SMU has this hit and the prior 2011 hit, and that they will get killed if this happens again. While the lawyers prepare for the appeal, it's time to get the kids together and unify them against the common enemy, the NCAA. Let them take it out on every weeks opponents and let's make the NCAA look like fools.

[Pony ^]

I don't see this ending very well.

[1983 Cotton Bowl]

I don't see this ending very well.

The history of SMU athletics supports your hunch.

[JasonB]

How does the scholarship loss work? Not to be a sunshiner, but we did okay this past year with 2 open spots...

[Rebel10]

Defintely going to have to recruit the entire team to keep them from going to schools with trimesters.