Twenty-five (25) years ago on Saturday..,

[BIGHORSE]

I'm surprised Dale Hanson isn't having a 25th anniverary special.

[Glenn Sosbee]

All I know is this...I will never let it go. I'm still pissed. SMU basically went from being an elite College Football power to being the Rice Owls for the next 20 something years. We ain't gettin those decades back. They're gone. The recent success is even more sweet when this is considered.

When I think about what happened to this program 25 years ago, and the resulting agony, it makes me sick to my stomach. We all realize we were guilty. We get it, ok? The problem I have with the whole nightmare is that SMU was playing by the same handbook every other program owned. Cheating was and has always been rampant in college football. Money, cars, jobs for parents, it was all part of the deal. I even remember Marcus Dupree showing off his new cowboy boots that the Sooners had given him. It was all just business as usual. Dickerson drove around SMU's campus in a Trans Am that A&M bought him.

What happened to SMU has turned out to be blatantly obvious selective enforcement. That is a fact, and facts are stubborn things. I sometimes have a really hard time understanding why a group of lawyers out of SMU Law havent banded together and slapped a selective enforcement suit on the NCAA, and demanded compensation for lost revenue, etc.. I would really like to hear the Supreme Courts thoughts on this. Yeah, I'm still bitter.

[BIGHORSE]

Time to watch Pony Excess.

[smubrooks]

What happened to SMU has turned out to be blatantly obvious selective enforcement. That is a fact, and facts are stubborn things. I sometimes have a really hard time understanding why a group of lawyers out of SMU Law havent banded together and slapped a selective enforcement suit on the NCAA, and demanded compensation for lost revenue, etc.. I would really like to hear the Supreme Courts thoughts on this. Yeah, I'm still bitter.

I would LOVE to see this!!!

[Stallion]

and so begins the Parade of Morons. 25 years of bat [deleted] crazy

[redpony]

What happened to SMU has turned out to be blatantly obvious selective enforcement. That is a fact, and facts are stubborn things. I sometimes have a really hard time understanding why a group of lawyers out of SMU Law havent banded together and slapped a selective enforcement suit on the NCAA, and demanded compensation for lost revenue, etc.. I would really like to hear the Supreme Courts thoughts on this. Yeah, I'm still bitter.

I would LOVE to see this!!!

I totally share your sentiments. There was a group who had gotten commitments for a high dollar war-chest to take this to court and the university told us to shove it. That I will never forget or forgive.

[soccermom]

What happened to SMU has turned out to be blatantly obvious selective enforcement. That is a fact, and facts are stubborn things. I sometimes have a really hard time understanding why a group of lawyers out of SMU Law havent banded together and slapped a selective enforcement suit on the NCAA, and demanded compensation for lost revenue, etc.. I would really like to hear the Supreme Courts thoughts on this. Yeah, I'm still bitter.

I would LOVE to see this!!!

I totally share your sentiments. There was a group who had gotten commitments for a high dollar war-chest to take this to court and the university told us to shove it. That I will never forget or forgive.

I'm right there w/you, guys.

[soccermom]

After reading this, I watched DJ's video...........now that's fun and exciting!!!!!!!!
KICK 'EM MUSTANGS!!!!!!!!!

[Insane_Pony_Posse]

I totally share your sentiments. There was a group who had gotten commitments for a high dollar war-chest to take this to court and the university told us to shove it. That I will never forget or forgive.

If it ever happens I'm sure Stallion would eagerly volunteer
to work pro bono on the legal team opposing SMU!

[Stallion]

Nope I won't be signing that pleading

RULE 13. EFFECT OF SIGNING PLEADINGS, MOTIONS AND OTHER PAPERS;
SANCTIONS
The signatures of attorneys or parties constitute a certificate by them that they have read the pleading, motion, or other paper; that to the best of their knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry the instrument is not groundless and brought in bad faith or groundless and brought for the purpose of harassment. Attorneys or parties who shall bring a fictitious suit as an experiment to get an opinion of the court, or who shall file any fictitious pleading in a cause for such a purpose, or shall make statements in pleading which they know to be groundless and false, for the purpose of securing a delay of the trial of the cause, shall be held guilty of a contempt. If a pleading, motion or other paper is signed in violation of this rule, the court, upon motion or upon its own initiative, after notice and hearing, shall impose an appropriate sanction available under Rule 215-2b,

[RGV Pony]

Since when do the rules of professional conduct mean a damn thing to attys in Texas?

*some present.company excluded

[HorseSense]

Since when do the rules of professional conduct mean a damn thing to attys in Texas?

*some present.company excluded

+1

[Big Al]

yep the ncaa/texas shafted us, but we also shafted ourselves
in continuing the Pye over-reaction for so many years. Pye
was actually as bad or worse than the death penalty. whats
done is done and hopefully we will continue to improve in the
Big East.

I'll echo this setiment, Pye's administration was worse than the DP as imposed by the NCAA. As a result of the DP, Pye and the other anti-athletic department professors and adminstrators took over and the athetic program went down the drain in all sports and still hasn't recovered.