DiamondM75 wrote:There should be an option #4
The NCAA will never give the DP again, therefore, the NCAA should compensate SMU for it's share of Big XII revenue post SWC break up, because we should be in the Big XII instead of Baylor.
Had we not been given the DP, there is no proof that we would have been in the Big XII. Remember that there was a great deal of politicking going on, and Ann Richards was a Baylor alum. Bob Bullock was a Texas Tech and Baylor Law alum.
I propose the following:
The NCAA should compensate SMU for revenue lost from not playing football in the 1987 season (as estimated by taking 1986 football revenues and multiplying by inflation [as measured by the CPI] from 1986 to 1987). In addition, since SMU elected to cancel its 1988 season after the NCAA forbid them to have any home games that year, the NCAA should compensate SMU for home game ticket revenue only (in order to penalize SMU some), as estimated from the 1986 season multiplied by the inflation from 1986 to 1988.
The damages to SMU's program, as evidenced by its performance from 1989 onwards, should not be compensated for by the NCAA, as SMU would have otherwise received severe sanctions that would have also greatly damaged the program.
