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Just bought my copy off amazon, looking forward to reading this.

So sick of the death penalty garbage. Please move on.

Good news, ModelT! If you don't care about it, you don't have to read it!

Well I'm a history teacher and an SMU grad, so books on the history of SMU are of utmost interest to me. Especially from a first hand perspective.

mustang1992 wrote:Well I'm a history teacher and an SMU grad, so books on the history of SMU are of utmost interest to me. Especially from a first hand perspective.

Well. (well, well)

Bergermeister wrote:

mustang1992 wrote:Well I'm a history teacher and an SMU grad, so books on the history of SMU are of utmost interest to me. Especially from a first hand perspective.

Well. (well, well)

WTF does this mean???

Treadway21 wrote:

Bergermeister wrote:

mustang1992 wrote:Well I'm a history teacher and an SMU grad, so books on the history of SMU are of utmost interest to me. Especially from a first hand perspective.

Well. (well, well)

WTF does this mean???

Curious myself, care to enlighten us "Bergermeister"?

StallionsModelT wrote:So sick of the death penalty garbage. Please move on.

At the risk of a flame war...your comment isn't really helpful. Everyone is sick of the Death Penalty garbage. Everyone...including me...that is one of the reasons I wrote the book.

To refresh some of our memories...the NCAA said it was a 10 year penalty...Forrest Gregg said it would only be a 5 year penalty...and yet, 25 years later it is still hanging around. If you had told people in 1987 that we would still be dealing with it in 2012 they would have mocked our negativity. And yet here we are.

Time has not healed it so far...and we keep hoping for 10 win seasons to overshadow it. Maybe...just maybe we should embrace it...give it a proper burial...and achieve closure.

I embraced it a few years back with a "We Cheated Death" sign at nationally televised game at Ford.
Mostly got agreeable laughter.
It's still a miracle we even have a team after that despicable penalty.

dbone wrote:

StallionsModelT wrote:So sick of the death penalty garbage. Please move on.

At the risk of a flame war...your comment isn't really helpful. Everyone is sick of the Death Penalty garbage. Everyone...including me...that is one of the reasons I wrote the book.

To refresh some of our memories...the NCAA said it was a 10 year penalty...Forrest Gregg said it would only be a 5 year penalty...and yet, 25 years later it is still hanging around. If you had told people in 1987 that we would still be dealing with it in 2012 they would have mocked our negativity. And yet here we are.

Time has not healed it so far...and we keep hoping for 10 win seasons to overshadow it. Maybe...just maybe we should embrace it...give it a proper burial...and achieve closure.

I think it would've been a 5-10-year penalty if the SWC hadn't blown up. Gregg said once he never dreamed they'd ever do that.