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re: One of the most infamous games in college football history has been posted onto YouTube...
Posted on 8/21/23 at 9:43 am to ronricks
Posted on 8/21/23 at 9:43 am to ronricks
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SMU got put on probation because they started to beat the Longhorns and Aggies and they just couldn’t have that.
Part of that is true. Texas, Tech, and Houston were already on probation at that time IIRC. A&M heading that way.
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Were the Aggies being ‘discrete’ buying the Trans A&M for Dickerson?
In a way, yes. At least Dickerson's grandmother's name was on the car. She was later given money by boosters.
With SMU, the HC was directing his staff to directly pay recruits and set up booster payments. Meyer left and first probation came and new coach Collins picked up exactly where Meyer left off knowingly doing this. The second probation came bowl bans and only 15 scholarships and they still continued. The school board was still "phasing out" payments. The school was knowingly and actively involved with this.
This post was edited on 8/21/23 at 9:45 am
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Posted on 8/21/23 at 10:34 am to Cdawg
No doubt SMU was cheating. But, all the other schools were at the time as well. Texas and Texas A&M were offering the same players SMU was and trying to lure them using same tactics Even TCU and Rice were paying players. From the ESPn article a few years ago on demise of SWC:
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John Jenkins, Houston offensive coordinator 1987-89, head coach 1990-92: [In the 1980s, SMU] started lining up and beating the likes of Texas and certainly A&M. And that's when some problems started occurring ... the bitterness of rivalries, the intense competition of recruiting. [SMU coach] Ron [Meyer] went on probation, but so did everybody else at the same time. I mean, everybody, other than Rice, got put on probation for cheating with some sort of restrictions put on 'em.
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