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Poster Name:
It's the football

Poster Message:
You know what started the downward spiral of SMU's prestige? The Death Penalty that the football program got in the late 80's. We had a highly respected football legacy and were nationally ranked year after year, with a 52–19–1 record from 1980 to 1986 and going undefeated in 1982. We attracted the top football recruits and coaches, and students wanted to come to SMU for the football, the academics, the Greek system, and the PRESTIGE of it all. It was the Texas version of UGA or Bama. Then in 1986 the slush fund was discovered where a booster was paying players tens of thousands of dollars, and the program was all but shuttered by the NCAA. We have never recovered from that, both athletically and in the caliber of students who were applying. The top students who had a choice were no longer choosing SMU when they could get into schools that had the total package of football, Greek, and academics. Those kids apply elsewhere now.