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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]’m not sure what your point is? SMU alumni are excited to watch SMU, as well as the fans of the team they’re playing. That is the most you can say about the majority of teams in most of the time, and I would include FSU in that group in recent years. I think it’s still 2014 in the minds of FSU boosters, but the rest of the world has moved on.  In the ACC, Clemson is the only “must watch” team, and their star seems to fading a bit.

Besides, SMU was a “must watch” team pre death penalty, and now they have a chance to get there again. We’ll see.  Not to mention that there is value to the ACC teams to playing in the heart of the best football recruiting grounds in the US. [/quote]

I played for Texas, so yes. I am biased.  I grew up in Dallas watching the "Pony Express".  They were cheaters and deserved the death penalty.  I am sure that SMU alumni want to watch their team on TV.

My point is that I don't want to watch SMU play any school in the ACC.  It's just lame TV.  If Bama is playing LSU, Texas is plating Oklahoma, Georgia is playing Clemson what game would I watch?  SMU vs whatever?[/quote]

We’re not talking about now. Where will SMU be in 3-4 years? However, it sounds like you played against SMU when they were good. So, no, it’s not a surprise that you would bear a grudge and not want to watch. In any case, I noticed FSU is not on your “must watch” list, which was my point. And sure, I’ll watch the big matchups — I’ll probably watch LSU-FSU tomorrow night. But I probably wouldn’t if it was FSU and a random G5 team. I didn’t watch Bama or Georgia today. I have a friend who went to Wyoming, and we’ve followed the team since the time Josh Allen was playing, so I greatly enjoyed watching them beat Tech tonight. See how that works?

If you were recruited by Texas (and presumably other schools) then you also know that every school was doing it. I went to a Texas HS with a top football team, and I had multiple 4 & 5* friends recruited during that era, and they said there were recruiting violations at every school they visited. In fact, one friend said the most blatant was Rice. SMU’s mistake was being successful and beating Texas twice. (FWIW, Eric Dickerson’s infamous gold Trans Am was bought by an Aggie booster.) Punishment was one thing, but the NCAA was pushed hard by Texas and others to go for the death penalty, and it’s pretty clear that it was a terrible idea (judging by the fact that they’ve never done it again to any number of schools that have done things that were worse, by any measure). Who knows how SMU will do in the ACC, but now they’ll have their chance, which is long overdue. [/quote]

I will agree with you to a point.  I did get recruited to several D1 programs back in the day. The SWC was crazy back then.   Money was passed around to the top players.  The things that happened at SMU were outrageous.  I don't think the death penalty was the right punishment for SMU.  And you correct in that the NCAA will not sentence any other schools to the death penalty despite egregious violations of NCAA rules.  It makes no sense to do it Dollar wise.

BTW, Texas did not push for the death penalty for SMU.  Please give me a source for that outlandish claim!

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