Quote Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg View Post
People tend to forget that even SMU didn't get the death penalty originally. The first probation was pretty stiff but they got the death penalty after they got caught again doing the same things while they were still on probation.
It was a little bit more than that. SMU had been on probation 4-5 different times from 1974-1985. But they continued to use the slush fund to pay the remaining players they had been and then Supposedly phase out the payments. This was a month after their last probation and big scandal in which they had promised it was all cleaned up with the new Texas governor being a part of all this. It's also interesting to note, yes this is to you CL, it was some investigative reporters who really did an enormous amount of digging and pressuring to finally nail them that last time.