Quote Originally Posted by Really Clark? View Post
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.
The media's role in that is why UM places such emphasis on controlling the local media. The national doesn't care enough to do the digging but UM knows the local folks could bury them. Heck they almost DID bury us under JWS.