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A Payroll to Meet: A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU

A Payroll to Meet: A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU

Paperback

FootballRegional: Southwest

Publisher Price: $19.95

ISBN10: 0803248857
ISBN13: 9780803248854
Publisher: Univ Of Nebraska Pr
Published: Sep 1 2013
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.58 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.49
Language: English

Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school's football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time football universities that were often more than double its size. Under pressure to compete, the SMU football program engaged in ethics, rules, and recruiting violations for years. When the corruption came to light, the NCAA handed out its most serious punishment in the history of college sports--the death penalty--which cancelled the team's entire 1987 schedule.

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