UD has said it again and again: online is the salvation of big-time university sports. You can cheat like hell with online courses.
UD has no idea how Southern Methodist University – famous for having so filthy a sports program that in 1987 it got one of the very few death penalties the NCAA has handed down – its entire football season was cancelled that year – got caught. It apparently did what a lot of schools with this sort of program no doubt do – signed a player up for an online course and had someone else take it for him.
Once SMU got caught, it didn’t help that the school is just a longterm rascally ol’ give-a-shit sort of place.
In a conference call with reporters, [an NCAA representative] noted SMU’s history of violating NCAA rules. The school has been called before the NCAA infractions committee 10 times since 1958. The basketball program last ran into trouble in 2011, when it admitted that coaches sent impermissible text messages to recruits. [This] history of violations was taken into consideration when this year’s punishment was issued.
Or, to put it less delicately;
SMU is the NCAA compliance version of Old Faithful. Just a matter of time before it erupts again. The infraction dates: 1958, 1965, 1974, 1976, 1981, 1985, 1987, 2000, 2011 and now 2015. And for all that rule violating, the Mustangs have one football national championship it can claim, from 1935… SMU is historically corrupt.
I think this guy is getting at the fact that corruption is SMU. That’s it. That’s the school.
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This puts SMU’s coach “3-for-3 in putting programs on probation.” If you’re shocked that a death penalty school hired a coach who put his two previous schools’ basketball programs on probation, you’re not reading this blog with care.
September 29th, 2015 at 5:48PM
Remember, it’s Southern METHODIST University. Baylor, you might get killed by a bballer, Texas Christian University, you get your dope from a footballer, SMU, a player will get someone to take classes for them. What the hell is up with TX religious unis?
September 29th, 2015 at 6:12PM
charlie: The retention of the religious designations is really wild.
September 30th, 2015 at 3:11PM
SMU does not need the death penalty again. It needs the vampire penalty: a wooden stake, a silver bullet, several cloves of garlic, and some holy water, so it does not rise again from the not-so-dead NCAA “death penalty” recipients.
September 30th, 2015 at 8:08PM
why is Larry Brown allowed to coach any longer?
after all, there’s hope that institutions might change over time as leadership changes, etc.
but Larry Brown’s obviously incorrigible.
September 30th, 2015 at 8:54PM
john: But so is SMU. A match made in heaven.