(08-05-2022 10:21 AM)johnintx Wrote:  This. SMU viewed itself as a big-time football school in the 1960s and saw itself as a peer of Texas. This is the same school that caught outpaying everyone else in the 80's. They weren't leaving the SWC for a Magnolia League at that time.

Post-death penalty, they would have loved to be part of something like this. But their history is as part of the highest level of college football in the state of Texas.

SMU gutted their fan base and the local support by not retuning immediately after the death penalty and assuming a "we're not worthy" stance in the SWC.

This long-ball idea to be picked up by the Pac-12 might be its last, best chance to be a national player in college athletics. They dropped baseball long ago, then men's track, and are down to six men's sports: basketball, football, golf, tennis, soccer and swimming. But in its day, SMU could fill up Texas Stadium with the best of them.