The very best college football experiences for me were yearly outings to New Haven, Ct. and the Yale football games at the old Yale Bowl !
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Watching any football game in that historic ( now 103 years old ) stadium was an experience in watching college football the way it was meant to be played.
SMU clergy are part of the Board of Trustees, the body legally responsible for problems when the Board of Regents’ operational decisions go wrong. Regents are mostly members of the Dallas Citizens Council, the Dallas businessman political machine, who got there by threatening to cancel participation in the annual sustentation campaign if they didn’t get to run the school. Shortly after, SMU was the only school to be put on “sudden death” penalty for recruiting violations. (The only reason for such penalties – rape is ignored.) Had I been on the Trustees at that time, I would have told the politicians that if they did not meet their own goal for the campaign, we would abolish the School of Business and sports (national power house in those days) and feature academics. They would have surrendered and the old system would have remained in place. They would have had their middle management graduates and spectator sports and SMU would have their integrity.
Linguist almost 8 years ago
The very best college football experiences for me were yearly outings to New Haven, Ct. and the Yale football games at the old Yale Bowl !
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Watching any football game in that historic ( now 103 years old ) stadium was an experience in watching college football the way it was meant to be played.
kodj kodjin almost 8 years ago
I think Bill Hinds is from Houston. I know he is a Texan. Today’s cartoon wouldn’t be a reference to BAYLOR! would it? GASP!
kodj kodjin almost 8 years ago
Correction mabrndt; Baylor is Baptist. all the way. with Baptist preachers on the board. SMU is Methodist.
jmworacle almost 8 years ago
As long as they can play football let the little “darlings” do what they want. When those darlings are no longer useful then throw them to the wolves.
hippogriff almost 8 years ago
mabrndt
SMU clergy are part of the Board of Trustees, the body legally responsible for problems when the Board of Regents’ operational decisions go wrong. Regents are mostly members of the Dallas Citizens Council, the Dallas businessman political machine, who got there by threatening to cancel participation in the annual sustentation campaign if they didn’t get to run the school. Shortly after, SMU was the only school to be put on “sudden death” penalty for recruiting violations. (The only reason for such penalties – rape is ignored.) Had I been on the Trustees at that time, I would have told the politicians that if they did not meet their own goal for the campaign, we would abolish the School of Business and sports (national power house in those days) and feature academics. They would have surrendered and the old system would have remained in place. They would have had their middle management graduates and spectator sports and SMU would have their integrity.