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Pony Excess (Dec 11. 9 PM)

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BigWoof31;1829692; said:
Are there any older generation BP'ers that remember this team? Were they as good as advertised?

I've seen old highlights of great games of the 1980's - but I can't remember any amazing SMU victories.

I think its nuts a team can be that dominant but not even play in their own stadium. I've read during the early to mid 80's - they were a more popular draw than the Dallas Cowboys.
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The problem was, as a lot of these guys said, you didn't really see teams on TV the way you do today. There weren't wall-to-wall studio shows, and not a lot of in-game highlights. So you either read about them in the sports page or heard announcers during a game you were watching talk about them when the other game scores scrolled on the screen. So you'd see their scores when they'd beaten Houston or something, things like that.

Having said that, SMU was a big name program and got as much hype as a team could get during that time. You'd hear more about SMU than Texas or A&M, and probably about as much as you would about Switzer's Sooners. They were in the AP top ten almost constantly during those years and had a pretty high profile right before Miami became THE high profile team.

When they got the death penalty, it was about as shocking as if it had been handed down to a team like Oklahoma, or if Petey's USC team had gotten nailed. They were a lot bigger deal than Auburn, that's for sure.

Speaking of Miami, there's another dominant team that didn't play in their own stadium. :wink:
 
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BuckeyeNation27;1830360; said:
Hell....I can remember being excited that every 2002 game was on TV.
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It is kind of funny how far TV has come in just 10-15 years. I'll sit down and watch a rebroadcast of a game on Classic or BTN and giggle about how grainy the footage is and how primitive the graphics are, and then realize the game was taped in the late 90s.
 
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I have loved the ESPN 30 for 30 films over the past year. Sadly, this is the last film in the 30 for 30. I do find it pretty funny that this is airing after Cam wins the Heisman...even though this film has been set in schedule for months. It is pretty crazy how fast SMU went from greatness to nothing.

I highly recommend watching other 30 for 30 films...even if it is about sports/people you have no interest in. They are still very good.
 
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OSUScoonie12;1831224; said:
It is pretty crazy how fast SMU went from greatness to nothing.
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And pretty obvious considering how fast they went from nothing to greatness. They had some good years, in spurts, in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, but they were awful more often than they were good.

They cheated because (allegedly) everybody else in the SWC cheated, and it was the only way they figured they could compete.
 
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They mentioned Sean Stopperich early in the show. While they fully covered David Stanley's life story, and it's end with his death in 2006, they haven't followed up on Stopperich. Not yet, anyway.

Sean Stopperich died in 1995, at the age of 29.
 
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