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[QUOTE="WoadBlue, post: 4734107, member: 1145"]
That's pretty close to the actual truth. The SMU boosters were tired of seeing Oklahoma and A&M and Texas (sometimes Arkansas and LSU and Houston) buy, rather literally, most of the best talent in TX. And so they started their own slush funds. And then when caught they felt it would be wrong to stop paying guys to whom they had made 4 year promises. OU, for example, would have dumped those players they had bribed in a half second, but the SMU people at least felt an obligation to them. And the NCAA, while totally ignoring OU's endless sins at the time, decided that SMU would get the Death Penalty.

Now, I think the SMU boosters would invest in a huge way in NIL, as well as in building the best facilities for a smaller school that anybody has. SMU has 6800 undergrads and Dook has 6800 undergrads. That total makes SMU a bad addition for the ACC. We lack large student bodies. We need a school the size of Cincinnati, not another the size of Dook. Cincy has about 47,000 students, about 37,000 of them undergrads.
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