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Most students taken by surprise
by NCAA’s final decision an SMU
DALLAS (AP) — The abolition of
the 1987 football program at South
ern Methodist took most students by
surprise Wednesday and left some
wondering if their diplomas’ value
would be diminished by the public-
ity-
“Bitter? I think it’s preposterous,”
Mustang defensive back Mark Vin
cent said after the NCAA an
nounced the worst football sanctions
in the association’s history.
“To be quite honest, I am embar
rassed and humiliated,” student
body president Trevor Pearlman
said. Pearlman said the NCAA’s
findings that student-athletes were
paid even after the school was on
probation in August 1985 was more
jarring than the loss of the program.
Business student Eric Lawrence
said he thought the penalties were
fair, but that he was afraid the action
would tarnish the school’s image.
He said he was worried he might
run into interviewers who take the
attitude, “Oh well, they cheated in
football, who’s to say he didn’t cheat
in class?”
SMU football players said
Wednesday they still were digesting
the news, which included stripping
the Mustangs’ schedule to only seven
games in 1988 — none of them
home games — and barring tele
vision or bowl appearances.
“I woke up this morning and
turned on TV and while I was eating
my Cheerios, that’s when I heard
that we lost my senior year of foot
ball,” offensive tackle David Rich
ards said.
“I really didn’t think they’d give it
to us,” said Robert McDade, a de
fensive tackle.
Richards said he was not aware of
the illegal payments claimed by for
mer player David Stanley, who
sparked the NCAA’s investigation by
claiming he had received monthly
payments from SMU officials.
“They did everything they could
to help David Stanley,” Richards
“It's like going from hot to
cold. They’re expected to
go to school with all these
people who grew up with
money and they’re ex
pected to adjust to that. ”
Dick Anderson,
SMU defensive tackle
said. “He turned around and turned
us in.”
Richards, like many of the other
players with a year of eligibility left,
said he hoped to be able to work out
an arrangement to play football one
more semester and then return to
SMU to finish his degree.
He joked that transferring might
be difficult.
“They probably think they
couldn’t afford us,” Richards said.
Tony Brown, a sophomore full
back who transferred to SMU after
football was canceled at the Univer
sity of Texas at Arlington, said
Wednesday’s announcement was
disheartening.
“It’s pretty hard,” he said. “I don’t
know whether it’s fair.”
Players said they don’t blame for
mer Coach Bobby Collins, who re
signed in December.
“These people were on the out
side,” junior free safety Franky
Thomas said.
“I feel that he (Collins) did a very
good job,” said McDade, a sopho
more. “What was going on was
wrong, true enough. But still, 1 don’t
think we should have to suffer for
mistakes (the booster) committed.”
Defensive tackle Dick Anderson
said his transfer prospects aren’t
bright with just one year of eligibility
left.
The students who took money
shouldn’t be faulted because many
may have come from disadvantaged
backgrounds and wanted to fit into
the affluent environment of the
campus, Anderson said.
“It’s like going from hot to cold.
They’re expected to go to school
with all these people who grew up
with money and they’re expected to
adjust to that,” he said.
Pearlman, the student body presi
dent, said the university should have
named names instead of promising
confidentiality in return for infor
mation.
“They’ve allowed the individuals
to hide behind the cloak of the insti
tution,” he said. He said he would
ask the administration to continue
the investigation and divulge the
names.
“1 think it was inevitable. We’ve
been warned so many times it finally
came down,” said John Cebello, a
history and English major who for
merly played for the Mustangs.
“I put all the blame on the alumni.
Even when I played here, they were
at practice. They were in the locker
room after the game. In the future, I
think what the administration is
going to have to do is control the
alumni.”
Infractions committee chairman:
NCAA compromised on decision
The NCAA infractions committee
chose the middle ground in punish
ing Southern Methodist and its way
ward football program, the commit
tee chairman said.
“Clearly the recommendations (of
the university and the NCAA en
forcement staff) were for (eliminat
ing) less games than the committee
did,” said Frank Remington, law
professor at the University of Wis
consin.
Because SMU already was under
NCAA sanction, the committee
could have imposed the so-called
“death penalty” — a complete two-
year shutdown of the program.
SMU was the first school to face that
penalty since the NCAA adopted it
two years ago.
“We think the penalty in this case
was appropriate because of what was
done, the current violations and the
past history,” Remington said.
Remington’s committee sus
pended SMU’s football program for
the 1987 season, allowed the school
just seven games for 1988, all of
them on the road and none of them
on television, and severely restricted
scholarships and recruiting. The
school thus loses four 1988 games,
one of them in the conference.
“We try to speak in the full text as
to why we did not impose the full
death penalty,” Remington said.
“Anytime you talk about the number
of games, the line is arbitrary. The
committee’s view was that drawing it
at non-conference games was not de
sirable. It sends the wrong message
to say the only ones to be disadvan
taged (by not being allowed to sched
ule SMU) are non-conference oppo
nents. It’s not just a non-conference
problem. It’s a Southwest Confer
ence problem as well. We didn’t
think it was appropriate to send the
message that you can play confer
ence games but not non-conference
games.”
SMU and the enforcement staff
had gone into the infractions hear
ing agreeing on what the penalty
should be for the university’s latest
round of recruiting violations and
payments to players. They recom
mended less than the action taken by
Remington’s committee.
“I was not surprised at the en
forcement staffs recommendation,”
Remington said. “We think it is ap
propriate to have a recommendation
as long as it is understood that it is
not binding. We are always happy to
hear advice.”
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DALLAS (AP) - The I03
football in 1987 will force Soul neni
ern Methodist to payaprict
thousands of dollars in lost
come and in the number of i
students who normally would
drawn to the school, SMU o
cials said Wednesday.
The NCAA announced!
football is banned at the s4
for the 1987 season because
cash payments to players. S!
also will be limited to sen
Southwest Conference
1988.
In an ordinary season,
SMU Mustangs net $1.2mi
about 1 percent of the sckj
overall budget, said Lac
Umdry, vice president
nance.
1 .im season under pm
NCAA sanctions, that%iiti
whittled down by $700,1 ,0 ^
mainly because of thelossofiil
vision r evenues, he said.
Landry said he didn’t havt
estimate yet for the fallout fit
W ed n esday’s a n nouncement
He said the NCAA m
raise a tangle of legal issues,at
as SMU’s contractual obligau
to other Southwest Confers
schools.
1 lowever, Landry said he
sure how the action will beat
donations to the university,
though universities oftentr
time fund-raising drives with »i
ning seasons, the lac k of foaii—
in,i\ provoke donors to raliMP 01
support, he said.
The loss certainly will dim
university’s appeal for somep
spective applicants, although
school’s academic reputai
should still draw “thinking'a;
cants, admissions director
drew Bryant said.
“There is no doubt that
eventually is going to affea
he said. “The question ish
much.”
Some students on camj
Wed nesday said theythoughn
punishment and loss of M
would disenchant applicants,
Bryant said applicaiiiH —
chopped In 80 percent laitHf
fall, following a broadcastff^
WFAA-TV in which foip
player David Stanley said he it
f>een given cash payments*
continued after the August If
sanctions imposed by the NCI
It was the Stanley cases
prompted the latest NCAAii
ligation.
“We were worried aboutti
Bryant said.
1 lowever, he said by last#
the applications had rebotiR; 8a rs
to close to normal.
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