User:Dconz03/Southern Methodist University football scandal

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Southern Methodist University, A below-average football program in the 1970s with only two winning seasons, and suddenly two of the best running back prospects in the state of Texas decide to commit to the university. Now the football program that was once great in the 1940s and 1950s is back at the top of the college football world. Now on the backs of the two-headed monster of Eric Dickerson and Craig James leading the program 2 Co-National Championships. The program then took a left turn as in 1987, the news had come out that ex-coach of the mustangs Ron Meyers had been paying players from $5 to upwards of $2,000. This program which was on top of the world has fallen to the ground as rumours start coming out that Eric Dickerson once famous trans-am was a gift from the program and Craig James received a hefty amount of gifts while a student at SMU. After investigations, SMU was punished with losing the 1987 and 1988 football seasons and suffering the first and only NCAA death penalty.