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In the winter of 1975, SMU hired Ron Meyer, an up-and-coming football coach who had previous success at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. [4] In the late 1970s, attention around SMU football grew, and in the 1978 offseason the university launched a media campaign which caused its average home attendance to double from 26,000 to 52,000. [5]
The death penalty is the popular term for the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)'s power to ban a school from competing in a sport for at least one year. This colloquial term compares it with capital punishment since it is the harshest penalty that an NCAA member school can receive, but in fact its effect is only temporary.
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Robert Gerald Turner (born November 25, 1945) is the President of Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas, Texas.One of the most highly-compensated university presidents in the United States, [1] Turner has been described as a "transformational" [2] figure who helped rehabilitate SMU's national reputation following the infamous 1980s football scandal and NCAA death penalty.
The SMU argument has plenty of merit. While a host of playoff contenders sat home on Saturday — Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio State, Notre Dame and Alabama — SMU played an extra game.
Anti-death penalty activists rallied outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2015 to protest the execution of Oklahoma inmate Richard Glossip, which at the time was scheduled for September of that year ...
In 1987, SMU became the first and only football program in collegiate athletic history to receive the "death penalty" for repeated serious violations of NCAA rules. The NCAA forced SMU to cancel its football program for the 1987 season because the university had been paying some of the players—approximately $61,000 was paid from 1985 until 1986.
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