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In November 1999, twelve years after SMU's death penalty, The Dallas Morning News reported on possible academic fraud involving SMU football. Former SMU player Corlin Donaldson alleged that defensive line coach Steve Malin paid another person $100 to take Donaldson's ACT exam in 1998 so that Donaldson's score would appear high enough to qualify ...
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.
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.
Penn State won't be the only team that runs onto the field at Beaver Stadium carrying the weight of history. SMU was a national power in the early 1980s — the Mustangs went 11-0-1 in 1982 only to finish No. 2 behind undefeated Penn State — before a pay-for-play scheme led the NCAA to give the program the death penalty.
On April 11, 1987, SMU formally canceled the 1988 season, in effect, self-imposing a death penalty for a second football season. [ 6 ] The program was terminated for the 1987 season because the university was making approximately $61,000 in booster payments from 1985 to 1986.
SMU, which just added untold millions to the ACC’s coffers and will add more with every win in the playoff, is monetarily supplementing the other 15 teams in the league. And the ACC is ...
The most egregious violation was a slush fund to attract players to play for the SMU football team. The repeated violations resulted in the football program ultimately receiving the death penalty, with the NCAA's infractions committee voting unanimously to cancel the Mustangs' 1987 season and the team's four scheduled home games in 1988. [1] [2]
SMU holds a 3-2-1 all-time record against Pitt, with wins in the past three meetings between the two programs. Here’s a look at how each of the previous six games unfolded: Oct. 22: 1938 : Pitt ...