I've been concerned about our players in this heat, but when I asked someone in the know, it was said very confidently, "We will be fine".
Now the fans are whole different story.
I am truly sad that this historic rivalry has hit the skids, but SMU is much blame for their own demise.
I do believe that after the death penalty there was not much motivation from the administration to support the SMU football program, and I also believe that the NCAA should be shot, hung...
There is nothing in college athletics that make it more fun and exciting than good 'ol sports 'hate'. I remember that being in all those different conferences and having no feeling of rivalry against most of the teams we played...except, we were beginning to create some of that with Utah and BYU...
I had Dr. Moseley for Physics and remember him walking through the halls of the Bass building with his black horned rim specs halfway down his nose, an arm full of books and the ever present cigarette hanging out of his mouth.
This may be a dumb question and may have been covered previously with regards to the payouts to schools in the Big XII, but do the schools that the conference adds get the same payout that has been contracted with the original schools of said conference? And, why would the broadcasting powers...