How would the history of CFB have changed if..........?

[dickey1331]

Yeah SMU would prob still be a powerhouse. Maybe getting into the Big 12

Quote: Originally Posted by JJLinn

If SMU wasn't given the death penalty?

[boisejames]

Quote: Originally Posted by JJLinn

If SMU wasn't given the death penalty?

USC would be given it this year. SMU's death penalty will prevent that though.

"SMU taught the committee that the death penalty is too much like the nuclear bomb. It's like what happened after we dropped the atom bomb in WWII The results were so catastrophic that now we'll do anything to avoid dropping another one." - John V. Lombardi

[trobinson97]

Quote: Originally Posted by WazzuRC

Price would have lasted no more than 4 seasons, and even that is pushing it. Pullman, WA is just slightly different than Tuscaloosa, AL. We are ecstatic with 7-4 seasons. You do that at Bama, and you're a bottom dweller in the SEC and soon store manager at the Wal-Mart.

*Ahem* It's pronounced "Wal-Mark".

[P2K]

...If after Butch, Miami had hired a competent coach with a clue instead of the two a** balls since then?

[Watson]

Quote: Originally Posted by JJLinn

If SMU wasn't given the death penalty?

This is huge. I can see SMU as being the do-no wrong media darling of ESPN.

Which, in turn, helps in recruiting, and we all that all starts and ends in Texas.

[Cebby]

Quote: Originally Posted by dickey1331

Yeah SMU would prob still be a powerhouse. Maybe getting into the Big 12

SMU wasn't a powerhouse.

SMU is second only in historical overrating to Navy. The two seasons prior to the death penalty, SMU was 6-5 and 6-5.

Their only consistent success was in the early 80s, but it's quite apparent why that was now.

[MassNole]

Quote: Originally Posted by Cebby

SMU wasn't a powerhouse. SMU is second only in historical overrating to Navy. The two seasons prior to the death penalty, SMU was 6-5 and 6-5. Their only consistent success was in the early 80s, but it's quite apparent why that was now.

Honestly Eric Dickerson probably would have made ANY team in America a top program. People forget how amazing of a talent he was.....

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What if Jimmy Johnson never went to the NFL?

[coogrfan]

Quote: Originally Posted by Pheud

Here's one I know people probably wont care about,but... ...If Marshall joins Conference USA as a football only school in 2000 instead of waiting to be included in 2005 as an all sports school, we probably would have been included in the Big East raid of Conference USA in 2005.

Hmm. That's one I hadn't even considered, but imo it's not at all far-fetched.

Timing really is everything, ain't it?