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A Payroll to Meet : a Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU.
Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school's football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time fo...
| Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
UNP - Bison Books,
2013.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school's football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time football universities that were often more than double its size. Under pressure to compete, the SMU football program engaged in ethics, rules, and recruiting violations for years. When the corruption came to light, the NCAA handed out its most serious punishment in the history of college sports-the "dea. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (340 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9780803255708 0803255705 |