A Payroll to Meet
A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU
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2013
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
978-0-8032-4885-4 (ISBN)
University of Nebraska Press (Verlag)
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Under pressure to compete, the Southern Methodist University 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. In A Payroll to Meet, David Whitford details the Mustangs' descent into corruption and the fallout when it was discovered.
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 “death penalty”—which cancelled the team’s entire 1987 schedule.
In A Payroll to Meet, author David Whitford details the Mustangs’ descent into corruption and the fallout when it was discovered. Most egregiously, the football program ran a huge slush fund that was used to pay players from the mid-1970s through 1986. Bill Clements, chairman of the SMU board and soon to be reelected governor of Texas, knew all about the slush fund before the NCAA did. He opted, however, to phase out the payments rather than stop them immediately, for fear that angry players might go public and create still more problems for SMU. Clements and the athletic director Bob Hitch decided that the football program had “a payroll to meet.”
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 “death penalty”—which cancelled the team’s entire 1987 schedule.
In A Payroll to Meet, author David Whitford details the Mustangs’ descent into corruption and the fallout when it was discovered. Most egregiously, the football program ran a huge slush fund that was used to pay players from the mid-1970s through 1986. Bill Clements, chairman of the SMU board and soon to be reelected governor of Texas, knew all about the slush fund before the NCAA did. He opted, however, to phase out the payments rather than stop them immediately, for fear that angry players might go public and create still more problems for SMU. Clements and the athletic director Bob Hitch decided that the football program had “a payroll to meet.”
David Whitford is an editor at large for Fortune magazine and a regular commentator on sports, business, and politics for television. He is the author of Extra Innings: A Season in the Senior League and Playing Hardball: The High-Stakes Battle for Baseball’s New Franchises.
Introduction
Acknowledgments and Sources
Preface
Part I
1. Birth of a Salesman
2. The Glory Years
3. Snow Job
4. The I-45 Connection
5. Expenses
6. Good on the Hoof
Part II
7. Harmful Effects
8. A Gathering Storm
Part III
9. Getting Away with Murder
10. Blowin' and Goin'
11. Good Ol' Boys
12. No Limits
13. Stay Out of It
14. The Naughty Nine
15. Then Do It
16. Winding Down
Part IV
17. Damage Control
18. Death Row
19. Execution
Epilogue
Index
| Einführung | David Whitford |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lincoln |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8032-4885-7 / 0803248857 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8032-4885-4 / 9780803248854 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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