Jay Hartzell will lead a vastly different campus environment at Southern Methodist University after leaving the University of ...

Here's a look back at SMU receiving the "death penalty" in the 1980s as the Mustangs head up to Happy Valley to take on Penn State in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. The NCAA ...

The front page of The Dallas Morning News in February 1987, the day after SMU football got the death penalty. NCAA sanctions forced cancellation of football for a season, and allowed only away ...

Here's a look back at SMU receiving the "death penalty" in the 1980s as the Mustangs head up to Happy Valley to take on Penn State in the first round of the College Football Playoffs. The NCAA defines ...

Name, Image, Likeness has become the biggest thing in college athletics. Now, there’s been a big step from the state capitol ...

Southern Methodist University, a school based in Dallas, is the only program ever to receive the death penalty in college football. The Mustangs were hit with the harsh punishment in 1987 as a ...

There was a time when all SMU football was known for was "the death penalty" it received from the NCAA in 1987 for the scandal of paying players to play college football. That, of course ...

The SMU Mustangs are a program often defined by their history. That history, unfortunately, has included receiving the Death ...