Īs a result of their attempts to compete with the larger schools in the conference, SMU's football program was under nearly constant scrutiny from the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) from 1974 onward.
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According to the 2010 ESPN documentary film Pony Excess, many of these violations took place with the full knowledge of school administrators. While SMU was not the only SWC school to be sanctioned for recruiting violations – in fact at one point, five of the conference's nine member schools were on some form of probation – the university's violations seemed to be the most egregious. The effort to keep up with the bigger SWC schools resulted in SMU straying very close to the ethical line and in many cases going over it. Prior to the 1980s, SMU had tallied only nine winning seasons since 1949. From the 1950s onward, the university found it difficult to compete against schools that were double (or more) its size. Located in suburban Dallas, Texas, SMU was (at that time) the second-smallest school in the Southwest Conference (only Rice was smaller) and one of the smallest in Division I-A, with a total enrollment of just over 9,000 students in 1986. The punishment resulted in SMU’s football team going dormant for two seasons, with the NCAA cancelling the 1987 season and the university itself opting not to return in 1988, and would have long term ramifications for the program going forward. SMU’s Mustangs, who were one of the more successful teams in the early 1980s and contenders for the national championship, eventually received what is referred to as the " death penalty" by the NCAA for its repeated transgressions in early 1987. The most serious violation was the maintenance of a slush fund used for "under the table" payments to players and their families to entice them to come to SMU to play. The Southern Methodist University football scandal was an incident in which the football program at Southern Methodist University (SMU) was investigated and punished for repeated violations of National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) rules and regulations over a period of several years between the late 1970s and mid-1980s. Violations of NCAA rules by the SMU Mustangs football program
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