Da Sleeper
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I’m sure someone will correct me if i’m wrong. Texas Southern probationary period ended after 2016.
Q: Football suffered heavy sanctions in scholarships and recruiting visits because of NCAA rules violations under previous coaches. How difficult has it been for the program to recover and compete?
McClelland: Probation negatively impacted football to the point to where, as you wrote, we were near the death penalty. It's been three decades since SMU received the death penalty for football (in 1987), and it still hasn't fully recovered. Recovery is not an overnight process. The first thing we did with football was bringing in (coach) Darrell Asberry (2012-15), and other than winning games, he did a remarkable job. He took the nation's lowest APR rate for football and built it to the point where we have a graduation rate of about 65 percent. Now we have Michael Haywood (as coach), and I am optimistic. The last part of the process is winning games. Everything else in the football program is solid. You can't almost get the death penalty and win a bunch of football games. It is a process.
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