So the SUMMATION STATEMENT proffered is this:
(A) Hey, did ya hear? The MSU Bobcats backed out of playing the two time defending champion North Dakota State Bison so they can play an SMU team that had to have it's 1987 season literally cancelled by the NCAA; having to sit out the 1988 season as well since they couldn't put together a viable team afterwards. A team trying to crawl out from under one of the biggest, if not the biggest, scandals in NCAA history that haven't even been to the postseason till 2009!!!
(B) SMU crawling out from under the NCAA Death Penalty = MSU crawling out from under the shadow of the UofM Griz finally makin' it back to the Playoffs in 2010 only to lose to those very same NDSU Bison 42 - 17.
(C) 1986 was the last viable year for the SMU football team until 2009. THE SAME 1986 THAT WITNESSED THE BEGINNING OF "THE STREAK." 16 game "Streak" = SMU hiatus under the "Death Penalty." That there "Streak" as good as a death penalty to any of those that bleed that proverbial "Blue and Gold" shlock of theirs. Oh sure, MSU may have gotten into the Playoffs in 2002, 03 & 06; that under a Mike Kramer. But who do you think got rid of that very same Mike Kramer? You got it. Peter Fields. As good as if it never happened since that very same Peter Fields is still around today.
Talk about birds of a feather flocking together. Peas in a pod.
You can't make this stuff up, folks.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_gp_1qwESo[/youtube]