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<blockquote data-quote="orientalnc" data-source="post: 803767" data-attributes="member: 1199"><p>This is an interesting analogy. SMU was a repeat offender with numerous recruiting violations prior to the death penalty in 1986. Their entire 1987 season was canceled by the NCAA. When they tried to return to Southwest conference play in 1988 they could not field a team and canceled all their games. When they returned in 1989 they were a shell of a team. They had players who had never played at SMU and a brand new coach. To call it a rebuild is a bit off. It was more of a build from scratch. It is safe to say that SMU never rebuilt what they had before.</p><p></p><p>When 40 members of the Marshall team died in a plane crash in 1971 they were already in a tailspin due to their own recruiting violations. But Marshall was not playing major college football at that time.</p><p></p><p>As for UAB, they did not have to do as much of a rebuild. After their administration ended the football program, they had one season with no football, then another season with no games while they recruited and practiced. As with Marshall and SMU, the Blazers had a new coach and mostly new players. Their situation was probably better then the other two because they had a lot of positives around the program in a rapidly growing urban university. They were also not playing top level football before or immediately after the rebuild.</p><p></p><p>Comparing those programs to the 2015 GT team is silly. I think the 2019 rebuild started at GT is in the ballpark with those three programs because the times have changed. SMU was never going to be what they were before the death penalty. Marshall and UAB did not have far to go to be back to where they had been. Expectations at GT remain high and we are playing at the top level of college football. If this team wins more than five games in 2021 I believe everyone will consider this a successful year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="orientalnc, post: 803767, member: 1199"] This is an interesting analogy. SMU was a repeat offender with numerous recruiting violations prior to the death penalty in 1986. Their entire 1987 season was canceled by the NCAA. When they tried to return to Southwest conference play in 1988 they could not field a team and canceled all their games. When they returned in 1989 they were a shell of a team. They had players who had never played at SMU and a brand new coach. To call it a rebuild is a bit off. It was more of a build from scratch. It is safe to say that SMU never rebuilt what they had before. When 40 members of the Marshall team died in a plane crash in 1971 they were already in a tailspin due to their own recruiting violations. But Marshall was not playing major college football at that time. As for UAB, they did not have to do as much of a rebuild. After their administration ended the football program, they had one season with no football, then another season with no games while they recruited and practiced. As with Marshall and SMU, the Blazers had a new coach and mostly new players. Their situation was probably better then the other two because they had a lot of positives around the program in a rapidly growing urban university. They were also not playing top level football before or immediately after the rebuild. Comparing those programs to the 2015 GT team is silly. I think the 2019 rebuild started at GT is in the ballpark with those three programs because the times have changed. SMU was never going to be what they were before the death penalty. Marshall and UAB did not have far to go to be back to where they had been. Expectations at GT remain high and we are playing at the top level of college football. If this team wins more than five games in 2021 I believe everyone will consider this a successful year. [/QUOTE]
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