ESPN finishes documentary series with piece on Southern Methodist

 
BY MEL BRACHT, Staff Writer, mbracht@opubco.com
Published: December 9, 2010

A few years back, a running joke in football was that star running back Eric Dickerson had to take a pay cut when he left SMU to play in the NFL .

Twenty-eight years after he left SMU, Dickerson is still not talking about what inducements, if any, he received to attend the university after being a highly recruited standout from Sealy , Texas .

“It's a dead subject,” Dickerson said in a conf...


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