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Trump’s Empire Has Entered a Death Spiral
The only way Trump can avoid financial ruin is by becoming president again
In the early eighties, I saw the eighth-ranked Arkansas Razorbacks play the Mustangs of Southern Methodist University, then the country’s top-ranked college football team. My brother Orson was a starting tackle for the Hogs, but to be honest, I was also there to watch Eric Dickerson.
A future NFL Hall of Fame running back, Dickerson was the exciting half of SMU’s “Pony Express.” Although the game ended in a tie, Dickerson still managed to leave the game as the leading rusher in Southwest Conference history. In those days, SMU was a university that barely had 6,000 students, but the school had assembled a football team replete with some of the nation’s best athletes.
But how?
Why would Dickerson, a prospect considered by many to be the country’s best college prospect, withdraw his commitment to Texas A&M, to attend a no-name college? The answer was simple. SMU cheated. A lot.
To be fair, all the top colleges, including Arkansas, cheated a little. But SMU took rule-breaking to a different level. The running joke was that the school paid Dickerson so much money to play there when he was selected in the first…
