The thought wouldn’t leave my head as I walked down the stairs of SMU’s Crum Basketball Center on Oct. 30: I’m not excited to ask the players or Larry Brown about the NCAA sanctions.
It was the first time I could cover the team’s practice and talk to the players and coaches since the NCAA ruled in late September that SMU could not play in the postseason. The team had been practicing for nearly a month and Brown had just made his first public comments at the American Athletic Conference media day since the ruling.
I figured that the ban was the last thing on any player or coach’s mind.