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Recalling Jim Wacker, the ex-TCU coach who turned in his own team to the NCAA

Kenneth Davis shed more tears than he cares to admit 37 years ago when he was told he was being suspended from TCU's football team.

He may shed a few more tears Saturday, tears of joy, when he sees his alma mater playing the kind of high-stakes game he and his teammates dreamed about before the unthinkable happened.

Just prior to the second game of the 1985 season, a season filled with promise for the Horned Frogs, TCU coach Jim Wacker turned in his own team to the NCAA after learning that several players, including Davis, had been accepting illegal payments from boosters.