There was a point this summer when SMU football reached a high water mark. It was an inflection point during a tumultuous time of reckoning.
The PAC-12 and Big Ten conferences had just announced their intention to not play during the fall season, a choice that would later be reversed. And SMU football was in the midst of a series of Zoom meetings, some lasting hours into the night and others stretching on into multiple days.
The topic at hand, in player only meetings and program-wide conversations, was how SMU would go about tackling the 2020 season as the nation erupted into protest.