Puzzle Description:

A logo for Southern Methodist University

#1: James Haney (elpjrh) on Sep 19, 2010 [SPOILER]

Southern Methodist University is located in Dallas, Texas. Its teams are the Mustangs. Hence, the logo. The title of the puzzle refers to the two-year suspension of the school's football program in the 1980s as a result of recruiting violations. SMU's football program has never been the same since that suspension, and the NCAA appears to have decided that such a suspension is too harsh a punishment to impose on any other schools. Last year, SMU made it to a bowl game for the first time in 25 years.

SMU is also where I am getting my Ph.D. (in spite of this web site).

Nice puzzle! Go Mustangs!

Interesting description, and a very good first puzzle. Welcome!

Nice puzzle, James. "in spite of this web site" - LOL.

I couldn't quite see the image until I looked at two SMU logos side by side:

http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/hs332.snc4/41644_1406597548_7877_n.jpg

http://people.smu.edu/syousuf/smu-logo.gif

I couldn't find the logo you used.

I've seen my version as car magnets and window stickers, but I couldn't find an online version of it, either.

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I agree with Wombat. That's the logic I used when I was testing it out.

With each revision the horse's head was getting more and more deformed, so I decided to stick with this one even though the logic was a little more advanced than I would have liked for my first puzzle.

Keep creating, James. You have talent.

No guessing needed!

I have mixed memories of SMU. Good memories: watching the Dallas Symphony Orchestra with my parents
Bad memory: enormous black roaches scuttling across the sidewalks at night as we walked back to our car after the concert

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Interesting story.

Nice puzzle....enjoyed the solve! Thanks!

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