It wasn’t the coronation that James Proche and SMU football expected on Saturday. To be fair, it wasn’t the draft that anybody could have seen coming just a couple months ago.
Late into the afternoon, with the 201st pick of the draft, one of SMU’s most prolific wide receivers went off the board, finally. The waiting game for Proche might have taken longer than expected, even promoting multiple tweets from teammates and those inside the program that openly mused why the wide receiver’s stock had fallen throughout the day.