Lance McIlhenny is a former American college football player who was a quarterback for Southern Methodist University.
As a freshman, he did not begin the 1980 season as the starter at quarterback, but was promoted during the seventh game against the University of Texas.
[3] In the 1983 Cotton Bowl, number-four-ranked SMU and McIlhenny (a senior), played against the number-six-ranked University of Pittsburgh and Dan Marino in his final game.
[5] McIlhenny is the winningest quarterback in school and Southwest Conference history, finishing with a career record of 34-5-1.
As Kevin Sherrington, sports writer for The Dallas Morning News observed in a January 2015 analysis of the 1982 Mustangs, "Lance McIlhenny had more than a little to do with the success.
He worked for several commercial real estate firms in the Dallas area, including Jones Lang LaSalle, The Staubach Company, CASE Commercial Real Estate, Cresa Partners and CBRE, where he was a first vice president.