For people that don't know, Baylor has been quietly improving its standing in all sorts of its sports, and not just football and basketball. And their campus is quite nice, with some great new buildings.
I for one am quite happy to be in a conference with them. They have to put up with all sorts of crap from all the south schools, and they just keep improving themselves. They actually have quite a football coach, it isn't all Griffin. Coach Briles seems like a cool dude, and IIRC, he really built up Houston before he left.
As time goes on, I hope we get rid of the jokers who think they are too good for the rest of us, and build the conference back up with some of the other fine schools in the midwest and Texas.
Thanks for the compliment. When we joined the Big 12 we had poor leadership at presidency. Robert Sloan did everything he could to destroy BU including athletics. It took 10 years to get his butt out and since he stacked the BOR with religious nuts we made another poor hire after him in John Lilly. He lasted 2 years. Many of us wanted Bill Underwood (BU law professor current Mercer president) who was the prior interim to Lilly to take over. He was too liberal in the BOR eyes although he really wasn't. Enter Ken Starr who left the beaches of Malibu, California to come back to Texas. Thank God
Coach Briles was an excellent hire and many of us advocated him for the job. There was a battle to hire him because many BU folks wanted Mike Singletary. However our AD Ian McCaw didnt budge and to his credit pulled the trigger. Briles was the only coach to recruit RG3 as a QB. Man knows talent. Aggy thinks when RG3 leaves we will be terrible. Dumbasses don't realize that Briles recuited and coached Kevin Kolb, Case Kennum, and RG3 in succession.
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