Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Like the 2000's all over again!
It hasn't been a great year for Baylor football.
They had a pretty big shakeup last year, of course, which included the departure of Head Coach Art Briles and a bunch of players in the wake of the sexual assault scandal at the University. At that point, for a while, football was viewed as not so important at Baylor, which was pretty appropriate given the situation.
They paid a lot of money to bring in a new coach, Matt Rhule, from Temple (though probably not as much as the $5,000,000+ a year they were paying Art Briles). In his three seasons at Temple, Rhule went 2-10, 6-6, and then 10-3 last year.
So far this year, Baylor has lost to Liberty (a division I-AA program), Univ. of Texas at San Antonio, Duke, Oklahoma, and Kansas State. Staring at an 0-5 start, now they play Oklahoma State away-- and Oklahoma State is the #14 team in the country. After that come West Virginia and Texas at home, Kansas away, #24 Texas Tech in Arlington, Iowa State at home, and finishing up at #6 TCU. Ouch.
They will get better. They probably won't be great again for more than a fluke year or two now and then; Baylor does not have the resources to do that, especially with the thorns of this scandal dogging it for a while. And some people are probably ok with that.
