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You should ask for a refund for Liberty. You could have watched D2 jewels for $5.
Good talent up front doesn't get pushed around by Liberty.
Whether we have good talent upfront is irrelevant. It's Liberty. What part of that don't you understand?
We were missing 6 starters. We didn't have the depth or talent to beat Liberty. #11 proved their was talent lacking in the back end. Most teams can fill in with talent to prevent Liberty pushing us around for 5-7 yards in any direction each play. No chance in hell for BU with what was left from Bennett.
A talented player to me has strength, speed, size, savvy and smarts. The last characteristic of a talented player shows up when guys miss a bunch of assignments. It is pretty hard to win with players who cannot handle the playbook.
Unfortunately, we don't see a bunch of talent in the Big 12 on defense. It is why the NFL doesn't draft many Big 12 defenders (a small size for DI).
Lame is a 1 point favorite over the Blue Raiders. The Blue Raiders need to whip them for Boots.
Arizona State is a 16 point dog with Stanford. I am sure the left coasters are going to get an eye full of Bennett stuffing paper down his crotch this week.
Total BS. You should be able to beat Liberty with your backups.
i agree, no matter how good CMR turns out to be no excuse losing to Liberty
A depleted Baylor team losing to Liberty is about like a Big 12 champion Baylor losing to an AAC UCF in the Fiesta Bowl, neither should've happened, but they did.
One highly ranked team losing to another highly ranked team in a BCS bowl game is not even close to being a good comparison.
One team supposedly a national title contender and wanting to be taken seriously as such losing to a directional school that's not even in a P5 conference and who has been irrelevant to college football since their greatest win in program history in the 2013 Fiesta Bowl is very much the most embarrassing loss in Baylor history.
Losing to Liberty is just like losing to Lamar in 1981, a bad stumble by an unprepared Baylor team in a down year.
The Fiesta Bowl was the pinnacle of just how full of hubris, arrogance, distraction and unfocused the former regime could let itself be.
LOL. How long of you been around Baylor football? Good grief bro, you might want to rethink that. I can recall at least five games off the top of my head that were far worse than a ranked team losing to another ranked team in a bcs bowl (Liberty, Cal and San Jose State say hello). Recall that central Florida had the best QB in college football and a top draft pick. There were a lot of reasons Baylor didn't play well. Yes Briles was a distraction but so was us playing against central Florida when we thought we would deserved a much better matchup. Sometimes you play down to your competition. It happens sometimes. Players and coaches get complacent and overlook their opponent. See Rhule's first game at Baylor, where players admitted they overlooked Liberty and were not prepared. If you're going to slam the former staff for not being ready for central Florida you better remember what the players said after Liberty.
Losing to an FCS school is far worse, as proven by the grief we've gotten. It's not even close.
Yeah, because losing to Lamar in 1981 derailed Baylor's credibility...oh it didn't, but losing the Fiesta bowl tarnished Briles' credibility as a playoff contender the very next year...which he doubled down on by blowing a 20 point fourth quarter lead in the Cotton Bowl.
No one but die hards care about 1981's Lamar loss, and the Liberty loss will be a footnote the minute Baylor starts winning again, but losing the Fiesta Bowl to UCF will go down as the most embarrassing bowl loss in program history, far more impactful despite the inability by the cab apologist crew to process this reality.
The only people still bitter about the loss in the cotton bowl and Fiesta Bowl are those who either hate Briles or are still smarting over the scandal. Nobody else cares and it has had no long term lasting effects whatsoever on the program. None. The idea that those losses in any way affected us is just stupid, to be frank.
Anyone delusional enough not to realize the sloppiness and lack of discipline that defined his era was indicative of the turmoil behind the scenes is delusional, of course the only people still making excuses for Briles are divorced from reality altogether.
He was a good coach that self destructed because of ego, not abnormal.
Let him go and move on, the sooner you realize that he soiled his own reputation and left a litany of warning signs to the defective manner in which he ran his program, the sooner you can enjoy reality and not live in 2013.
You're the lot up in arms that an unranked and rebuilding Baylor team's bad loss was compared favorably to supposed national title contending Baylor's humiliation against an underdog non P5 opponent, it was an aside that sent you lot into a frenzy.
So you best re-evaluate who cares, it's clearly you guys.