"With the amount of youth on the Baylor roster, how much patience do you have with Coach Dave Aranda and the staff that there is something good being built?" Read our Q&A with AD Mack Rhoades here: https://t.co/nmu3GPOXf9

— Waco Tribune-Herald (@wacotrib) February 20, 2024

Feels like these excuses are being recycled. Curious what the excuse next year will be. Probably that the schedule is hard or something

Watching the leadership starting the excuse train for a poor coming season. I am not impressed we are heading into a 7 win season. Appearing well coached will certainly count but bottom lines is wins. Less than 7 and I will.probably ready to pull the plug. Hopefully Baylor leadership understands what it takes for us to be competitive now

They've said our roster has been young for the last three years now

Q&A with Mack Rhoades: Read part 2 of our conversation on NIL, uncertainty about the future and more. https://t.co/nmu3GPOXf9 pic.twitter.com/iaf6EudwHf

— Waco Tribune-Herald (@wacotrib) February 20, 2024

Our guys never age !

Show me, then ask again.

My patience was all used up last year. In fact, it ran out about mid season.

gobears20 said:

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"With the amount of youth on the Baylor roster, how much patience do you have with Coach Dave Aranda and the staff that there is something good being built?" Read our Q&A with AD Mack Rhoades here: https://t.co/nmu3GPOXf9

— Waco Tribune-Herald (@wacotrib) February 20, 2024

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Doesn't matter what my/our patience is. The admin seems willing to ride '24 out with changes in NIL , new coaches, fairly inexperienced team in '23, and being enamored with Aranda.

I'd guess '25 is the breakpoint.

BigGameBaylorBear said:

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They've said our roster has been young for the last three years now

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That's what I love about these college football players, man. I get older and they stay the same age.

Wow. They must really be expecting a bad season if they are starting the youth narrative in February.

CorsicanaBear said:

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My patience was all used up last year. In fact, it ran out about mid season.

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Truth, for me it was depleted against Texas State. I just held my nose the rest of the year.

With a break here and a favorable there, we will be 12-0 and in the CFP. Pass the grape drink around the room, please.

drahthaar said:

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CorsicanaBear said:

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My patience was all used up last year. In fact, it ran out about mid season.

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Truth, for me it was depleted against Texas State. I just held my nose the rest of the year.

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Same here. When I saw the likes of Texas State pushing us all over the field and having their way with us in just about every category in our own stadium that pretty much did it for me and I knew then we were headed for a disaster of a season.

Aranda has had 3 losing seasons out of 4 and 1 that was fantastic - when he could still depend on talent and leadership from players he didn't recruit. In the age of the portal and NIL the "hey we're young and inexperienced right now, but just give us more time and wait 'til next year" excuse doesn't hold true like it used to. For one thing you have no idea if these young players that you feel will develop will even be here next year, and for another thing, if you know how to use the portal, you have the opportunity to positively impact your roster right away for any given year without necessarily having to be heavily dependent on player development in the future.

I wish we would've pulled the plug on Aranda last year as we've clearly trended in the wrong direction since the '21 season and I still don't see a lot of evidence that it's going to turn around in a big-time way next season. I agree that anything less than seven wins next season should mean he's automatically gone as presently we're in real danger of returning to the futility of the lost years between Teaff and Briles - which could well be catastrophic for us when the next round of realignment happens.

Like you, I don't see the evidence of a vastly improved team in '24 beyond the "hope" of maturing guys, some new coaches and schemes, an apparent improvement in recruiting and some portal additions. That, with the notion that the Bears were "in" some games last year that they "could have won" seems to spur some idea of success in '24. That may prove to be the case and Aranda may prove his metal this year but right now it is all "hope" and "wishing". Spring ball should be different this year but who knows how that will pan out? Until I see otherwise, I see an improved team having to work out the kinks of new systems and coaches, and for that reason, I think BU admin will give Dave both '24 and '25 to prove himself. That seems an unwise decision but I could be wrong. It is a huge gamble IMO with the constant realigning and jockeying for position. Baylor people seem to think we are something special in higher education as well as athletics. Certainly we are unique: every university is that in some way, but we are not even a 200 lb gorilla when it comes to athletics or even academics. Any map of colleges and universities has a demarcation line beyond which lies the comment, "Here be Monsters", the folks with unfettered influence in the academy and with the "television" world. Everyone can make a list of the institutions in that environment and we would likely have the same names. "Baylor University" would not be one of those in any real-world scenario without seriously myopic green glasses.

I hope the Bears are able to run the table and maintain success. I just don't see it at this point.

Mack after next season: you get another "young team year" and you and you and you ... every year you get a "young team year", everyone gets another "young team year" ...