No one teaches fast-paced play like Coach Briles…really enjoyed talking uptempo with him! https://t.co/VCCD0JRji5

— Matt Sayman (@Matt_Sayman) March 8, 2024

What a loss!

drahthaar said:

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What a loss!

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but it's the Baylor way, doncha know?

Stranger said:

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drahthaar said:

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What a loss!

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but it's the Baylor way, doncha know?

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and white girls are still going out with black athletes.

little tarts!

Briles' comments were brief and didn't make much sense.

Dave Aranda needs 4 million volts pumped through him. Maybe he'd at least make some amount of movement of motivation.

BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Dave Aranda needs one more Big12 chip to get on Briles level. Some consistent success wouldn't hurt either, hopefully the new investments pay off for him this year

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HUH? Nothing would make me happier than Dave figure this coaching thing out but Dave Aranda has had one good year. One. With another guys players.

Briles built us into a national contender from rock bottom with the Big 12's worst facilities and was shortly dominating year after year with many more coming before the BOR crapped the bed.

The BOR very much disappointed God with what they did to this man.

Sadly all will be judged and they will have been found to bear false witness it all appears.

Freakin Sanhedrin at baylor but they woke now so all good until they screw up Mens baskerball. It's the last Domino to fall. Hope it don't

JP1037 said:

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Dave Aranda needs one more Big12 chip to get on Briles level. Some consistent success wouldn't hurt either, hopefully the new investments pay off for him this year

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HUH? Nothing would make me happier than Dave figure this coaching thing out but Dave Aranda has had one good year. One. With another guys players.

Briles built us into a national contender from rock bottom with the Big 12's worst facilities and was shortly dominating year after year with many more coming before the BOR crapped the bed.

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Well, the did "cry out to God" on the street corner. So there's that.

JP1037 said:

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Dave Aranda needs one more Big12 chip to get on Briles level. Some consistent success wouldn't hurt either, hopefully the new investments pay off for him this year

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HUH? Nothing would make me happier than Dave figure this coaching thing out but Dave Aranda has had one good year. One. With another guys players.

Briles built us into a national contender from rock bottom with the Big 12's worst facilities and was shortly dominating year after year with many more coming before the BOR crapped the bed.

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Afraid BigGame is right, JP.

With 1 more Big 12 Championship, Aranda could quite possibly have Baylor in the playoffs (national contender) and/or another NY6 game - at which point Aranda will have exceeded Briles by objective metrics. Did Aranda start with as many disadvantages as Briles? No. Does Aranda have a Heisman? No. But he does have a NY6 win, a Big 12 Championship Game win, and a 12 win season. All of which Briles never had. I think we're all doubtful that will happen though.

Also - Siaki Ika, Gabe Gall, Grant Miller, and Drew Estrada were all Aranda's guys. I can't imagine anyone would reasonably think we have the 2021 season without those guys.

Fre3dombear said:

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The BOR very much disappointed God with what they did to this man.

Sadly all will be judged and they will have been found to bear false witness it all appears.

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I actually owe former Regent Jay Allison an apology and it probably deserves its own thread. He was the only former BU football player to fight for Art. It was the other three, - Murff, Reeter, and Jeffrey that threw him under the bus and played key roles in destroying a man's career and legacy. Not quite the Christian example we would expect from Baylor.

My source is someone that was in the room.

joseywales said:

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Fre3dombear said:

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The BOR very much disappointed God with what they did to this man.

Sadly all will be judged and they will have been found to bear false witness it all appears.

Freakin Sanhedrin at baylor but they woke now so all good until they screw up Mens baskerball. It's the last Domino to fall. Hope it don't

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God? How can God be concerned about anything so minor if God cannot be concerned with all the suffering going on in this world. Man-made religion really amazes me. How can one fool one's self with all the evidence we have that shows no personal God. Different cultures different belief systems. Our own Christianity grew out of many cultural ideas that came before it started. Judaism has 70 percent of its beliefs from its Persian captors.

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Well, that's a theory.

JP1037 said:

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Dave Aranda needs one more Big12 chip to get on Briles level. Some consistent success wouldn't hurt either, hopefully the new investments pay off for him this year

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HUH? Nothing would make me happier than Dave figure this coaching thing out but Dave Aranda has had one good year. One. With another guys players.

Briles built us into a national contender from rock bottom with the Big 12's worst facilities and was shortly dominating year after year with many more coming before the BOR crapped the bed.

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The fun was just beginning. We were only starting to get the pretty big recruits.

Art ran into a BU buddy of mine at the airport after it went down, and he candidly said that we would have won the national title.

joseywales said:

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Fre3dombear said:

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The BOR very much disappointed God with what they did to this man.

Sadly all will be judged and they will have been found to bear false witness it all appears.

Freakin Sanhedrin at baylor but they woke now so all good until they screw up Mens baskerball. It's the last Domino to fall. Hope it don't

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God? How can God be concerned about anything so minor if God cannot be concerned with all the suffering going on in this world. Man-made religion really amazes me. How can one fool one's self with all the evidence we have that shows no personal God. Different cultures different belief systems. Our own Christianity grew out of many cultural ideas that came before it started. Judaism has 70 percent of its beliefs from its Persian captors.

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WOW - some interesting "facts" - I guess people will always find the data they need to support their religious beliefs.

Baylor needs to REPENT for what it did to Art Briles.

Agree with Pacific. Repenting is His way. Art built exciting. Dave has built dull even when winning a long time ago. Dave may have seen the light. It looks like he may be around awhile. First 6 games should reveal plenty. Hoping for the best. Missing Art and what he brought.

Big12Bear said:

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JP1037 said:

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Dave Aranda needs one more Big12 chip to get on Briles level. Some consistent success wouldn't hurt either, hopefully the new investments pay off for him this year

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HUH? Nothing would make me happier than Dave figure this coaching thing out but Dave Aranda has had one good year. One. With another guys players.

Briles built us into a national contender from rock bottom with the Big 12's worst facilities and was shortly dominating year after year with many more coming before the BOR crapped the bed.

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The fun was just beginning. We were only starting to get the pretty big recruits.

Art ran into a BU buddy of mine at the airport after it went down, and he candidly said that we would have won the national title.

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What might've been - or what likely would've been. The guy won back to back B12 championships for the most part with developed recruits that the likes of UT and OU didn't want and he would've made it 3 in a row along with our first CFP appearance had Seth Russell and eventually every other QB on the roster not gone down in 2015. I can only imagine what he would've done with the 4 and 5 star types he was just starting to get in any kind of numbers when we needlessly blew it all up. I still can't believe the level of stupid it took to do what was done. I suppose we should be grateful our BOR hasn't found a way to blow Drew up……..yet.

RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

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Fre3dombear said:

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The BOR very much disappointed God with what they did to this man.

Sadly all will be judged and they will have been found to bear false witness it all appears.

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I actually owe former Regent Jay Allison an apology and it probably deserves its own thread. He was the only former BU football player to fight for Art. It was the other three, - Murff, Reeter, and Jeffrey that threw him under the bus and played key roles in destroying a man's career and legacy. Not quite the Christian example we would expect from Baylor.

My source is someone that was in the room.

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I would love to have a full accounting of how all that went down. I would buy that book af full price.

Big12Bear said:

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JP1037 said:

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Dave Aranda needs one more Big12 chip to get on Briles level. Some consistent success wouldn't hurt either, hopefully the new investments pay off for him this year

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HUH? Nothing would make me happier than Dave figure this coaching thing out but Dave Aranda has had one good year. One. With another guys players.

Briles built us into a national contender from rock bottom with the Big 12's worst facilities and was shortly dominating year after year with many more coming before the BOR crapped the bed.

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The fun was just beginning. We were only starting to get the pretty big recruits.

Art ran into a BU buddy of mine at the airport after it went down, and he candidly said that we would have won the national title.

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Definitely were heading in that direction. No guarantees, but Baylor was certainly going to be there.

Hadn't you heard, half of Briles players are in jail? Sorry, just 1 and Art had already kicked him off the team. Hundreds must be under indictment? Sorry, that number is zero, although several were tossed out of court. What about those group sexual assaults by football players? Go check with ESPN, Texas Monthly, Austin American Statesman and FW Star Telegram as they seem to know it all and should have names of every player involved.

Forest Bueller_bf said:

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Big12Bear said:

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JP1037 said:

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BigGameBaylorBear said:

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Dave Aranda needs one more Big12 chip to get on Briles level. Some consistent success wouldn't hurt either, hopefully the new investments pay off for him this year

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HUH? Nothing would make me happier than Dave figure this coaching thing out but Dave Aranda has had one good year. One. With another guys players.

Briles built us into a national contender from rock bottom with the Big 12's worst facilities and was shortly dominating year after year with many more coming before the BOR crapped the bed.

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The fun was just beginning. We were only starting to get the pretty big recruits.

Art ran into a BU buddy of mine at the airport after it went down, and he candidly said that we would have won the national title.

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Definitely were heading in that direction. No guarantees, but Baylor was certainly going to be there.

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We had a legit shot. And Briles was just beginning to recruit really well. He'd done everything to that point having to crawl out of the recruiting pit that the last 20 years had put us in. Imagine if he started running his system with 4* & 5* guys who came legit ready to play at a high level.

He also was not going anywhere for a while. Wouldn't leave Texas. Tech job had come and gone. UT job had come and gone. He had trash talked A&M too much to take that job.

We were poised for a long run. That plus what was beginning to happen with recruiting .. had a very legit shot.

ImABearToo said:

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Hadn't you heard, half of Briles players are in jail? Sorry, just 1 and Art had already kicked him off the team. Hundreds must be under indictment? Sorry, that number is zero, although several were tossed out of court. What about those group sexual assaults by football players? Go check with ESPN, Texas Monthly, Austin American Statesman and FW Star Telegram as they seem to know it all and should have names of every player involved.

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That's the ultimate proof that all of the weeping, wailing, nashing of teeth, and outrage from the media and our own BOR was totally overblown and not worthy of nuking the program and destroying a great coach's future career. One guy (Tevin Elliott) in prison and as you noted Briles had kicked him off the team well before his trial and conviction. I believe SamU (a guy that never played a down of football for Briles) ultimately got convicted of something, and either served minimal or no jail time - and that's it. Briles didn't build what had become a national powerhouse program and win back to back B12 titles on the backs of teams filled with thugs and rapists as the media repeatedly reported and editorialized about or you would've had convictions galore and a lot of former players in prison today. There were more appropriately measured corrective actions that could've been taken far short of what was done, but blowing up everything was a ridiculous over-reaction.