Baylor Adds Palmer Ridge (CO) Kicker Rhett Armstrong (@ArmstrongRhett).

“The people at Baylor are some of the best I’ve met in my college search, and the energy around the football program created by the 2025 recruits is unmatched.” #SicEm

https://t.co/SVOIah37Up

— Grayson Grundhoefer (@GrayGrundhoefer) August 1, 2024

boognish_bear said:

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Praise the Lord! Sic ‘Em🐻 @BUFootball @CoachDaveAranda @CoachMCScott @CoachRPollard @KornblueKicking pic.twitter.com/KfHfLdtyZP

— Rhett Armstrong (@ArmstrongRhett) August 1, 2024

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Black uniform

Taz is building us a super team

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BusyTarpDuster2017 said:

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Now that we're Paylor University, should keep coming.

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Who isn't?

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Yeah what a weird thing to call us out on.

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The NIL has chased me back to the NFL. Screw college football.

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I mean do what you need to do, but people calling out Baylor specifically for staying competitive in this market as opposed to just shutting up shop and becoming like Akron is wild.

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Most of us think that Baylor was way late to the NIL landscape, contrary to what the administration was saying. And now that they are finally doing what it takes to increase the likelihood of winning, I'm not sure that abandoning the program is the greatest idea. To each his own though.

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Aranda was a terrible hire by Rhoades and will continue to be. Both Rhoades and Aranda must go if Baylor is going to reach anywhere near the national heights CAB teams did.

Sic'em

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I think Choades needs to go to, but Choades hired Rhule - who quickly got us out of a dumpster fire that most schools would have wallowed in for a decade. Aranda was living off Rhules guys but the hired looked pretty good after that Sugar Bowl win. I'm guessing Choades is likely getting quite a bit of slack for those successes.

The Buckeyes linebacking crew will do just fine without him.

Our need for Alford is far greater.

AND he will get more playing time and more attention (translating into better chance of playing in the pros).

Mike Singletary could tell him how Baylor launched his linebacking career!



PLEASE!

(Don't be too proud to beg!)

NEWS: Texas football players Isaiah Bond and Michael Taaffe have landed Lamborghini NIL deals🤘

(via @lamboaustintx) https://t.co/VMH8tmGhyc pic.twitter.com/JAexF1OpMu

— On3 (@On3sports) August 1, 2024

NIL giveth and taketh away

Long-time Baylor commit Brody Whatley has decommitted. https://t.co/GwutscYu3O

— Grayson Grundhoefer (@GrayGrundhoefer) August 2, 2024

boognish_bear said:

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NIL giveth and taketh away

Long-time Baylor commit Brody Whatley has decommitted. https://t.co/GwutscYu3O

— Grayson Grundhoefer (@GrayGrundhoefer) August 2, 2024

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TCU got that one.

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#Baylor LB Coach Jamar Chaney’s first offer when he arrived to Waco was TJ Alford II.

The 4⭐️ prospect and top 50 recruit in the nation continues to be a priority even though he is currently committed to Ohio State. #SicEm https://t.co/ZLTGoekdE8

— Grayson Grundhoefer (@GrayGrundhoefer) August 1, 2024

If we start poaching from Ohio State it is a new day in Waco

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Jamar Chaney can recruit.

They offered more money?

We will know if Alford signs.

historian said:

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They offered more money?

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Possibly, hard to tell in the NIL cutthroat world these days.

boognish_bear said:

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Baylor Adds Palmer Ridge (CO) Kicker Rhett Armstrong (@ArmstrongRhett).

“The people at Baylor are some of the best I’ve met in my college search, and the energy around the football program created by the 2025 recruits is unmatched.” #SicEm

https://t.co/SVOIah37Up

— Grayson Grundhoefer (@GrayGrundhoefer) August 1, 2024

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Harkins, Hankins, Arnold, Stone...now Palmer. Thats a bunch of K's.

Whatley says respect his decision.

But TCU obviously didn't respect his previous decision:

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They offered more money?

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Remind Alford that Baylor can launch a great pro career for a linebacker.

BellCountyBear said:

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If you ever wondered what the Wild, Wild, West was like…we're living in it now. Minus the random murders…sort of.

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Yep! We have to pay to play.

Everyone's doing it . We had better get good at it and fast!

To the naysayers: None of us will ever know how many players we lost under the old system because other schools paid them and we offered nothing but 'three hot's and a cot.'

It remains to be seen how fast we can recover from the last two years. They better hope these paid recruits are worth paying for and coaches who can actually coach.

I'd think TEAM coheasiveness is now a thing of the past. These are kids, impressionable kids.

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It seems to be happening already. The important question: is this irreversible?

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I don't think NIL or paying players is reversible and honestly - I think players deserve a cut of the revenue. However, there is no oversight, governing body or structure to NIL or player compensation.

I do take issue with that lack of oversight and I have a disdain for the conference realignment that has occurred due to the influx of TV revenue.

The sport was built on fan interest and regional rivalries. The more they chip away at that, the more fans will become apathetic to the sport as a whole.

There is a different group of fans that don't have those experiences, such as big 10 and sec fans. They haven't seen multiple teams come and go over the past 15 years, so they are oblivious to the experience that occurs in other conferences. As far as those fans go - everything is normal and going great, with NIL perhaps being a bit weird, but not a nail in the foot, so to speak.

He scores bonus points for shouting out Petty

Quinn Murphy on the future in Waco.

“This is the start of a dynasty for Baylor football again, (Robert Griffin III), Bryce Petty, all of these great quarterbacks have played there and I think that level of talent is going to be the expectation for years to come”

🔗:… pic.twitter.com/PXsl3bYDDj

— Will Turboff (@WillTurboff) August 8, 2024

and became a legend!

boognish_bear said:

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He scores bonus points for shouting out Petty

Quinn Murphy on the future in Waco.

“This is the start of a dynasty for Baylor football again, (Robert Griffin III), Bryce Petty, all of these great quarterbacks have played there and I think that level of talent is going to be the expectation for years to come”

🔗:… pic.twitter.com/PXsl3bYDDj

— Will Turboff (@WillTurboff) August 8, 2024

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He left out Don Trull.

boognish_bear said:

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He scores bonus points for shouting out Petty

Quinn Murphy on the future in Waco.

“This is the start of a dynasty for Baylor football again, (Robert Griffin III), Bryce Petty, all of these great quarterbacks have played there and I think that level of talent is going to be the expectation for years to come”

🔗:… pic.twitter.com/PXsl3bYDDj

— Will Turboff (@WillTurboff) August 8, 2024

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Love this kid...but he's forgetting one very important thing: Those were Art Briles led teams with Art Briles type creative powerful offenses.


Aranda ain't Briles.........

Sic'em

BearlyBeloved said:

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The Buckeyes linebacking crew will do just fine without him.

Our need for Alford is far greater.

AND he will get more playing time and more attention (translating into better chance of playing in the pros).

Mike Singletary could tell him how Baylor launched his linebacking career!



PLEASE!

(Don't be too proud to beg!)

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I think playing for Ohio state gives him a much better chance for getting into the pros than playing for Baylor

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boognish_bear said:

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NIL giveth and taketh away

Long-time Baylor commit Brody Whatley has decommitted. https://t.co/GwutscYu3O

— Grayson Grundhoefer (@GrayGrundhoefer) August 2, 2024

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TCU got that one.

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What is this "Respect my decision" crap?

Exactly. What soul? Anyone who drove through the garage beneath DKR and saw 20 new identical cars before NIL had to be either naive or dumb to think that's a coincidence. Colleges have found a way for a century.
What people are so mad about is the transfer of power.
Oh no, what will become of our university when football players can come and go as freely as undergrads?

Are football players a different subset than "undergrads"?
Anyone has always been able to transfer anywhere else they want to whenever they want to.

Now though, they are a valuable commodity that can trade their skill set for money. But don't say they couldn't go somewhere else like any other "undergrad" could. Nonsense.

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boognish_bear said:

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He scores bonus points for shouting out Petty

Quinn Murphy on the future in Waco.

“This is the start of a dynasty for Baylor football again, (Robert Griffin III), Bryce Petty, all of these great quarterbacks have played there and I think that level of talent is going to be the expectation for years to come”

🔗:… pic.twitter.com/PXsl3bYDDj

— Will Turboff (@WillTurboff) August 8, 2024

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Love this kid...but he's forgetting one very important thing: Those were Art Briles led teams with Art Briles type creative powerful offenses.


Aranda ain't Briles.........

Sic'em

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Yeah that was the main ingredient

There used to be consequences for transferring such as forfeiture of a year of eligibility in many cases.
Sure, players weren't held hostage literally. But they kinda were relating to the their playing ambitions.