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Were we on our 3rd string defensive line?
TCU was beaten like Greg Hardy's girlfriend on their defensive line and we were dominated by them.
Our play calling was odd and stupid while tcu was hurt and fragile.
Of course, Patterson motivates his team and all of the 61-58 stuff is great but don't get beat by a banged up team the next year. It takes more than a season to earn national respect.
Well, 50 wins in 5 years is enough duration to earn national respect.
That's all gone for now, but hopeful within 3 years real success will be back.
It is if you play some squads outside the conference that are Power 5 contenders.
When I traveled respect wasn't the words to best describe how others felt about us.
ESPN GameDay made an entire script each week to bash on our embarrassing schedule. Remember BEAR and his crack stat team on GameDay? It was pure entertainment but convinced most folks that our schedule was set up to avoid competition and have the path of least resistance to make the playoffs.
Not sure, my friend, why you continue to beat this dead horse. Alabama played Fresno State, Colorado State, and Mercer in 2017. Things worked out okay for them. And they didn't even win their conference.
Let's learn to beat the Libertys and UTSAs of the world and then we can worry about beefing up our non-conference schedule.
X is more concerned with perception than winning. Not a true Baylor fan.
It's about beating real competition. No one needs to brag about beating the Briles non conference schedule.
It's about beating the top teams. Reputations and proving ourselves as a program was difficult because we scheduled to the point to embarrass ourselves while racking up tremendous offensive statistics against lower tier players. In Briles cupcake world, it was like a 4A beating up on 2A. Looked great on the scoreboard and box score but doesn't move hearts and minds in the direction that we were dominant.
Injuries happen and Rhule wasn't exactly running a full blown Oklahoma drill.
Well, look at that - something we agree on. I would have preferred real competition as well, but scheduling Alabama? Nope. You don't have to play cupcakes, but you also don't have to play a team which almost guarantees you a loss.
RE: injuries, as I said, if our players are injured in his physical practices, that's on him.
I think he believes he can sort out the physical guys he wants to play for him from the the guys who won't match up come game time in physical situations. Some guys from four wide open space football might not survive.
That was our problem nationally, we wouldn't play anyone that we could lose to in non conference. The rest of the 64 Power 5 teams did take that risk and weren't criticized for a schedule that was laughable among paying customers throughout college football. Most SEC and Acc teams would have spanked Wolforth or whatever the name of a non conference foe we played.
With regard to your second point, that is certainly a very legitimate criticism of Briles. I hated the powder puff schedule. Scheduling other power 5 opponents would have been a good start. But I don't think you have to play the likes of Alabama to get respect. I understand not wanting to schedule a team you have a good chance of losing to, and torpedoing your playoff chances early in the season.
As for Rhule, like I said, I am fine if he wants to weed players out.. But if he does that, he can't complain about injuries and being thin. That is not a legitimate excuse when his own actions are the cause for the attrition.
I am not sure his own actions caused ACL tears. Football is physical at high levels and getting hurt in basic drills is not the coaches' fault. I would blame human genes before calling out the coach for running a drill that many of us have seen ran 100s of times.
Most fans would rather see it than watching two hapless MAC teams on Tuesday night set back excitement 300 years. I would rather watch two football players battle in the trenches 1 on 1 with a running back trying to sneak through a hole while avoiding a brutal hit IF the defense wins the battle (or the back could run the defender over or we might see the offensive lineman pancake the defense) than hear a commentator tells us about Terry Bowden's weight or his moms cookies in blowout.
Bears only needed one loss to torpedo our playoff chances. It was rather easy for the CFP, a beauty pageant committee with the built in skits on GameDay to drive home the point (without saying Baylor wouldn't be considered because we decided to add a cupcake instead of doing what was asked and done by 64 out of 65 teams. They weren't in the mood to reward us when everyone else played one more non conference Power 5 game).
Art complained and made a scene with Bowlsby (most likely upset the other 9 members), then Art was told to schedule better privately through his athletic director, then Art and Ian were called out in the press for not scheduling after complaining, then they turned around and didn't change their schedule. The league was done and basically fed Art and Ian to ESPN who didn't like them because they didn't schedule.
