IowaBear said:
One of Briles OLs had 4 all conference guys. The narrative that BU had subpar OL play under Briles is patently false. I question the IQ of those trying to push that narrative.
Please quote anywhere where I -- or anyone else, for that matter -- has said we had subpar OL play.
Our O-lines were very good. They just weren't good enough to win a national championship. We saw that in 2014, when we couldn't run the ball at all against Michigan State -- a fact that allowed them to come back and beat us in a game we should have won by two scores.
And having four all-conference O-linemen is great. But that was in a league that never won a playoff game until after Texas and OU left and hasn't won a national title in many current college players' lifetime.
As I've said about five times now, Briles' teams were really good. They just weren't as good as many Baylor fans remember them. We had a top-15 program, which is really damn good. But we weren't going to be winning national titles as many want to delude themselves into believing.
Neither of our lines were good enough to contend with the three or four teams in those years that were actually capable of winning championships -- and that's especially true on defense, where we weren't even particularly good against soft schedules.