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Aranda is what he is at this point. Six seasons in and 4 out of 6 are looking to be losing seasons. Only one bowl win in 2021 with the Big 12 title. Historic season, yes, but with hindsight as a perspective now, seems like he benefited greatly from a Rhule inherited roster. Things have only gone downhill once they all graduated. I'd give the same treatment to Dykes at TCU with their national title run success.

I'm not even excited for next season. I've talked to several Baylor alum who feel the same way.

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I'm not at all excited about next season. In fact, I literally don't care what happens. I'd just as soon see us go 2-10 as 10-2. Until Dave Aranda is gone, I'll have only passing interest in Baylor football because it's beyond clear that he has no ability to get this program up to the standard I have for it -- and worse, he hasn't earned the privilege to continue trying.

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Can't say that this method works. When they messed with the lettermen's block by raising ticket prices and moving it to less desirable seats after the 1974 season, I gave up season tickets and have been to very few games since to show my disapproval. Can't say that had much of an impression with the administration since then.

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It has to happen on a mass scale. One person boycotting anything doesn't change behaviors, though I would still encourage doing it out of principle.

An empty stadium for Senior Day or your home opener does because it forces decision makers to reckon with the weight of their actions.

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boognish_bear said:

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Time to start "Fire Linda" chants at games? I know it helped play a part in the Mavs organization finally stepping away from dumbass Nico.

Although… I guess it's hard to get much momentum with a chant with no fans in the stands.

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The best thing we could do is to each go out and buy a megaphone. I hear they now have recordings on them with a continous loop. We could make whatever recording we want and place it on a continuous loop. It would take security probably a half hour to shut all of us up. We may get kicked out of the stadium for good, but hey that's the price you pay.

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The best things fans can do is stop showing up to games at all.

Money is the only language these people speak, and boycott power is the only actual power fans have.

People need to stop paying for products they don't like and aren't satisfied with. Continued purchase of any product is a seal of approval/vote of confidence, no matter how loud you complain about it between purchases.

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What is the point of this? I thought everyone knows that Aranda is gone within a year unless we are headed to a 9 or more win season next season, which isn't likely. Is it really hard to read between these lines or the tea leaves here?

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The point of it is pretty clear to everyone but you. You shouldn't support weak leaders or defend indefensible positions.

And every ticket purchase is a show of support.

Rank-and-file fans are a constituency ... and a pretty damn important one, frankly. When sports owners/school administrators forget that, the only way to make your voice heard is through your absence.

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BBWCBear said:

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Why does Baylor always make a bad situation become disastrous, extremely difficult, overwhelming, futile, and almost impossible to arrive at anything successful?

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Because the powers that be have little interest in football.

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I think this is maybe the biggest component...it's just not a priority or focus for BU leadership.

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And the biggest problem going forward is: How do we as graduates help to enact change from the top? The only way it can ever change for good is if there is a real sea change in how members of the Board of Regents are selected. I am not aware of the exact process, but from my understanding prospective alumni candidates have to have a certain amount of signature to even be considered. After that point-from what I can tell--these candidates can and often do get buried in committee.

So in the end, the nontransparent committees at Baylor are the ones in control. And Baylor is not alone in its failure to give voice to its alumni.

Most of the time I don't really care whether I have a voice. But when the football team and the decisions around it are as putrid is this, then I become much more interested in exactly who the regents are and why they are not competent.

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It'll be tough to orchestrate a change by way of a coup de'etat.

The Alumni get to elect 3. The Texas Baptist General Convention gets to elect upwards of 10. From there, the existing Board gets to hand pick the rest, so the good ole boy system stays alive under the theory that "birds of a feather, stay together" and pick similar birds who conform to their mindset so a coup cannot occur.

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go look at our BOR's make up. Most are Baylor alums, but a few you can tell we hired for diversity reasons. Heck, one BOR doesn't even live in the US. How much do you think she cares for athletics?

Give your tickets to Houston fans. Maybe the queen and her court will recognize the sea of red and black.
Awww never mind, Houston has terrible attendance at their own home games, much less traveling 3 hours to Waco.

Avg home game attendance lets say 40k tickets sold
Avg ticket price making it up $75
6 home games
Total rev at least $18mm

Hit them in the pocket and further down the toilet we go. If no change is made. You can't fire coordinator's anymore and Dave's sponsor Mack daddy is gone. All signs now point to a true dead man walking even if we win 6 games. Just need patience and see how everything lays out going into Jan/feb 2026

looks like maybe we're in contention for the weedwhacker bowl:

>>Dec. 30
Independence
Baylor
vs.
Kennesaw State
Big 12 vs. Pac-12
2pm
Shreveport, La.
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- uncle fred

D!

{ sipping coffee }

Go Bears!!

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looks like maybe we're in contention for the weedwhacker bowl:

>>Dec. 30
Independence
Baylor
vs.
Kennesaw State
Big 12 vs. Pac-12
2pm
Shreveport, La.
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- uncle fred

D!

{ sipping coffee }

Go Bears!!

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Don't forget your bulletproof jacket

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PartyBear said:

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bear2be2 said:

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Time to start "Fire Linda" chants at games? I know it helped play a part in the Mavs organization finally stepping away from dumbass Nico.

Although… I guess it's hard to get much momentum with a chant with no fans in the stands.

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The best thing we could do is to each go out and buy a megaphone. I hear they now have recordings on them with a continous loop. We could make whatever recording we want and place it on a continuous loop. It would take security probably a half hour to shut all of us up. We may get kicked out of the stadium for good, but hey that's the price you pay.

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The best things fans can do is stop showing up to games at all.

Money is the only language these people speak, and boycott power is the only actual power fans have.

People need to stop paying for products they don't like and aren't satisfied with. Continued purchase of any product is a seal of approval/vote of confidence, no matter how loud you complain about it between purchases.

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What is the point of this? I thought everyone knows that Aranda is gone within a year unless we are headed to a 9 or more win season next season, which isn't likely. Is it really hard to read between these lines or the tea leaves here?

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The point of it is pretty clear to everyone but you. You shouldn't support weak leaders or defend indefensible positions.

And every ticket purchase is a show of support.

Rank-and-file fans are a constituency ... and a pretty damn important one, frankly. When sports owners/school administrators forget that, the only way to make your voice heard is through your absence.

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How would you handle it? Since you know more than everyone else including the Baylor administration, tell us how you would be handling all of this? Instead of attacking everyone put yourself in record for once, how would you be handling this situation you want a mass protest of? It is clear you don't like the idea of getting a new and hopefully experienced AD first. But in the word of John Lennon " we'd all like to see your plan…yeah".

PartyBear said:

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bear2be2 said:

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PartyBear said:

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bear2be2 said:

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Guitarbiscuit said:

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boognish_bear said:

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Time to start "Fire Linda" chants at games? I know it helped play a part in the Mavs organization finally stepping away from dumbass Nico.

Although… I guess it's hard to get much momentum with a chant with no fans in the stands.

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The best thing we could do is to each go out and buy a megaphone. I hear they now have recordings on them with a continous loop. We could make whatever recording we want and place it on a continuous loop. It would take security probably a half hour to shut all of us up. We may get kicked out of the stadium for good, but hey that's the price you pay.

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The best things fans can do is stop showing up to games at all.

Money is the only language these people speak, and boycott power is the only actual power fans have.

People need to stop paying for products they don't like and aren't satisfied with. Continued purchase of any product is a seal of approval/vote of confidence, no matter how loud you complain about it between purchases.

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What is the point of this? I thought everyone knows that Aranda is gone within a year unless we are headed to a 9 or more win season next season, which isn't likely. Is it really hard to read between these lines or the tea leaves here?

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The point of it is pretty clear to everyone but you. You shouldn't support weak leaders or defend indefensible positions.

And every ticket purchase is a show of support.

Rank-and-file fans are a constituency ... and a pretty damn important one, frankly. When sports owners/school administrators forget that, the only way to make your voice heard is through your absence.

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How would you handle it? Since you know more than everyone else including the Baylor administration, tell us how you would be handling all of this? Instead of attacking everyone put yourself in record for once, how would you be handling this?

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With the sense of urgency it deserves.

Everyone, myself included, has acknowledged the logistical challenges Mack's philandering has caused. But that just makes things more difficult, not impossible.

And one person's bad choices shouldn't keep an organization from making its own difficult -- but necessary -- decisions.

I would identify the best attainable AD/coach combos -- Mosley/Morris at UNT, Dickey/Danielson at Boise State, Campos/Traylor at UTSA, etc. -- and see who you could get to bite. Then I'd offer a fair head coaching contract that's easy to escape after two or three years if things don't work out so you never again find yourself in our current situation with Aranda, where you're forced to keep a ****ty coach because you've tied yourself to tens of millions of dollars in buyout money.

Dave Aranda is not only killing our football program. He's killing our fanbase. Keeping him another year is a disaster -- and one that will make an eventual recovery far more difficult. It is very much akin to keeping Steele for a fourth year in 2002 and Morriss for a fifth year in 2007. Most acknowledged those things as clear, program-harming mistakes in real time and everyone does in hindsight. There's no need whatsoever to repeat that mistake in 2026.

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Oh gosh. That sounds so easy. I wonder how you were the only one with this idea? You should apply for the AD position yourself. But what if those combos don't work like perhaps those HCs are lined up to be named somewhere next weekend? I mean Bear with me for this hypothetical, it is just asked hypothetically of course, what if it is possible there is something you don't know??

PartyBear said:

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Oh gosh. That sounds so easy. I wonder how you were the only one with this idea? You should apply for the AD position yourself. But what if those combos don't work like perhaps those HCs are lined up to be named somewhere next weekend? I mean just hypothetically of course, what if it is possible there is something you don't know??

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This is a free message board. What do you expect from people on here? All any of us can do in here is speculate. That's kind of the purpose of the board.

Well said!! But you're wasting time arguing with Party. That's a no win situation

boognish_bear said:

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Oh gosh. That sounds so easy. I wonder how you were the only one with this idea? You should apply for the AD position yourself. But what if those combos don't work like perhaps those HCs are lined up to be named somewhere next weekend? I mean just hypothetically of course, what if it is possible there is something you don't know??

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This is a free message board. What do you expect from people on here? All any of us can do in here is speculate. That's kind of the purpose of the board.

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Oh…Bear2be also speculates here too? Perhaps you should tell him this.

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Oh gosh. That sounds so easy. I wonder how you were the only one with this idea? You should apply for the AD position yourself. But what if those combos don't work like perhaps those HCs are lined up to be named somewhere next weekend? I mean Bear with me for this hypothetical, it just hypothetically of course, what if it is possible there is something you don't know??

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Danielson and Traylor aren't going anywhere this cycle, most likely. And both would be significant upgrades over Aranda.

If you're going to **** on every reasonable solution that doesn't match your opinion that our current path forward is the only possible one, don't ask.

That didn’t work out for Florida last year with Napier

— Michael Wagner (@jw_mike) November 23, 2025

Mike Norvell will return as Florida State’s coach in 2026, sources tell @YahooSports.

The university president, AD and board are aligned in support of Norvell, who has pledged to make changes in areas of recruiting and player evaluation to enhance FSU’s roster.

— Ross Dellenger (@RossDellenger) November 23, 2025

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boognish_bear said:

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Time to start "Fire Linda" chants at games? I know it helped play a part in the Mavs organization finally stepping away from dumbass Nico.

Although… I guess it's hard to get much momentum with a chant with no fans in the stands.

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The best thing we could do is to each go out and buy a megaphone. I hear they now have recordings on them with a continous loop. We could make whatever recording we want and place it on a continuous loop. It would take security probably a half hour to shut all of us up. We may get kicked out of the stadium for good, but hey that's the price you pay.

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The best things fans can do is stop showing up to games at all.

Money is the only language these people speak, and boycott power is the only actual power fans have.

People need to stop paying for products they don't like and aren't satisfied with. Continued purchase of any product is a seal of approval/vote of confidence, no matter how loud you complain about it between purchases.

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What is the point of this? I thought everyone knows that Aranda is gone within a year unless we are headed to a 9 or more win season next season, which isn't likely. Is it really hard to read between these lines or the tea leaves here?

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The point of it is pretty clear to everyone but you. You shouldn't support weak leaders or defend indefensible positions.

And every ticket purchase is a show of support.

Rank-and-file fans are a constituency ... and a pretty damn important one, frankly. When sports owners/school administrators forget that, the only way to make your voice heard is through your absence.

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How would you handle it? Since you know more than everyone else including the Baylor administration, tell us how you would be handling all of this? Instead of attacking everyone put yourself in record for once, how would you be handling this?

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With the sense of urgency it deserves.

Everyone, myself included, has acknowledged the logistical challenges Mack's philandering has caused. But that just makes things more difficult, not impossible.

And one person's bad choices shouldn't keep an organization from making its own difficult -- but necessary -- decisions.

I would identify the best attainable AD/coach combos -- Mosley/Morris at UNT, Dickey/Danielson at Boise State, Campos/Traylor at UTSA, etc. -- and see who you could get to bite. Then I'd offer a fair head coaching contract that's easy to escape after two or three years if things don't work out so you never again find yourself in our current situation with Aranda, where you're forced to keep a ****ty coach because you've tied yourself to tens of millions of dollars in buyout money.

Dave Aranda is not only killing our football program. He's killing our fanbase. Keeping him another year is a disaster -- and one that will make an eventual recovery far more difficult. It is very much akin to keeping Steele for a fourth year in 2002 and Morriss for a fifth year in 2007. Most acknowledged those things as clear, program-harming mistakes in real time and everyone does in hindsight. There's no need whatsoever to repeat that mistake in 2026.

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I doubt you would find any credible coach that would be willing to be given only 2 or 3 years.

A current position coach somewhere might like in winter if 98 when we found Steele. But yes credible HC???

Georgia Tech promoted Brent Key. You want to promote Spav to head coach? Heck, if we're running it back with this staff I might tell Dave he's being demoted to linebackers coach and let Khenon Hall or Dallas Baker have take a shot if they want it for a year.

Rutgers is… bad

Tennessee had Phil Fulmer stand in as interim AD and pick a new coach and it went horribly. Jeremy Pruitt is now a PE teacher.

Tennessee's second go around saw Danny White bring his football coach over from UCF. I've stated I'd be happy to do this with the UNT AD and Morris but no guarantees they both accept the job. Eric Morris could be headed to Auburn or Ole Miss for all we know.

Louisville had alumni Jeff Brohm waiting for the call. Last I checked the only alum from Baylor who we'd consider to coach us is Brian Newberry. Maybe he'd workout but he has 0 transfer portal experience at Navy.

Starting this year there is one single transfer portal window from January 2-16, with a small window after for teams in the CFP. There is no spring portal window. Bring in a new coach after the portal and he's ****ed.

We are in a horrendous situation but make a knee jerk reaction and hire Kevin Steele 2.0 and we're in an even worse situation. If Kiffin leaves for LSU and Ole Miss hires Sumrall then Auburn might hire Morris. Then what? What if Oklahoma State puts together a better offer for Traylor? Chesney is getting some Penn State chatter. We're already far behind the 8 ball with teams firing coaches in record time.

I don't think people get that a coach isn't stepping in at the 11th hour with a ****ty contract. Rush a hire right now and we're in a financial bind yet again with Kevin Steele 2.0. We'd also be competing with teams who have already been doing interviews. If Kiffin bolts for LSU then Eric Morris becomes a player in the SEC with a team like Auburn or Ole Miss.

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I don't think people get that a coach isn't stepping in at the 11th hour with a ****ty contract. Rush a hire right now and we're in a financial bind yet again with Kevin Steele 2.0. We'd also be competing with teams who have already been doing interviews. If Kiffin bolts for LSU then Eric Morris becomes a player in the SEC with a team like Auburn or Ole Miss.

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It is amazing that people don't understand what you are arguing, and you and blackie are right. Additionally we need a substantial funds left over from buyouts etc for players as well that HC candidates will base their decision on. The probability is substantially higher landing Steele 2 than Briles 2 with the rushed create a vacancies now in these conditions approach.

Should have fired Aranda after the 3-9 debacle and hired Sumrall from Troy or Willie Fritz from Tulane. Heck, maybe we could've been in the Cignetti sweepstakes

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That makes the decision to renew season tickets for next season much easier. I'm done.

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Not a bad decision . We are NEVER going back to the back to back B12 titles. Not just 1 title either. Even with the much lower bar absent UT and OU. The best team Aranda ever produced is incredibly lucky to be fighting for the toilet bowl last game of the year.

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lakersfan34 said:

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That makes the decision to renew season tickets for next season much easier. I'm done.

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Not a bad decision . We are NEVER going back to the back to back B12 titles. Not just 1 title either. Even with the much lower bar absent UT and OU. The best team Aranda ever produced is incredibly lucky to be fighting for the toilet bowl last game of the year.

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Pretty short sighted for those of us that were around for Bill Beall, Reedy, et al (after Teaff), Steele, and even for the younger people, the first year of Rhule. In those Steele years, you could have given someone a thousand to one odds that Baylor would ever sniff a title and you might, might have gotten a handful of takers for a substantial bet on a lark. The ditch was so deep, you couldn't even imagine anything different.

However, we have found with the right situation it can be accomplished and with NIL and the portal (if we have the money to play) it doesn't have to take forever to do it. Baylor is no less attractive, actually much more attractive, than it was when Kevin Steele was here. Saying "never" is the epitome of a knee-jerk reaction to an immediate pain, but it is not the pre-determined outcome to some here think it will be....and a very few that seem to want it to be, just to what they think proves an opinion.

I'll take an interim coach over Aranda right now, absolutely.

30aBear said:

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I'll take an interim coach over Aranda right now, absolutely.

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Agree. I know we can't do this… but if we are going to run it back with the same staff as last year I would like to see Spav promoted to HC and Dave demoted to DC.

It most likely would just be reshuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic... but I'm ready to see anyone else at the helm.

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Should have fired Aranda after the 3-9 debacle and hired Sumrall from Troy or Willie Fritz from Tulane. Heck, maybe we could've been in the Cignetti sweepstakes

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The BOR might not have let us hire Sumrall because of his use of the f-bomb

🌊 https://t.co/B3YAPUFJw9

— Jon Sumrall (@CoachJonSumrall) November 23, 2025

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I'll take an interim coach over Aranda right now, absolutely.

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Agree. I know we can't do this… but if we are going to run it back with the same staff as last year I would like to see Spav promoted to HC and Dave demoted to DC.

It most likely would just be reshuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic... but I'm ready to see anyone else at the helm.

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Exactly. Any member of the staff would be a better option. Even the guy they just fired.

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Time to start "Fire Linda" chants at games? I know it helped play a part in the Mavs organization finally stepping away from dumbass Nico.

Although… I guess it's hard to get much momentum with a chant with no fans in the stands.

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The best thing we could do is to each go out and buy a megaphone. I hear they now have recordings on them with a continous loop. We could make whatever recording we want and place it on a continuous loop. It would take security probably a half hour to shut all of us up. We may get kicked out of the stadium for good, but hey that's the price you pay.

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The best things fans can do is stop showing up to games at all.

Money is the only language these people speak, and boycott power is the only actual power fans have.

People need to stop paying for products they don't like and aren't satisfied with. Continued purchase of any product is a seal of approval/vote of confidence, no matter how loud you complain about it between purchases.

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What is the point of this? I thought everyone knows that Aranda is gone within a year unless we are headed to a 9 or more win season next season, which isn't likely. Is it really hard to read between these lines or the tea leaves here?

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The point of it is pretty clear to everyone but you. You shouldn't support weak leaders or defend indefensible positions.

And every ticket purchase is a show of support.

Rank-and-file fans are a constituency ... and a pretty damn important one, frankly. When sports owners/school administrators forget that, the only way to make your voice heard is through your absence.

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How would you handle it? Since you know more than everyone else including the Baylor administration, tell us how you would be handling all of this? Instead of attacking everyone put yourself in record for once, how would you be handling this?

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With the sense of urgency it deserves.

Everyone, myself included, has acknowledged the logistical challenges Mack's philandering has caused. But that just makes things more difficult, not impossible.

And one person's bad choices shouldn't keep an organization from making its own difficult -- but necessary -- decisions.

I would identify the best attainable AD/coach combos -- Mosley/Morris at UNT, Dickey/Danielson at Boise State, Campos/Traylor at UTSA, etc. -- and see who you could get to bite. Then I'd offer a fair head coaching contract that's easy to escape after two or three years if things don't work out so you never again find yourself in our current situation with Aranda, where you're forced to keep a ****ty coach because you've tied yourself to tens of millions of dollars in buyout money.

Dave Aranda is not only killing our football program. He's killing our fanbase. Keeping him another year is a disaster -- and one that will make an eventual recovery far more difficult. It is very much akin to keeping Steele for a fourth year in 2002 and Morriss for a fifth year in 2007. Most acknowledged those things as clear, program-harming mistakes in real time and everyone does in hindsight. There's no need whatsoever to repeat that mistake in 2026.

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I doubt you would find any credible coach that would be willing to be given only 2 or 3 years.

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I didn't say a two- or three-year contract. I said a fair contract you could escape after that length of time if need be, which is referring to reasonable buyout clauses.

And those that think we couldn't get a good G5 coach for $4 or $4.5 million a year need to look at what G5 coaches actually make. That would be more than doubling most of those guys' annual salary.

Jeff Traylor is among the highest paid G5 coaches in the country at $2.8 million a year, and Eric Morris makes less than half that. Baylor wouldn't have any trouble whatsoever attracting a good G5 coach, just as it didn't after Morriss or following the Briles scandal.

I'm going to laugh when OSU hires Eric Morris and dominates us for the next decade.

The hirings to be announced next weekend are all very likely to have actually have been done weeks ago. So it's not like the hirings all occurred since tbis past Thursday.

They kind of look the same

pic.twitter.com/DPSUdMIzfN

— Baylor No Context (@SicEmNoContext) November 23, 2025

bear2be2 said:

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PartyBear said:

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bear2be2 said:

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PartyBear said:

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bear2be2 said:

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Time to start "Fire Linda" chants at games? I know it helped play a part in the Mavs organization finally stepping away from dumbass Nico.

Although… I guess it's hard to get much momentum with a chant with no fans in the stands.

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The best thing we could do is to each go out and buy a megaphone. I hear they now have recordings on them with a continous loop. We could make whatever recording we want and place it on a continuous loop. It would take security probably a half hour to shut all of us up. We may get kicked out of the stadium for good, but hey that's the price you pay.

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The best things fans can do is stop showing up to games at all.

Money is the only language these people speak, and boycott power is the only actual power fans have.

People need to stop paying for products they don't like and aren't satisfied with. Continued purchase of any product is a seal of approval/vote of confidence, no matter how loud you complain about it between purchases.

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What is the point of this? I thought everyone knows that Aranda is gone within a year unless we are headed to a 9 or more win season next season, which isn't likely. Is it really hard to read between these lines or the tea leaves here?

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The point of it is pretty clear to everyone but you. You shouldn't support weak leaders or defend indefensible positions.

And every ticket purchase is a show of support.

Rank-and-file fans are a constituency ... and a pretty damn important one, frankly. When sports owners/school administrators forget that, the only way to make your voice heard is through your absence.

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How would you handle it? Since you know more than everyone else including the Baylor administration, tell us how you would be handling all of this? Instead of attacking everyone put yourself in record for once, how would you be handling this?

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With the sense of urgency it deserves.

Everyone, myself included, has acknowledged the logistical challenges Mack's philandering has caused. But that just makes things more difficult, not impossible.

And one person's bad choices shouldn't keep an organization from making its own difficult -- but necessary -- decisions.

I would identify the best attainable AD/coach combos -- Mosley/Morris at UNT, Dickey/Danielson at Boise State, Campos/Traylor at UTSA, etc. -- and see who you could get to bite. Then I'd offer a fair head coaching contract that's easy to escape after two or three years if things don't work out so you never again find yourself in our current situation with Aranda, where you're forced to keep a ****ty coach because you've tied yourself to tens of millions of dollars in buyout money.

Dave Aranda is not only killing our football program. He's killing our fanbase. Keeping him another year is a disaster -- and one that will make an eventual recovery far more difficult. It is very much akin to keeping Steele for a fourth year in 2002 and Morriss for a fifth year in 2007. Most acknowledged those things as clear, program-harming mistakes in real time and everyone does in hindsight. There's no need whatsoever to repeat that mistake in 2026.

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It seems every decade or so Baylor "SMU's" itself and has to struggle back from non existence. Roberts, Steele and Morriss pretty much wiped out a generation of alumni support. You have to assume there are those of that generation that would have generational wealth that could step up at a time of need. Yet the desire may not be there for athletics. BMD's are like anything else, they're not forever.