303Bear said:
Thee University said:
Allow me to retort to your bolded words. They scare me!
1. You have no sense of humor or you are indeed a Bubble Boy who wandered into 365 while looking for the Dr. Pepper Float hour at the SUB. The statement makes perfect sense to the majority of 365 posters who realize exactly what I was implying. You know nothing about me, but I appreciate the assumptions and smug self-assurance. The constant need to puff your chest through an internet message board is an interesting look at your own ego.
2. Objection your honor! Objection? I lied though. I will never talk Baylor Bubble Boy talk. More drivel.
3. You are 2/3 correct. Roberts & Steele did tear down but I think Morriss was actually restoring it a bit. I spent a few years on BFs pointing out the Roberts/Steele debacle only to have guys just like you embarrassingly defending Dave & Kevin. I don't need to remind you that I have been 100% correct in my early assessments of Reedy, Roberts, Steele & Briles. The Briles implosion was predicted years ago and was the easiest call. "guys like you", interesting that you know so much about people you have never met. Since I was not around online for the Steele or prior years, and since we do not know each other, I cannot vouch for the accuracy of any predictions you may or may not have made about them. I do, however, recall you only beginning to crow about Briles after Baylor began winning and gaining national attention. Then it was a constant diatribe of belittlement and put downs of the team.
Your comment that the scandal does not make national news if we were 2 or 4 wins per year is total BS. The wins were not the problem. What brought the house down was our borderline Miami thug attitude on and off the field. Our trailer trash talkin before, during and after the games. Our mall fight. Interviews without a shirt even after the microscopes arrived in Waco. No sit down, come to Jesus meeting 3 -4 years ago when the smoke signals started gathering over Waco. No respecting the media. Beating up on our patsie parade opponents. Taunting, Nugg Dancing, in-bred staff, poor leadership from AD & President. The list goes on. I think we have to agree to disagree on this one. And you are aware that there is still dancing on the sidelines, in addition to a little tykes basketball hoop, right?
My "unique perspective" as you put it leads me to believe that Rhule & crew are the right choice because we are seeing flashes of solid defense, very capable offense and improved special teams play. It takes time. Our place kicker is the best we have had in decades, true. The rest of our special teams play is roughly the same. We have historically had some great punters, out of necessity. Kick coverage has not looked markedly better than the last several years.
Defensively, we played about one and a half quarters of (mostly) solid defense against each of OU and KSU. The D against Liberty and OSU was atrocious. I would kill to have 4 more Clay Johnston's on the roster.
Offense has not looked good, with the lone exception of the second half of the OU game.
Attitude changes take time. If we have players that do not want to be a Baylor Bear and be a part of a program that has a chance to make history jerk their scholarships, demote them, make them do Oklahoma drills before, during and after practice.
I trust our professional coaches.
Those of you who have quit on the Bears need to haul @$$.
Glad you are optimistic. I do not see anything this year that gives me much hope for the future, but as I have not given up, I will not "haul @$$" as you put it.
I thought everyone on these bulletin boards puff their chests! You don't?
Don't make me call you a liar again. I NEVER belittle the team. I can recall only one or two times I questioned on a bulletin board a kids heart and when I did I don't think I used his name. I had much more scathing comments for the coach who allowed a kid who was not giving 100% to play.
You're damn right I eventually turned on Briles! It was blatantly obvious what he was doing to Baylor and it happened. Winning after losing for so long (remember my analogies of the addicted drug addict or the 98 lb weakling who has had sand kicked in his face for so long) causes good people to start accepting very bad things as the cost for being very very good.
I did not turn on Briles for the first couple of years. Heck, I did not turn on Reedy, Roberts, Steele or Morriss until AFTER they proved they could not get the job done and were taking us backwards. They had plenty of help (thank you Sloan & Stanton) and a few select Regents and power brokers who just like Democrats think that they are smarter than everyone else and know what is best for me and you.
We all have to cherry pick our rebuttals. You pick some bad to drive home your point, I pick some good ones. I remain a blinders-wearing Bear fan while many have quit. Primarily they quit because we no longer score every 45 seconds or throw the ball downfield enough. It was only about scoring lots of points with glorified track guys who benefitted from 7 on 7 in Texas HS football .
I'm a realist. I am fully capable of stopping support of Rhule but not until he has been given the same chance as we gave less qualified coaches from our past.