C. Jordan said:
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Here's my contribution.......take a look at the coaching staff, you might recognize a name or four or five
goeasternathletics.com/sports/football
Saw the 60 Minutes segment tonight on Indiana's National Championship Football team. They went from worst to first in three seasons. That could have been us had our Regents decided not to blow up Baylor Football.
It could not have been us because Art Briles had already been here for seven years and at no point did we get to first (in the nation). Look, I really enjoyed the Art Briles years, but there is just a lot of revisionist history around him. He was not Bear Bryant (and he wasn't Curt Cignetti, for that matter).
I agree with you, but for a different reason: As much as people think Art would have been eternally at Baylor, he was at least poking a foot out the door. If it wasn't burnt orange that he would have been wearing by about 2017, it would have been an SEC school.
The reports I read mentioned that Briles was ready to go to UT. They just didn't meet his terms.
Would not be accurate to say he was "100% ready to go"…and ut-Austin never made an offer to him so there were no "terms" at all yet. They wanted to meet him and negotiate possible terms.
[Before the Alamo Bowl that season, longtime head coach Mack Brown announced that he would resign after a legendary run, which included 158-48 record (98-33 in Big 12 play) over his 16 seasons in Austin and a national championship in 2005. They lost the bowl game 30-7 against Oregon, but all the focus was on the future. No matter who the Longhorns hired, that coach was going to have some massive shoes to fill.…
Honestly, if we had won that game, it might have come to fruition," Briles said. "But I just had all these guys that had come up with us and made the journey to where we were at. Honestly, at that time, I felt like I would have been betraying them and the university.
"Beacuse we had beaten them in '10, '11, and '13. We had beaten them three out of the last four years… It could have gotten real real but I never let it get there. They wanted to come out to Arizona and meet with me after the game and all that stuff. I just said no. It wasn't right, it wasn't the right time."
To say that the Longhorns dodged a bullet in this situation would be a massive understatement. Yes, Briles enjoyed success at Baylor, putting together a 65-37 (39-30 in Big 12 play) with four top-15 finishes in his final five seasons. He also won back-to-back Big 12 titles in 2013 and 2014 - though Baylor split the 2014 title with TCU, which ultimately kept them both out of the inaugural College Football Playoff.
However, none of that matters in the face of the widespread sexual assault scandal that took place at Baylor during his tenure…]
https://www.si.com/college/texas/football/controversial-coach-art-briles-says-he-nearly-took-texas-longhorns-job