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Just thought ya'll might like to see this, from an article on ESPN.com
"[new Baylor basketball coach Scott]Drew sees the numbers stacked against him, and asked Sloan why he granted the Baylor players a free pass to transfer. "He told me that if his son played on the team and went through all of this, then as a father, he would want his son to be able to play right away."
I know that the Big XII is an athletic conference, and not based on academics or history, but maybe those who are calling for Baylor's ouster from that conference would do well to look at the history of other teams in that conference. When Jimmy Johnson took over the Cowboys and they went 1-15, another coach said something about how there are no Kansas State games in the NFL. This was said because at the time, and for years and years before, Kansas State was a terrible football team, and would get pounded by Oklahoma and Nebraska in the Big8. The same could be said of Colorado. Both of these schools are now extremely competitive, and it took strong coaches to turn those programs around. Baylor now has new coaches for Basketball and football, and we will soon have a new athletic director. All calls for Baylor's ouster are premature, at best, and more likely short-sighted and wrong.
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