Big 12 Offseason Thread

[GoSooners]

Looks like Ken Starr can officially call himself unemployed. I think they would have fired Briles too if it hadn't been for his 10 year $40 million contract they drew up in 2014. Looks like Ken Starr's jihad against Bill Clinton lost it's starch. Not surprised that the two leading the Whitewater charge Starr and Hastert, turned out to be the biggest enablers of sexual violence in collegiate athletic history, and a serial child molester. Republicans are running from this topic just as fast as their little legs can take them..lol. All of this sexual harrasment and rape stuff that Trump is circulating around was compiled by scumbags Starr and Hastert. And both actually facilitated or engaged in sexual harassment and rape themselves...Irony at it's best.

As for Baylor, there aren't enough adjectives to describe that program. I've been saying it for years now. Baylor got really good at hoops and football really fast. Something was/is going on down there. And it goes much deeper than these rapes. Maybe if that doosh Briles gets fired, they can hire Hugh Freeze to clean up the mess...Okay, that's my rant for the day.

 

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GS...you might need to know that political promotions come at a price here at the RX.

Expect a bill from Mr. BAS soon.

 

[GoSooners]

Unpaid political advertisement for Hillary Clinton by the GoSooner for Hillary pack.

GS...you might need to know that political promotions come at a price here at the RX.

Expect a bill from Mr. BAS soon.

I don't think I ever mentioned Hillary. But Bill has to be smiling today...

 

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Baylor firing Art Briles today over the rapes....

 

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[h=1]Baylor fires coach Art Briles after 8 seasons[/h]11:54 AM ET

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Baylor's Art Briles has been dismissed as football coach of the Bears, sources told ESPN.
The school will make the announcement at noon ET.
Players were notified of the news via a text message from Briles, a source told ESPN's Brett McMurphy.

 

[GoSooners]

Don't know who's happier today, Stoops, Strong, or the women in Waco.

 

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Don't know who's happier today, Stoops, Strong, or the women in Waco.

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rumor mill for Briles' replacement:

1- Mack Brown
2- Gus Malzahn
3- Tommy Tubberville
4- Tom Herman
5- Chad Morris
6- Lincoln Reilly
7- Mike Leach
8- Mike Singletary

Phil Bennett will be interim HC (same role he had at Pitt when Wannstache got canned) but in situations like this you never allow an incumbent to take the head job. Phil will never call a play as Baylor HC IMHO

 

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Good list RT. Getting Tom Harman away from Houston would be a damn good hire.
I'm thinking he might abide by the rules a little better than the last Houston hire.

Baylor can pay him....USAToday said Briles was the highest paid coach in the Big
12 last year at close to $6 million.

 

[GoSooners]

I've also heard Phil Montgomery mentioned..Crossing my fingers they stay away from Reilly. Whoever takes over, they'll have the most talented offense in the country to work with next year. Just need to shore up that defense...

 

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I've also heard Phil Montgomery mentioned..Crossing my fingers they stay away from Reilly. Whoever takes over, they'll have the most talented offense in the country to work with next year. Just need to shore up that defense...

simply cannot have someone connected with briles, especially the guy who was with him for the longest period of time

rivals story (i can't post here as it's paid content) says that NCAA are likely to allow baylor's 2016 recruits to change schools, without penalty, this summer. If that happens it should be down to Bama and OU for Duvernay, the fastest WR in the country.

 

[GoSooners]

simply cannot have someone connected with briles, especially the guy who was with him for the longest period of time

rivals story (i can't post here as it's paid content) says that NCAA are likely to allow baylor's 2016 recruits to change schools, without penalty, this summer. If that happens it should be down to Bama and OU for Duvernay, the fastest WR in the country.

I'm hoping between Ole Miss and Baylor that OU's recruiting starts picking up again. Neither of these programs got where they were by hard work and praying. Hopefully now that they've been exposed, OU can get on a dominant run. Probably a good time for Texas to get back to #2 as well...

 

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I'm hoping between Ole Miss and Baylor that OU's recruiting starts picking up again. Neither of these programs got where they were by hard work and praying. Hopefully now that they've been exposed, OU can get on a dominant run. Probably a good time for Texas to get back to #2 as well...

yeah their "rise to relevance" was just about the easiest thing to figure out. they'll be back to obscurity soon. The Rebs haven't won a SEC championship since the early-60's... might be until 2063 before they see one again. (yes i know bama lost to them in b2b years)

 

[GoSooners]

I think there's going to be more to come out on Baylor in the next few weeks. They'll probably have a couple more coaches resign. Little Briles Jr. and their strength coach Kazadi, who has taken all of his stuff off his Baylor Twitter page. And this is strictly a rumor, but there will be more things coming out that will show Ole Miss type payments, cars, etc. Some of this stuff is coming from the Baylor Fans forum mods. So it probably holds some water....As if the sexual assaults weren't bad enough. Even Bill Cosby is going whaaaat?

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[GoSooners]

For an interim coach this is a pretty good hire...




Jim Grobe to replace Art Briles at Baylor on interim basis

3:07 PM CT

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Baylor has hired former Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe on an interim basis to replace Art Briles, sources told ESPN on Monday.
Grobe, 64, takes over a Baylor program that has been rocked by allegations of sexual assault and other violence involving several players. Last week, Baylor's board of regents suspended Briles with intent to terminate and stripped chancellor Kenneth Starr of his title of university president.
According to sources, the Bears also considered former San Francisco 49ers coach Mike Singletary, who is a former Baylor All-American, and current defensive coordinator Phil Bennett for the job before settling on Grobe, who last coached in college in 2013.
Grobe, a native of Huntington, West Virginia, coached at Ohio from 1995 to 2000 and Wake Forest from 2001 to 2013. He had a 77-82 record in 13 seasons with the Demon Deacons and his teams played in five bowl games. In 2006, Grobe guided Wake Forest to an 11-3 record and an unlikely ACC championship.
Grobe resigned as Wake Forest's coach after a 4-8 finish in 2013, his fifth consecutive losing season.

Jim Grobe, who last coached at Wake Forest in 2013, takes over a Baylor program that has been rocked by allegations of sexual assault and other violence involving players. Joshua S. Kelly/USA TODAY SportsBriles, 60, had eight years left on a contract that paid him nearly $6 million per season, which made him the Big 12's highest-paid coach. After inheriting a program that had endured 12 consecutive losing seasons before Briles was fired, he directed the Bears to at least a share of back-to-back Big 12 titles in 2013 and 2014.
Briles had a 65-37 record in eight seasons at Baylor, and his teams won 10 or more games in four of the last five seasons and played six consecutive bowl games.
In the fall of 2015, Baylor hired Pepper Hamilton to review its past treatment of sexual assault claims. Outside the Lines reported last week that some Baylor officials, including coaches, knew about incidents of sexual assault, domestic violence and other acts of violence involving football players, but most players didn't miss playing time as punishment.
In its report, Pepper Hamilton wrote: "There are significant concerns about the tone and culture within Baylor's football program as it relates to accountability for all forms of student athlete misconduct."
Two Baylor players accused of sexual assault were recruited by Briles after they were dismissed from their previous schools for off-field problems. In August 2015, former Baylor football player Sam Ukwuachu was sentenced to 180 days in jail after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a women's soccer player. Briles was criticized for accepting Ukwuachu as a transfer student after then-Boise State coach Chris Petersen dismissed him from the team for off-field issues. Ukwuachu's former girlfriend testified at his trial that he had struck and choked her when he attended Boise State.
Then, in April, former Bears star defensive end Shawn Oakman was arrested on a charge of sexual assault. A Baylor graduate student told Waco, Texas, police that Oakman "forcibly removed" her clothes, forced her onto his bed and then sexually assaulted her on April 3, according to an arrest warrant obtained by ESPN.
Oakman, the school's all-time sacks leader who wasn't selected in last month's NFL draft, told police he had consensual sex with the woman. Oakman was dismissed from Penn State after he allegedly grabbed the wrist of a female store clerk.

 

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Baylor is losing recruits right and left. Several from the 2016 class have ask
for their release. Also, a number of 2017 recruits who had committed say
they will look elsewhere.

The dominos are starting to fall.......................

 

[GoSooners]

Baylor is losing recruits right and left. Several from the 2016 class have ask
for their release. Also, a number of 2017 recruits who had committed say
they will look elsewhere.

The dominos are starting to fall.......................

As much respect as I have for Grobe, there will be even more players leave because of this hire. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing with the hiring of Grobe they plan on cleaning house of the rest of their staff. ESPN was a little premature in calling Bennett the interim coach. I'm betting he'll be gone by the end of the week since he's not being named HC. I'm still not sure about Little Briles. But it really hurts this team if all of the coordinators are let go too...What kind of offensive/defensive philosophy will they have going into this season? Grobe might have to get himself a little bling if he wants to coach these thugs...

 

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Surprise Surprise, how else do you attract recruits to Waco, lol. Now begins the slow downward spiral, coaches that take this job will most likely be their last stop.

 

[WinOne]

It's apparently pretty bad in Waco however the fans still continue to stick their heads in the sand.