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Conference Realignment: Baylor Football's 'Texas' PR Angle Remains Unconvincing

by Jason Kirk • Sep 13, 2011 8:13 AM EDT

Now that his football program is one step closer to finding itself in the conference wasteland, Ken Starr is again trying to convince you that Texas football and Baylor Bears football mean the same thing:

According to our friends in the sports media, the football programs of our beloved Texas institutions are about to become exported commodities, competing in different national athletic conferences. If this proves to be true, we will be tearing something very special from the celebrated fabric of our Texas history.

The nation knows that there is something unique about Texas football. It's the stuff of song and cinema. Historic, annual rivalries among our Texas institutions date back more than 100 years.

You have to feel bad for Baylor fans. But it's hard to feel bad for a program with so many connections to powerful people, and hard to feel bad for a school president willing to spin Baylor football into something it is absolutely not. (Please list the works of cinema that have been created about Baylor football.)

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This is idiotic claptrap.

I am not even a Baylor fan, just one of sensible, rational thinking. You are really bitching about Baylor having powerful connections? So UT and A&M have no voice in anything, huh? Poor Baylor always gets its way. Listen, that is what schools do, they produce graduates with the hope of furthering their interests in the future. Don’t bitch about Baylor because it does a better job of it than TCU, Houston, and SMU. What you should be offended by is that A&M and the SEC do such a miserable job of understand this process by leaving loopholes for a desperate Baylor and Iowa State to take advantage of.

Back to the Baylor piece. Yeah, its an ad, but I will say this is that Baylor has has a much bigger impact on Texas football than Stanford has in California football. Case in point…

Baylor’s attendance
40,043

Stanford’s
40,042 (coming off it biggest season in 50 some years)

That is fucking embarrassing.

Just stop the anti-Baylor slant and quit acting like a douchebag.

Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.

by meatybob on Sep 13, 2011 10:40 AM EDT reply actions

here's the link

in case you doubt my numbers.

http://fs.ncaa.org/Docs/stats/football_records/Attendance/2010.pdf

Google's homepage celebrates too much shit.

by meatybob on Sep 13, 2011 10:40 AM EDT up reply actions

Rude!

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by Holly Anderson on Sep 13, 2011 11:20 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs

You're right, meatybob. Ken Starr's motives have never been more pure.

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by Jason Kirk on Sep 13, 2011 3:40 PM EDT up reply actions

Oh, so we should all feel sorry for Baylor NOW...

but correct me if I’m wrong (and since I’m typing that, I know I’m not), but Baylor left fellow conference members TCU (who has actually won a national title), SMU (who has actually won a national title and has a national award named after one of it’s players), Rice, and Houston behind when the SWC collapsed. There was none of the hand-wringing and calls for “Texas unity” then. If Ken Starr truly cared about “Texas Football” then when the B12 is done (and this is only a matter of time), why doesn’t he take the lead and form a conference consisting of all remaining Texas teams (Baylor, SMU, Houston, UTEP, Rice, UT – San Antonio*, Texas State – San Marcos*) and the New Mexico Schools (New Mexico, New Mexico State) and some combo of Tulsa, UL – Lafayette, UL – Monroe, Louisiana Tech, or Tulane into a 12 team conference. Don’t worry, I know Ken Starr is full of hot air so I won’t hold my breath waiting for this to happen.

* will join WAC in 2012-2013 season

"When among evil companions, try to fit in." - Wild Bill Donovan

by Kpz1234 on Sep 13, 2011 1:38 PM EDT reply actions 2 recs