re: Other factors in the decision making process - Aranda

Never said I did. Just that the "not worrying about kids going to NOLA" makes no sense when there's an even bigger city about the same distance from Waco. If kids wanted to go cut up in the big city, Dallas is right there. Not going party and being able to keep your players reeled in and focused is a reflection of the kind of players you have and also your coaching ability which BR and LSU would not stop him from achieving that.

It's not that there's lack of opportunity for players to do so in Waco is my point. He may very well like Waco more than BR, I never disputed that and I'm not claiming to know in Aranda's mind which he prefers, just that the logic there makes no sense.

You are right, and the same goes for Austin. And Austin is almost as much a den of iniquity as NO
There might even be an argument that it’s worse

Don't know more than anyone,,, BUT Downtown Dallas and 6th street in Austin are both only about 100 miles from Baylor's campus. Map it,, that's fact.
LSU to French Quarter= about 80 miles
Not a huge difference.

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Kids don't get into trouble in Waco? He may want to revisit the not so distant past re: Baylor football and basketball. More serious trouble than any LSU athlete has gotten into while on campus.

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All of this. Aranda may use this as a recruiting pitch because Waco is a sleepy little town. But, Lsu hasn't had teammates killing each other, dealing drugs, and out of control raping everyone. At least not that we know of.

Plus DFW and Austin aren't to far away if your players want to get in trouble.

Has anybody else on this thread spent much time in Waco? I like it but it really is a quiet boring town with no night life. The campus and facilities are nice, but it has to be a hard place to recruit teenagers to.

Don't forget, Baylor was the doormat of college football until Art Briles came in and convinced them to spend some money and started recruiting talented but morally questionable players.

yeah and waco is just like baton rouge too right? its all the same right?

we got dudes talking about the french quarter and 6th street in this thread, holy shite some of you are clueless

that is what happened to the honey badger, too much time hanging out at the cat's meow

let me try to re-frame this for you

aranda is a control freak, briles was not

aranda will not be surprised by player behavior if he can help it, Briles literally covered up crimes and created a culture of lawlessness

the waco community and baylor admin are HYPER sensitive about all of this sordid past and watch the athletes at Baylor very closely

the demographics of baton rouge and waco are radically different

Mclennan county is 260K people - 78% Cauc, 14% AA
EBR Parish is 746K people - 55% AA, 40% Cauc

so for athletes coached by a detail oriented HC that keeps a close eye on them, in a community that is hyper vigilant about Baylor and student athlete behavior - where would it be easier to sneak off, be near an "element," have access to things/people/places that could be bad etc

waco or baton rouge?