edgemetal91

David Murphy ftw.

Sic 'em David!

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Just messing with you

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Oh...

Yep. Good to see Cliff get some solid run support.

Actually, A&M was number one in that final time period. Baylor was slightly ahead of Texas, who was fourth.

In the last 10 years of the SWC, Baylor had the 2nd best winning pct in the conference (excluding Arky who left before SWC fell apart). Baylor went 66-47-1 in those years while TCU went 47-63.

Were there politics involved in getting Baylor into the Big 12? Abso-freaking-lutely! No denying that. But if the Big 8 really was going to go to 12, name a school who should have had that 4th spot from the SWC.

Other records in the final 10 years:

Houston 45-64-2
Rice 36-72
SMU 19-66-3


I guess my point is, for as much as people remember the politicking Ann Richards and Bob Bullock did to ensure Baylor's place in the new Big 8, people forget that if you simply look at the football, Baylor really was the logical final choice of all those tiny schools. It's easy to forget that because Baylor's poor leadership and decision making caused them to become the whipping boy of the Big 12. The last 14 years of conference play makes it look like TCU was some SWC power that got screwed by terrible (but politically powerful) Baylor at the end of the SWC. That wasn't the case. The two schools may very well have had reversed fates if we had switched spots. TCU may have a HUGE bowl drought and Baylor might have just played a BCS game.