Thursday: More Trouble Brewing at Baylor

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
But he is kind of one of those diva prima
donna players that wants the ball. Now, that's at least
the one of the thought processes. And I heard Colin
and Jason McIntyre discussing this this afternoon. Is he that
or is he just an athlete that thinks he's better
than everybody else than he probably is. Give me the ball,
I can help us win, and he doesn't get targeted enough.

(00:22):
But you got to have to understand when you look
at the Philadelphia offense, the number one weapon on that
offense is going to be Saquon Barkley and number two
is Jalen Hurts. And Jalen Hurts is a very very
average passer. I would say he's a good quarterback and
probably a top ten, top twelve quarterback in the league.
But in terms of being an accurate downfield deep ball

(00:44):
thrower of the ball, I wouldn't put him in the
top ten or twelve.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
He'd be closer to the bottom.

Speaker 1 (00:50):
So I think one of the most important things for
the Eagles to do is if they're gonna if they're
going to get of this guy, they're gonna get rid
of him, They're gonna have to make sure that they
get the right players to replace him, because he's probably
gonna draw a double team just about every time, even
Jalen Hurts can find him if he's.

Speaker 2 (01:10):
Not double covered.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
And he's won a Super Bowl and he's he's gotten
his Pro Bowls and he's got his money and all
that kind of stuff, and now he just wants to
be more a part of an offense that is never gonna,
I think, revolve around a lot of wide receivers.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah, that's you know, that's the irony of being as.

Speaker 2 (01:32):
Good as he is at that level.

Speaker 3 (01:34):
You know, when you are drawing double teams on every
passing down, you're opening stuff up for DeVante Smith over
the top, like we saw Monday night in Green Bay.
You're opening up the run game for Saquon, or the
screen game or the tight ends across the middle. Because
you're attracting so much, you're bending the defense towards yourself

(01:56):
so much that it's opening it's giving Jalen Hurts multiple
full options to spread the ball around. Otherwise, I do
I do think there is something to the argument of
I I would much rather have my wide receiver throwing
a fit that he's not getting the ball enough than
being content with just being a decoy like that. There

(02:18):
is obviously a line where you do become the prima donna,
you do become the distraction.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
But I do I think if you're not.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Doing that, that concerns me way more than if you're,
you know, in your quarterback's face on the sideline or
yelling at your offensive coordinator who's calling the plays that
you're not getting enough targets. I mean, there's enough, there's
a line there for sure, But if I'm not seeing that,
I'm more concerned in a weird kind of way.

Speaker 1 (02:47):
There All right, there's something weird going on at Baylor.
Oh yeah, And today Mac Rhodes, the AD at Baylor,
decided to take a leave of absence while at the
same time stepping down as the CFP chairperson, and they
passed that on to another athletic director. They need athletic
directors to be on these chair committees to determine who

(03:08):
the twelve players the teams are going to be in
the College Football Playoff. And they say this has nothing
to do with Title nine or any violations. But he
took a leave of absence for personal and professional reasons.
And there's a guy on the Baylor team by the
name of Michael Trigg, and Michael was apparently in the

(03:28):
September twentieth game wearing a yellow undershirt of some kind
or long sleeve shirt, and Mike the athletic director Mac
Rhodes walked up to him and kind of put his
hands on his shoulder pads and said, what the blank
are you doing with that shirt on?

Speaker 2 (03:46):
And I don't think that.

Speaker 1 (03:47):
I think it was just a plain yellow undershirt that
a lot of players and coaches sometimes wear.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
So the only thing I haven't seen it reported, but
just piecing one in one together to make two was
a transfer from USC so maybe benefit of the doubt
it was USC yellow and not Baylor.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
The difference I couldn't tell you. Again.

Speaker 3 (04:12):
I'm just in my head putting two and two together
here because that if it's just because he didn't want
him wearing something different than everybody else, I don't think
you're getting that kind of reaction from it.

Speaker 2 (04:24):
I don't know. It's a very weird scenario all around. Yeah,
So I'm picking up.

Speaker 1 (04:30):
I'm gonna do a quick Google search here USC gold
compared to Southern California. Listen, I'm colorblind, so I don't I.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
Can't qualify for this.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
I was about to say, I don't see any difference myself,
yellow gold, whatever, and as long as it didn't have
a USC logo on it or I guess if one
school is Nike and one school as Adidas, if it
didn't have the wrong logo on it. But anyway, apparently
an assistant coach got involved and the school insists that
it's not that. Ten years ago, Art Briles was basically

(05:07):
exiled from football because he played football players that should
not have even been allowed on the campus, let alone
on the football team. And there were four individuals that
were accused of and I don't remember what the outcome was,
but there was a lot of speculation and that they
had sexually assaulted a lot of some of some Baylor students.

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And the way the story was related to me, I
heard Art Briles do a podcast once. It was about
an hour long podcast, and a couple of years ago,
when I was coming home from a basketball turn them
up in Frisco, I listened to this podcast.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
And he said, I told.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
That the athletic director that's now at Liberty, Ian mcmclain,
I think McShane or something. Ian something I said. I
told him, and he said, I'll take care of it,
And apparently he told ken Starr, who was the president
at the time, and ken Starr told the Board of Regents,
who was in charge of this at the time, and

(06:11):
nothing was ever done. Now, I've always contended that the
mistake that Art Briles made was not having somebody ask
him a question about it, because you can always find
a friendly media person on any campus in the world
that will ask you any question that you want brought
to the limelight. Hey, by the way, and our Monday
presser asked me this question. I need to get some

(06:32):
information out. I'm not allowed to talk about it, but
if you asked me, I'll tell you the story. And
all it would take is for somebody in the Baylor
media to say, hey, what about this situation? And he
could say, I'm not at liberty to talk about that.
Right now, I've sent that up to the president and
the athletic director.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
It's on them.

Speaker 1 (06:50):
Then he's completely exiled from it. And Art Briles is
one to me, having listened to him speak and listen
to him do the podcast, is a lot like athletes.
He doesn't have time to deal with the things that
are outside of football. He's trying to design football plays
to make his team better. His job was to win

(07:11):
games for Baylor, and he's the guy in charge. He's
the CEO of Baylor football, where he likes it or not,
and so the buck has to stop with him. But
I think there was a lot of things that happened
above him that got passed by, mainly because Baylor hadn't
won in twenty years and they were enjoying the fact
that they could go to the country club on Sunday

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and brag that they were beating Texas and OU and
Texas A and M all the time.

Speaker 3 (07:34):
Wait, so you mean like Ken Starr, the guy that
wrote the Star report was also the guy that lifted
academic suspensions handed out by the university to certain players
that would then go on to commit the multiple sexual
assaults and then cover that part of.

Speaker 1 (07:52):
But then it goes up to the regents and they're
all over the state. So I'm sure they were sick
and tired of walking into the into the golf match
on Saturday afternoon and hearing how great that the Aggies
and Longhorns were, and now they got to be a
part of that.

Speaker 3 (08:06):
One thousand percent. They had a Heisman winner. Yes, they
had a Heisman winning bragging back, that's a big deal.
Billionaires like to brag about. They don't care about their
money because it's all the same. And they don't care
about the protection of their students on the campus either, because.

Speaker 1 (08:21):
Not at the expense of their football team playing good football.

Speaker 3 (08:24):
If they can brag at the country club on Saturday morning,
it's worth that trade off is worth a lot.

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Of deal with that.

Speaker 1 (08:30):
Later we'll pay somebody off if we need to, or
we'll just sweep it under the carpet.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
I should also say, you say Art Brows was ousted,
he did also just get this hometown stadium in Stevenville
named after him.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
That's good, good for him after all of this earlier.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
But the fact is he's and listen, I don't think
he's one hundred percent out of the woods on all this.
I think he should have defied the bosses and said, hey,
this has been going on here and no one's doing
anything about it.

Speaker 3 (08:56):
Yeah, you can make a solid argument that I would
believe that he was made the scapegoat more than he probably.

Speaker 2 (09:02):
Either because I think the other other people.

Speaker 3 (09:05):
I think he expected his administration to do something something
about a football coach. This isn't my job.

Speaker 2 (09:11):
This is on you all.

Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, you let him in school, you got them, you
accepted them. I taught them to play football. They were
good what they do off campus. But you know, same
thing happened to OU with Barry Switzer. Charles Thompson gets
caught selling drugs. Sorry, Barry, you're the guy that was
in charge of himc You're out. And of all the
things that Barry ever did that could have gotten him fired, yeah,
it's kind of now it comes down to your quarterback

(09:34):
dealing dealing cocaine to an undercover FBI office.

Speaker 3 (09:37):
Kind of funny how that happens, isn't it.

Speaker 1 (09:39):
But But and I got I knew Charles Thompson a
little bit when I was in college there and in
a couple of years after, And of all the people
that I thought might get in trouble for that, he
was the last one. He was really good at pulling
off that con job. But I'm looking at you're gonna
step down his athletic director temporarily or maybe permanently over talking,

(10:01):
you know, cussing in a football player for wearing the
wrong color yellow on the sideline, and ten years ago
we had all this other scandal and nobody did think
about it.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't think that adds up, And maybe that is
some of it.

Speaker 3 (10:13):
Maybe they do feel some amount of pressure to be
a little overpunitive here, but even then that still doesn't
really all right.

Speaker 2 (10:21):
What one more segment to go?

Speaker 1 (10:23):
We wrap up today next it's six forty seven on
the ticket.