[Husker] Baylor Fires Guy Morriss (fwd)

[Mike Nolan]

> I would disagree. Baylor is a private school with above average athletic
> facilities (including a new $40M on campus football facility they just
> broke ground on). They have a solid, and rather wealthy, booster base
> and a rather large endowment for athletics. 

I am more aware than most of the challenges a small private school faces 
in a conference filled with large universities.  

However, Baylor probably isn't even the 5th best football program in the 
state of Texas at the moment, and isn't likely to get there any time soon.  

IMHO Buffalo has a reasonable chance to be the best football program in 
the state of NY if Syracuse doesn't get things back together soon.  And
I think that makes it a better stepping stone.  (Count me among those who 
wouldn't be upset if Gill wound up as the head coach at Nebraska in a few 
years, once he's ready for it.)

If the stories are true, Baylor wouldn't even be in the Big 12 conference 
but for the lobbying/bullying efforts of the former governor of Texas, 
Ann Richards (a Baylor alum.)

Those well-heeled alums expect big returns on their bucks, which is why
Baylor has been a revolving door for football coaches, including former
Husker Kevin Steele.  Their next coach (I agree that is likely to be 
Singletary) will be their 5th coach since Grant Teaff retired in 1992.  

It may be difficult to find a school that has had more head football 
coaches over that same time span.

As a Chicago Bears fan I'd love to see Mike Singletary hired and succeed 
at Baylor.  (As a measure of what Baylor fans probably define as 
successful, Teaff was 10-11 against Texas during his tenure, I suspect 
there aren't a lot of coaches who had that good a record against the Horns 
over 15 or more years.)
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Mike Nolan