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Yahoo Sports - From 1996 thru 2009, Baylor was 43-117 overall and 14-98 in Big 12 play. That's an average of one conference victory a season. There was a stretch when the Bears went 6-76 in the league. There was a seven-year run in there that Texas beat them 362-38. In 1999, they lost all of their eight Big 12 games by an average of 35.7 points.
The Baylor media guide is a real page-turner if disastrous sporting carnage is your thing.
"We had some lean years there," school president Kenneth Starr said with a laugh. [BSG note: Coach Art Briles said a couple of weeks ago, "These teeth aren't real. They've been kicked in a few times."]
All of which makes this so utterly astounding.
It's not just that Baylor is good – 4-0 on the season after a 73-42 blitzkrieg of West Virginia and sure to continue climbing from its No. 16 ranking. A lot of teams can get "good" and the schedule hasn't been particularly arduous.
It's that Baylor is something that nobody could've imagined possible … cool, exciting, cutting edge, wild, brilliant, pyrotechnic. It's one thing to have a generational local talent such as Robert Griffin III fall through the cracks of the Longhorn recruiting net, show up and win a Heisman. That was a great story.
This is even better because Baylor is even better. More athletes. More skill. More speed. More depth . . . . This is everything Baylor never was.
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The older I get, the more I believe in "enjoying the moment." Hey, this isn't Vince Young scoring on fourth down in the Rose Bowl, or TCU beating Wisconsin at that same venue, or Tech's "Crabtree! Breaks free!" moment, but it's fun. But it won't last. Nothing does. Just be smart enough to love it while it happens.
But for now Baylor is the equivalent of Walter White in Waco with a machine gun in the trunk.
