The 2019 Baylor Bear defense that carried the team to the Big 12 championship game and nearly defeated Oklahoma only to fall short twice, was built around the defensive line. The back eight of their 3-2-6 unit was very good (mostly seniors), but this team could regularly control action in the run game and generate … [Read more…]
Over on Twitter I recently had a brief conversation with Travis Roeder and Cameron Soran about new Baylor offensive coordinator Larry Fedora’s fondness for power run schemes. I think this is the tweet that kickstarted the convo about his power run game. Baylor has been uniquely power run oriented since their rise under Art Briles. … [Read more…]
One of the more fascinating subplots of 2020 in the Big 12 was always going to be what Baylor made of one of Matt Rhule’s favorite young talents, Matt Jones. The 6-3, 240 pound freshman played in three games last year early before shutting it down to redshirt and preserve eligibility for the future. He’s … [Read more…]
It’s more than a little interesting to observe the TCU-Baylor rivalry these days. The Frogs aren’t even really a strictly Texas school anymore, their admission is over 50% comprised of out of state students, and the football program has served them well as an advertisement for kids from California and other locales. Baylor on the … [Read more…]
I’d never have guessed that this was going to be a major topic in the Big 12, not even in the week or so after Matt Rhule left for Carolina, not until his name was explicitly mentioned for the Baylor job. For starters, Dave Aranda has never necessarily seemed to be a future HC kind … [Read more…]
It’d been maybe a month or two since I chuckled at the fact that Oklahoma ran Brent Venables out of town to make room for “cautious Mike” Stoops. This article was a good outlet for that energy as I ranked the top 5 DCs in college football today. Aranda is the sole representative of the … [Read more…]
My biggest question about Dave Aranda at LSU was whether an approach that worked with Wisconsin’s versatile farm boys was the best way to unlock the pipeline of NFL talent that flows through Baton Rouge every year. I guess we don’t actually know yet to what extent Aranda’s full blown defensive playbook will look like … [Read more…]