By Kevin Lonnquist
Publisher
While the 1970s was the heyday of American rock bands, the 1990s doesn’t get the credit that it should. There were some groups who could pick it.
Formed in 1993 at the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Filter was formed when lead guitarist Richard Patrick left Nine Inch Nails.
Patrick authored Take a Picture. It became the band’s signature hit when it was released in early 2000. It peaked at No. 12 and No. 3 in Canada.
The RJB just really likes the rhythm of the song.
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Well, now that BYU is behind everybody, let’s just remind ourselves as we kind of swept up into everything and anything about the team we follow…Baylor.
It’s really hard to win. You don’t appreciate it until you’re not doing much of it. It’s easy to take it for granted when you’ve been doing it at the pace of like Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State and Oklahoma have the last 13 years.
For programs like Baylor who want to be at the table, the road is never smooth. But they have to put this disappointing loss behind them, look ahead to Saturday morning against Texas State.
Again, we’ll see how this all goes for running back Taye McWilliams and wide receiver Monaray Baldwin for this week. Even if they would be available to play Saturday, they shouldn’t. Baylor has enough talent to handle Texas State without them. Hold them out and get them ready for bigger things, such as the Big 12 opener at Iowa State when everything starts to count.
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Now, some observations about the college football weekend.
>We can dissect Alabama-Texas until attempting to re-write history becomes the plan. It was just a good college football game. Close games will always be scrutinized over 10 plays that impacted the game. That always happens.
When you have winners, they show up when it counts. Alabama QB Bryce Young is that. The Crimson Tide was pretty much meh between the second and third quarters. When it mattered in the fourth, Young delivered. When the Longhorns took the lead with 1:29 to play, they left him too much time. For us football fans, we saw what he did at Auburn last year.
>Maybe the coronation of Florida coach Billy Napier needed to wait a little bit. He will do well at Florida, I believe. And the excitement about the upset of No. 7 Utah last week is well founded.
But keep in mind that football school Kentucky (look up John Calipari if you don’t know what I’m talking about) has had a great run under Mark Stoops. They can play. And the fact that the Wildcats went into the swamp and shut out the Gators in the second half is pretty impressive.
I love college football history no matter the team. Kentucky posted consecutive wins in its series with Florida for the first time since 1976-77. Disco and Jimmy Carter.
>Here is a tweet about the Jimbo Fisher era at Texas A&M vs. what he replaced in Kevin Sumlin.
Now, Sumlin was trainwreck and had a system built around him that he could win a lot of games. But it is striking to note that Texas A&M is paying $9 million annually to someone who doesn’t look a lot different. It’s reminder that you can’t buy your way to success. You have to work at it. Or maybe it’s just Texas A&M and its destiny to be what it already is: good, occasionally great but never elite.
>I can’t decide if Kansas is really that much better or if West Virginia is really that bad. No matter, you do have to have a soft spot for the Jayhawks who have been such the doormat in the Big 12 for years. A great 55-42 overtime win.
They played with great passion Saturday in Morgantown. Maybe the telling part about Lance Leipold’s program is that when West Virginia tied the game at the end of regulation, the Jayhawks didn’t sulk. They kept playing. They responded to adversity.
Now, if you’re West Virginia head coach Neal Brown, you might wonder if this keeps up will you be able to finish the season.
Oh, and a great win by Iowa State at Iowa on Saturday in Iowa City. Cyclones reclaim the Cy-Hawk trophy. Baylor goes to Ames on Sept. 24.
>Since Nebraska blamed Texas for all of its issues with the Big 12 and left for the Big 10, it’s become an afterthought in college football.
On Sunday, Scott Frost was fired after four plus three games miserable seasons and a brutal 16-31 record. For me, it’s pretty simple. The source of this major mistake is the legend Tom Osborne. He made no bones about how he couldn’t stand Texas because of its demand to deny no more partial academic qualifiers to Big 12 programs. Nebraska made its football living on that.
By leaving the Big 12, Nebraska was pretty much cut off from Texas, a state it really needed to recruit to maintain the great success it had established between the 1960s through the early 2000s.
I’m not sure whoever replaces Frost will have it much better. There just needs to be a plan that will make the school attractive.
The interesting thing is that the Cornhuskers play the return game against Oklahoma in Lincoln on Saturday. It will have an odd feel to it.
>Notre Dame loses to Marshall at home. Hot defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman is off to an 0-3 start – remember he gets credit for losing the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State in January. He is the first Irish coach to begin his career at 0-3.
Hard to know how the rest of this season will go. But a lot of flaws have been exposed at the quarterback position.
Good thing that 26-21 loss to the Thundering Herd was streamed on NBC Peacock and not nationally televised on NBC.
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Now, a look at other Baylor sports…
>Baylor men's golf opened its 2022-23 season at the Gopher Invitational beginning Sunday in Independence, MN. They climbed eight spots into a tie for sixth place following the opening two rounds.
>Cross Country resumes its season this Saturday in Lubbock at the Texas Tech Opener at Rawls Course.
>Baylor Soccer's Sunday afternoon match at Gonzaga was canceled due to unhealthy air quality in the Spokane, Wash. area due to surrounding forest fires. That followed a 3-1 loss at San Francisco this past Thursday.
Baylor will close out non-conference play next week as they take on SMU on Sunday in Dallas. The Lady Bears are 2-3-2.
> The No. 15-ranked Baylor volleyball program swept Arizona State to kick off the last day of the Baylor Invitational, only to sweep Evansville and record a school record attack percentage against the Aces.
The Bears (6-2) got the 3-0 sweep over the Sun Devils (5-4) in the morning match, 25-16, 25-23, 25-17, before taking on the Purple Aces. In the match with UE, BU came away with the 3-0 win with a record-breaking .677 attack percentage. Baylor defeated the Aces at 25-12, 25-10, 25-10.
The homestand continues on Tuesday against North Texas. That’s followed by the Baylor classic where the Lady Bears meet Tulsa on Thursday followed by matches against Sam Houston State and McNeese State on Friday. Big 12 play begins Sept. 21 at home against TCU.
Let’s make it a great week!
Publisher
While the 1970s was the heyday of American rock bands, the 1990s doesn’t get the credit that it should. There were some groups who could pick it.
Formed in 1993 at the home of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Filter was formed when lead guitarist Richard Patrick left Nine Inch Nails.
Patrick authored Take a Picture. It became the band’s signature hit when it was released in early 2000. It peaked at No. 12 and No. 3 in Canada.
The RJB just really likes the rhythm of the song.
****
Well, now that BYU is behind everybody, let’s just remind ourselves as we kind of swept up into everything and anything about the team we follow…Baylor.
It’s really hard to win. You don’t appreciate it until you’re not doing much of it. It’s easy to take it for granted when you’ve been doing it at the pace of like Alabama, Clemson, Georgia, Ohio State and Oklahoma have the last 13 years.
For programs like Baylor who want to be at the table, the road is never smooth. But they have to put this disappointing loss behind them, look ahead to Saturday morning against Texas State.
Again, we’ll see how this all goes for running back Taye McWilliams and wide receiver Monaray Baldwin for this week. Even if they would be available to play Saturday, they shouldn’t. Baylor has enough talent to handle Texas State without them. Hold them out and get them ready for bigger things, such as the Big 12 opener at Iowa State when everything starts to count.
****
Now, some observations about the college football weekend.
>We can dissect Alabama-Texas until attempting to re-write history becomes the plan. It was just a good college football game. Close games will always be scrutinized over 10 plays that impacted the game. That always happens.
When you have winners, they show up when it counts. Alabama QB Bryce Young is that. The Crimson Tide was pretty much meh between the second and third quarters. When it mattered in the fourth, Young delivered. When the Longhorns took the lead with 1:29 to play, they left him too much time. For us football fans, we saw what he did at Auburn last year.
>Maybe the coronation of Florida coach Billy Napier needed to wait a little bit. He will do well at Florida, I believe. And the excitement about the upset of No. 7 Utah last week is well founded.
But keep in mind that football school Kentucky (look up John Calipari if you don’t know what I’m talking about) has had a great run under Mark Stoops. They can play. And the fact that the Wildcats went into the swamp and shut out the Gators in the second half is pretty impressive.
I love college football history no matter the team. Kentucky posted consecutive wins in its series with Florida for the first time since 1976-77. Disco and Jimmy Carter.
>Here is a tweet about the Jimbo Fisher era at Texas A&M vs. what he replaced in Kevin Sumlin.
Now, Sumlin was trainwreck and had a system built around him that he could win a lot of games. But it is striking to note that Texas A&M is paying $9 million annually to someone who doesn’t look a lot different. It’s reminder that you can’t buy your way to success. You have to work at it. Or maybe it’s just Texas A&M and its destiny to be what it already is: good, occasionally great but never elite.
>I can’t decide if Kansas is really that much better or if West Virginia is really that bad. No matter, you do have to have a soft spot for the Jayhawks who have been such the doormat in the Big 12 for years. A great 55-42 overtime win.
They played with great passion Saturday in Morgantown. Maybe the telling part about Lance Leipold’s program is that when West Virginia tied the game at the end of regulation, the Jayhawks didn’t sulk. They kept playing. They responded to adversity.
Now, if you’re West Virginia head coach Neal Brown, you might wonder if this keeps up will you be able to finish the season.
Oh, and a great win by Iowa State at Iowa on Saturday in Iowa City. Cyclones reclaim the Cy-Hawk trophy. Baylor goes to Ames on Sept. 24.
>Since Nebraska blamed Texas for all of its issues with the Big 12 and left for the Big 10, it’s become an afterthought in college football.
On Sunday, Scott Frost was fired after four plus three games miserable seasons and a brutal 16-31 record. For me, it’s pretty simple. The source of this major mistake is the legend Tom Osborne. He made no bones about how he couldn’t stand Texas because of its demand to deny no more partial academic qualifiers to Big 12 programs. Nebraska made its football living on that.
By leaving the Big 12, Nebraska was pretty much cut off from Texas, a state it really needed to recruit to maintain the great success it had established between the 1960s through the early 2000s.
I’m not sure whoever replaces Frost will have it much better. There just needs to be a plan that will make the school attractive.
The interesting thing is that the Cornhuskers play the return game against Oklahoma in Lincoln on Saturday. It will have an odd feel to it.
>Notre Dame loses to Marshall at home. Hot defensive coordinator Marcus Freeman is off to an 0-3 start – remember he gets credit for losing the Fiesta Bowl to Oklahoma State in January. He is the first Irish coach to begin his career at 0-3.
Hard to know how the rest of this season will go. But a lot of flaws have been exposed at the quarterback position.
Good thing that 26-21 loss to the Thundering Herd was streamed on NBC Peacock and not nationally televised on NBC.
****
Now, a look at other Baylor sports…
>Baylor men's golf opened its 2022-23 season at the Gopher Invitational beginning Sunday in Independence, MN. They climbed eight spots into a tie for sixth place following the opening two rounds.
>Cross Country resumes its season this Saturday in Lubbock at the Texas Tech Opener at Rawls Course.
>Baylor Soccer's Sunday afternoon match at Gonzaga was canceled due to unhealthy air quality in the Spokane, Wash. area due to surrounding forest fires. That followed a 3-1 loss at San Francisco this past Thursday.
Baylor will close out non-conference play next week as they take on SMU on Sunday in Dallas. The Lady Bears are 2-3-2.
> The No. 15-ranked Baylor volleyball program swept Arizona State to kick off the last day of the Baylor Invitational, only to sweep Evansville and record a school record attack percentage against the Aces.
The Bears (6-2) got the 3-0 sweep over the Sun Devils (5-4) in the morning match, 25-16, 25-23, 25-17, before taking on the Purple Aces. In the match with UE, BU came away with the 3-0 win with a record-breaking .677 attack percentage. Baylor defeated the Aces at 25-12, 25-10, 25-10.
The homestand continues on Tuesday against North Texas. That’s followed by the Baylor classic where the Lady Bears meet Tulsa on Thursday followed by matches against Sam Houston State and McNeese State on Friday. Big 12 play begins Sept. 21 at home against TCU.
Let’s make it a great week!
