By Kevin Lonnquist
Publisher
You know if your song is identified by music critics as one of the best of an entire decade, it’s going to go down in music lore as one of the best ever.
The year 1985 seemed to bring that out when Tears for Fears started releasing tracks from its album, “Songs from the Big Chair.’’ Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal touched on the idea of people’s lustful pursuit of power through the corruption.
But this piece probably has two types of receptions. There are those who read into and magnify those themes. Then there are those who may get it and don’t care. All they know is that it’s a great song to have playing while you’re driving on the highway.
To no one’s surprise, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World’’ reached No. 1 that year. And if you were big into watching music videos on MTV, it was hard to miss it.
Just like last week, the RJB continues its stroll through the 1980s by giving you the choice of either listening or watching.
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We are through the end of the first month of the college football season. Well, that’s a bummer because the season always goes too fast. There will be plenty of time to get into Oklahoma State week as we go through the days.
Since WWHT this fall isn’t tied to Baylor football because the Baylor Breakdown covers that, let’s get into other matters.
>For starters, if you had vanilla looking Kansas State, a team that lost the previous week at home to Tulane, going into Norman and absolutely throttling No. 6 Oklahoma, a trip to Las Vegas awaits.
That’s the most impressive performance from anyone in the Big 12 this weekend. I gave the Wildcats no chance. They never trailed in this game. Perhaps we finally saw QB Adrian Martinez unleashed. He accounted for all five KSU touchdowns, one passing, four rushing and 382 total yards. He single-handedly beat Oklahoma.
Now, Baylor’s trip to Oklahoma on Nov. 5 doesn’t look as daunting as it may have been.
>I thought Oklahoma’s defense had made the strides it needed to in order to get back to the edge that it played with in late 2010s. Now, I don’t know what to think of them.
I’m still a little hmm on quarterback Dillon Gabriel’s accuracy or maybe it’s something I can’t put my finger on that rubs we the wrong way. He’s completing two-thirds of his attempts, thrown 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions.
>TCU pretty much donkey konged SMU. And one element that I thought was going to occur in this game did. SMU was too keyed up because it was facing its former coach Sonny Dykes and he used that against them, punched the Mustangs straight in the mouth and reclaimed the Iron Skillet.
SMU also isn’t a very smart team with a lot of mental errors. I’ve said TCU has some quality skill people. That’s still true.
>Another Texas visit to the South Plains. Another occasion for Texas Tech fans to storm the field. Have to give Joey McGuire and his team a lot of credit in that 34-31 OT win over the Longhorns.
Down 31-17 in the third quarter, they didn’t quit. They got it tied and then took the lead with seconds to go before Texas sent it into regulation.
Then they force the Bijan Robinson fumble to set up their game-winning field goal. I think McGuire is shedding the Tech reputation of all offense, no defense.
>Since the writers and coaches absurdly rewarded Texas for its almost upset of Alabama by ranking them, it just reminds you of how power brokers or pundits appear to be so desperate to legitimize Texas, they resort to this. They completely disregard the track record since the 2009 national runner-up season.
What they have done is embolden those who don’t like Texas to amp that up even more. Maybe that’s part of their angle. If so, it’s a cheap clicks ploy.
It’s very simple. I’ve said this year for years. Texas needs to prove it on the field consistently before it deserves anything. We know that will never happen.
>Kansas is a football school. This is the best story of the college football season. KU is 4-0 for the first time since 2009. How can you not feel happy for a program that has been the doormat of the league and thought there was hopelessness.
When the Jayhawks won at West Virginia in OT, that was cool. When they won impressively at Houston, then it was time to pay attention. When they beat Duke in front of a sellout crowd, the band wagon had to be replaced with a bigger one. Everyone loves the underdog story.
“It feels amazing to be 4-0," Jayhawk QB Jalon Daniels said. "To see the amount of excitement in the locker room and in the stadium, we love it."
>Have to wonder if West Virginia has found itself following its Thursday 33-10 win at Virginia Tech. When the AD issues a vote of confidence for head coach Neal Brown, that’s never a good sign.
But the Mountaineers have rallied. Now, they travel to Austin Saturday in a game where both fan bases are wondering if this game could be a tipping point to the season.
Other national perspectives
>Georgia did not play to a standard in its bleh 39-22 win over Kent State.
>Tennessee’s offense may be one of the Top 5 in the country and head coach Josh Heupel is slowly becoming one of the better coaches in college football.
>The Wisconsin many of you knew from years gone by is no longer.
>Minnesota’ 34-7 win at Michigan State may be the most impressive by how much the Golden Gophers dominated Sparty. Michigan State scored with 20 seconds to play to avoid the shutout.
>Had to feel for Arkansas PK Cam Little who’s possible 42-yard go-ahead field goal in the final moments looks like it’s going to be good. But it then strikes the top of the right upright and bounces off as the Razorbacks fall to Texas A&M, 23-21. Aggie offense still unimpressive.
The look on Little’s face was brutal. The look on my Razorback’s face – she came down to spend the weekend with us – was about the same.
>Washington State basically gave away its game to Oregon.
>USC is the national title contender no one wants to acknowledge yet.
>Miami was the southeast’s version of Michigan State in how it was manhandled by Middle Tennessee State, 45-30. Fear the Blue Raiders.
Now we can confirm that the Hurricanes aren’t back either. That was another narrative that the national media was trying to jam down everybody’s throat. You probably didn’t pay much mind to that because you were too busy trying to escape the Texas one.
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Now, a look at other Baylor sports…
> Baylor men's golf improved its score for a second-straight round to collect a tie for eighth on Sunday at the Fighting Illini Invitational.
All four counting scores for the Bears beat the final-round stroke average of 72.27 en route to a 3-over 283 for the day and an 18-over 858 for the week, beating or tying four ranked teams.
Luke Dossey continued his stellar play with a 2-under 68, his fourth round at par or better in five chances this year. The Austin native started red hot with birdies on his first two holes of the day at Nos. 1 and 2. He added two more birdies at Nos. 6 and 7 for a 4-under 31 on his opening nine. Finishing with a pair of bogeys at Nos. 12 and 16 on the back nine, Dossey tied for 12th, his second-straight top-15 finish to open the season.
The Bears will return to the Lone Star State for the Trinity Forest Invitational Oct. 2-4 at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas.
>The Baylor men's tennis team wrapped up the last day of the UTSA Fall Invitational on Sunday afternoon.
Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi dominated his final round match-up, taking a 6-1, 6-3 win from Nacho Serra Sanchez from the University of Miami to win the title of the A singles bracket.
Less than 30 minutes later, Marko Miladinović beat UTSA's Sebastian Rodriguez, 6-4, 6-0, in his finals contest, taking the title for the singles B bracket.
Justin Braverman also got a match in early Sunday morning, defeating Alex Stafford from SMU 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, in a 3-4 playoff for the E bracket. The Bears await the seeding of the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla., that will be held Oct. 1-9.
> Baylor soccer (2-5-2, 0-1) dropped its conference opener against Oklahoma, 2-0, at Betty Lou Mays Field Friday night. The Sooners netted a goal in each half, one in the 34th minute and the second in the 83rd minute. Up next, Baylor will travel to Austin to face Texas at 7 p.m. next Friday.
> Baylor women's golf climbed to fifth place on Sunday following the second round of the Schooner Fall Classic at Belmar Golf Club. On a day where the stroke average (72.89) went up by nearly three shots and no team finished under par, BU shot a 4-over 284 to get within three shots of second-place Oklahoma, with 18 holes to play on Monday.
> Liubov Kostenko and Brooke Thompson posted a round of 16 win in doubles to advance to the semifinals of the ITA Texas Regionals, hosted by TCU at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
> The No. 14 Baylor volleyball program thwarted TCU's comeback on Wednesday night in the Ferrell Center, taking the 3-1 win to open Big 12 play.
The win marked head coach Ryan McGuyre's 500th career win, spanning across his head coaching tenure at Biola, California Baptist and Baylor.
The Bears (11-2, 1-0) took the match over the Horned Frogs (5-7, 0-1) in four sets, 25-13, 29-27, 15-25, 25-19 to open conference play with a victory.
The Bears go on a two-match, two-state road trip to Ames, Iowa and Lawrence, Kansas, respectively. BU will face Iowa State on Sept. 28 at 8pm for an ESPN2-broadcasted matchup before facing Kansas on Oct. 1 at 11am on ESPN+.
Let’s make it a great week!
Publisher
You know if your song is identified by music critics as one of the best of an entire decade, it’s going to go down in music lore as one of the best ever.
The year 1985 seemed to bring that out when Tears for Fears started releasing tracks from its album, “Songs from the Big Chair.’’ Curt Smith and Roland Orzabal touched on the idea of people’s lustful pursuit of power through the corruption.
But this piece probably has two types of receptions. There are those who read into and magnify those themes. Then there are those who may get it and don’t care. All they know is that it’s a great song to have playing while you’re driving on the highway.
To no one’s surprise, “Everybody Wants to Rule the World’’ reached No. 1 that year. And if you were big into watching music videos on MTV, it was hard to miss it.
Just like last week, the RJB continues its stroll through the 1980s by giving you the choice of either listening or watching.
****
We are through the end of the first month of the college football season. Well, that’s a bummer because the season always goes too fast. There will be plenty of time to get into Oklahoma State week as we go through the days.
Since WWHT this fall isn’t tied to Baylor football because the Baylor Breakdown covers that, let’s get into other matters.
>For starters, if you had vanilla looking Kansas State, a team that lost the previous week at home to Tulane, going into Norman and absolutely throttling No. 6 Oklahoma, a trip to Las Vegas awaits.
That’s the most impressive performance from anyone in the Big 12 this weekend. I gave the Wildcats no chance. They never trailed in this game. Perhaps we finally saw QB Adrian Martinez unleashed. He accounted for all five KSU touchdowns, one passing, four rushing and 382 total yards. He single-handedly beat Oklahoma.
Now, Baylor’s trip to Oklahoma on Nov. 5 doesn’t look as daunting as it may have been.
>I thought Oklahoma’s defense had made the strides it needed to in order to get back to the edge that it played with in late 2010s. Now, I don’t know what to think of them.
I’m still a little hmm on quarterback Dillon Gabriel’s accuracy or maybe it’s something I can’t put my finger on that rubs we the wrong way. He’s completing two-thirds of his attempts, thrown 11 touchdowns and zero interceptions.
>TCU pretty much donkey konged SMU. And one element that I thought was going to occur in this game did. SMU was too keyed up because it was facing its former coach Sonny Dykes and he used that against them, punched the Mustangs straight in the mouth and reclaimed the Iron Skillet.
SMU also isn’t a very smart team with a lot of mental errors. I’ve said TCU has some quality skill people. That’s still true.
>Another Texas visit to the South Plains. Another occasion for Texas Tech fans to storm the field. Have to give Joey McGuire and his team a lot of credit in that 34-31 OT win over the Longhorns.
Down 31-17 in the third quarter, they didn’t quit. They got it tied and then took the lead with seconds to go before Texas sent it into regulation.
Then they force the Bijan Robinson fumble to set up their game-winning field goal. I think McGuire is shedding the Tech reputation of all offense, no defense.
>Since the writers and coaches absurdly rewarded Texas for its almost upset of Alabama by ranking them, it just reminds you of how power brokers or pundits appear to be so desperate to legitimize Texas, they resort to this. They completely disregard the track record since the 2009 national runner-up season.
What they have done is embolden those who don’t like Texas to amp that up even more. Maybe that’s part of their angle. If so, it’s a cheap clicks ploy.
It’s very simple. I’ve said this year for years. Texas needs to prove it on the field consistently before it deserves anything. We know that will never happen.
>Kansas is a football school. This is the best story of the college football season. KU is 4-0 for the first time since 2009. How can you not feel happy for a program that has been the doormat of the league and thought there was hopelessness.
When the Jayhawks won at West Virginia in OT, that was cool. When they won impressively at Houston, then it was time to pay attention. When they beat Duke in front of a sellout crowd, the band wagon had to be replaced with a bigger one. Everyone loves the underdog story.
“It feels amazing to be 4-0," Jayhawk QB Jalon Daniels said. "To see the amount of excitement in the locker room and in the stadium, we love it."
>Have to wonder if West Virginia has found itself following its Thursday 33-10 win at Virginia Tech. When the AD issues a vote of confidence for head coach Neal Brown, that’s never a good sign.
But the Mountaineers have rallied. Now, they travel to Austin Saturday in a game where both fan bases are wondering if this game could be a tipping point to the season.
Other national perspectives
>Georgia did not play to a standard in its bleh 39-22 win over Kent State.
>Tennessee’s offense may be one of the Top 5 in the country and head coach Josh Heupel is slowly becoming one of the better coaches in college football.
>The Wisconsin many of you knew from years gone by is no longer.
>Minnesota’ 34-7 win at Michigan State may be the most impressive by how much the Golden Gophers dominated Sparty. Michigan State scored with 20 seconds to play to avoid the shutout.
>Had to feel for Arkansas PK Cam Little who’s possible 42-yard go-ahead field goal in the final moments looks like it’s going to be good. But it then strikes the top of the right upright and bounces off as the Razorbacks fall to Texas A&M, 23-21. Aggie offense still unimpressive.
The look on Little’s face was brutal. The look on my Razorback’s face – she came down to spend the weekend with us – was about the same.
>Washington State basically gave away its game to Oregon.
>USC is the national title contender no one wants to acknowledge yet.
>Miami was the southeast’s version of Michigan State in how it was manhandled by Middle Tennessee State, 45-30. Fear the Blue Raiders.
Now we can confirm that the Hurricanes aren’t back either. That was another narrative that the national media was trying to jam down everybody’s throat. You probably didn’t pay much mind to that because you were too busy trying to escape the Texas one.
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Now, a look at other Baylor sports…
> Baylor men's golf improved its score for a second-straight round to collect a tie for eighth on Sunday at the Fighting Illini Invitational.
All four counting scores for the Bears beat the final-round stroke average of 72.27 en route to a 3-over 283 for the day and an 18-over 858 for the week, beating or tying four ranked teams.
Luke Dossey continued his stellar play with a 2-under 68, his fourth round at par or better in five chances this year. The Austin native started red hot with birdies on his first two holes of the day at Nos. 1 and 2. He added two more birdies at Nos. 6 and 7 for a 4-under 31 on his opening nine. Finishing with a pair of bogeys at Nos. 12 and 16 on the back nine, Dossey tied for 12th, his second-straight top-15 finish to open the season.
The Bears will return to the Lone Star State for the Trinity Forest Invitational Oct. 2-4 at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas.
>The Baylor men's tennis team wrapped up the last day of the UTSA Fall Invitational on Sunday afternoon.
Juan Pablo Grassi Mazzuchi dominated his final round match-up, taking a 6-1, 6-3 win from Nacho Serra Sanchez from the University of Miami to win the title of the A singles bracket.
Less than 30 minutes later, Marko Miladinović beat UTSA's Sebastian Rodriguez, 6-4, 6-0, in his finals contest, taking the title for the singles B bracket.
Justin Braverman also got a match in early Sunday morning, defeating Alex Stafford from SMU 4-6, 6-1, 6-1, in a 3-4 playoff for the E bracket. The Bears await the seeding of the ITA All-American Championships in Tulsa, Okla., that will be held Oct. 1-9.
> Baylor soccer (2-5-2, 0-1) dropped its conference opener against Oklahoma, 2-0, at Betty Lou Mays Field Friday night. The Sooners netted a goal in each half, one in the 34th minute and the second in the 83rd minute. Up next, Baylor will travel to Austin to face Texas at 7 p.m. next Friday.
> Baylor women's golf climbed to fifth place on Sunday following the second round of the Schooner Fall Classic at Belmar Golf Club. On a day where the stroke average (72.89) went up by nearly three shots and no team finished under par, BU shot a 4-over 284 to get within three shots of second-place Oklahoma, with 18 holes to play on Monday.
> Liubov Kostenko and Brooke Thompson posted a round of 16 win in doubles to advance to the semifinals of the ITA Texas Regionals, hosted by TCU at the Bayard H. Friedman Tennis Center.
> The No. 14 Baylor volleyball program thwarted TCU's comeback on Wednesday night in the Ferrell Center, taking the 3-1 win to open Big 12 play.
The win marked head coach Ryan McGuyre's 500th career win, spanning across his head coaching tenure at Biola, California Baptist and Baylor.
The Bears (11-2, 1-0) took the match over the Horned Frogs (5-7, 0-1) in four sets, 25-13, 29-27, 15-25, 25-19 to open conference play with a victory.
The Bears go on a two-match, two-state road trip to Ames, Iowa and Lawrence, Kansas, respectively. BU will face Iowa State on Sept. 28 at 8pm for an ESPN2-broadcasted matchup before facing Kansas on Oct. 1 at 11am on ESPN+.
Let’s make it a great week!
