12/4 Daily Bears Report- The Morning After

Voted us tenth in the latest AP Poll.

Says Mack Brown will be forced out at Texas.

RIIGGGGHHHHTTTT.

http://www.statesman.com/sports/longhorns/robert-griffin-iii-shows-hes-got-what-it-2011007.html

Saturday’s 48-24 win over the Texas Longhorns came in front of a national television audience, which provided the perfect backdrop for what turned out to be a Baylor coronation. RG3 announced with his play that he is the best college football player on the planet. Better than Luck. Better than Barkley. Better than Richardson and Ball. He has one year of eligibility remaining, but we all know that he won’t be back .

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/story/16341546/the-big-picture-programchanger-griffin-my-heisman-pick

A few hours from now I will submit my official Heisman ballot. A player from Baylor is going to be listed in the No. 1 spot. I still can quite get over that. Before last season, the Bears hadn’t been to a bowl game of any kind in 16 years. The program has only produced one guy who won any of the national individual awards in the past 25 years, and he was a punter.

Yet, here we are. In the first week of December, there is no player who seems more deserving of the title “Most Outstanding Player” in the country than a Baylor Bear, Robert Griffin III. The world-class hurdler bolted out of the gate with a spectacular performance in the opening week of the season, carving up an TCU defense that, when we last saw Gary Patterson’s team, was winning the Rose Bowl. The Horned Frogs were the stingiest defense in the country in 2010. RG3 lit them up for 50. And he didn’t slow down much, if at all, from there.

https://twitter.com/#!/jppalm/status/143407514606776320

Typically I would say that you guys would get screwed and the bid would go to Oklahoma, solely because of their brand name. But this year might just be a different case. Baylor has quickly become one of the hottest teams in America. One would hope that the cotton bowl selection committee would take the following into consideration:
1) You just dethroned Oklahoma a mere two weeks ago with the majority of the nation watching.
2) You did so with the most electrifying player in the nation.
3) Oklahoma followed this up by getting plastered by their ‘little brother’ in front of a national audience just two weeks later.
4) Baylor, on the other hand, demolished their ‘big brother’ just two weeks later.
5) Oklahoma came into the season thinking anything but a national title would be a disappointment. This equates to an apathetic fan base.
6) A mere 4 weeks ago, Baylor was just hoping to secure a bowl bid; instead Baylor has become one of the hottest teams in the nation. This equates to an ecstatic fan base.

When you take all of this into account, all of the textbook reasons for choosing Oklahoma over Baylor have vanished. Baylor will have no problem filling up their share of the seats. Additionally, Baylor may actually bring in better TV rankings than Oklahoma would this year. Now I’m a Hogs fan, and it is looking increasingly likely that we will be placed in the cotton bowl. Facing Baylor is not something that excites me. Our defense has a lot of talent, but it is a very inconsistent unit. When the Razorback D is not on its game, it has the ability to make ho-hum QBs look like heisman candidates. I shudder to think what RG3 will do. But at the end of the day, Baylor deserves the cotton. It will be a travesty if y’all don’t get that bid.

of tcu being ranked ahead of us… please dont be in top 16 of bcs… please

I hope he not only wins the trophy, but wins it going away.