QUOTE(Purple Heart @ Jun 10 2010, 09:10 AM) [snapback]573310[/snapback]
Have you ever actually lived there (and if you have, I'm not just talking about on campus)? I would take Waco in a heartbeat over alot of places. There are some really nice neighborhoods, parks, lake, Brazos River, its closer to all the major Texas cities than any other city it's size. And yes, I used to live there, and there are some great folks there. Think about it as you sit on I-35W and breathe in all that ozone. Waco, like Baylor, gets an unfair bum rap. It doesn't take much longer to drive from Waco to Dallas or Fort Worth (or Austin, for that matter) than it does to drive from Fort Worth to Dallas or from Plano to Fort Worth, etc. Thanks alot for causing me to be the unpopular guy on this board who supports not only Baylor but Waco. Its easy to follow the herd in what you think and say. Its more difficult to put some thought based on experience into it and be more open minded, even if it is unpopular.
Purple Heart, I appreciate your concern over Baylor. It is hard to make a rational decision concerning one's school. Heck, just look at anything Goo posts.
But the point is, Baylor will significantly hurt the MWC chances for an autobid by bringing the overall team average down. This is the one criteria for autobid status in which the MWC is weakest. We need to shore up this category by bringing in schools that have been good the past couple of years, like Kansas, KSU and Boise, or have the potential to be good, like Colorado. Baylor is neither of these. I don't know how else to interpret 15 years of futility other than a lack of commitment to football. Baylor was able to compete in all the other sports, why not football? Because they were not willing to show commitment to it.
The MWC does not need or want Baylor, who has failed repeatedly and consistently. They could doom the MWC to non-autobid status. The MWC is in no position to show compassion to a school that failed to show compassion to 4 other schools - schools that had been partners with Baylor for nearly 100 years. Baylor needs their 40 years in the desert, to repent, contemplate, and find out exactly what kind of university they want to be.