While the Baylor football team was offensively dependent last year with Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III, this year’s team is co-dependent on offense and defense.
“When you have a team around you and it’s not all about you, you can do a lot of things,” senior quarterback Nick Florence said.
On Saturday, the Bears will take on the Sam Houston State Bearkats, but it’s been a week since Baylor defeated SMU by a score of 59-24 in their rocky season opener.
“We didn’t feel like we were completely clean against SMU and we worked on correcting things,” said head coach Art Briles.
After Baylor defeated SMU on Sept. 2, former Bears wide receiver and current Cleveland Browns player Josh Gordon took to Twitter to explain Baylor football’s secret weapon. He said that Baylor’s “secret weapon” is the strength and conditioning program of Kaz Kazadi.
Now, more than ever, we follow the saying, “You’ve got to see it to believe it.”
Remember that one time when Heisman Trophy winner Robert Griffin III led the Washington Redskins to a 40-32 victory over the New Orleans Saints on the road?
Plus, his stat line was out of control, completing 19-of-26 passes for 320 yards with a pair of touchdowns and no interceptions.
Baylor beat SMU 59-24. Senior quarterback Nick Florence led the Bears with 341 yards and four touchdowns. BU is off for the week.
Robert Griffin III is preparing to face the New Orleans Saints in the Redskins’ season opener Sunday, but the key to upgrading his training efforts may be back at Baylor.
“He practices a lot and can’t have the whole defense out there every time,” said Dr. Michael Korpi, professor of film and digital media. “His dream was that he could go into the practice facilities, even without a receiver, and practice against a defense and be able to tell if the pass was completed or not.”
Last year, Baylor’s RG3-led offense was historic. Points came in bunches at a rate of more than 45 per game. The defense, however, was a different story.
Baylor’s defense in 2011 gave up more than 37 points per game.
The Baylor football team made its statement with a 59-24 victory over the SMU Mustangs Sunday evening.
“We felt like we had to come out and see what we were,” Baylor head coach Art Briles said. “Just like everybody else, we weren’t sure. We felt like we knew what we had. We felt like we knew we had a determined, eager, anxious football team that wanted to prove themselves.”
Baylor Nation may miss Heisman trophy winner Robert Griffin III, but not much as the Bears defeated the SMU Mustangs 59-24.
e time outside Moody Library asking the basic football questions to Baylor students about the 2012 football season
The Bears enter the 2012 season with a notion to prove itself.
After last year’s fairy tale season with Heisman trophy winner Robert Griffin III, Baylor looks to make sure this season does not do a Humpty Dumpty fall.
For Baylor football, there is no preseason.
Every snap counts.
“The difference between college, high school football and professional football is that with high school you get scrimmages, with NFL you get preseason games, but with college they blow the whistle and it’s real,” Baylor head coach Art Briles said.
When the Freeh Report was released, Judge Louis Freeh blamed Penn State’s cover-up partly on the fact that the school had valued winning football games over the safety of innocent children.
Last season was arguably the greatest football season Baylor has ever known.
As far as individual awards go, Robert Griffin III claimed the most prestigious award in all of college football, the Heisman Trophy.
The million-dollar question, though, is whether or not Baylor can build on last season’s momentum with the loss of RG3.
I would like to imagine that when people see the University of Texas ranked No. 15 in the country, they laugh, roll their eyes and throw away whatever news source gave them such a standing.
They lost to every ranked team they played and then also lost to Missouri, finished the Big 12 season 4-5 and nearly missed bowl eligibility for the second year in a row.
I know its defense was pretty good, but it was this same defense that gave up 55 points to Oklahoma, 38 to Oklahoma State at home and 48 to Baylor in the rain.
Let’s go on a road trip.
We’re going to start out taking a break for two days before heading to Nebraska.
After that, we will go to Denver and then to Zion.
We like it so much there that we stay for four days before traveling back to Nebraska and staying there for two days.
Do you know where we end up in this road trip game?
Neither do the New York Jets…
At left guard, a 6-foot-5-inch, 335-pound man stares down the opposing line, a man who squats 705 pounds and cleans 341 pounds.
His goal: making sure no one touches his quarterback.
After an unprecedented year of athletic success, current and former Baylor student-athletes hauled in a number of prestigious awards this summer.
On July 11, at the ESPY awards in Los Angeles, Heisman trophy winning quarterback Robert Griffin III was given “Best College Male Athlete.”
Senior women’s basketball phenom Brittney Griner actually ended up winning two trophies at the ESPY’s, laying claim to the “Best Female College Athlete” in addition to the “Best Female Athlete” award.
Does lightning strike the same place twice? Baylor athletics is on a mission to make sure that it does.
Going from an overlooked extra in the Big 12 to a front-runner in multiple sports, the Bears are not settling for the past but are hungry for more.
There was no mistaking Robert Griffin III at the NFL draft. The ends of his dreadlocks settled onto a baby blue jacket. His checkered-patterned shirt was offset by a purplish tie with horizontal stripes.
The Tennessee Titans need help on defense. They decided the best way to get it with the 20th overall pick in Thursday night’s NFL draft was by taking an “electric” offensive playmaker in Baylor wide receiver Kendall Wright.
During the 2011-2012 season, it is possible that Pat Neff has gone through twice as many green bulbs as it did through 2008-2010.
Andrew Luck knows exactly where he’s heading, and so does Robert Griffin III.
The past two years have been full of success for Baylor’s athletic programs, but there has also been uncertainty regarding Baylor’s conference affiliation.
It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. But that was then. Students and fans can celebrated the best of times with junior quarterback Robert Griffin III’s Heisman victory and the overall success of Baylor football. Alumni, moreover, can look back at how Baylor football performed during their years and be even more thankful.
Head coach Art Briles showcased his team in 75-minute controlled scrimmage Saturday at the Higher Complex Practice Fields.
“They said it was the biggest pro day of all time at Baylor.”
Baylor’s efforts to explore building a new on-campus football stadium were bolstered last week when the university announced the largest capital gift in school history to help fund the project.
Baylor University administrators announced the largest capital gift in university history today as the lead-off donation toward a new on-campus…
Baylor football left the Alamadome field victorious on Dec. 30, 2011. The team returned the field Tuesday for the first time since to begin spring practice.
