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Message: [QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2065126, member: 1526"] That is not surprising in the least. Baylor is part of an entrenched, big time college football culture that has existed for a number of decades. I've lived in parts of the country where CFB is really the only sport the big time athletic factory schools care about. That's why Kim's comments and the general attitude of the Baylor fanbase is dismissive. It's the Penn State syndrome all over again. Nothing shall be tolerated which will diminish the image of dear old Baylor. The real fault here is the huge amounts of money being thrown at the athletic departments of the P5 conference schools. Money has corrupted collegiate athletics to a point I'm afraid we will never recover from. It's appalling. These schools will protect their reputations at all costs. They're protecting multi million dollar investments in athletics. Baylor has to preserve it's membership in the big boy's club. They only made it into the Big 12 in the first place because Ann Richards, a Baylor alum, happened to be Governor of Texas at the time the Southwest Conference disbanded. She brokered a compromise deal to get them into the Big 12, which didn't want them. As recently as a few years ago, Baylor faced the real possibility of suffering the same fate UCONN has. If the Big 12 had broken up in 2011 or thereabouts, which was a real possibility, Baylor would have become the UCONN of the Southwest, tossed out of a BCS power conference with no place to go. You're talking about a loss of tens of millions in revenue to the athletic programs. Unless you take big money out of the equation, the stuff that has happened at Baylor is just the tip of a huge iceberg. Baylor remains more vulnerable than most of the other P5 conference schools, and their alumni and fanbase know it. [/QUOTE]

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