Baylor Bears Athletic Program Has Risen From the DeadLet’s go back ten years to Waco, Texas home of the Baylor Bears. The school was getting a lot of media attention, but not for the right reasons. The Baylor Basketball program was a complete mess. A player was charged with murdering a team mate, and just when Bear fans believed that things couldn’t get worse the NCAA decided to investigate the Bears for multiple NCAA violations. The NCAA decided to punish the Bears by imposing such harsh penalties no one was sure the Bears would ever be able to come back. Their first task in the mass rebuilding project was to hire a new coach. In 2003 they settled on Scott Drew who had spent the previous season coaching Valparaiso, a small team in the Horizon Conference. Little did Bears fans know that Drew would be the answers to all their problems; even though it would take a while. The next four seasons the Bears went a combined 12-52 in Big 12 play. At this point fans had lost hope. Despite thi...
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PLAYERS:
Drew Scott,
Ekpe Udoh,
Tweety Carter,
Quincy Acy,
LaceDarius Dunn,
Robert Griffin,
Andrew Luck,
Perry Jones III
TEAMS: Baylor Bears, Stanford Cardinal, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
TEAMS: Baylor Bears, Stanford Cardinal, Notre Dame Fighting Irish
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