In our season preview, Jason Chilton and I predicted that Baylor would start the season 6-0, soar up the rankings, raise expectations to the sky, have pundits opine that they'd never missed a beat...and then lose at least four games down the stretch while fracturing completely.
I got a couple of interesting emails from Baylor fans who read the preview (or, in fairness, had it read to them), but our logic was pretty straightforward. It wasn't just wishful thinking.
Waco is a poisonous environment with a figurehead head coach trading his good name for a quick payoff "leading" a program trying to sustain from the toxic vapors left over from Art Briles' brilliant, morally bankrupt program.