While people in Houston and along the Texas coast are still dealing with the effects of Hurricane Harvey, Baylor is already working to lend a hand. On Monday, university administrators reached out to every student from an area affected by the hurricane to offer support. You may have seen screenshots of those letters on Twitter […]
In many ways, the key word for Baylor football in 2017 is “new.” A new head coach. New assistant coaches. New offensive and defensive philosophies. New emphases on involvement and service, both on campus and in the community, and on building both good football players and good men. Yet for fans, the gameday experience will […]
Baylor has plenty of special traditions: running the Line, Sing, Christmas on 5th, Homecoming… The list goes on. But one of our best traditions is also one of our newest: sailgating. For the uninitiated, sailgating is exactly what it sounds like: tailgating, on a boat. Part of McLane Stadium’s beauty is that its right on […]
The Baylor athletic department has seen a lot of change in the last year. The new football coaching staff has received the most attention, but more than 20 other athletic staff members — including most of the senior administration — are new to Baylor and/or in new positions entering this fall. That includes, of course, […]
Get ready — tickets for #BaylorHomecoming and #BaylorFamily Weekend events go on sale — online only — at 10 a.m. this Tuesday, Aug. 1. Returning to Waco for Homecoming (Oct. 19-21)? Visit www.baylor.edu/homecoming/buy to get your tickets for the football game against West Virginia, Pigskin Revue and the Class Reunion Gatherings, hosted by the Baylor Alumni Network for those who […]
In 2015, after five years in the NBA, former Baylor men’s basketball star Ekpe Udoh found himself in an unusual place: Turkey. “Hoo, that was brutal,” Udoh told The New York Times in a must-read feature. “I probably didn’t accept it until January, February that I was overseas.” As you can imagine, it wasn’t the […]
With three Big 12 titles and 18 of 19 teams reaching the postseason, Baylor Athletics finished the year ranked 24th nationally in the Learfield Directors’ Cup standings — one spot away from matching the best finish in school history. The Directors Cup annually uses a mathematical formula to annually calculate how each university performs across its entire range of varsity athletic […]
Quincy Jenkins came to Baylor in 2003 from tiny Trinidad, Texas (population 1,091), as a pre-med major. After walking on to the football team under head coach Guy Morriss, Jenkins went on to earn a scholarship and appear in 40 games as a defensive tackle for the Bears — all while earning his degree in biology. […]
In a recent interview with the Chronicle of Higher Education, new Baylor President Linda Livingstone was asked how the university can ever move forward after what happened here. “The university is a different place than it was a few years back,” she replied.”[Now] people have to see concretely that situations, the culture, the behavior has changed. That […]
The Baylor softball team’s historic 2017 season ended Saturday in Oklahoma City at the Women’s College World Series, as the Lady Bears’ made their fourth WCWS trip in the last 11 years. To put that in context, only seven programs have made more Women’s College World Series appearances than Baylor since 2007. (Those seven: powerhouse programs Alabama, Arizona State, […]
