{"id":11107,"date":"2013-02-06T15:02:18","date_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=11107"},"modified":"2013-02-06T15:02:18","modified_gmt":"2013-02-06T15:02:18","slug":"the-other-side-of-art-briles-offers-a-look-into-the-personal-side-of-baylors-football-coach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2013\/02\/the-other-side-of-art-briles-offers-a-look-into-the-personal-side-of-baylors-football-coach\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The Other Side of Art Briles&#8217; offers a look into the personal side of Baylor&#8217;s football coach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Baylor head football coach Art Briles will announce <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/13-signing-day.html\" target=\"_blank\">his program&#8217;s 2013 signing class<\/a>, the 20 or so young men who will join the team this fall. The Bears&#8217; group of incoming players is expected to rank among the top 25 in the nation, further evidence of the program&#8217;s continuing rise in prominence.<\/p>\n<p>But the person who stands at that podium today isn&#8217;t just a football coach; he&#8217;s a man, a <em>person<\/em>, someone who has known both tragedy (the loss of his parents while still in college) and joy (the grandchildren who have a uniquely cute nickname for their grandpa). Waco&#8217;s KWTX-TV ran\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/video?autoStart=true&amp;topVideoCatNo=default&amp;clipId=8315155\" target=\"_blank\">this excellent package<\/a> over the weekend that gives a good look at the man behind the clipboard.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kwtx.com\/video?autoStart=true&amp;topVideoCatNo=default&amp;clipId=8315155\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"briles-kwtx-feb13\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/briles-kwtx-feb13.jpg\" alt=\"Art Briles KWTX report video\" width=\"500\" height=\"294\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Coach Briles!<\/p>\n<p><em>[Between 20 and 25 young men will commit to Baylor football&#8217;s future today. Show your commitment to the program&#8217;s future by putting your support in stone with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylor.edu\/stadiumbricks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor Stadium Brick<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, Baylor head football coach Art Briles will announce his program&#8217;s 2013 signing class, the 20 or so young men who will join the team this fall. The Bears&#8217; group of incoming players is expected to rank among the top 25 in the nation, further evidence of the program&#8217;s continuing rise in prominence. But the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,7,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-extraordinary-stories","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}