{"id":15811,"date":"2015-01-06T15:15:43","date_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/baylorproud.wpengine.com\/?p=15811"},"modified":"2015-01-06T15:15:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T15:15:43","slug":"reflecting-on-a-historic-four-years-for-baylor-football","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2015\/01\/reflecting-on-a-historic-four-years-for-baylor-football\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflecting on a historic four years for Baylor football"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-15812\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4years-jan15.jpg\" alt=\"Baylor Football 2011-14\" width=\"600\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4years-jan15.jpg 1198w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4years-jan15-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/4years-jan15-1024x512.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Now that we&#8217;ve had a few days to reflect on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baylorbears.com\/sports\/m-footbl\/recaps\/010115aaa.html\" target=\"_blank\">Baylor football&#8217;s Cotton Bowl loss<\/a>, it&#8217;s a little easier to put the game in perspective. After all, a one-point defeat to a top-10 team shouldn&#8217;t\u00a0completely tarnish our memories of the 2014 season &#8212; or all that this year&#8217;s outgoing seniors accomplished in their four years here.<\/p>\n<p>Consider what members of Baylor&#8217;s Class of 2015\u00a0have witnessed here since their first Welcome Week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A four-year record of 40-12, including a\u00a025-1 record at home. (Think about that: An entire class of students will graduate having seen just one home loss in four years. Unbelievable &#8212; but it keeps going.)<\/li>\n<li>The first two 11-win seasons in program history (and three of the Bears&#8217; four 10-win seasons ever).<\/li>\n<li>A Heisman Trophy winner.<\/li>\n<li>Back-to-back Big 12 Conference titles.<\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0program-record 5 straight bowl appearances.<\/li>\n<li>The successful fundraising and construction\u00a0of a new on-campus stadium.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Want more good news? While the\u00a0Bears&#8217; will certainly miss this year&#8217;s seniors &#8212; a group that includes Bryce Petty, Bryce Hager, Antwan Goodley and Levi Norwood &#8212; Baylor is\u00a0set to return an astounding 18 of 22 starters on offense and defense in 2015 as the Bears aim for a third straight\u00a0Big 12 championship.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Baylor football!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Now that we&#8217;ve had a few days to reflect on Baylor football&#8217;s Cotton Bowl loss, it&#8217;s a little easier to put the game in perspective. After all, a one-point defeat to a top-10 team shouldn&#8217;t\u00a0completely tarnish our memories of the 2014 season &#8212; or all that this year&#8217;s outgoing seniors accomplished in their four years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-honors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811","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=15811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15811\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}