{"id":376,"date":"2008-03-21T09:49:32","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:49:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/21\/drew-uses-espn-platform-to-brag-on-baylor\/"},"modified":"2008-03-21T09:49:32","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T14:49:32","slug":"drew-uses-espn-platform-to-brag-on-baylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/drew-uses-espn-platform-to-brag-on-baylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Drew uses ESPN platform to brag on Baylor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/drew-pti-march08.jpg\" alt=\"Scott Drew on PTI\" align=\"right\" \/>Congratulations once more to the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team on the program&#8217;s best season in 20 years. The best part is that, looking ahead, this year shouldn&#8217;t be a fluke, but the beginning of a long stretch of success.<\/p>\n<p>Much of that has to do with the hard work of head coach Scott Drew and his staff. I linked to this in <a href=\"http:\/\/homepages.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/2008\/03\/20\/basketball-success-shines-positive-light-on-baylor\/\" target=\"_blank\">yesterday&#8217;s post<\/a>, but it really deserves to be called out on its own. Drew got five minutes of airtime on ESPN&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/broadband\/video\/videopage?videoId=3302408&amp;categoryId=2957357&amp;n8pe6c=2\" target=\"_blank\">Pardon the Interruption<\/a> this week, and he turned it into a running commentary on why Baylor is great. Not just basketball, mind you, but the University in general. Anyone interested in Baylor should <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/broadband\/video\/videopage?videoId=3302408&amp;categoryId=2957357&amp;n8pe6c=2\" target=\"_blank\">watch this clip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Drew&#8217;s optimism and excitement about Baylor come across so obviously and so genuinely that I can&#8217;t imagine a better representative for the University.<\/p>\n<p>Sic \u2019em, Coach Drew and Baylor basketball!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congratulations once more to the Baylor men&#8217;s basketball team on the program&#8217;s best season in 20 years. The best part is that, looking ahead, this year shouldn&#8217;t be a fluke, but the beginning of a long stretch of success. Much of that has to do with the hard work of head coach Scott Drew and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.baylor.edu\/baylorproud\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}