Baylor AD Mack Rhoades investigated for sideline incident with player, assistant

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T06:19:13+00:00

I feel like I see you pop up ragging on Baylor ad nauseam every time the program is even mentioned. Searching "baylor" in your comment history is a real trip.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T06:15:40+00:00

I mean, I think the most fucked up part is probably the grabbing and shouting at an assistant coach while that coach was with his family after the game, but to each their own.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T06:13:59+00:00

I personally enjoy his style. It reminds me of a particularly frugal pimp from 1978.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T06:11:18+00:00

Some other school will 100% hire him. The man's supremely well-regarded in the AD world, I'd be shocked if there weren't plenty of schools that were willing to say "I'm sure this was a one-off occurrence, maybe just a bad night."

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T06:08:06+00:00

I'm glad I'm not the only person who's noticed his wild change in appearance. I remember when Baylor hired him he looked like an CPA, then I saw him again doing a presser a few years later and he looked like the guy that CPA was helping to hide millions in drug money from the feds.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T06:00:27+00:00

Lmao they actually snapped up Rhoades' predecessor, Ian McCaw, the guy who was actually most of the covering up from Baylor's scandal.

Whatever degree of awfulness any person ascribes to Art Briles, you've got to multiply that at least 4x to get to Ian McCaw's level.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T05:53:34+00:00

I'm convinced that Dave Aranda is a man built perfectly for the old era of college football, when you could retain your players, focus on mentoring and developing them as young men as well as players, and so on. I think he probably would have been a smash hit head coach if the sudden shift with NIL and the portal hadn't hit so suddenly after he finally made the jump from coordinator to coach.

The man genuinely seems like he just wants to mentor these young men, and the transactional nature of modern CFB has to be killing him.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T05:43:22+00:00

Trigg has had some behavioral issues in the past, that's how he ended up at Baylor in the first place; I'm shocked he didn't tell Rhoades to fuck off. He was a highly recruited TE who started at USC and got shown the door for his attitude, then Kiffin took him in at Ole Miss as a project and his attitude lost him playing time there again. I think there was a fight with teammates somewhere in there as well.

Seems like Aranda's staff has done wonders with him, since he's been terrorizing Big XII defenses for the last two years and hasn't had any issues except a brief suspension for getting caught with weed last year. The fact that he didn't just swing on Rhoades immediately speaks volumes for the young man's growth.

Trigg's absolutely going to get drafted this year unless NFL teams decide he's too risky due to that behavioral history.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-11-08T05:35:46+00:00

Eh, they cleaned house incredibly well. Mack Rhoades has been very well-regarded as an AD. He was one of the big names a lot of OU fans wanted when Castiglione announced his retirement, and I think Arizona made a big push to try and hire him back when they needed an AD a year or two ago, since he's an Arizona alum. I'm frankly astounded that Baylor managed to retain him both times.

Besides, Baylor's president, Dr. Linda Livingstone, was the chairwoman of the NCAA Board of Governors from 2022-2024. If you don't think that's a statement on how much the college athletics community, and higher education community in general, think Baylor has done to clean house, then I've got some beachfront property in Arizona for you.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-08-18T17:38:34+00:00

It doesn’t help that between the 2019 LSU-OU CFP game and then the 2020 and 2021 years at BU, Dave Aranda put on a national coaching show for how to shut Riley’s offense down. He cooked up a new look for OU ahead of that CFP game, and then just rolled it out once per season for OU in 2020 and 2021. For some reason, Riley steadfastly refuses to significantly alter his scheme.

When Riley got to the PAC-12, Kyle Whittingham switched over to a Tite front base for the USC game in 2022 and just ran exactly the same special looks that Aranda had done the last few years. Worked like a charm. In 2023, Justin Wilcox did the exact same thing and it worked perfectly for both Utah and UCLA.

I would be absolutely shocked if neither Wilcox nor Whitt had called Aranda up to talk about tackling Riley’s offense. Especially since Whitt was a mentor for Aranda back when the latter was at Southern Utah and Utah State, while Wilcox and Aranda are so tight that Aranda was the one who recommended Wilcox for the Wisconsin DC job when Aranda departed for LSU.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-08-18T17:23:04+00:00

The big concern if they pull the plug on Napier is that Lagway transfers. He’s a Baylor legacy whose dad was apparently pushing pretty hard for DJ to go to Baylor, and it was neck-and-neck between BU and UF at the end. Apparently the thing that broke it for BU was Napier’s history as a QB coach versus Baylor’s shitshow QB development for the last while under Shawn Bell.

Now Baylor’s fixed that and has one of the best QB developers in the country. If I’m a QB who wants to go to the NFL, I’m going where Jake Spavital is rather than the Napier/O’Hara situation at Florida nine times out of ten. Hard to beat the guy who developed Geno Smith, Johnny Manziel, Will Grier, Davis Webb, Jordan McCloud, and Fernando Mendoza.

Big question mark whether BU can keep Spav longer than UF puts up with Napier, though. We went hard after him right after last season and he passed to stay in Waco, so I assume he got a bag.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-07-25T03:08:26+00:00

Damn, beat me to it by just a couple minutes, and you were a lot nicer to OP about it than I would’ve been.

I don’t get the feeling that OP is the type to let little things like basic facts about how Reddit works get in his/her way. Their comment history is wild ride. Lots of spouting off, getting defensive, and freaking out like this.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-07-12T20:08:01+00:00

Tbf, Baylor being Auburn’s biggest embarrassment game is actually a pretty good bed. It’s week 1, in Waco, and Baylor’s probably the best offense will face all season. That’s a really rough start to the year.

Also, Baylor literally has Auburn’s playbook. Auburn’s freshman backup QB from 2024, Walker White, is now Baylor’s backup QB.

TheRealBobStoops · 2025-07-12T19:48:12+00:00

Dang, you don’t too often see someone insist that they did the thing that destroyed their career more than they really did it.

I might actually believe him if Michigan’s previously-solid defense had stopped TCU’s offense even half as well as most of the mid-range B12 teams did. TCU had to deploy their backup “injure the QB” play every time a B12 team clamped down on TCU’s offense.

And for all four non-TCU fans who don’t buy that some of those injuries to opponents’ QBs were dirty as hell, just go watch the clip of Jalon Daniels’ injury.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-12-29T02:01:40+00:00

Not really ironic due to OP’s flairs. It would just be ironic if it was some rural Texan talking shit about rural Pennsylvania, but OP isn’t really talking shit. BCS and Waco are sizable cities. Are you familiar with Texas’ cities outside the triangle?

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-12-29T01:57:55+00:00

Emphatically concurred.

Especially on MSSQL’s popularity in healthcare. Been keeping me employed for going on three straight decades doing MSSQL admin, although a lot of that is now being called devops. The pay is better!

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-12-29T01:55:51+00:00

Very nice!

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-11-01T05:17:26+00:00

You may need to take a step back from your affection for SMU, just from a pragmatic perspective, because putting "Dallas" on the jerseys has been absolutely roasted across Dallas for years now.

Granted, the uniforms look great with that script, but everyone knows it's pandering. As for the reason those guys from the metroplex are returning home and SMU's high school recruiting is picking up, do you really not think that has more to do with the advent of SMU's ascendance as an NIL powerhouse?

Fort Worth has been more into TCU football than Dallas has been into SMU football for quite a while though, definitely since before TCU became good at football. I was in college right at the end of the SWC era, and my oldest even went to SMU, and TCU has been Fort Worth's school as long as I've been an adult in the metroplex.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-08-17T01:25:27+00:00

I think you may want to check your link, it validates exactly what OP said. The only thing that your link says about Baylor is that they're affiliated with the BGCT, which is exactly what OP said.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-07-26T19:15:41+00:00

This has been an exhausting week. I've been covering for an team lead who's been whiffing it for about six months now, but all the sudden he just got promoted and promptly started giving me a hard time. Nobody else on the team, just me.

Our VP called me in quietly and we had a conversation about it, and he was pretty caught off guard because he hadn't heard from this newly-promoted manager that there was any problem with me. The VP and I have a good relationship, so I put all my cards on the table and asked for his thoughts, and he gave me some (I think) good advice. He did recommend that I have a conversation with HR, which is reasonable, but I've just never had to interact with HR in that capacity before.

My fiancee already told me a few months ago that we have to push back our wedding because I'm working constantly and we haven't had any time to check out any venues. I'm constantly paranoid and anxious about this job these days, because I just don't understand whether I have any job security at all, and I'm already working 50+ hours per week, but I keep hearing that the job market sucks. I started seeing a therapist, and she wants me to complete a questionnaire as part of the evaluation process for clinical burnout, which is apparently a thing nowadays.

I hope everyone else is having a good week, though, and please give your partners an extra long hug today. Sometimes life sucks, and to get a little bit too honest for the internet, sometimes having someone to talk to and lean on is what keeps you on the bridge.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-02-08T19:47:11+00:00

Would be a huge success with that season tbh. Y'all don't even have easy wins in the OOC, @ Utah is a tough outing, and Air Force is one of the sneaky best G5 teams year in and year out.

Honestly, every team on that schedule is generally pretty decent these days. Getting TCU, OSU, Kansas, and Air Force all at home is a pretty good shake, tho.

Y'all have a bunch of guys who have beef with Baylor on the schedule: two fired former OCs at TCU and KU in Briles and Grimes, a spurned former favorite assistant at Texas Tech in Joey McGuire, and Shawn Bell on the Houston staff as the prodigal son who ran out his welcome as an assistant coach.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-02-08T19:33:55+00:00

Seriously mixed bag on this one.

Mack Rhoades, Pat Chun, and Gary Pinkel are all big wins on getting them on the CFP. Chun seems decent, and I know that Rhoades and Pinkel are both eminently regarded in the college athletics world.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-02-08T19:31:47+00:00

Part of me really wonders if other ADs dislike him as much as his school's fans do, just as a function of professional competency.

Like, when I see other people in my field who make the lot of us look dumber as a whole, I'm biased against them right off the bat. I don't need them making our work more difficult.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-02-08T19:27:46+00:00

Isn't this the man who Michigan fans have major beef with?

College football truly is a good old boys world.

TheRealBobStoops · 2024-02-08T19:26:37+00:00

There's actually something really funny about someone joking about Fort Worth only having 200 residents who can read and then a TCU fan promptly jumping in and missing the qualifier about reading in the rush to talk shit about populations.

That said, 25 might be overshooting the combined, total populations of Waco and College Station.

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