Buddy Jones wakes up almost every morning singing ”AmazingGrace.” He can’t help himself.Jones, the board chairman of the Baylor University regents, isin constant awe of all the great things his school is experiencingthese days.Only a few months after quarterback Robert Griffin III becameBaylor’s first Heisman Trophy winner, the men’s basketball team isin the NCAA round of 16 for the second time in three years. So arecoach Kim Mulkey’s top-ranked Lady Bears, undefeated and four winsfrom a national championship that would make them the first 40-winteam in the history of NCAA Division I basketball.”Baptists talk a lot about redemption and Baylor University wasredeemed two summers in a row, from what looked to me to be asurefire, at least near-death experience, maybe death completely,”Jones said. ”Because of hard work, and good fortune and the waythings worked out, we were given a stay of execution and wehopefully have begun making the most of it.”If that sounds like overstating things, consider the facts.Jones and other Baylor officials spent much of their last twosummers lobbying just to make sure the Big 12’s smallest and onlyprivate university didn’t find itself without a spot in a majorathletic conference – a situation that would have been devastatingnot just… Read full this story
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