Scott Drew

that lost Tunde Yesavu to St. John's, that lost Cam Carr to the NBA drafts, and could be better, significantly better in 26-27.

When I was in Waco during the preseason, Scott Drew, Jerome Tang, the Baylor staff were confident that they had Baylor-level guards.

Caden Mingo, Brett Decker from Liberty, Dylan Mingo.

And how about Isaac Williams? Maybe as underrated a glue guy as there is in the sport.

Incrementally spent more money, had a bigger budget in the last three years, and they have nothing to show for it.

Now, if he gave, I don't know, $3 million to Scott Drew, could that turn the needle for Baylor basketball? Potentially.

I mean, a $3 million player goes a long way in college basketball.

And I just think you can find depth and coach up depth for a good deal in football.

But Caden Mingo has been incredible.

And I think, um, that in a drew in a Scott drew offense, that might be a little real.

And so I'm, I, I am on the verge of maybe changing my, I think I had them like Baylor, like 10th, ninth, 10th, somewhere in my, in my big 12 pre, which is pretty much like consensus.

I want to say for most of the preseason, you know, polls and stuff you'll see.

Yeah, I wrote top 25 when I watched Baylor.

It does feel like they're a top 25 team.

It's nice to see Scott Drew kind of get a little bit of juice because we were talking in the offseason, like what is Baylor at this point in time? You know, the 2021 championship does feel a lot farther away than it truly is.

And it's nice to see them be and look competitive.

John Calipari, we met when we were 19 at a basketball camp.

You know, Bill Self, Scott Drew, Brent Musburger, Bob Knight, Dean Smith.

There's probably some BYU guys in here.

My days in the Mountain West with Coach Cleveland and Coach Rose.

And there's a lot of Big 12 stuff in there.

My love affair with the Big 12 goes back 23 years.

Me, Bill Self, Scott Drew, we came in together.

I don't know if we're going to go out together, but don'tmesswithhappy.com is how you can get the book.

God made all of us different.

What we have to do is figure out what makes each other tick and then... make room for each other really good teams for example the national championship team at baylor those players would account for scott's personality people probably told scott for years you're not mean enough and he didn't change and then he found a group of players that said okay he's not that we're gonna do it for him and we're gonna hold each other accountable and we're gonna be a player-led team and when you give scott drew a player-led team he gonna win a lot of games Does that make sense? It does.

The players need to account for the coach's culture.

I never thought of

You know what it used to be.

Isn't it funny now? I did a golf tournament like this with Scott Drew, and you're always in that mindset.

You've all done a ton of these golf tournaments, and you're like – OK, we're raising money for breast cancer awareness.

We're OK. We're you know, you're always in that mindset of, man, let's give back to the community.

You bring back Isaac Williams, a double-figure scorer from a year ago, as well as Caden Powell, who averaged about seven.

I really like the transfers that Scott Drew brought in.

He didn't necessarily bring in these high kind of power conference guys.

He brought guys who shined at mid-majors, who made tournament runs and played well.

That, that one was a little more under the radar, but they, they took them, uh, handled them pretty easily as well.

I think from the beginning of the year, I think Scott Drew made it a major point of emphasis to get better in the backcourt.

And that started with bringing the Mingo brothers.

It started with really targeting Brett Decker and the transfer portal, and then locking up Isaac Williams.

He announced this on X that he's in a two-year deal.

So So they feel like they have the backcourt solidified with those four guys.

And, you know, that was the formula that Scott Drew used for a national championship team in 2021.

And so that's, you know, they're trying to get back to that.