Occasionally a non-NFL story comes across my desk that is far too important not to share. As many of you know, I attended Baylor University in Waco, Texas -- otherwise known as Harvard on the Brazos.
Over the years, we've become a destination spot for Rhodes Scholars, most of whom are now starting on our defensive line.
After a hard-earned 58-10 loss in Kansas on Saturday afternoon, one of our assistant coaches (we'll call him Eric Schnupp) stopped by a bar near campus to reflect on what went wrong in Lawrence.
As 2 a.m. approached at Scruffy Murphy's, a bar that sounds vaguely familiar to me, Schnupp quickly scanned the establishment to make sure the coast was clear before allegedly easing down his pants.
"While we were kicking everybody out, he apparently thought that nobody was looking and whipped it out and (urinated) on the bar," bartender Danny Severe told the Waco Tribune-Herald. "He tried to deny it, but there was definitely a puddle and there was no one else around him."
Was Schnupp framed? Did the officer on site take a sample of the alleged puddle? I want answers.
My pals on the ESPN.com news desk are having way too much fun with the headline "Urine Trouble" on the home page. And you wonder why we've struggled in the Big 12.
The good folks at Bear Meat have secured a photo of Coach Schnupp, and added some helpful graphics. As any Baylor student from early 1990s would know, campus Police Chief Jim Doak would refer to Schnupp as a "loose cannon," a phrase he once used while describing an infamous campus crime.
I was planning to boycott the rest of the season after witnessing an embarrassing loss to TCU, but I'm now considering a crime-scene visit this weekend. In a stroke of luck, the man who broke the story in the Tribune-Herald is a part-time bartender at Scruffy's. Notice how he goes out of the way to explain that someone else was buying Schnupp's drinks. Any conflict of interest there?
Something like this would've never happened under Grant Teaff. The assistant coaches would've been home preparing snacks for Coach Teaff's freshman Sunday School class at Waco's First Baptist Church.
OK, I have to take a Schnupp. Back in a moment.
