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Four steps forward

By Bruce Feldman
ESPN The Magazine

Friday, July 31, 2009

This story appears in the August 10 issue of ESPN The Magazine. Every school with a dilapidated football program unveils its new plans the same way: a go-getter coach makes bold predictions at a press conference. Boosters love it. School officials love it. The media love it -- if only to skewer the guy with the big dreams. Didja hear what the new guy said? Art Briles was no different. On November 28, 2007, he had just left the Houston Cougars for perennial doormat Baylor -- winne ...

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