The school tried to make Waco sound as if it's right on the cusp of a food renaissance, but it already offers so much for hungry athletes.
Recruiting means telling lies, but really, Baylor? REALLY.
Pappas Restaurants group Spokeswoman Christina Pappas on Monday debunked the claims that the company would be building an eatery in Waco. "We are not building any locations in Waco," Pappas said in an email to the Tribune-Herald.
That came from a poster used on a Baylor recruiting visit that listed several chains as "COMING TO WACO SOON," only two of which were confirmed by the Waco Tribune as actually coming to the area: Potbelly Sandwich Works and Uncle Mario's Brick Oven Pizza. The rest? Pure "speculation," per Baylor associate athletics director Nick Joos, including the listing of In-N-Out, Pappasito's, and Whole Foods.
Since it is recruiting season and lying is technically legal for a few months, we'll let it slide. But why lie about things you don't have, Baylor, and instead focus on important real assets?
Like, say, a real, outstanding stat you have in your favor that matters to young recruits fond of fried chain restaurant food: the all-important Chick-fil-A Per Resident Ratio, or CFAPRR.
Big 12 CFAPRR
- Morgantown, West Virginia: 1/30,293
- Lubbock, Texas: 1/38,957
- Waco: 1/42,232
- Stillwater, Oklahoma: 1/46,048
- Manhattan, Kansas: 1/52,281
- Norman, Oklahoma: 1/56,636
- Lawrence, Kansas: 1/88,727
- Fort Worth, Texas: 1/264,262
- Austin, Texas: 1/273,537
- Ames Iowa: 0/0, does not have Chick-fil-A (No we're not counting the one 27 miles away in Ankeny.)
Baylor's third in the conference in CFAPRR. The Bears can honestly say they can offer the deeply personalized, custom chain food restaurant experience athletes crave, and all without having to go to the closest thing college football has to the Moon (Lubbock) or Mordor (Morgantown) to do it.
That's practically an artisanal fast food experience you've got there, Waco. Eat that, snob-ass Austinites.