You know how they put a bible verse on the back those "Rise up" shirts that were $5.... Do you know what that bible story is about?

In our attempt to make Baylor look more Christian and make us all seem like were good people by putting a Bible verse on what is supposed to be our, "Beat the heck out of a&m" shirts, We took a bible verse completely out of context. I also hope that who ever started this "Rise up" motto didn't take it from this verse, yes it makes sense (Rise up; this matter is in your hands. We will support you, so take courage and do it. Ezra 10:4)  But still, I'm pretty sure its still just added so people can say, "Oh isn't that cute, they put a bible verse on the back of these shirts. Baylor is such a good school, oh we all such good people, unlike these heartless aggies screaming their chants with bad words in them..." So if you haven't taken the time yet to go read what context this verse is in, I'll tell you!  Alright, (this will kinda be in a more modern interpretation) so Erza was laying face down in a church crying while praying and confessing (thats the way to do it). And then a whole bunch of people showed up from Israel, and they were weeping bitterly as well.  So Erza was like, "Yo, why all yall crying in junk out here?" then their leader Shecaniah (Son of Jehiel, one of the sons of Elam) said to Ezra, "I think we've made God upset at us..... We've married chicks from other countries and made kids with them and stuff.. So what we need to do is send all these gurls and our kids away.... so um Ezra, Rise up; this whole deal-e-o is in your hands now.. were getting out of hurr. The chicks and the kids are waiting outside. We still go your back yo, you can do it".. So after Erza got this news nothing happened for like a few months, but he got them back together and said this, after he "rose up" that is, "Hey all you people that got foreign wives and added to the guilt of Isreal, you have been unfaithful!! Dawgs, you don't marry foreign girls! Now honor God by separating with your families and send em back where they came from!"... then the crowd responded to this with, "Your right homeboy Erza, Lets do this!" .... so thats the meaning behind rise up. They married wives from a different country, had a family, then divorced them sending them back to their motherland :|

Well after thinking about this story some more, I think the person who coined this phrase might have always known what they were doing....So lets now apply it to our football team shall we? Ok, this is how it when down.

Art Briles was chill'n outside Reliant Stadium while the basketball team was playing Duke in the Elite Eight basketball game weeping that he can not win more than four games of college football, reminiscing about how easy coaching high school football was, and praying that Robert Griffen's new ACL will hold out.  Then, after Baylor's lost against the devils from Duke, 48,000 upset Baylor fans walked out of the stadium with the next football season on their minds and approached Briles weeping, and then representing the angry Baylor crowd, Ken Starr came out of the crowd and approached Briles laying on his face weeping.   Ken said, "Art, I think Baylor nation has been upset at our performance in athletics in the past 20 years... and every other sport is starting to get better except... football. And if you didn't know, thats what you coach...So, I was thinking we do this. This next football season how about you put together about four plays and keep running them over and over again and lets hope they will win us some games, and then we might make a bowl game... Shoot we might even beat Texas!... lol, yeah right.. whose going to beat Texas this year.. anyway. Briles Rise Up gosh dangit and get those football players putting the right shoes on the right foot!! We support you, you can do it.... or send in your resume to Texas Tech..."... So we did end up reaching our goal of making a bowl game, and we sarcastically said we'd beat Texas at the beginning of the year and when we did that I guess there was nothing left for us to do... and then we lost out the rest of the season......

-Drew