What Was He Thinking? Dave Aranda Goes Way Out Answering Question on Recruiting

STILLWATER – I have to admit that I couldn’t stop laughing for several minutes after watching Baylor head coach Dave Aranda in an answer about dealing with all the current parameters and influences in college football recruiting from NIL to revenue share, to transfer portal. Aranda, who usually avoids being any kind of controversial copy, used an analogy from the movie, The Wolf of Wall Street. This is a movie that doesn’t draw a lot of public conversation and there are many other scenes that might take you down even more bizarre paths, but Aranda found himself on one at the Texas High School Coaches Association Convention in San Antonio, Texas. 

Watching you can see that Aranda about 10 seconds into his answer was having second thoughts. His face had a weird look, my look for what am I doing. Instead of stopping and saying that he was using a poor analogy, Aranda just kept going. 

This was a press availability at the THSCA convention in which Aranda made a presentation.  Aranda described the scene from the movie where the “one of us” chant takes place, then he continued using a reference for “little people” that is considered politically or socially incorrect while repeatedly referencing the part where the cast throws a little person during an office stunt. Aranda kept going and going.

I’m afraid this is going to linger a little while into fall camp for the Bears head coach.