The Temptation of Baylor

The story of former Baylor University football coach Grant Teaff accepting $50,000 in Anheuser-Busch stock in 1972 to build a weight room was retold last week.  He accepted the money saying:  “The devil’s had that money long enough.” The story is a favorite of the retired coach, and he retells it often. This most recent account was during a three-day Baylor symposium examining the intersection of -- and tension between -- faith and sports. With 16,000 students, Baylor is the largest Baptist university in the world. In the last five years, it has become something else, too: a big-time football school.