This Is The Text Matt Rhule Sent His Baylor Players Yesterday Morning

Baylor head coach Matt Rhule took the new Carolina Panthers head coach position on Tuesday. Rhule didn't get to meet with his team to tell them the news before they caught wind of it, so this was the text he sent his Baylor players...

Loading Twitter Embed....

Why did he leave? Per The Athletic...

quote:

---

“I came here with a purpose. I felt like I was called here for much more than just coming to coach football. I felt like I was here to, more important than anything else, get the football program back in line with the university. And I know we’ve done that. And I felt like we did that, really, after the first year. I would’ve been at peace saying ‘Hey, it’s time for me to move on’ after the first year. So there’s a different challenge ahead for me.

“I wasn’t sure when it was supposed to be, I wasn’t sure what I would do. I prayed on it, I thought about it, I talked to people about it. And in the end, I would’ve loved to have been here and coached those kids again. But they’re in good hands. They’ll win and they’ll continue to do things right off the field. I just felt like my work was done and it was time to go try to turn around another program.”

---

(The Spun)