Tuesday 30 June 2015

July '15

The diary blog page of Blake and Sean Muir, brothers, former Sutherland Seahawk players and now Baylor Football offensive linemen.

July 30th 2015,

Players report August 5th, first practice is August 6th.

There will be a 'Meet The Bears' day for fans at the end of the first week of practice which has been a tradition that will continue. The first few days of practice is also when official photos are taken.

Get excited!! We're only a week away!!


July 23rd 2015,

you can catch up on the Big 12 Media Day for Baylor here.

Media Day is one of those off season rites of passage for a program that really starts to let everyone know that the new season is coming soon.

There will be a week off next week in the lead up to Fall Camp beginning Aug 5th. That means only 1 month after that till the SMU game. Its coming around very fast.


July 17th 2015,

The 2nd Annual Lift for Life was today. Looks like by the latest figures from this site they've raised just over $8000 for Cerebral Palsy research funds. The Offensive Line led the way!!!! Thank you to those who joined this diary page in donating.







July 16th 2015,

The off season accolades continue for Baylor. The Big 12 Conference released its All Big 12 team and 7 Baylor players made it; the most of any team in the conference. This was voted on by media pundits.

Read the report here from the Baylor Athletics page.




July 12th 2015,

Baylor QB Seth Russell has beaten out some very good college QB's and won the Manning Academy Passing Challenge. Last year Sean Mannion beat Bryce Petty, Marcus Mariota, Jameis Winston and Brett Hundley.



July 11th 2015,

July is the last month without football. Fall camp is just over 3 weeks away and so the preseason magazines and reviews are coming it thick and fast. Here's one from SB Nation. 

The Outland Trophy has 3 representatives from Baylor. Spencer Drango, Andrew Billings and Beau Blackshear. Read about it here on the Baylor Athletics page.



July 8th 2015,

The Lift for Life fundraising event is on again this year. The targeted goal for this year is $10,000 and anyone interested can follow this link to donate. Raising money for the research into Cerebral Palsy has been the focus of this event which is coupled with a lifting challenge day in the Baylor Weight Room.

Full details here.



July 4th 2015,

Blake made the Big 12 Commissioner's Honor Roll again for the Spring semester. The boys will arrive in Dallas for the 4th of July National Holiday in the US.



July 3rd 2015,

Upload of training clips.



July 2nd, 2015

Well the boys are off now and have wrapped up their training at home.


We got some good work done. Blake weighed in today at 322lb which is his heaviest and Sean weighed in at 296lb, also his heaviest.

They both got stronger, bigger and kept their conditioning up so they'll be in as good shape as could be hoped for when Fall camp starts in a month. They will start school again next week and be training with the team leading up to Fall camp. Its Summer in Waco, this is the hottest part of the year so many days will be up in the high 30's and into the 40's.


Some more training clips will get posted later.



July 1st, 2015

This is the last week before the boys head back to Waco. At this stage they are leaving home on Saturday, will arrive in Waco on Saturday night local time, 2nd Summer Session for school begins on Wednesday and there will be training during the week.

Time flies.

We're putting together some clips of some of the better lifts that the boys had while they were training in this block at home. Here is Sean with a PR on the limit for a backsquat double. On Friday we'll put up some more extensive footage of what has been a success period of training.

I'm always finding pics I haven't seen before.



Seems like the Dallas Morning News has a poor gauge on how things have worked on the Baylor football team roster judging by their Summer filler piece. In breaking down Baylor's top 25 players here is the comment on Blake at #19.


C'mon people, how about some accuracy in reporting! Right Guard is the position Blake has spent the LEAST amount of time practicing at. Left Guard, Left Tackle, Right Tackle and a little bit of Center are the positions Blake has practiced at. Left Guard being the position he started at all through the 2014 season and Fall camp; and Spring camp 2015.

If you're going to write something, get it right. 5 minutes of research would have explained this.

Monday 1 June 2015

June '15

The diary blog page of Blake and Sean Muir, brothers, former Sutherland Seahawk players and now Baylor Football offensive linemen.

June 26th, 2015

Bodyweight update.

Blake 321lb, Sean 295lb today. Both the heaviest each has ever been. Pretty much what we were aiming for this training block with a week to go.

Next week Sean will hit some PR's. He PR's his Front squat today ad we'll go for a 350lb clean next Thursday.  Blake will PR his front squat and bench. Tomorrow is running however.



June 24th, 2015

Some pretty good news for Baylor's Athletic Department. Athletic Scholarships are now fully funded by private donations according to this article.


$16.2 million dollars is a heck of a lot of money.

I'm frequently turning up pictures of Blake from last year that I haven't seen before. This one courtesy of USA Today with Spencer Drango next to him. Not sure yet is Blake will repeat his distinctive yellow banded elbow of 2014!




June 22nd, 2015

A nice story in the Waco tribune about a newly finished locker room at the Baylor Athletic department for Baylor's NFL players. Of special note, the funding for thoese sorts of projects is well worth paying attention to.

Today's training had a nice PR for Blake. Probably a bit more in it as well. Sean his a PR front squat last week and I'll have some footage of him hitting a few other things next week.





June 18th, 2015

As you can imagine, this story is picking up steam and broke in Australian news today.



June 17th, 2015

A rumour a few days ago sprung up about Baylor potentially playing a game in Sydney to start the 2016 season. This would be incredible news if true.

Well today Baylor Athletic Director Ian McCaw acknowledged on radio that there have been discussions started about Baylor playing an international game.

Surely there has to be a lot happen before such a game is announced as confirmed but it could be a great opportunity for Baylor to go global and also come hot off the heels of what could be its best season ever in 2015. For Sean it would also be an incredible experience. Play as a Junior in from of a home crowd........ amazing.



June 17th, 2015

The boys don't lift on Wednesdays; instead they run at the track, then back at the gym Thursday and either Friday or Saturday.

Judging by this report, maybe we need to get more information out there to analysts so they don't spend half their paragraph talking about another player when describing Blake.



You'd also hope that winning the Left Guard job last year when everyone was healthy and being #2 in OL grading on the team would count for a little more than 'played well'. I mean, Blake was 0.1 behind All American Spencer Drango last year at the end of the season.



June 12th, 2015

more clips of pics of Blake and Sean lifting this week. Blake hit a 197.5kg Front Squat for a double which was a PR. Sean was doing Jerks from the blocks with 137.5kg for doubles.



June 7th, 2015,

some clips and pics from this week of Blake and Sean lifting.


For an OL, the best time to get in a picture is when someone is trying to get a picture of someone else. In this case, Baylor QB Seth Russell who made one start in 2014 as well as a lot of back up time. Big things are expected of the Baylor offense in 2015 and Russell will lead the way.



June 2nd 2015,

PhilSteele.com has released its preseason All-Conference teams for 2015, Blake was selected to the 2nd team and joins numerous team mates. Baylor has the most 1st and 2nd team all conference mentions.