153 | Matt Sayman's Journey from Baylor Basketball Scandal to Redemption

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[intro sound] This is Becoming Undone. [tape recorder clicks] I, I just really wanted, I think, to go somewhere that I was wanted, and he told me that I was gonna be one of the pillars of the Baylor basketball program. I mean, what kid doesn't wanna hear that from a coach? And so on the way home from that visit, I, I told my mom that that's-- I wanna go there. And I mean, tears just welling up in her eyes 'cause she, she wanted that, too. And it was a Friday afternoon. I had just come in from playing sand volleyball out at Sterling. And so every day was pretty much in the summer a little bit of class, weights, and some basketball, and then sand volleyball. And it was just a such a sweet time, living the dream. That's what I felt like I was doing. And one of my professors called and said, "Man, what's going on with your team?" And I was like, "Oh, I don't know. Like, what?" [chuckles] I, I played with a lot of knuckleheads, I think is a nice way to put it, over the years. And he said, "No, you, you need to turn on the TV. They're talking about that there are Baylor basketball players missing in a possible homicide, and that Baylor basketball players might be involved." Like, I get why Baylor and our media guys wanted me to do it, because I was the only one that was a four-year guy, and I think the only one that they trusted would say the right things. Because they needed somebody at that moment to be pro-Baylor,