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"This is an honor to be in Texas coaching," Baylor defensive coordinator Phil Snow said at the Texas High School Coaches Association Convention earlier in the week. "I'm hoping Coach (Matt) Rhule has success at Baylor and for this to be my last job."Well, it looks like he got what he wanted.Bringing his third-ranked national defense to Waco was something Baylor's first-year defensive coordinator wanted as soon as he found out that his boss was looking to make a decision between the Baylor Bears in Texas or the Oregon Ducks on the West Coast.He also apparently had a say so in the duo landing at the Big 12 program.“(Rhule) got offered both jobs and he came back and said, ‘Where do you want to go?’" Snow said. "I said, ‘Let’s go to Baylor.’ He said, ‘Why?’ I said, ‘Because we won’t have to get on an airplane to recruit.’”Snow, who stated he had multiple other programs inquiring about the possibilities of joining their program solo, was one of the first calls Rhule made upon receiving the offers from both programs.At 61 years of age and holding onto the possibility that it would be his final stop, not flying around the country made Snow believe the job at Baylor, a program in the middle of one of the most fertile recruiting territories in the country, seemed more than appealing."Oregon has to get on an airplane to recruit every one of their recruits," Snow said. "I said it’s really much easier on a staff and I said we can get good players at Baylor. He said, ‘Yeah, but we don’t know Texas.’ I said, ‘When you coach in the NFL you had players from Texas. Did they care whether you were from New York? What did they care about? That I knew what I was doing.’”Snow also stated that the connection to the administration in Waco played a major role in Rhule picking Baylor over the PAC 12 program.“The people here — he just felt much better about the people that he was involved with here. And people make the difference. You guys know that.”