As expected, Baylor’s Board of Regents formally approved a host of new capital projects as part of the next five years of the University’s strategic plan. These projects include, among other things, renovation of resident halls, hiring new faculty, a Materials Laboratory at the BRIC, and the incorporation of a life-size sculpture of a mammoth in front of the Mayborn Museum as a reference to recent discoveries in the Waco area. More importantly (for our purposes here) and in relation to athletics, the Regents also announced approval of the next steps in the design and construction of a new football operations facility and the much-anticipated basketball pavilion (i.