Baylor’s radio booth is getting a familiar voice back in the fold.
The school announced Monday that Geff Gandy and Bryson Jackson have joined the Baylor Sports Media Network for the 2026 football season, where they’ll work alongside John Morris, the longtime Voice of the Bears. Baylor and Playfly Sports made the announcement as the Bears finalized their broadcast crew for the year.
For Gandy, the move carries real meaning. The former Baylor linebacker said the phone call from Morris made the decision easy.
"When John called and asked if I'd be interested, I said absolutely," Gandy said on The John Morris Show. "It's good to come back home."
That sense of home runs deep. Gandy’s road back to Waco included a short stop with the Indianapolis Colts, but after that ended, he returned to Baylor to finish his degree. While back on campus, he also met his wife, Nancy.
"The Lord knew what was best for Geff Gandy," he said. "I got cut by the Colts, came back to campus, finished school and ended up getting a wife."
Broadcasting wasn’t the first career path he had in mind. Gandy originally thought about coaching, but the nonstop turnover and grind pushed him in another direction. Nancy pointed him toward sports broadcasting, and that advice changed everything.
He started by calling high school football games in Terrell, Texas, then worked his way up to Texas State, where he spent six seasons on Bobcats broadcasts.
"It was broadcasting 101," Gandy said. "Sometimes we'd be sitting in the stands trying to hook up a landline just to get on the air. But that's where it all began."
That Texas State job also brought him back around Baylor from time to time, including a day when he was honored as a Baylor Legend during a game against the Bears. He described the moment as a strange one, given that he had to switch from one school’s gear to another before returning to the booth.
"I was in the Texas State booth wearing a Texas State polo, went downstairs, put on a Baylor polo to be recognized, then came back upstairs to finish calling the game," Gandy said. "That was a weird feeling."
Even then, he said it never felt completely natural to call games against his alma mater.
"It was hard calling games for the opponent of your alma mater," he said. "It just wasn't the same."
Before he ever picked up a headset, Gandy had already carved out a major place in Baylor football history. He played alongside future Pro Football Hall of Famer Mike Singletary and learned under Grant Teaff, Corky Nelson and John Gardner as part of one of the program’s strongest linebacker groups.
His Baylor résumé includes helping the Bears reach the 1979 Peach Bowl, where they beat No. 10 Clemson, and then contributing to the 1980 team that went 8-0 in league play, won the Southwest Conference Championship and advanced to the Cotton Bowl. Gandy also still sits third in Baylor history in single-season tackles with 137 in 1982.
When Singletary left for the NFL, Gandy moved into the middle linebacker spot. He remembers Teaff’s message clearly.
"Coach Teaff told me I was replacing a Baylor legend," Gandy recalled with a laugh. "Mike set the bar pretty low for me."
Looking back, Gandy said the coaching staff shaped far more than his football career.
"I owe everything I became on the field and a lot of what I became off the field to those coaches," Gandy said.
Now he’ll be telling Baylor’s story from the broadcast booth, with his focus shifting from breaking down opponents to calling Bears games every Saturday.
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