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    Baylor sold its soul to the devil for gridiron glory

    You spend enough years being beaten down in the Texas bloodsport of college football and it can warp your worldview.

    Baylor was a historic nobody, trod upon by the powers in the state and region. It was the butt of jokes. It had no bragging rights. The Bears once went 50 years between Southwest Conference championships, from 1924-74, and had 14 straight losing seasons from 1996-2009. Alums took their rhetorical lumps and had their egos bruised at social gatherings, in the office, on message boards, and most every autumn Saturday.

    When you have been down that long and fortunes suddenly change, as they did for Baylor in 2010, the winning feels so good that you never want it to stop and you sure don't want to question how it's happening. The giddy sensation that accompanies 10-win seasons and a Heisman Trophy and the chance to finally whip Texas and Oklahoma – that's a powerful drug.

    Baylor got hooked on winning.

    It stopped caring about the corrosive side effects of recruiting many questionable characters who could ball out on fall Saturdays. It averted its gaze from violent players who raped women, who beat women, who beat other students. It failed to take significant action against those players – sometimes with the help of the local police. It allowed a criminal subculture to exist within a part of its football program. It left their victims feeling helpless and used, collateral damage in the quest for gridiron glory.

    Until now. Until Thursday, May 26, 2016. A sad day for Baylor football, but a good day for Baylor University.

    The school finally kicked the winning drug long enough to look at the appalling damage done by some members of its football program and do something about it.

    Baylor's board of regents suspended coach Art Briles "with intent to terminate according to contractual procedures," according to the school's strongly worded and condemnatory release issued Thursday. In other words, they'll negotiate a settlement, and the most successful coach in school history will be history.

    The fallout didn't stop there, though. In something straight out of Sophocles' imagination, Ken Starr was removed as school president – the same man who once sought to impeach a U.S. president for moral failings was demoted for presiding over a school that didn't seem to care too terribly much about female students being raped by football players.

    Athletic director Ian McCaw was "sanctioned and placed on probation," the release said, a fate that might be too kind. "Additional members of the Administration and Athletics program have also been dismissed. Neither these individuals nor the disciplinary actions will be identified publicly," according to the school.

    This is a drastic action. It also is a completely necessary action.

    The release from the school, which comes after the Pepper Hamilton law firm's review of the school's manifold failings, is appropriately filled with the language of remorse and disgust.

    "We were horrified by the extent of these acts of sexual violence on our campus. This investigation revealed the University's mishandling of reports in what should have been a supportive, responsive and caring environment for students," said Richard Willis, chair of the Baylor Board of Regents. "The depth to which these acts occurred shocked and outraged us. Our students and their families deserve more, and we have committed our full attention to improving our processes, establishing accountability and ensuring appropriate actions are taken to support former, current and future students."

    This directly from the law firm's report:

    "Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community. Pepper also found examples of actions by University administrators that directly discouraged complainants from reporting or participating in student conduct processes, or that contributed to or accommodated a hostile environment. In one instance, those actions constituted retaliation against a complainant for reporting sexual assault. In addition to broader University failings, Pepper found specific failings within both the football program and Athletics Department leadership, including a failure to identify and respond to a pattern of sexual violence by a football player, to take action in response to reports of asexual assault by multiple football players, and to take action in response to a report of dating violence. Pepper's findings also reflect significant concerns about the tone and culture within Baylor's football program as it relates to accountability for all forms of athlete misconduct."

    Briles' 50 wins in the past five seasons, his spectacular offenses, his unvarnished Texas charm – none of them matter enough to overcome what was laid out by Pepper Hamilton. It helped him camouflage the garbage that was unfolding off the field, helped seduce the school and the fans into not wanting to know what machinations were occurring behind the curtain. But in the end, when the victims' stories kept coming out, even the coach who lifted up a downtrodden program in a state that loves football too much had to go.
    It should all be enough to make Baylor alums ashamed and angry, but even that might not be sufficient emotional outrage. Because when you consider what Baylor had been through just more than a decade ago, this entire chapter is doubly sickening.

    Bears basketball player Patrick Dennehy was murdered by his teammate, Carlton Dotson, in June 2003. Part of the fallout from that horrific event was a cover-up of NCAA violations by head coach Dave Bliss, which included slandering his deceased player to investigators. Until the Sandusky scandal broke at Penn State, the Baylor basketball case stood alone and unquestioned as the most unseemly episode in college sports history.

    Among the sanctions from that black period was the full suspension of Baylor basketball for the non-conference portion of the 2005-06 season. That was a huge NCAA penalty, and the stain upon the school was deep.

    But apparently not deep enough to prevent another appalling scandal not too many years later.

    It is an astounding religious hypocrisy for a school that proudly flaunts its Baptist underpinnings to have not one but two of the worst athletic scandals of the 21st century unfold on its campus. For all Baylor wants to stand for, it appears utterly fraudulent.

    Maybe now, with the impending dismissal of Art Briles and the demotion of Ken Starr, the school can begin mending its tattered dignity.
    Baylor University left a trail of raped and beaten victims feeling helpless and used, collateral damage in the school's quest to win football games.
    Man they have a nice stadium

  • #2
    Originally posted by mstng86 View Post
    Man they have a nice stadium
    If you think the stadium is nice, you should see the new Athlete Nutrition Center.
    Originally posted by BradM
    But, just like condoms and women's rights, I don't believe in them.
    Originally posted by Leah
    In other news: Brent's meat melts in your mouth.

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    • #3
      Well, good. GO FROGS!

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      • #4
        Wonder if they will back to bring a crappy football school.

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        • #5
          So for Baylor to succeed on the football field was to recruit hood rats?
          Originally posted by Silverback
          Look all you want, she can't find anyone else who treats her as bad as I do, and I keep her self esteem so low, she wouldn't think twice about going anywhere else.

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Rick Modena View Post
            So for Baylor to succeed on the football field was to recruit hood rats?
            There's a lot of hood rats that are good ball players. It's allowing said hood rattery to continue unabated and, then, covered up.
            Originally posted by PGreenCobra
            I can't get over the fact that you get to go live the rest of your life, knowing that someone made a Halloween costume out of you. LMAO!!
            Originally posted by Trip McNeely
            Originally posted by dsrtuckteezy
            dont downshift!!
            Go do a whooly in front of a Peterbilt.

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            • #7
              I have never understood why a school gets blamed for having students that commit crimes. Isn't dealing with crimes the responsibility of local law enforcement and the county criminal courts? Every time I hear a story about campus rapes the story is slanted to make it sound like there is a separate legal system that only exist on a college or high school campus that has the rapist being sent to the office and the office deciding not to punish the rapist. Am I missing something?
              Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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              • #8
                At orientation they tell students to take any and all reporting of crimes to campus police, not the city police or others. Then they take those reports and victims and sweep them under the rug. Pretty simple. So yes this is on Baylor, not just the hood rat student athletes.
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by lowfast View Post
                  At orientation they tell students to take any and all reporting of crimes to campus police, not the city police or others. Then they take those reports and victims and sweep them under the rug. Pretty simple. So yes this is on Baylor, not just the hood rat student athletes.
                  To add to this, (and I can't say Baylor is one of these) - when you dial 911 or whatever the campus emergency number maybe - all it does is go to campus dispatch as well. This is the case for many colleges.
                  Originally posted by MR EDD
                  U defend him who use's racial slurs like hes drinking water.

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                  • #10
                    I believe Baylors "911" works the same way.
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                    • #11
                      Originally posted by lowfast View Post
                      At orientation they tell students to take any and all reporting of crimes to campus police, not the city police or others. Then they take those reports and victims and sweep them under the rug. Pretty simple. So yes this is on Baylor, not just the hood rat student athletes.
                      I still do not get it. Campus police are still sworn officers and correct me if I am wrong but they have state wide jurisdiction unlike the city officers. If the police are not referring the charges to the county for prosecution that is a problem with the police and not with the administrators who run the college.
                      Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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                      • #12
                        It is when the administration knows about these issues and chooses to cover them up. Not sure how this is all so hard for you to believe. It appears even the Waco media and city police may have a hand in ignoring these issues in order to keep Baylor protected. Allot of seedy crap going on down in good old Waco.
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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by lowfast View Post
                          It is when the administration knows about these issues and chooses to cover them up. Not sure how this is all so hard for you to believe. It appears even the Waco media and city police may have a hand in ignoring these issues in order to keep Baylor protected. Allot of seedy crap going on down in good old Waco.
                          Could the city manager of your town keep you from being prosecuted for a rape or any felony? I bet that the answer to that question in a big fat "NO" so why can a college administrator stop the police from arresting someone?
                          Magnus, I am your father. You need to ask your mother about a man named Calvin Klein.

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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by svo855 View Post
                            Could the city manager of your town keep you from being prosecuted for a rape or any felony? I bet that the answer to that question in a big fat "NO" so why can a college administrator stop the police from arresting someone?
                            I dont see why this is a hard concept for you.

                            Campus police are employed by the university, and if the university tells their employees how to do thier jobs, it's back to fault on the university.
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                            • #15
                              Could a CEO actively cover-up criminal activities of his employees or organization? Never, no, that can't happen. How is Baylor any different?

                              Baylor is Waco's gravy train, and a winning football team even more so. Given that Waco is most likely at least as corrupt as any other medium sized city none of this surprises me and it would not surprise me if the cover up of these crimes extends beyond the University itself.

                              Why have the local papers been silent on these accusations which have been going on now for well over a year? No big front headlines. In fact, really not much of anything was being said, and certainly not done, until the most recent OTL story broke.
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