OT: Baylor Scandal(s)

pray10 · August 10, 2016, 4:14pm

RJCougar · August 10, 2016, 9:52pm

Yeah, Jerry Jones is such as great judge of character, and talent evaluator… NOT!

commishbob44 · August 13, 2016, 1:31am

I wonder if leaving your team before a bowl game is considered ‘righteous’? To say nothing of what he’s responsible for in Waco. Quite a Christian

pray10 · August 13, 2016, 6:33am

Jenny Dial Creech brings the Baylor victims’ stories to Jerome
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“I hope that some of these victims can find some peace from being able to share their story and know that people care,” Creech said. "That’s the saddest part about this is they went through these things, they went to people for help and then they felt like no one cared about them.

"This has faces to it. This isn’t a bunch of words on a legal document that a law (firm) put out. These are real women.

“It’s not about football. It’s about an entire institution being as unChristian-like as they could have possibly been in these situations.”

pray10 · August 14, 2016, 5:47am

It amazes me that Baylor folks continue to defend their University and don’t call for more transparency. These articles are going to continue and the press is going to continue to be bad.

Baylor sexual assault victims met with skepticism, little assistance from university
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The Chronicle reviewed 12 cases dating to 2004 in which sexual assault victims at Baylor University said they came forward only to be met with ambivalence or skepticism by the school. Eight of the women filed lawsuits describing how Baylor constituencies - from campus police to the university health center to a dorm chaplain - struggled to provide timely counseling, didn’t push for charges or additional protections for the victims, and failed to offer support to manage day-to-day college life.

pray10 · August 14, 2016, 7:39am

Full disclosure needed from Art Briles
In order to entrust young men’s development to ex-coach,more must be known about his role in scandal at Baylor
Jerome Solomon
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Briles can’t really believe he could be a college football coach next season. I can’t imagine an athletic director, let alone a college president, would be willing to take on that heat.

pray10 · August 20, 2016, 6:29am

Starr resigns as Baylor law professor, severs school ties
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/c7fb8a294de24368b9872ec00d669c5e/starr-resigns-baylor-law-professor-severs-school-ties?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

Baylor, the nation’s largest Baptist university, said in a joint statement issued with Starr that he “will be leaving his faculty status and tenure” with the law school in a separation that was mutually agreed upon. It was Starr’s final remaining Baylor positon.

pray10 · August 20, 2016, 6:40am

https://twitter.com/Jake_Trotter/status/766713532809220097

https://twitter.com/JonSolomonCBS/status/766725857817694209

pray10 · August 24, 2016, 7:25am

https://twitter.com/MWatkinsTrib/status/768194639731961856

pray10 · August 30, 2016, 3:24am

Negotiating Title IX’s sharp twists, turns while steering Baylor into a new century: Q&A with former BU President Ken Starr

In this expanded online version of Sunday’s published Q&A, Starr praises the Baylor regents for their actions to address victims of sexual assault but vigorously defends his own efforts and those of both the Baylor administration and the student body to forge Title IX policies regarding sexual violence and campus safety; questions whether universities and colleges can adequately judge cases of sexual assault when they lack the powers and procedures of real courts; and notes concerns by federal courts, college officials and Congress regarding overlooked due-process issues.

pray10 · August 31, 2016, 6:59am

https://twitter.com/max_olson/status/770733537892806656

pray10 · September 8, 2016, 7:20am

Well, the Art Briles redemption tour started today:

Ex-Baylor coach Art Briles vows to be better going forward

At the exact same time, this article was released in Waco (hmm…interesting timing):

Sources question whether BU sexual assault investigation was flawed

Baylor and Pepper Hamilton, the independent law firm the university hired to investigate the sexual assault scandal that engulfed the school’s football program, fumbled, according to university insiders and secret recordings of meetings with athletic staffers obtained by KWTX, which suggest that the firm’s investigators came to Waco with an agenda to purge members of the football program and had a racial undertone in their line of questioning.

Reactions by media folks (with Tom Penders thrown in):

https://twitter.com/Andy_Staples/status/773657388133986304
https://twitter.com/Andy_Staples/status/773657593780641792
https://twitter.com/slmandel/status/773660879812341760
https://twitter.com/slmandel/status/773663887153508353
https://twitter.com/KENS5/status/773664695211421696
https://twitter.com/TomPenders/status/773665274134269952
https://twitter.com/Andy_Staples/status/773665739500814336

My reaction, I agree with Mandel. One thing about the article questioning the Pepper Hamilton investigation is that they used Briles’ former lawyer as a neutral source. Throw in that there are multiple people at Baylor that aren’t happy that Briles took the fall, using 9 anonymous sources doesn’t mean much. Lastly, this was a timed release to coincide with ESPN’s release of Briles’ apology…Basic PR move.

I wouldn’t trust this, I don’t trust this, and I don’t trust Briles or Baylor.

pray10 · September 10, 2016, 9:53am

pray10 · September 10, 2016, 10:11am

Baylor benefactor calls for patience, understanding, more information

“I have not been privileged on the (Pepper Hamilton review) in knowing really what they say the issues are. I just know Art in the times I have dealt with him. High integrity, Christian values that he expressed to me and I heard that constantly at the University of Houston. Boy, they were brokenhearted when he left to come to Baylor.”

“I didn’t have the knowledge the board had so I can’t speak on the issue of Pepper Hamilton, but I just think the entire story needs to be unfolded in what the real issues are. The victims, the young ladies, but there are others at Baylor that this has been very difficult for.”

pray10 · September 11, 2016, 5:23am

pray10 · September 17, 2016, 7:11am

Accused players not interviewed during lengthy BU investigation

KWTX contacted all of the players the investigators identified during the interviews and each of them said he was never contacted during the law firm’s review.

One player said he didn’t even know he’d been accused of an assault.

Another said he wasn’t interviewed, and added that “The name Pepper Hamilton didn’t ring a bell.”

Nor did investigators identify either of the only two players ever convicted of rape during Briles’ seven-year tenure.

pray10 · September 22, 2016, 4:35am

Baylor’s going to fight this all they can, but we may actually hear what’s really in the Pepper Hamilton report.

Attorney for ex-Baylor student says he’ll request Pepper Hamilton docs

A federal judge ruled Wednesday that attorneys for a woman suing Baylor University can start interviewing sources and requesting documents pertaining to the school’s mishandling of sexual assault complaints, including records relating to the school’s own review of its Title IX compliance.

pray10 · September 25, 2016, 5:25am

Ken Starr at Texas Tribune Festival today (Scroll down to Saturday, it’s the 2nd on the right side):

Jon Solomon tweeted out some quotes from Starr’s session. Starr still trying to deny that Baylor had issues:

The fact that Ken Starr says that Baylor was “ahead of the curve” regarding Title IX yet didn’t hire a Title IX coordinator until November 2014 basically invalidates any arguments that he has. Starr honestly should shutup, go find a hole, and go away. Just making it worse for himself and Baylor at this point.

pray10 · October 1, 2016, 10:21am

How stupid do you have to be to do this as an assistant coach.

Brenda Tracy: Players were engaged, but assistant questioned her presence at Baylor

Tracy said the assistant coach grabbed her and ushered her into an office as soon as she started to leave the room. She said she was accompanied by Baylor Title IX coordinator Patty Crawford. Tracy did not name the coach in her Huffington Post blog.

“One of the first things he says is he didn’t understand why I was there,” she told OTL. “He said this wasn’t a football issue. This was an issue on the rest of the campus. And he just went on and on that [former head coach] Art Briles did absolutely nothing and this was all unfounded and nothing happened and they were being treated unfairly and there was some conspiracy going on against Baylor football.”

pray10 · October 4, 2016, 8:16am

Two more women join Title IX lawsuit against Baylor, say school ignored rape claims

Waco attorney Jim Dunnam filed the lawsuit June 15 naming Jane Doe 1, Jane Doe 2 and Jane Doe 3 as plaintiffs. Thirteen days later, three more Jane Does were added.

Jane Doe 7 and Jane Doe 8 on Monday claimed Baylor failed to adequately investigate their cases.