Docs: Art Briles, Baylor officials actively involved in covering up player incidents

[joseephuss]

http://www.cbssports.com/college-fo...ely-involved-in-covering-up-player-incidents/

Docs: Art Briles, Baylor officials actively involved in covering up player incidents

Update: The attorney for Liberty athletic director Ian McCaw, formerly of Baylor, has released a statement. In it, McCaw is defended for not having the proper (i.e. any) Title IX policy or procedures in place. It also claims McCaw "was faced with a complex situation wherein he decided to honor the wishes of the alleged victim, who was unwilling to speak to the police according to her coach."

New statement from Ian McCaw's lawyer, provided to reporters by Liberty University spokesperson pic.twitter.com/QQHGinSWWR

— Jake New (@jakenew) February 3, 2017
However, the spokesperson did not comment on the infamous alleged text message issued by McCaw saying it "would be great" if Waco police "kept it quiet" with a player arrested for assault.

Original story

Art Briles dropped his libel suit against Baylor University on Wednesday, but that did not take him out of the spotlight. On Thursday, a response to another lawsuit filed by the school into court includes evidence that Briles and his staff were not only aware of but intervened in the discipline of players during his tenure with the Bears.

Emails and text messages filed as part of the response (the second libel suit was filed by former director of football operations Colin Shillinglaw) reveal that Briles, Shillinglaw, other assistant coaches and even former athletic director Ian McCaw were all tied to a pattern of covering up wrongdoing by arranging cooperation from authorities and legal representation.

Briles' text messages, some of which can be read below, serve as particularly damning evidence to his claim of ignorance. In 2013, there are multiple examples of Shillinglaw texting Briles about a wide range of player legal incidents.

 

[bkeavs]

Yale mens soccer team forfeited season for rating girls from a 1-10 through email and texts but Baylor football keeps on chugging away

 

[joseephuss]

I was wondering why Briles dropped his libel suit on Wednesday. He must have been informed these texts were being released. He won't get another job for a long time if ever.

 

[haleyrules]

Who Cares!!

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Who Cares!!

The victims of these cover ups.
Baylor Fans
Big 12 fans

Imagine there is quite a few who care about this issue.

The only ties I have to Baylor is that my team, WVU, is in the Big 12 now and we have had a pretty decent rivalry in our short time in the Big 12.

I think this whole baylor issue and BYU refusing to make some public statements is why the Big 12 did not expand.

So even if nobody else cares...to answer your question...I do.

 

[Silver Surfer]

No sympathy for Briles, especially if he covered it up. Hope it costs him plenty.

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

For years, the media and even fans, believed in Briles and his long history with Texas HS Football as to why Baylor was able to recruit so well. You have to wonder how much of this behavior was why so many players signed? Not saying that this kind of thing hasn't or doesn't go on in other programs but Briles, he was almost bullet proof for a long time.

This is sad in a whole bunch of ways......

 

[ghst187]

The reality is that Briles and Baylor is exactly like every other big time college football program. Do you really think Alabama is running a choir boy program down there and that every top 20 recruit is dying to go to school in Alabama when schools with beach access are also trying to recruit them? Gimme a break. The NCAA is a bunch of crooks too and the truth will is everyone knows it's going on everywhere but no one wants to admit it and then something massive comes out that requires investigation. Then it's almost funny to see the NCAA start acting righteous. I've always loved college athletics, even played them, but it's a disease ridden corrupt system that now has zero to do with academics, states, and almost the schools themselves.