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Baylor needs to take hard look in mirror after latest damning report
But where do you point the finger right now if you’re Baylor?
As the layers of violence continue to be peeled back, it becomes increasingly clear that the coaching staff and school have taken their tolerance of criminal behavior to another level. That next level is enabling, coupled with hiding or obfuscating potentially detrimental information.
The latest in a series of ESPN Outside The Lines reports Wednesday chronicling Baylor football violence named 10 former players who, over the past five years, have been involved or are alleged to be involved in altercations with women or other students. Many of them were involved in multiple altercations or assault allegations. Severe discipline rarely was a consequence for those players, according to the report.
The succession of damning stories about alleged sexual assaults has spurred Baylor to hire an outside law firm to review how the school has handled such claims. That review is ongoing, but the school’s board of regents was given an update on the firm’s findings last week. At the rate of additional revelations, that report may never be finished.
Looking at the totality of it, the conclusion jumps off the page: the dramatic rise of the football program under Art Briles came with significant off-field cost, as problem players ran rampant. Seduced by an improbable ascension to power status, not enough people cared about the collateral damage that came with it.
At this point, Baylor backers weary of assault headlines don’t have anyone left to point a finger at but themselves.
Baylor needs to take hard look in mirror after latest damning report
But where do you point the finger right now if you’re Baylor?
As the layers of violence continue to be peeled back, it becomes increasingly clear that the coaching staff and school have taken their tolerance of criminal behavior to another level. That next level is enabling, coupled with hiding or obfuscating potentially detrimental information.
The latest in a series of ESPN Outside The Lines reports Wednesday chronicling Baylor football violence named 10 former players who, over the past five years, have been involved or are alleged to be involved in altercations with women or other students. Many of them were involved in multiple altercations or assault allegations. Severe discipline rarely was a consequence for those players, according to the report.
The succession of damning stories about alleged sexual assaults has spurred Baylor to hire an outside law firm to review how the school has handled such claims. That review is ongoing, but the school’s board of regents was given an update on the firm’s findings last week. At the rate of additional revelations, that report may never be finished.
Looking at the totality of it, the conclusion jumps off the page: the dramatic rise of the football program under Art Briles came with significant off-field cost, as problem players ran rampant. Seduced by an improbable ascension to power status, not enough people cared about the collateral damage that came with it.
At this point, Baylor backers weary of assault headlines don’t have anyone left to point a finger at but themselves.
