Link: Sexual Assault Trial of Baylor Football Player Raising Some Questions
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Isn't Baylor the school that had one basketball player kill another one and then the coach tried to make the dead kid look like a drug dealer and was taped doing it?
Sounds like a failure of journalism (or simple decency on the part of Baylor University and it alums). Not saying the dude is guilty just because someone accused him, but why on earth would no journalist, not a single one, even ask the question?
Well, I don't keep up with college b-ball. I know it was a lesser known Texas school in 2003 (e.g. not UT or ATM), but I was living in California that year and you'd be amazed at how LITTLE you actually know of news in the rest of the country. It might be different now with social media but take that year - I only saw FIVE of our games (USF, OU, Ark, UGA, and Auburn) - the start time is amazingly different, I had to purchase USF from DirecTV, I only saw 1/2 of the UGA debacle, and just not a lot of news.
Oh - I did see UT that year but primarily because I was in Albuquerque at my sister's house and they were all gone to a party.
Our state was caught up in the California Recall election - I can probably give you dates on everything about that and the Laci Petersen case.
I just recall sometime in the summer a basketball player being found dead, his teammate did it, and the coach of the team was heard on tape trying to paint the dead kid as a druggie, maybe a dealer and an assistant taped it.
Catfish - this might be why I know so little about the whole Mike Price debacle because that was the year I was out there. I mean, I've heard a lot about it since then but I couldn't say a lot of details because out there back then you went to bed and the stories all changed by the time you woke up.
But yeah I'm thinking that's right and they're saying so. Dotson, I think was the killer's name.
(Smart reply: hey, if I remembered, I wouldn't be asking!!)
You would think that some very tough questions are being asked of Baylor administrators within and without the athletic department.
Baylor should thank their lucky stars that nobody much views their current success as anything other than an anomaly.
If this had happened at a traditional power, it would have been on the front page of the NYT sports section several times already, and on the front page above the fold tomorrow AM.
But it's Baylor, so nobody much cares.
Reminds me of the scandal several years ago at UAB, when the football team passed around a 14-year-old girl, and the coaches knew about it.
If that had happened just 63 miles due west, it would have shut the program down. As it was, despite a lengthy expose' in ESPN The Magazine, all it got was a yawn. Because nobody cared then or does now.
If this had happened at a traditional power, it would have been on the front page of the NYT sports section several times already, and on the front page above the fold tomorrow AM.
But it's Baylor, so nobody much cares.
Reminds me of the scandal several years ago at UAB, when the football team passed around a 14-year-old girl, and the coaches knew about it.
If that had happened just 63 miles due west, it would have shut the program down. As it was, despite a lengthy expose' in ESPN The Magazine, all it got was a yawn. Because nobody cared then or does now.
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Is there a reoccurring history with Baptists and this type thing? Curious....
Art Briles comes across to me as a scumbag. Maybe I'm wrong about that but the way he acted when they got left out of the playoffs last year and the way he is handling this situation pretty much confirms it, IMO..
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It doesn't take much to explain all of this - big time football and that = $$$$$. This is very similar to the many fiascoes in Tallahassee with Jameis. It's just look the other way and if it leaks, kill the messenger (or in Jameis' case, make the victim the criminal).
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