Not posting this in the Baylor thread because Cecil hits on a broader scale, and knowing TF, it would derail the Baylor thread into a thread on the national scale/topic.
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Baylor University didn't sleepwalk into the blasted landscape in which it finds itself today. The school, which fired its football coach, Art Briles, and semi-deposed its president, Ken Starr, on Thursday didn't wake up after a long nap and rub its eyes only to find everything falling down around its figurative ears.
There were willing decisions right down the line in a case involving years of sexual-assault cover-up (with which the Waco Police appear to have been complicit) and repeated enabling. There was, over and over, a systemic reluctance to challenge an increasingly successful athletics program. The results of a review conducted by the Pepper Hamilton law firm into a growing number of complaints showed that Baylor officials repeatedly gave the benefit of the doubt, and more, to male athletes over their female accusers.