Baylor needs to hire some good lawyers (Update: Briles Fired, AD and Starr Resigns)

[B1GTide]

Reports: Baylor board to vote on bringing back Art Briles after one-year suspension. :conf2::eek2:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...te-on-bringing-back-art-briles-133358293.html

Well, this is how they got here so no surprise that they don't really care about change. Anything to win football games. They are not even pretending to care about anything else.

 

[Catfish]

Reports: Baylor board to vote on bringing back Art Briles after one-year suspension. :conf2::eek2:

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/ncaaf...te-on-bringing-back-art-briles-133358293.html

If there aren’t a sufficient number of votes to bring back Briles, a settlement between “$15 million and $25 million” could be on the table for the coach, the report said.

Wow! That's a pretty sporty parting gift for a coach who was supposedly fired for cause.

 

[Elefantman]

One year of sensitivity training will fix everything. Nothing to see here, move on.

 

[crimsonaudio]

To even consider this shows that winning is more important than anything else. Disgusting.

 

[selmaborntidefan]

Might be true but then again - it IS Chip "Nick Saban Is Coming To Texas" Brown so......

 

[CB4]

To even consider this shows that winning is more important than anything else. Disgusting.

You've got that right. Bringing back Briles would basically be saying to all of college football "Yep. You're right. We just don't get it....."

 

[TideEngineer08]

The appalling thing about all of these cases, Penn State, FSU, Baylor, is that it is so easy to do the right thing. They were all worried about protecting the program. Well, do the right thing. When your players are running amok, or the coaches as it was with PSU, do the right thing. Get rid of the those that would do harm to others. In that way, you are protecting the program. Negative PR? My God, what's worse: we have players raping girls on campus and we have alerted the authorities and these players are no longer with our program, or we have players raping girls on campus, let's cover this up and allow these guys to keep playing even though it's going to get out and our program is going to be destroyed.

Seems so damn simple to me. Do good. Make sure those you are responsible for do good. If they don't, follow proper protocol to get things back to "doing good."

 

[KentuckianaBFan]

Might be true but then again - it IS Chip "Nick Saban Is Coming To Texas" Brown so......

Hopefully this is the explanation...

 

[colbysullivan]

If this is true, I weep for humanity.

 

[RTR91]

[h=1]Baylor prez acknowledges booster calls to bring back coach Art Briles[/h]

Baylor interim president David Garland acknowledged Monday that a movement to bring back Art Briles as football coach in 2017 has gained momentum among a few key donors, though he indicated that nothing is imminent.

"A lot of fans love what the coach did on the football field, and you can understand that," Garland told WFAA-TV in Dallas. "But other factors have to be taken into consideration."

 

[AlexanderFan]

I would scream,"no comment" and set myself on fire to keep from having to acknowledge, much less answer, that question. Just wow


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[colbysullivan]

I...still can't....I mean....seriously!?!?

This is disgusting!

 

[RTR91]

[h=1]BU regents discuss Briles’ future; no announcements made[/h]

Baylor regents talked Monday night whether to bring suspended head football coach Art Briles back for the 2017 season, sources close to the situation confirmed.

A preliminary vote on the matter was very close, sources said.

Some major university supporters are pushing for Briles’ return.

No further details were immediately available.

Former Board of Regents Chairman Dary Stone said in a phone interview Monday afternoon that he didn’t know anything about a vote and said he doubts one will be taken, but he said if the board decides it’s in the best interest of the university to bring Briles back, he would be happy about that decision.

"I would hope that Baylor Nation would trust and respect what that group of men and women are doing in their deliberations they are the only group that has all of the facts and has the ability to debate every nuance of those very complicated issues,” he said.

"I love and respect Coach Briles and I love and respect that board and I have confidence they would make the right decision if that is something they are considering," he said.

 

[bamamc1]

[h=1]BU regents discuss Briles’ future; no announcements made[/h]

Would this not bring Title IX implications? Of course, at this point, Baylor and it's donors seem not to care. It makes parents of female coeds feel really confident that their daughters will be taken care of while there.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

Would this not bring Title IX implications? Of course, at this point, Baylor and it's donors seem not to care. It makes parents of female coeds feel really confident that their daughters will be taken care of while there.

Being a private Baptist university I am not sure how much federal aid they actually take.

 

[Padreruf]

Being a private Baptist university I am not sure how much federal aid they actually take.

They do...but through the students, not directly. A shell game played by all religiously affiliated schools to avoid the appearance of evil...or something like that.

 

[4Q Basket Case]

If they restore Briles after a one-year suspension (and I think it's trending that way), they will regret it on several fronts.

 

[Snuffy Smith]

They do...but through the students, not directly. A shell game played by all religiously affiliated schools to avoid the appearance of evil...or something like that.

Yeah I did see that they have 640ish students with federal grants and aid totaling $2.5mil. Not small potatoes but not shaking in their boots over Title IX either...

Regardless, they just need to man up, do the right thing & forget this silly notion of bringing Briles back.

Wonder if they have considered hiring Mike Singletary?

 

[DzynKingRTR]

If they restore Briles after a one-year suspension (and I think it's trending that way), they will regret it on several fronts.

agreed, this sounds like a PR nightmare and a lawsuit waiting to happen.

 

[colbysullivan]

agreed, this sounds like a PR nightmare and a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Hasn't it already happened?