Re: Baylor needs to hire some good lawyers (Update: Art Briles fired)
The same thing happened to me when the PSU allegations surfaced. I thought the courts should handle the situation because it was much bigger than a stupid game. If the allegations were true, I hoped the man was imprisoned and put in general population for "justice" to occur. However, there were a few people here who explained that they also wanted the courts to handle the bigger situation, but they also wanted the NCAA to handle the lack of institutional control situation. That made sense to me because I am a firm believer in education and doing things correctly. If the PSU or Baylor situations demonstrated that the universities had lost control of programs that were supposed to represent the universities, then the NCAA should also punish those programs for years to come. Those posters made a good case and won me over. Now, however, so many people like to talk about the wrong people being punished. The programs should be punished. If a person chooses to be a part of that program in the time period when it is being punished, then they would also bear the burden of the punishment for a while. In these two situations, I believe the PSU football program should have been hammered, and it looks like the Baylor football program should also be hammered. The universities of higher learning allowed illegal activities to continue just to protect glory on a field.Careful...I asked the same question when the PSU stuff was happening, and a lot of people here (not all, but a decided majority) thought I was being light on child molestation.
I felt then, and still feel, that PSU's wrongdoings were for the civil and criminal courts to punish in the severest manner possible. But that doesn't make it an NCAA question. Same thing with Baylor and Briles, and whoever else might be found to have covered up criminal acts.
You and I agree. But many here don't, and want to see the bad guys punished however and by whomever possible.
From what's come out in the news, I think Baylor might be financially crippled by civil judgments, and a few individuals might end up in prison. And I would view that as a just outcome. But I don't see it as an NCAA question, and the precedent set by their actions against PSU chilled me.