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While the school was determining what to do with the results of a long-awaited and unfortunately much-needed investigation into the athletic department's (mis)handling of rape and assault allegations, ESPN added questions that need to be answered.
The network's "Outside the Lines" program documented more previously unreported incidents involving alleged assaults on women committed by football players, including an alleged victim who says she wasn't interviewed by the law firm Pepper Hamilton, which Baylor hired to investigate itself.
Don't look for Baylor to do the right thing and release the report. Its findings won't be flattering to the Baylor athletic department.
According to various media reports, the number of women who have reported to police or school officials that they were raped or otherwise assaulted by Baylor football players since Briles became the head coach in 2008, is in the double digits.
That such allegations can be charted like fumbles and interceptions is in and of itself astonishing.
But there are multiple claims Briles and Baylor president Ken Starr knew of accusations but did not take appropriate measures to discipline the players - some received no reported team or school punishment - or protect other students from potential danger.
That is inexcusable.
Briles is not responsible for the criminal behavior of his players.
It is law enforcement's job to enforce the law.
But the coach is responsible for how the university treats his players - when and for what those players are disciplined, and which players deserve to represent the school on scholarships - on the football field.
Baylor's athletic department is being accused of establishing an atmosphere in which students believed football players could get away with attacking female students.
How sad and disgusting, particularly for a university that proudly waves a religious banner that is supposed to separate it from so many other heathen institutions.
This is not the price a school must pay to win football games.
And ignorance is no excuse when a football program faces this many horrific accusations.
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