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OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
Is there a head coach in CFB more unlikable than Art Briles? Maybe Jim Harbaugh, but I'm biased. Oh, I forgot about Bert for a second.
Baylor was a perennial loser, but Briles has had them in contention for the CFBP the last few years - evidently, in part, by protecting sex offenders and his football program at the expense of women on the campus. You ain't much of a man if that is the choice you are making. Football is a big deal - to me and to a lot of other people - but it's not THAT big of a deal.
Remarkably, if Briles is the dirtbag he appears to be, he still has not reached Dave Bliss status. Something is really wrong in Waco.
Baylor was a perennial loser, but Briles has had them in contention for the CFBP the last few years - evidently, in part, by protecting sex offenders and his football program at the expense of women on the campus. You ain't much of a man if that is the choice you are making. Football is a big deal - to me and to a lot of other people - but it's not THAT big of a deal.
Remarkably, if Briles is the dirtbag he appears to be, he still has not reached Dave Bliss status. Something is really wrong in Waco.
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Jimbo Fisher would be in the running, but Briles seems to have made Fisher's protection of Skrong look like child's play
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FootballScoop Staff @FootballScoop
.@ChipBrownHD is reporting Baylor has now fired University President Kenneth Starr
.@ChipBrownHD is reporting Baylor has now fired University President Kenneth Starr
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OSUK
Sometimes lucid, mostly confused
Reading the comments on the Baylor forum link posted a few pages back prompted a couple thoughts:
1) Sounds like us a few years ago (but sexual assault and tattoos are on two different levels) and sounds like fans of every program when a scandal hits.
2) I do agree that we should always be wary of how the media presents sports scandals, especially ESPN's OTL sensationalism. They descended on Cbus a few years ago, and you would have thought OSU was corrupt entirely and should be burned to the ground. When it all died down, the amount of media smoke misrepresented how big the fire really was. Reporters don't make the air or print with stories like, "Not That Big of a Scandal After All" or "Let's Wait for the Full Set of Facts and a Fuller Context Before We Jump to Conclusions."
3) If Baylor doesn't have an integrity problem, it has a PR problem. In light of the Dave Bliss thing, and the fact that they are a Southern Baptist school, which implies certain standards that state schools aren't burdened with, they need to make decisions about the character of players they recruit, how they discipline, and how their actions look to the non-Baylor community to rebuild and improve their image. Think about it - it's really not that hard to come across as anti-rape/pro-rape victim. Whether Starr, Briles, et.al. should be fired is TBD, but whoever the PR people are at Baylor should be cleared out immediately. Get as much of the truth out as you can, as quickly as you can, along with the steps you are taking to address the problem, and you shorten the scandal considerably. Or you can do what Baylor has done here.
1) Sounds like us a few years ago (but sexual assault and tattoos are on two different levels) and sounds like fans of every program when a scandal hits.
2) I do agree that we should always be wary of how the media presents sports scandals, especially ESPN's OTL sensationalism. They descended on Cbus a few years ago, and you would have thought OSU was corrupt entirely and should be burned to the ground. When it all died down, the amount of media smoke misrepresented how big the fire really was. Reporters don't make the air or print with stories like, "Not That Big of a Scandal After All" or "Let's Wait for the Full Set of Facts and a Fuller Context Before We Jump to Conclusions."
3) If Baylor doesn't have an integrity problem, it has a PR problem. In light of the Dave Bliss thing, and the fact that they are a Southern Baptist school, which implies certain standards that state schools aren't burdened with, they need to make decisions about the character of players they recruit, how they discipline, and how their actions look to the non-Baylor community to rebuild and improve their image. Think about it - it's really not that hard to come across as anti-rape/pro-rape victim. Whether Starr, Briles, et.al. should be fired is TBD, but whoever the PR people are at Baylor should be cleared out immediately. Get as much of the truth out as you can, as quickly as you can, along with the steps you are taking to address the problem, and you shorten the scandal considerably. Or you can do what Baylor has done here.
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Part of me wonders where this whole thing could go... when the onion really gets pealed back...
after all, my Browns have FOUR Baylor players
RG III
Coleman
Spencer Drago
and less we forget, Josh Gordon
after all, my Browns have FOUR Baylor players
RG III
Coleman
Spencer Drago
and less we forget, Josh Gordon
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