May 26, 201610 yr Author Women on Baylor's campus are probably happy too. This guy looked the other way on a ton of sexual assaults involving football players.
May 26, 201610 yr Women on Baylor's campus are probably happy too. This guy looked the other way on a ton of sexual assaults involving football players. Maybe but are all sexual assaults reported accurate, as in a girl lying, as in the Duke Lacross team case. IMO you cant suspend or dismiss someone if they are not proved guilty. If thats the case I may claim one against Duke basketball team this year and get them all suspended.
May 26, 201610 yr Maybe but are all sexual assaults reported accurate, as in a girl lying, as in the Duke Lacross team case. IMO you cant suspend or dismiss someone if they are not proved guilty. If thats the case I may claim one against Duke basketball team this year and get them all suspended. Beat me to that point. Innocent until proven guilty. We should have learned that from the Duke case. I'm not privelaged to all the information and I am absolutely glad those men were convicted if they committed rape. After the Duke fiasco I would say that it's like the NFL. Untill you are found guilty no action. People are mad those men were not dismissed soley on the allegations. That's not the right action if they were innocent. I'm sure they told the coaches and staff they didn't do it. That's all the coach had to go by. He's not the investigator or the judge. He's a football coach. Now if he aided in trying to cover them up, or any inexcusable action, so be it. I'll admit it looks really bad that those two young men had been released from other teams admist sexual allegations and here they are doing it again. My first question is why were they not charged at the universities they came from?
May 26, 201610 yr You absolutely cannot dismiss/discipline players based solely on allegations. That is a dangerous road to go down. At the same time, there is an element of culture that surrounds a program. If these incidents/allegations are frequent enough, something needs to change, regardless of guilt.
May 26, 201610 yr Author You absolutely cannot dismiss/discipline players based solely on allegations. That is a dangerous road to go down. At the same time, there is an element of culture that surrounds a program. If these incidents/allegations are frequent enough, something needs to change, regardless of guilt. It's not that they weren't disciplining or dismissing players, it's that they weren't reporting the complaints. They were turning a blind eye to them.
May 26, 201610 yr Author @McMurphyESPN Baylor admits to "directly discouraging some complainants from reporting (incidents) & retaliated against one for reporting sexual assault"
May 26, 201610 yr Author Two words: Death penalty. If there were ever a case for it to be used again (and I don't think it will be), this is it.
May 26, 201610 yr It's not that they weren't disciplining or dismissing players, it's that they weren't reporting the complaints. They were turning a blind eye to them. Which goes along with creating that negative culture that I was talking about.
May 26, 201610 yr Author Which goes along with creating that negative culture that I was talking about. Correct. This is insane though. Not only was Briles involved, the President of the University was involved. This was an entire university creating an unsafe environment for students for athletic benefit.
May 26, 201610 yr Correct. This is insane though. Not only was Briles involved, the President of the University was involved. This was an entire university creating an unsafe environment for students for athletic benefit. In May, ESPN's Outside the Lines unearthed previously unreported assault allegations of sexual and physical natures against Baylor football players. The OTL report indicated the Waco Police Department went out of its way to shield allegations from the public -- Waco police sergeant W. Patrick Swanton called the ESPN report "sensationalism in journalism" Is the bolded word the key word. Allegations. Allegations isnt proof.
May 26, 201610 yr I would encourage all of you to read Missoula by Jon Krakauer. Does a really good job of showing how many schools deflect or outright deny rape allegations by students. It also examines how difficult the trial process is for all involved, which leads to many students not bringing cases to the police. I can't really do the book justice here, but I think most of us would benefit from a better understanding of how the legal system works (or in many cases, doesn't work) on the issue of rape.
May 26, 201610 yr It's not that they weren't disciplining or dismissing players, it's that they weren't reporting the complaints. They were turning a blind eye to them. Now that's a problem. They should be charged with obstruction.
May 26, 201610 yr Author In May, ESPN's Outside the Lines unearthed previously unreported assault allegations of sexual and physical natures against Baylor football players. The OTL report indicated the Waco Police Department went out of its way to shield allegations from the public -- Waco police sergeant W. Patrick Swanton called the ESPN report "sensationalism in journalism" Is the bolded word the key word. Allegations. Allegations isnt proof. It has nothing to do with whether the allegations were true or made up. They were covering them up and not reporting them once they were made aware. That is indefensible.
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