Baylor Football: 52 Rapes in 4 Years Allegation

[DogsWin]

Per a Baylor graduate's new lawsuit...
The lawsuit describes a culture of sexual violence under former Baylor football coach Art Briles in which the school implemented a "show 'em a good time" policy that "used sex to sell" the football program to recruits. That included escorting underage recruits to strip clubs and arranging women to have sex with prospective players, the suit alleges. Former assistant coach Kendal Briles — the son of the head coach — once told a Dallas-area student athlete, "Do you like white women? Because we have a lot of them at Baylor and they love football players," according to the suit.
Investigation by lawyers identified at least 52 "acts of rape," including five gang rapes, by 31 football players in a four-year period. At least two of the gang rapes were committed by 10 or more players at one time, the suit states.
http://www.dallasnews.com/news/baylo...layers-4-years

[dawg80]

This is as bad, or worse, than the Penn State scandal. Let's see how easy Baylor gets off. Remember: ALL BAYLOR FANS, ALUMNI, FORMER PLAYERS, CURRENT PLAYERS, FORMER COACHES, CURRENT COACHES, SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS, AND WHO KNOWS WHO ELSE ARE ALL

GUILTY!!!!

That's what was said about Penn State. Everyone was guilty due to association. Didn't matter if they didn't know a GD thing about what was going on. Nope! sorry. If you wore a Penn State shirt as a fan, you were just as guilty as Sandusky!!! Scumbags!

Same applies to Baylor!

[The Historian]

The suit itself is very specific. I suspect someone somewhere in this process provided details to the Plaintiff's attorney. The exact specifics may never be known, because a federal judge will almost certainly seal that information at some point before it has to be made public. Baylor will then settle a year or two from now.

The story quotes Art Briles' attorney, yet Art Briles isn't a defendant. That's going to be the problem for Art Briles moving forward. He's never going to see the supports to the claims in this suit and any future suits in the coming years. He has no way to defend himself in the court of public opinion.

The most interesting quote from the Plaintiff's attorney:
"We have no idea how the regents came up with their numbers, but they do not represent the total number of assaults," he said. "I'm not sure that was Pepper's assignment either."

[StrayDawg]

The suit itself is very specific. I suspect someone somewhere in this process provided details to the Plaintiff's attorney. The exact specifics may never be known, because a federal judge will almost certainly seal that information at some point before it has to be made public. Baylor will then settle a year or two from now.

The story quotes Art Briles' attorney, yet Art Briles isn't a defendant. That's going to be the problem for Art Briles moving forward. He's never going to see the supports to the claims in this suit and any future suits in the coming years. He has no way to defend himself in the court of public opinion.

The most interesting quote from the Plaintiff's attorney:
"We have no idea how the regents came up with their numbers, but they do not represent the total number of assaults," he said. "I'm not sure that was Pepper's assignment either."

Art Briles was suing 4 members of the Baylor Board of Regents for "libel, slander, and tortious interference with prospective business relationships and intentional infliction of emotional distress." He dropped that suit today (only two months after he filed it), after this 52 rape case was filed. The timing could be one big coincidence, but I'm not buying it.

[TechDawgMc]

Art Briles was suing 4 members of the Baylor Board of Regents for "libel, slander, and tortious interference with prospective business relationships and intentional infliction of emotional distress." He dropped that suit today (only two months after he filed it), after this 52 rape case was filed. The timing could be one big coincidence, but I'm not buying it.

If you've seen the newest stuff from today, you know why he dropped the suit. The texts are pretty damning. I've thought up to this point that Briles was too trusting of his players but wasn't intentionally a bad guy. It seems obvious that was a naive response.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/baylo...t-record-shows

[The Historian]

If you've seen the newest stuff from today, you know why he dropped the suit. The texts are pretty damning. I've thought up to this point that Briles was too trusting of his players but wasn't intentionally a bad guy. It seems obvious that was a naive response.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/baylo...t-record-shows

I would say completely damning.

[The Historian]

More details from the Washington Post. I thought the NCAA would hit Baylor with probation at some point with a Lack of Institutional Control charge. I don't think the Death Penalty is that far fetched anymore.:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...=.c0c0a7790612

[StrayDawg]

If you've seen the newest stuff from today, you know why he dropped the suit. The texts are pretty damning. I've thought up to this point that Briles was too trusting of his players but wasn't intentionally a bad guy. It seems obvious that was a naive response.

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/baylo...t-record-shows

I didn't see the story about the texts until this morning (Friday), but I agree with you and The Historian, this is pretty damning stuff. Hopefully Art saved and invested well while he was getting big paychecks from Baylor, because he will most likely never get another high school or college coaching job. At the very least, I see him getting a show cause penalty which would keep him out of coaching for several years. Jim Tressell got a 5-year penalty. That would make Briles 67 or 68 by the time he was even allowed to coach again. And, considering that the NFL doesn't really need a coach who runs the spread offense, I'd say his days of roaming the sidelines are over. Recruiting is going to be extremely difficult at Baylor for the next several years.

It was obvious that something was up when he suddenly dropped the case.

[The Historian]

The NCAA was going to act on this entire story at some point in time. The recruiting violations outlined in the suit - as well as the fact the plaintiff was a Baylor "Bruin" football hostess who was raped - gives the NCAA the open door it needs to send in its own investigators.

Last year's recruiting class was decimated. This year's is going to be problematic, and the timing of this suit isn't going to help. It appears Baylor will have fewer than 60 scholarship players on the field next season. Then a year or two from now the NCAA will come down with sanctions that will almost certainly include a Lack of Institutional Control charge. Players on the team at that point will be allowed to transfer without having to sit out a year, and scholarships will be reduced for at least three seasons from the point the NCAA makes its ruling. Once Baylor is finished with probation it will take several more years to fully build the roster back to 85 scholarship players, as only 25 can be signed in a year.

We could be looking at 7 years until the roster is back to 85.

[DogsWin]

Baylor had a very young team last year with only 16 seniors. They had 28 juniors, 19 sophs (including former LA Tech LB commit Thomas Cletcher), and 47 Fr/Fr-RS on the roster. They currently have 21 football commits thusfar (the 33rd ranked recruiting class nationally per Rivals.com). They are hardly decimated (at least not yet).

[The Historian]

Baylor had a very young team last year with only 16 seniors. They had 28 juniors, 19 sophs (including former LA Tech LB commit Thomas Cletcher), and 47 Fr/Fr-RS on the roster. They currently have 21 football commits thusfar (the 33rd ranked recruiting class nationally per Rivals.com). They are hardly decimated (at least not yet).

I was quoting College Football Live on ESPN from several weeks ago when Matt Rhule took the job. Keep in mind the distinction between scholarship athletes and walk-ons who are on the roster, as well as walk-ons who were later given a scholarship when one became available. They'll always have a full roster in the same way USC and Penn State had full rosters with warm bodies.

[longdawgview]

NCAA should disband their football program and let McLennan County Community start a football program and play in their new stadium

[Cory]

This is the part where former players start to spill the beans in hopes of being granted some degree of immunity (if they're smart). Expect way more to come out over the next few months....


That's sick on the coaches and players part (the players who were involved and those who knew this was going on). Also, gang rapes with 10 or more dudes? I mean, how exactly does this happen? How can someone participate in something like that and still consider themself a good person? Baylor's program deserves the death penalty, and all those players who were involved with the rapes need to be added to the sex offender registry (after serving their sentence). They knew what they were doing.

[DogsWin]

This is the part where former players start to spill the beans in hopes of being granted some degree of immunity (if they're smart). Expect way more to come out over the next few months....


That's sick on the coaches and players part (the players who were involved and those who knew this was going on). Also, gang rapes with 10 or more dudes? I mean, how exactly does this happen? How can someone participate in something like that and still consider themself a good person? Baylor's program deserves the death penalty, and all those players who were involved with the rapes need to be added to the sex offender registry (after serving their sentence). They knew what they were doing.

The really surprising part is that this isn't USC, Ohio St, LSU,...; it's Christian school Baylor. It was shocking when Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson murdered his teammate Patrick Dennehy. Now this!

[Amos Moses]

The really surprising part is that this isn't USC, Ohio St, LSU,...; it's Christian school Baylor. It was shocking when Baylor basketball player Carlton Dotson murdered his teammate Patrick Dennehy. Now this!

Unfortunately the Christian backdrop for schools like Baylor, TCU, and SMU, etal., have fallen prey to the glamour of college athletics.