Dark cloud hanging over Baylor?

Guess she wasn't UT-Austin or Rice material, either.

 

Lucky guess ...

 

Really going to disagree here. What Baylor did was public relations triage, nothing more. As Deadspin's Diana Moskovitz has repeatedly pointed out, the "findings of fact" that they have trumpeted actually contains very little factual information.

 

I'm not going to award them a medal or anything - but by big time college football standards, it's a start. I do wonder how being a private university affected things. On the one hand, no direct political pressure to do anything they didn't want to do (like layout the specific wrongdoings - which might be used in a potential lawsuit) - on the other, a potential lawsuit would be theirs alone to pay off.

 

I might be willing to consider a narrative of the regents acting bravely once it got to their level if they had cleaned house all at once. Instead they tried to hedge their bets by keeping Starr as chancellor and putting the AD on "probation", whatever that was supposed to mean. When the PR still broke against them, they started flinging more bodies into the volcano, hoping something would change the narrative.

 

Interestingly, per FW S-T columnist Mac Engel's Q&A with Starr this morning, Starr hasn't seen the entirety of the report.

Ken Starr quits, pressures Baylor board for full transparency

 

Ken Starr (and inadvertently his crisis PR fixer) went on the local news yesterday. It did not go well, mostly because since he's no longer the most powerful man in Waco, the station felt no need to sanitize his appearance.

http://deadspin.com/ken-starr-faceplants-when-confronted-with-email-showing-1780263253

 

Two thoughts on that:

1. Did an experienced crisis managment PR consultant really think that the TV station was going to play along? The initial answer, though not great, was not exactly Starr admitting a crime. Maybe you should have left well enough alone?

2. Starr is a pretty convincing liar.

 

So when it was Bill Clinton's dick he couldn't be more dogged, but when it's the dicks of his football players illegally penetrating it's, "Well, we get a lot of e-mails and I don't see them all or something and, hey look! Squirrel!"

Man, fuck these people. And stop calling these people "leaders." They ain't shit. Did he look like a leader when he spit out a response on camera and then looked at Speath with "Was that ok, Mommy," eyes?

 

Lesson learned: Using a Groupon for your crisis management needs may not be the best idea.

 

This has SMU written all over it. A private school In Texas wants to be among the big boys, then sells its soul for football success.

 

Don't know if you've ever seen one of the plays of the Tuna family, but there's a line in Tuna Does Vegas in which Vera Carp says something to the effect of "People of our station don't send our boys to reform school ... We send them to SMU!"