Dark cloud hanging over Baylor?

The NCAA won't SMU them, but I definitely could see a Penn State. They'll go back to saying Thank God for Kansas in football for a while.

 

Andy Staples (I think it was, at least) was on a sports talk radio show the other day and he made the point that the NCAA will never again mete out the death penalty, because it crushed SMU enrollment for years, and they are not in the business of damaging their institutions' academic and overall financial success.

 

And you may never see another TV ban because the NCAA would prostitute out its grandmas before crossing Disney, CBS or Fox.

 

Which would be why UNC running diploma mill classes for athletes suddenly fell off of the complaint list. Too much money goes to the NCAA to touch them.

 

The NCAA fucked up the way it handled Penn State so badly, there's no way they'll touch this.

 

Sources: BU regents to reconsider Briles

But if he does come back, he'll join forces with Brock Turner's family to fight the campus scourge of alcohol and sexual promiscuity.

 

Before I clicked the link, my first reaction was "Are you fucking kidding me?"

Then I opened the story, saw Chip Brown's byline and realized yes, they are fucking kidding you.

 

I'll take your word on that, but a lot of others are picking up on variations of the theme.

 

Jason King tweeted he'd confirmed the board was considering a one-year suspension.

 

Dan Wolken calls it unlikely.

Baylor scandal: Despite calls to bring Art Briles back in 2017, action unlikely

My greater point was that Chip Brown cannot be taken seriously these days, if he ever could. The WorldNetDaily of college sports journalism.

 

I'll be curious as to what Art Briles' rationale or defense is. I'd rather like to know.

The Baylor situation still remains hard for me to hold in my head. So Briles told women not report the assaults - or something like that. Did he give them money? Did he threaten them? Did he plead with them? Did he meet with players and the women together, alone? What?

 

Just the fact that Baylor is entertaining the idea is a bad, bad look. Yet another example of winning football, or just as importantly, winning football money, trumping the right thing to do.

The right thing, of course, would be to terminate for cause and not pay Briles one red cent. But if that happened, Briles would sing like a bird and bring the whole school down. Not to mention bring a lawsuit with lots of nasty discovery.