Smoking gun against Briles gets published

[leopold]

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/baylor/2 ... cord-shows

Texts show Art know. Lawsuits by former coaches starting to be dropped already.

[ALEX LIFESON]

I am not a subscriber, wish I could read this.

[leopold]

Ex-Baylor football coach Art Briles and other former athletic officials tried to keep misconduct by football players under the radar, a new court filing alleged Thursday, a day after the disgraced coach abruptly dropped his libel suit against school officials.


The filing, which came in response to a lawsuit by a former assistant athletic director, includes damning texts between Briles and other athletics officials as they dealt with multiple allegations against football players between 2011 and 2015.

When a female student-athlete reported that a football player had brandished a gun at her, the response said, Briles texted an assistant coach: "what a fool -- she reporting to authorities."

In another case, where a masseuse asked the team to discipline a player who reportedly exposed himself and asked for favors during a massage, the paperwork said Briles' first response was, "What kind of discipline... She a stripper?"

The filing also laid out the athletic department's response to allegations of gang rape by football players, including when a student-athlete told her coach that five football players had raped her at an off-campus party. Then-Athletics Director Ian McCaw took a list of names to Briles, who said, "Those are some bad dudes. Why was she around those guys?" He also suggested the woman tell the police, according to the filing.

Defense lawyers allege that Briles created an atmosphere that allowed wrongdoing by players -- from underage drinking to sexual assault -- to go unnoticed. "The football program was a black hole into which reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared," the court filing said.

The paperwork was filed on behalf of several Baylor officials, including school regents and the interim university president, who were sued for libel by former assistant athletic director for football operations Colin Shillinglaw this week.

It offered the most detailed account yet of how Baylor officials responded to the sexual assault scandal that has rocked the school.

Baylor officials were reluctant to catalog their response to the scandal for fear of violating the privacy of survivors, their attorney said. But he said an onslaught of lawsuits and public pressure from major university donors compelled them to release more information.

"They were shocked and hurt and stunned as regents of the university," attorney Rusty Hardin of Houston said. "But they were also fathers whose daughters may be Baylor students ... They have been driven by point one, by the first moment, to make sure they did what was right."

Attorneys for Briles and Shillinglaw did not immediately return a request for comment.

Briles' dropped lawsuit and the new information from regents came just days after a Baylor sexual assault survivor sued the school, alleging that 31 football players committed at least 52 acts of rape between 2011 and 2014, an estimate that far exceeded what regents told The Wall Street Journal in October.

Regents said then that 19 football players had been accused of sexual or physical assault, including four alleged gang rapes, since 2011.

Hardin said regents came up with that number based on Pepper Hamilton's findings, newspaper stories and lawsuits. But Pepper Hamilton's investigation was not meant to be exhaustive and did not tally every sexual assault reported.

Instead, the court filing said, the law firm did a "stress test" of Baylor's response to sexual assault complaints, which included analyzing particular cases and interviewing some victims.

[ALEX LIFESON]

Wow, bear fans must be glad this came out after signing day. LOL

[DanFreibergerForHeisman]

So glad to see definitive proof. Waiting for the NCAA to shut them down like they deserve now.

[ericdickerson4life]

You knew there had to be a smoking gun. Baylor fans had to know. You don't fire a head coach with the record that Briles had without having evidence that directly tied him to the allegations. Sad, but I'm glad to see information coming out. Slow drip. More will come.


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[ericdickerson4life]

NCAA won't do anything. The Feds on the other hand...


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[Junior]

So glad to see definitive proof. Waiting for the NCAA to shut them down like they deserve now.

Let's not jump to conclusions. It's not like they took someone down to the quarry and shot them in the head. Again.

[Pony81]

Legal feeding frenzy. BU is facing a litigation black hole.

I need help with this logic:
School uses sex and loose rules / cover up to keep kids away from the law= recruiting violations

School does all of the above AND the girl cries rape= Criminal matter, none of the NCAA's business...... Play on.

[Treadway21]

NCAA needs to change its rules if this kind of scandal can't be punished.

[Prideful Pony]

More details here: http://deadspin.com/lawsuit-text-messag ... 1791947070

[CalallenStang]

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[PK]

Legal feeding frenzy. BU is facing a litigation black hole.

I need help with this logic:
School uses sex and loose rules / cover up to keep kids away from the law= recruiting violations

School does all of the above AND the girl cries rape= Criminal matter, none of the NCAA's business...... Play on.

What about lack of institutional control? I mean yeah they controlled it, but not in a way NCAA would agree with as "control".

[mtrout]

Yeah but let's talk about real problems for a second here... A secretary took an online module for Keith Frazier!

[smusportspage]

..."Defense lawyers allege that Briles created an atmosphere that allowed wrongdoing by players -- from underage drinking to sexual assault -- to go unnoticed. "The football program was a black hole into which reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared," the court filing said." ...

Looks like they got that covered as well.