Art Briles suspended, athletic director on probation, Ken Starr moved to chancellor

[rdking647]

Source: austin american statesman

The Baylor Board of Regents announced Thursday that football coach Art Briles has been suspended, but with “an intent to terminate.”

Athletic director Ian McCaw was placed on probation and school president Ken Starr would be moved to chancellor.

Read more: http://collegesports.blog.statesman.com/2016/05/26/report-baylor-to-release-independent-review-on-sexual-assault-investigations/

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im shocked. the school chose integrity over money,

[bucolic_frolic]

1. I've come to view education as corrupt as government or business

Be they state-led and financed, religious majority or evangelical or minority,
company-town historical, or philanthropic founded, they all have agendas

that reflect their world view and push it on the students

It's only in the last 10 years it's suddenly about what is this degree worth?

What skills am I gaining?

It's too frequently how do we keep the tenured faculty employed and important,
push foreign languages on students for example

Where there is money there is agenda, where there is research there is corporate
sponsors, government largesse

Higher education is about to crumble in the decades ahead

[radicalliberal]

2. I'm sure that many of the Baylor fans are outraged.

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Not by the fact that rapes by members of the football team have been ignored or covered up, but by the fact that Briles is likely to be fired. Hey, who cares about the rape victims? They should keep their mouths shut for the good of the football program! This sort of scenario happens again and again and again, and it's been going on for decades.

The worst sports haters are not to be found among those who say they hate sports. They are to be found among the fans themselves; namely, those of the fans who happen to be the enablers of the rapists. Ordinarily, I would expect football fans to be opposed to the presence of rapists and other evildoers on their beloved teams. But the truth of the matter is that some fans just don't care if a rape has been covered up or if they, in fact, know that a rapist is on the team. All they care about is whether their team has a winning season. Nothing else matters to them. Forget about justice and common decency!

They, in fact, are guilty of corrupting their own beloved sport, which does far more damage than a guy who announces in an Internet forum that he doesn't like sports. Sports fans (including certain DU members, past and present) will bellyache about individuals who criticize sports or say they hate sports; but they never have a problem with the enablers of bullying, hazing assault, and rape. It is to laugh.

[OldRedneck]

3. I'm confused . . . .

Isn't this the same Ken Starr, the Saint of Moral Rectitude who pursued Bill Clinton because Monica Lewinsky delivered a couple of BJ's in the Ova Office?

And now he's been brought down for failure to pursue reports of sexual assaults by Baylor athletes.

I guess sexual assaults only count if one is a Democratic President.

[radicalliberal]

4. Yes, it is the same Ken Starr.

Ain't hypocrisy grand?

[Dr. Forrester]

6. Yep, same guy.

Paraphrasing what someone else said on another forum. I find it amusing that Ken Starr is being bent over a barrel for covering up a sex scandal.

[KT2000]

5. why was he made chancellor?

he should be fired, period.

[WhiteTara]

7. My thought too. I thought he was fired

but I guess there was a change of heart.

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. He was president AND chancellor

Now he's just chancellor. Of course that may be temporary. He may be dropped from that as well.

I will say, I really respect them for canning the football coach as well. He's the guy who allowed an accused (and later convicted) rapist to continue playing. He wasn't suspended from a single game.