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KamaAina

(78,249 posts) Wed May 18, 2016, 08:14 PM May 2016

Baylor needs to take hard look in mirror after latest damning report

https://www.yahoo.com/sports/news/baylor-can-only-blame-itself-after-latest-damning-report-205313955.html

The latest in a series of ESPN Outside The Lines reports Wednesday chronicling Baylor football violence named 10 former players who, over the past five years, have been involved or are alleged to be involved in altercations with women or other students. Many of them were involved in multiple altercations or assault allegations. Severe discipline rarely was a consequence for those players, according to the report....

But beyond the bad look for school leadership – starting with president Ken Starr, who seems to have left his famously potent moral outrage behind in the 1990s – Baylor allegedly appears to have a willing off-campus partner in some of that enabling and subterfuge: the Waco police...

But in Baylor’s case, there is an added wrinkle: hiding police reports from people who might want to know what’s actually going on with the Bears and the law. The OTL report mentioned one case file involving football players that was pulled from the Waco police computer system, and the report was placed in a locked office. That was due to “the potential high-profile nature of the incident.”

This doesn’t seem to square with Starr’s quote in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram last month: “I am in favor of transparency.” But I guess Starr isn’t running the Waco cop shop.

Here you go, El!