Slate has an article by Ben Mathis-Lilley about more bad-boy behavior:
Earlier this week, reports emerged that Baylor University would oust its president, Kenneth Starr, but not its football coach, Art Briles (photo), over sexual assault charges against several Baylor football players and ESPN reports that athletic and school officials had ignored reports of similar assaults by other team members. The idea that the president, but not the highly successful and well-compensated football coach at a Texas university, would be punished for criminal behavior by football players was met with justifiable outrage, and now multiple reports say that Briles will, in fact, be fired. (Starr, yes, that Kenneth Starr) will apparently be removed from the school's presidency, but kept on as chancellor.)Rico says firing a coach in Texas is almost unheard of...
Last fall, Baylor, a Baptist school, commissioned a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania law firm to investigate several football sexual assault cases; the university's board of regents was reportedly given an update on that investigation in mid-May of 2016, but its results were only recently made public; they are very critical of the football coaching staff.
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