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ESPN Praising Baylor As Second Coming Of Jesus Christ For Firing Briles

when are you guys going to learn? ESPN is not a news agency it is US Weekly for sports. They will spin every story that can help them make money. Their brass must have decided there is more money in making them look good then bad so this is what we get.
 
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What a complete joke.

Rice says naughty words to players and ESPN camps out for weeks until we fire everyone in the AD he said hello to in the morning. Briles covers up RAPE and his firing is an innovation in college sports that's to be lauded.
 
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Briles will be at Auburn for the 2017. He'll have brushed up on his Title 9 & NCAAcompliance rule book by then. He will be welcomed with open arms.
 
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I'm no fan of espn but I did not see any reference to Jesus Christ in that article.
 
I don't have much of a problem with the article.

What Baylor did today was a major step in college sports. It's not all about winning.
 
mikemarc1 said:
I don't have much of a problem with the article.

What Baylor did today was a major step in college sports. It's not all about winning.
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Don't you feel like a major step for college sports would be when folks like Briles/Starr are removed from their jobs at the first sign of this type of repugnant behavior, not when shit's about to hit the fan publicly?
 
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ClassOf02 said:
Don't you feel like a major step for college sports would be when folks like Briles/Starr are removed from their jobs at the first sign of this type of repugnant behavior, not when shit's about to hit the fan publicly?
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If people were removed from their jobs immediately following any allegation..in any job..people would be getting fired left and right.

Think Baylor handled it correctly. They found out about the allegations in 2015 and did an investigation. The results of their investigation determined Briles should be fired.

Places like Louisville, Tennessee, and Florida State could learn from them..
 
ClassOf02 said:
Don't you feel like a major step for college sports would be when folks like Briles/Starr are removed from their jobs at the first sign of this type of repugnant behavior, not when shit's about to hit the fan publicly?
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It was already started hitting the fan by the time Baylor dumped Briles.
As far as Baylor taking a strong stand by firing Briles, it was a start .
Though Starr lost his job as Baylor's President and was demoted to Chancellor and the Baylor
Athletic Director Ian McCaw was placed on probation, those actions might not be considered the type of moves needed to show Baylor won't tolerate the type of environment that was allowed under their leadership.
 
SirPerceval said:
It was all about winning - They just got caught.
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Who is "they"?

The people who got caught were punished today. Most schools don't punish the coach. ie - Pitino, Butch Jones, Jimbo Fisher, etc. especially a coach as successful as Briles has been.
 
eceres said:
No video no problem.

That's the he reality.
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This is the truth that isn't mentioned enough, IMO. At the time of Mike Rice's suspension, it's not as if there was a cover-up. What he did wasn't a secret. Then the video comes out and all hell breaks loose.
 
RU-AGK said:
What a complete joke.

Rice says naughty words to players and ESPN camps out for weeks until we fire everyone in the AD he said hello to in the morning. Briles covers up RAPE and his firing is an innovation in college sports that's to be lauded.
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But, but, but Rice said some really bad words. He called his players men who prefer men in a mocking way.
 
what sickens me the most after reading this article... espn screamed "scandal, scandal, scandal" about Rice... Yet that word isn't mentioned ONE SINGLE TIME in this article!! Instead it Briles just "cut corners"...
 
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Compare what Baylor did to what to what Ole Miss announced today.

Yes, i get the allegations are much more severe in Baylors case, but both broke NCAA rules.

Ole Miss punishes their players with a postseason ban in some non-revenue sports, takes away some scholarships in revenue sports, and no discipline to AD or coaches....
 
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Compare what Baylor did to what to what Ole Miss announced today.

Yes, i get the allegations are much more severe in Baylors case, but both broke NCAA rules.

Ole Miss punishes their players with a postseason ban in some non-revenue sports, takes away some scholarships in revenue sports, and no discipline to AD or coaches....
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Actually Baylor really did the minimum by disciplining their AD , not forcing him out ,and moving Starr out of the Presidency but keeping him in the Chancellor position .
Starr should have only been allowed to remain a Law Professor at Baylor but not in any administrative office .
The AD should have gone down with the HC, but Baylor only needed one scapegoat and Briles was given all the weight.
Briles deserved to be fired for the way he ran Baylor's FB program , but the Baylor AD should have been forced out because he allowed Briles to run a rogue program.

Furthermore about a year ago Phil Bennett Baylor's DC ( now rumored to be Baylor's interim coach) publicly said defensive end Sam Ukwuachu, then facing sexual assault charges, could return for the 2015 season. Ukwuachu was later convicted.
That might show Baylor is just trying to do as little as possible to change the culture surrounding the football program but just making cosmetic changes to look like they are.
 
That's quite an athletic program they've built there. Murder in the basketball program and rapes in the football program. If they keep this up, people are going to get turned into salt.
 
No surprise the Rice apologists are out in force. The Baylor case was very bad, but what Rice did to his own players was also unacceptable and the outcome in the Baylor case in no way absolves Rice. He was a douchebag bully who completely abused his position of total control over his players by regularly harassing and attacking them both verbally and physically. Can't believe people still defend what he did - just because Bobby Knight got away with that kind of behavior for years doesn't make it right.
 
RU76 said:
Don't you know that flipping a couple of basketballs at guys bigger than you is way worse than raping girls or kids.
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Wasn't Rice accused of using the word f**** t too ? In these PC times, that probably got him in more hot water than anything else.
 
RU848789 said:
No surprise the Rice apologists are out in force. The Baylor case was very bad, but what Rice did to his own players was also unacceptable and the outcome in the Baylor case in no way absolves Rice. He was a douchebag bully who completely abused his position of total control over his players by regularly harassing and attacking them both verbally and physically. Can't believe people still defend what he did - just because Bobby Knight got away with that kind of behavior for years doesn't make it right.
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The Baylor case in no way absolves Rice, but to put it into perspective, he never covered up rapes or recruited rapists. In the case of Knight and Rice, it's douchebag bully behavior when you lose. It's "discipline" when you win.
 
RU848789 said:
No surprise the Rice apologists are out in force. The Baylor case was very bad, but what Rice did to his own players was also unacceptable and the outcome in the Baylor case in no way absolves Rice. He was a douchebag bully who completely abused his position of total control over his players by regularly harassing and attacking them both verbally and physically. Can't believe people still defend what he did - just because Bobby Knight got away with that kind of behavior for years doesn't make it right.
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Regularly harrassing?? It was a 45 second video compiled from 3 plus years of practice....wouldn't call that "regularly"

Heck, It was acceptable to all for 3 years until Murdock got angry and blackmailed Rice.
 
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