OT: HS All-American at Baylor found guilty of sexaul assault that Baylor tried to hide

[Knight_Light]

Baylor Univ is getting blasted for enrolling this former HS All-American, who was kicked out of Boise St because he attacked his then girlfriend and shortly after arriving at Baylor, he was charged and now found guilty of sexually assaulting an first semester Freshmen at Baylor.

Baylor, Art Briles ignored responsibility in admitting Sam Ukwuachu
http://www.usatoday.com/story/sport...-sam-ukwuachu-convicted-sex-assault/32090059/

What makes this case even more disturbing, that assault at Baylor occurred in Oct 2013, was indicted/charged on 2 counts of sexual assault in June 2014...but Head Coach Briles never told the press why this player didn't play when eligible in Fall 2014...and even last month, knowing that the case was finally going to trial, Baylor Coaches openingly talked about how this player will see the field this fall.

That changed yesterday when he was found guilty and now faces up to a 20 year prison sentence.

Texas Monthly looks into how Baylor Univ and Baylor Football kept this news from being public over the past 14 months and why Baylor never should have enrolled this player who was booted out of Boise because of violence against women.

http://www.texasmonthly.com/article/silence-at-baylor/

 

[Knight_Light]

Deadspin....nailing (rightfully) Baylor in its disgrace.

http://deadspin.com/baylor-s-invest...source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

From link above:


On Tuesday, she recounted in detail on the stand how she screamed and yelled no during her assault. Baylor, for close to two years, merely kept its mouth shut, except for when coach Art Briles told the Tribune-Herald: “I like the way we’ve handled it as a university, an athletic department and a football program.”

In a matter of days, close to two years of careful crisis management by Baylor has been undone. The lies told by coaches were exposed as lies. The sham investigation revealed for the piece of trash it was. The school’s motto—For Church, or Texas—appeared a cruel joke. Late Thursday, in a last-ditch effort to look like it cared, Baylor issued this statement:

Acts of sexual violence contradict every value Baylor University upholds as a caring Christian community. In recent years we have joined university efforts nationally to prevent campus violence against women and sexual assault, to actively support survivors of sexual assault with compassion and care, and to take action against perpetrators. We have established and fully staffed a Title IX office that employs a Title IX Coordinator and two full-time investigators. Maintaining a safe and caring community is central to Baylor’s mission and at the heart of our commitment to our students, faculty and staff.

This is a canned statement clearly looking forward to the lawsuits the school will likely face. Anyone expecting a better, purer form of justice in the hallowed halls of learning should know they are no safer there outside the campus gates. In some ways, that’s no surprise. I grew up in college football country, went to an SEC school, and I’d be a fool to say I didn’t know how the balance of power worked. It’s just harder to ignore now, and Baylor is the latest reminder: left to its own devices, football always wins.

 

[RU09FOOTBALL]

A 14-month cover up is child's play. If JoePa were there, this would've been hidden for a decade or more.

 

[TheRacRU]

"So were the following facts: That Ukwuachu transferred to Baylor in May 2013 because he had been kicked off the Boise State team for a previous incident of violence involving a female student; that Ukwuachu claimed after the transfer was announced that Baylor’s coaches “knew everything” about what happened in Idaho; and, as indicated by court documents obtained by Texas Monthly, the two programs had some communication regarding Ukwuachu in which Boise State officials expressed reticence about supporting the player’s efforts to get back on the field."

Incredible.

 

[Knight_Light]

"So were the following facts: That Ukwuachu transferred to Baylor in May 2013 because he had been kicked off the Boise State team for a previous incident of violence involving a female student; that Ukwuachu claimed after the transfer was announced that Baylor’s coaches “knew everything” about what happened in Idaho; and, as indicated by court documents obtained by Texas Monthly, the two programs had some communication regarding Ukwuachu in which Boise State officials expressed reticence about supporting the player’s efforts to get back on the field."

Incredible.

Don't forget about the part that he was a HS All-American and how Baylor Coaches were doing everything in their power to keep him on scholarship and when this "trouble" would just go away and this kid could help Baylor continue to win games.

The actual facts in this case are so disturbing (especially the 18 year old victim, virgin at the time, which is almost the norm for that religious school) are just sickening.

Baylor kept paying the "star" football player's room, board and tuition for all this time...unreal.

Glad Baylor Univ's joke of a sham investigation is now out in the open...hope the Feds go after the Univ too.

 

[S.B. Crumb]

This is the only university that would give State Penn a run for their money in terms of unscrupulous cover-ups, so no surprise here.

Baylor University basketball scandal

 

[PatrickRU92]

 

[jerzey devil]

SMH...wow, just wow...yet this wont get near the coverage that the "Mike Rice Fiasco" ( I refuse to call it a scandal as his behavior was dealt with and NOT allowed to continue) got!!

 

[Jim_from_RU]

This is the only university that would give State Penn a run for their money in terms of unscrupulous cover-ups, so no surprise here.

Baylor University basketball scandal

Southern Baptist Christian USA. Ironic? I say no doubt.

 

[biazza38]

Briles should be done. That's it. The fact that this player was still on campus after all of that is appalling.

 

[Scarlet16E]

This story is starting to catch fire.
Briles says he called Chris Petersen who told him the only problem was the guy was homesick.
Chris Petersen has since made a statement that he called Briles and told him everything.

Briles has a real problem here. He may be done.

 

[jerzey devil]

Briles should be done. That's it. The fact that this player was still on campus after all of that is appalling.

Just read that Briles emphatically denied knowing anything about the kids past..said he talk with the BSU coach Peterson who never mentioned anything about the circumstances...Peterson released a statement totally contradicting what Briles said...hmmmmm wonder who were supposed to believe here!

 

[LotusAggressor]

This story is starting to catch fire.
Briles says he called Chris Petersen who told him the only problem was the guy was homesick.
Chris Petersen has since made a statement that he called Briles and told him everything.

Briles has a real problem here. He may be done.

The only way Briles is done is if he starts losing. Christian hypocrisy is perfectly okay as long as there is winning.

 

[Knight_Light]

This story is starting to catch fire.
Briles says he called Chris Petersen who told him the only problem was the guy was homesick.
Chris Petersen has since made a statement that he called Briles and told him everything.

Briles has a real problem here. He may be done.

FOX Sports Radio's Jay Mohr spent basically his first entire hour on this story...and how Briles LIED to media, even this AM (i.e. had no clue about his violent past at Boise), then moments later, Petersen put out a press release stating he told Briles EVERYTHING and why he was kicked out of Boise.

This punk sat out 2013 due to transferring/redshirting yet Baylor, KNOWING his past, tried to get a hardship waiver for him to play in 2013 (NCAA said no), months later, he rapes a 18 yr old Freshmen student at Baylor, then Baylor sits him in 2014 (without stating why, i.e. he was charged with 2 counts of sexual assault in 2014), and even last month, Baylor coaches expected him to "beat the wrap" and be on the field in 2015.

Fire Briles.

 

[Knight_Light]

The only way Briles is done is if he starts losing. COLLEGE FOOTBALL "First" SCHOOL hypocrisy is perfectly okay as long as there is winning.

FIFY

Baylor is just like dozens of others...winning over everything.

 

[Abro1975]

I doubt the Gov of Texas orders the President of Baylor to fire Briles.

Same school that had a Head BB Coach cover up one player murdering another player a few years back.

WACO, Tex.— When a basketball player at the world's largest Baptist university was shot twice in the head near an old gravel pit and his former teammate was arrested and charged with pulling the trigger, the event seemed dramatic enough to open a beach holiday page turner.

And then the story unfolded, layer by layer, to expose the lying coach, the cheating program, drugs, secret tapes, clandestine meetings and an attempted cover-up at Baylor University.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/28/sports/college-basketball-death-and-deception.html

 

[BoroKnight]

This is only going to get bigger. And let's face it, the only reason it took so long -- besides Briles trying to keep it quiet -- was there's no video.

SMH...wow, just wow...yet this wont get near the coverage that the "Mike Rice Fiasco" ( I refuse to call it a scandal as his behavior was dealt with and NOT allowed to continue) got!!

VIDEO makes all the difference. If there was no video of Mike Rice, how much coverage do you think that gets?

And it wasn't dealt with the first time, thus the mini-"scandal" part of that fiasco.

But can we please stop bringing that up as if we're somehow treated worse than everyone else? Video. Handed to ESPN on a platter. THAT is the difference.

This story will get bigger, and hopefully the pressure on Briles to go or on Baylor to dump his pathetic ass will get bigger as well. All those women's groups that thought boycotting Augusta National was an issue should be busing to Waco as we speak, demanding that the big-time machine that is college athletics stop sweeping this kind of thing under the rug once and for all.

He got convicted. Great. But how he got into Baylor, how he stayed there all last year and would have been on the field this year is just plain revolting.

Briles must go.

 

[MikeR0102]

Baylor is probably the dirtiest athletic department in the country. I just wonder who the big money behind the scenes is.

 

[greenknight]

Schools, Coaches & AD's must be held accountable for bringing in troublesome people expelled from other institutions.
That girl should make a great deal of money from Baylor as they willingly put her in harms way. The number she gets should have at least 6 zero's in it

 

[Abro1975]

Guess who the Baylor President is .........Ken Starr ! lol

"Starr continues to represent Blackwater in a case involving the deaths of four unarmed civilians killed by Blackwater contractors in Fallujah, Iraq, in March 2004."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Starr

 

[Rokodesh]

Briles is full of shit, he knew everything. This is 100x worse than mike rice but will never get that far. Probably doesn't even lose his job, which he should

 

[vkj91]

How did an AA end up at Boise to begin with. Kid probably had some history as well.

 

[RUSK97]

No way the NCAA can sweep this under the rug. They're going to take drastic action and whack Texas Southern University.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

Baylor just announced an internal investigation...on a Friday at 6pm local...a Baylor prof...on the Baylor payroll...coming from Kenny Starlight you just know this is going to be thorough, and impatial...NOOOOOT!

Typical of the crazy baptists of whacko!!

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

FOX Sports Radio's Jay Mohr spent basically his first entire hour on this story...and how Briles LIED to media, even this AM (i.e. had no clue about his violent past at Boise), then moments later, Petersen put out a press release stating he told Briles EVERYTHING and why he was kicked out of Boise.

This punk sat out 2013 due to transferring/redshirting yet Baylor, KNOWING his past, tried to get a hardship waiver for him to play in 2013 (NCAA said no), months later, he rapes a 18 yr old Freshmen student at Baylor, then Baylor sits him in 2014 (without stating why, i.e. he was charged with 2 counts of sexual assault in 2014), and even last month, Baylor coaches expected him to "beat the wrap" and be on the field in 2015.

Fire Briles.

Wow.. nice summary. Just reading this message and nothing else I get an idea as what happened when. And, just wow, Briles is scum. But what did Boisie have on him? Why wasn't he in jail in Idaho rather than practicing at Baylor and raping girls down there?

 

[koleszar]

This is only going to get bigger. And let's face it, the only reason it took so long -- besides Briles trying to keep it quiet -- was there's no video.


VIDEO makes all the difference. If there was no video of Mike Rice, how much coverage do you think that gets?

And it wasn't dealt with the first time, thus the mini-"scandal" part of that fiasco.

But can we please stop bringing that up as if we're somehow treated worse than everyone else? Video. Handed to ESPN on a platter. THAT is the difference.

This story will get bigger, and hopefully the pressure on Briles to go or on Baylor to dump his pathetic ass will get bigger as well. All those women's groups that thought boycotting Augusta National was an issue should be busing to Waco as we speak, demanding that the big-time machine that is college athletics stop sweeping this kind of thing under the rug once and for all.

He got convicted. Great. But how he got into Baylor, how he stayed there all last year and would have been on the field this year is just plain revolting.

Briles must go.

Women's groups should be camped out at Baylor standing on their soapbox. How he was admitted and allowed to be on the team is a disgrace. Briles has now been caught lying to the media and everyone. The only way Baylor can save face now is for him to be fired. Now that's if it becomes national news. If not they will have an internal investigation wait for the story to die down and say they found no wrong doing.
What I don't get is do they have any investigative journalist down there. How could this get past them, you know it wouldn't fly here. Before he even stepped on campus Rutgers would have been crucified. I always say the south must be like another world. With screwed up priorities to place football above all else..

 

[mikeinsec127]

I doubt the Gov of Texas orders the President of Baylor to fire Briles.

Same school that had a Head BB Coach cover up one player murdering another player a few years back.

WACO, Tex.— When a basketball player at the world's largest Baptist university was shot twice in the head near an old gravel pit and his former teammate was arrested and charged with pulling the trigger, the event seemed dramatic enough to open a beach holiday page turner.

And then the story unfolded, layer by layer, to expose the lying coach, the cheating program, drugs, secret tapes, clandestine meetings and an attempted cover-up at Baylor University.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/28/sports/college-basketball-death-and-deception.html

Baylor is a private. The governor can't order the president to do anything.

 

[mikeinsec127]

This is the only university that would give State Penn a run for their money in terms of unscrupulous cover-ups, so no surprise here.

Baylor University basketball scandal

The three major Florida schools have covered up way more than this and ND covered up a rape just a couple of years ago as well. But that is the problem in all cases. Winning a few more games is becomes more important than the safety of the students.

 

[Abro1975]

It was a joke about how Christie told Barchi to fire Rice & Pernetti (after talking to ND coach Brey), but I guess that way way over your head.

Baylor is a private. The governor can't order the president to do anything.

 

[jerzey devil]

This is only going to get bigger. And let's face it, the only reason it took so long -- besides Briles trying to keep it quiet -- was there's no video.


VIDEO makes all the difference. If there was no video of Mike Rice, how much coverage do you think that gets?

And it wasn't dealt with the first time, thus the mini-"scandal" part of that fiasco.

But can we please stop bringing that up as if we're somehow treated worse than everyone else? Video. Handed to ESPN on a platter. THAT is the difference.

This story will get bigger, and hopefully the pressure on Briles to go or on Baylor to dump his pathetic ass will get bigger as well. All those women's groups that thought boycotting Augusta National was an issue should be busing to Waco as we speak, demanding that the big-time machine that is college athletics stop sweeping this kind of thing under the rug once and for all.

He got convicted. Great. But how he got into Baylor, how he stayed there all last year and would have been on the field this year is just plain revolting.

Briles must go.

Ok fair point about the video...i agree things are so much worse when you have video looping nonstop all day...but sorry, it was dealt with the first time!! Pernetti did not try to cover it up...He punished Rice and made sure that corrective action was taken with regards to how Rice ran his practices...Yes its easy to claim in hindsight that they shoulda fired him then, but in a time when Pernetti had to shave the athletics budget, he was told they couldn't fire Rice for cause, which meant there would have to be a settlement package...hell even after all the hubbub Rice still collected a severance package, as he was never fired for cause

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

Ok fair point about the video...i agree things are so much worse when you have video looping nonstop all day...but sorry, it was dealt with the first time!! Pernetti did not try to cover it up...He punished Rice and made sure that corrective action was taken with regards to how Rice ran his practices...Yes its easy to claim in hindsight that they shoulda fired him then, but in a time when Pernetti had to shave the athletics budget, he was told they couldn't fire Rice for cause, which meant there would have to be a settlement package...hell even after all the hubbub Rice still collected a severance package, as he was never fired for cause

The ONLY reason they "should have fired him [Rice] then" was because political backlash and legal exposure. Rice and "Baby Rice's" behavior was uncouth, insulting, boorish.. but not criminal. It was clearly what Rice was taught and how he coached.. for decades. I think it was handled properly by Pernetti. He changed Rice's behavior. Rice, in turn, took the instruction, took the suspension and went to counselling and changed his ways.

This was an ideal handling of the situation.. until the video came out. And then the reality of the situation changed and there was too much political downside to retaining Rice, even though his bad behaviors were seemingly corrected.

Damn shame that Barchi allowed the tail to wag the dog.

 

[Knight_Light]

Sad ending...being convicted of raping an 18 yr old Virgin in Waco, TX is just a 6 month jail term.

Statues for this crime recommended a sentence of 2 - 20 years.

Here's the background on the judge and the now convicted rapist's attorney.

Anyone shocked that the 54th Circuit Court Judge, Matt Johnson, who sentenced this now convicted rapist to just 6 months in jail is a Baylor Grad? (Got his undergrad from Baylor). Player was also represented by an attorney who was a double Baylor Grad (undergrad and Law School).

All in the Family?

Here's the convicted rapist attorney's (Jonathan Sibley) background. (Wonder if his football seats are near the Judge's?)


A seventh generation Texan, Jonathan Sibley is rooted in the local conservative family values and community stewardship held dear by residents of House District 56.

His grandfather, Jack Patterson, was Baylor’s Athletic Director and Southwest Conference Champion track coach at Baylor; and his father, David Sibley, a Baylor basketball team captain, represented McLennan County as an Asst. DA, Waco Mayor, and as Texas State Senator.

A graduate of Baylor and Baylor Law, Jonathan’s community stewardship has included participation as a teaching aide in the Waco ISD and as a Baylor University Bob Bullock Scholar legislative aide in the Texas Legislature.

 

[ClassOf02]

Sad ending...being convicted of raping an 18 yr old Virgin in Waco, TX is just a 6 month jail term.

Statues for this crime recommended a sentence of 2 - 20 years.

Here's the background on the judge and the now convicted rapist's attorney.

Anyone shocked that the 54th Circuit Court Judge, Matt Johnson, who sentenced this now convicted rapist to just 6 months in jail is a Baylor Grad? (Got his undergrad from Baylor). Player was also represented by an attorney who was a double Baylor Grad (undergrad and Law School).

All in the Family?

Here's the convicted rapist attorney's (Jonathan Sibley) background. (Wonder if his football seats are near the Judge's?)


A seventh generation Texan, Jonathan Sibley is rooted in the local conservative family values and community stewardship held dear by residents of House District 56.

His grandfather, Jack Patterson, was Baylor’s Athletic Director and Southwest Conference Champion track coach at Baylor; and his father, David Sibley, a Baylor basketball team captain, represented McLennan County as an Asst. DA, Waco Mayor, and as Texas State Senator.

A graduate of Baylor and Baylor Law, Jonathan’s community stewardship has included participation as a teaching aide in the Waco ISD and as a Baylor University Bob Bullock Scholar legislative aide in the Texas Legislature.

Unreal.

 

[vkj91]

Unreal.

Plus 1

 

[Knight_Light]

Unreal.

Sad thing is it took me 5-10 seconds to find out all that info...something no one in the local media in TX, or those at ESPN, FOX, CBS, NBC, etc...employees, researchers, columnists, reporters, analysts, radio and TV hosts didn't do.

Why?

 

[RU76]

Will the prosecutor appeal the sentence? Is the prosecutor a Baylor grad?

Did the defendant pay his attorney's fees for representation thru the criminal discovery process and trial? If not, I suspect an impermissible benefit NCAA violation not available to non-athlete students charged with a crime,

 

[mal359]

Southern hospitality and Baptist temperance.

 

[RU848789]

Ok fair point about the video...i agree things are so much worse when you have video looping nonstop all day...but sorry, it was dealt with the first time!! Pernetti did not try to cover it up...He punished Rice and made sure that corrective action was taken with regards to how Rice ran his practices...Yes its easy to claim in hindsight that they shoulda fired him then, but in a time when Pernetti had to shave the athletics budget, he was told they couldn't fire Rice for cause, which meant there would have to be a settlement package...hell even after all the hubbub Rice still collected a severance package, as he was never fired for cause

Please stop with the revisionist history. Rice had baggage when he came here, Pernetti never dealt with it as he should have and Rice's behavior on that video is reprehensible for someone who is supposed to be a trusted teacher and molder of young men. Coaches have almost complete power over their players and should never have to resort to such abusive tactics.

And Pernetti compounded it all by not firing Rice as soon as he saw the video, which was certainly in his power to do, as his boss - and if Barchi truly never saw the video when it surfaced, as he claims, then he's also to blame for not managing the risk to Rutgers properly. Any moron had to know that that video would eventually surface and make RU look horrible if we sat on the video, so to not fire Rice as soon as the video was obtained is simply horrible management on everyone's part involved.

 

[mal359]

Are we really rehashing this? Rice, Pernetti, and Barchi all had to go. When dealing with "the big time," two out of three isn't bad.

 

[jerzey devil]

Please stop with the revisionist history. Rice had baggage when he came here, Pernetti never dealt with it as he should have and Rice's behavior on that video is reprehensible for someone who is supposed to be a trusted teacher and molder of young men. Coaches have almost complete power over their players and should never have to resort to such abusive tactics.

And Pernetti compounded it all by not firing Rice as soon as he saw the video, which was certainly in his power to do, as his boss - and if Barchi truly never saw the video when it surfaced, as he claims, then he's also to blame for not managing the risk to Rutgers properly. Any moron had to know that that video would eventually surface and make RU look horrible if we sat on the video, so to not fire Rice as soon as the video was obtained is simply horrible management on everyone's part involved.

so your asking me to not bring it up, but then go on to add your opinion as to how it shoulda went down? SMH... but anyways I really could care less about who did or didn't do what the right way... my point (which seems to have gotten lost here) is that this was never a SCANDAL!!! nothing was ever COVERED UP!! (unlike Baylor, which is looking more and more like one big cover-up)... Rice was dealt with at the time (obviously HINDSIGHT BIAS shows not harshly enough) and corrective action was taken as to NOT enable the behaviors exhibited by Rice to happen again!! (hell even the sentencing of this Baylor kid reeks) but because there was 10 seconds of video, what happened with Rutgers is far far worse than what happened at Baylor? sad!!!