OT-ish: Art Briles, Ken Starr, et al removed at Baylor
Good on Baylor, I guess, but wow this is huge. Players tweeting about it. 11am (CST) press conference is about to start.
EDIT: Starr no longer President, will stay on with Law School. AD placed on super double probation. Other, unnamed, firings have also occurred.
Damn, not quite quick enough on the board post.
I AM TEH WINNER! FIRST!!
What about the AD? Prez and football coach get canned, but AD survives? He needs to go also!
FIre em all!!!
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Your username...rather grim, no?
The AD was clearly one of those at fault for the situation at Baylor, especially since he was (is) Briles boss. Let's hope he's next on the chopping block.
https://twitter.com/tyoung_01/status/735853430778912768
https://twitter.com/_gethitt44_/status/735853825924304897
https://twitter.com/rdavis_bu/status/735854400304861184
https://twitter.com/iamryanreid/status/735854463936667650
https://twitter.com/andrew_morris91/status/735855356505559040
For anyone questioning the validity of reports. No, I do not know how to embed tweets but someone else can feel free to do it.
Injustice
— Andrew Morris (@Andrew_Morris91) May 26, 2016
Yes, much in the same way JoePa was the victim of injustice at Penn State
it's DOUBLE SECRET PROBATION.....
And Butch Jones is still coaching at Tennesse!
/shm
Swedish House Mafia?
Shaking His Machete.
Start Humping Mice?
Ah, I read it as STOP doing that. Back to the lab!
This is the part that blows me away. The facts between Baylor and Tennessee are very similar (I would argue Tennesee's are actually worse), and yet Baylor goes "yeah, fire everybody, we're not having this" and Tennesee's approach is do nothing and hope it blows over.
Tennesee is a State instuition, believe me there is a difference.
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Chad Morris, Bob Stitt, or someone else?
Butch Jones would be a GREAT candidate!!!
/still, smh!
Swedish mafia house?
is not down with that.
Tom Herman.
If he leaves Houston and stays in Texas, it'll be to replace Strong or Sumlin. Both of which could be fired by this time next year.
I'd think Baylor is going to be desperate to get a big name to keep their program's momentum going and they don't have time to screw around with a coaching search. They don't have the program history to allow them a throw away season like OSU had with Fickell. Seems like they'd back up the Brinks truck for someone like Herman.
We're talking covering up sexual assaults all the way up to the office of the university's president. They're in for some upcoming sh*t and any elite coach who would've even considered Baylor before is gonna say nope.
Baylor's best hope for not fading into obscurity again is to get some mid-major coach to come up that runs the same system and hope they can keep it afloat. They'll probably end up like an Oregon- where they get the new guy who tries to keep the engine running but you can see the magic is gone.
You're probably right. I think I'm just selfishly wanting Herman to go to Baylor and either do really well there and stay or for his career to tank. Many OSU fans think he'll replace Meyer when he retires and I really don't want Herman back in Columbus.
I hear Brady Hoke wants to be a HC again...
is currently unemployed and has experience with sexual scandals.
BTW...FUCK penn state.
Baylor throwing big money at a football coach after this mess would not sit well with the public. This is probably the start of a long, maybe infinite walk in the wilderness. They will probably hire a veteran coach known for running a clean, values based program. It won't be Brady Hoke, but it will be someone with similar strength of character.
Find that guy, and pay him more than he's probably worth to make sure he takes the job.
They've just finished a major stadium/facilities upgrade down there. I don't expect them to be shy about throwing some money around if they need to, and as long as they hire somebody with a clean reputation I don't think there'll be any PR blowback from it. (Penn State, of all institutions, hired Tony Franklin, of all football coaches, and the only PR flack they seem to have gotten from it is that he turns out to be a crappy coach.)
Baylor is only an intriguing job because of the work Briles did. Herman can afford to wait (and should wait) for a bigger job. Baylor is still a school that is routinely swarmed by away fans. It's still a B-C level job
I agree that he can and probably should wait for a better job, but I disagree on the lateral move. If Herman goes 12-1 at Baylor, he's in the playoff instead of the Peach Bowl like Houston last year. Conferences matter.
but that's about all Baylor has that Houston doesn't and Houston might be looking at a Big 12 invite sometime in the near future
Dude if he waits a year he might have a crack at Texas, A&M, or both... I wouldn't jump at the Baylor job if I were him, his Houston team is going to shock some people this year.
That whole university is under fire right now. If I were a coach, I'd think really hard about taking that job, especially considering that the recruits on the team now have obviously not been...vetted. That kind of behavior does not spring up out of nowhere.
Good for Baylor. I had serious doubts they would do the right thing, I live in Houston and heard various things, but damn, good for them.
It's almost shocking that someone in Texas did the right thing when it came to someone good at the whole football thing. I took it as a foregone conclusion that Briles would survive.
The Pepper Hamilton report is 'toxic' from what I've heard. More than just the rape allegations. On par with OU in the 80's under Switzer level of thuggery.
There are rumors that it is going to be released later today.
The report is reportedly being released as well today, and insiders are telling people in the community to brace for it because it is going to be ugly.
I was just informed by a former #Baylor coach to expect the Pepper Hamilton Report to be released sometime today.
— David Smoak (@DavidSmoak) May 26, 2016
Multiple sources reporting Baylor regents will release the Pepper Hamilton report today. It is damning, Baylor family needs to be ready.
— Laura Seay (@texasinafrica) May 26, 2016
Possible legal issues for Briles and his conduct. Not a lawyer myself but what I've heard from others.
Well, it may be that they leaked the Starr firing just to gauge the reaction and then deciding to let Briles go. Who knows, I may be too cynical.