OT-ish: Art Briles, Ken Starr, et al removed at Baylor

Submitted by JClay on

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.

Truthbtold

May 26th, 2016 at 1:19 PM ^

Has already been in contact with Art Briles offering him a OC job at Michigan. I have no doubt that crazy Jim will do anything he can to try and compete with OSU and MSU, so don't be surprised if this actually happens.
Remember, they are camp buddies, you have a poster to prove it.

74polSKA

May 26th, 2016 at 12:53 PM ^

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.

gwkrlghl

May 26th, 2016 at 1:02 PM ^

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.

Victor Valiant

May 26th, 2016 at 1:54 PM ^

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.

Yeoman

May 26th, 2016 at 1:59 PM ^

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.)

gwkrlghl

May 26th, 2016 at 12:55 PM ^

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

Optimism Attache

May 26th, 2016 at 12:32 PM ^

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. 

Leaders And Best

May 26th, 2016 at 12:26 PM ^

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.