OT: Baylor AD resigns
Many were stunned that he wasn't fired along with Briles. I wonder if his plan all along was to hire an interim coach and then resign, or if the outcry convinced him his position was untenable.Still surprising to me that the rest of the coaching staff is going to remain intact, including Briles' son and son-in-law. Maybe that will change with time, as well
.http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/college/2016/05/30/baylor-athletic…
Edit: Here's a different link...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baylor-athletic-director-ian-mccaw-resigns-…
the heads will continue to roll. The caterwauling won't stop until more moves are made. Grobe may "convince" some of the other coaches to depart and do some repair on their character.
Agreed, just like we still have the penn state mess - it will always be a mess - and they are still in the B1G.
Starr should have been fired, along with the AD, Briles, and probably the entire coaching staff. Allowing them to resign instead of being fired is a slap in the face to the victims.
But hey, they just spent $266 million on a new stadium, so they have to protect that investment. Nevermind that the people playing and coaching in it are criminals.
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
His point is that there is a lot of paperwork and other steps that are taken before and after that meeting. It might be easy to make the decision to fire someone, but you have to get your ducks in a row before the actual termination.
1. A university-wide process for dealing with sexual assault allegations that treated complainants rather aggressively and got the school in trouble over Title IX. This was by no means limited to complaints against football players, or against athletes generally. Starr is culpable here, but I don't think the process was anything the Trustees would have objected to if not for the Title IX implications. This is a university that expressly prohibits extramarital sex among students. and although it's unfortunate it doesn't surprise me that they dealt with complaints the way they did. The women that came forward had already, in the act of coming forward, admitted to what to higher levels of administration there was a serious breach of the code of conduct.
2. A football-program process for dealing with these allegations that went well beyond the university-wide issues, with football staff staging their own in-house investigations of allegations that they never reported to anyone outside athletics (as required by university policy) and that they apparently presented to the victims and their families as the university's formal investigation (which it wasn't), using those investigations to discredit the victims' stories and leverage them into dropping their charges.
There's a difference between setting up a system that your bosses approve of and then having it fail (in this case because it didn't pass legal muster with the federal government), vs. setting up your own system behind your bosses backs. Starr did the first, he gets demoted. Briles did the second and gets fired.
There is without a doubt some form of "moral turpitude" language in their employment contract that would provide the ability to terminate for cause.
Not invoking it and terminating them summarily is light years different than allowing them to resign and/or re-assigning or demoting them, both in terms of the compensation or future employment opportuntites.
I agree with MGoBrewMom about Ken Starr. To take it further, as long as this world class hypocrite is even allowed on campus, no parent should even think of sending their daughter to Baylor. Their camps is even less safe for women than that school in East Lansing.
The timing was a bit sketchy too. Jim Grobe does not run an offense anything close to what they have at Baylor. The bar was set low for coaching, but high on character.
is way way more important than coaching skill. They need to get the entire staff and team on a 'clean' sheet of paper. They can worry about wins and losses later.
Regarding their retention of some asst coaches - they need to all be axed because I'm sure they knew of the inaction and acceptance of criminal behavior, and did nothing about it.
McCaw said in a statement he was stepping down because it would be help Baylor promote "unity, healing and restoration."
I agree with others here - it was amazing that he was not removed outright along with Briles, but still, another person who should have gone is now gone. To what the OP brought up, I would have to think that he knew all too well that he enabled some terrible things and that there was no way he could be effective in his position now, but it is entirely possible that staying on to make an interim hire was an attempt at doing something right in the face of so many wrongs. Only McCaw could tell you for certain.
I'm more impressed with how Northwestern has been able to become a mid to upper-tier football team and a fringe bubble team in basketball. A private school with tough admissions standards and their biggest controversy seems to be the fight to unionize and a coach who sufferred premature celebration in the Big House.
They took care of this promptly too!
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/16/sports/soccer/16hazing.html?_r=0
I bit and read the article. I have to talk to someone from Kansas City to find out if he was this bad on a daily/weekly basis.
That is one of the worst pieces I have ever read, in my life. Does he have a point? Not, "is he right," but literally, what the hell is he trying to say? That is about the quality of a C+ 10th grade opinion "term paper." That is crazy that somebody published that.
So they must have been enamored with quality pieces like that.
Whitlock is that bad.
He gets a free pass because he's a muckracker. I mostly posted that article for the pic... not that there is anything wrong with that.
In short, kids will be kids... good lord, I hope shit I did when I was 17 and a freshman away from home for the first time never bites me in the ass all these years later. If it doesn't involve physcial or mental harm or property damage, I think most people are okay with stunts college kids pull.
... and with that said, I certainly don't expect a coach of any program able to police their kids 24/7.
But, what happened at Baylor is wrong and they took care of it better than FSU did or any SEC school outside of Vandy would have.
That's a tough read.
I can say that hazing at this level was NOT common among athletes when I was there.
From what little I know of Fitzgerald I would bet he makes an effort to shut down any form of team hazing that he's aware of.
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Could you imagine any parent wanting their child to learn about the ethics and morals of upholding the law from a man like that?
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
I'm shocked by this. Is it so they know what they are up against?
he has to face the Mountain in a trial-by-combat.
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
The Baylor situation and the eventual ouster of the AD also makes me wonder why the AD of Ole Miss hasn't been asked to step down yet.
When it is a single sport, I think is fair to say a rogue coach and their staff was responsible. When there are multiple sports across mens and womens which have problems, I don't see how the AD isn't the first to go.
Sent from MGoBlog HD for iPhone & iPad
Penn State deserves nuking before anyone else does.