Art Briles reportedly fired

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Ah yes. In the face of all the criticism, bringing back Briles would be the most tone-deaf move of all time.
 
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bamawriter said:
It that's their position, then Baylor better be ready to release the full report. If they bring Briles back but keep the report under wraps, then I will be consuming all of the popcorn in the world while watching that school burn to the ground.
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Exactly. Same here.
 
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He's not coming back. This is more absurd then people thinking we were getting Gruden. Maybe 100 times more absurd. And why the hell would you want him back?
 
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volfanhill said:
He's not coming back. This is more absurd then people thinking we were getting Gruden. Maybe 100 times more absurd. And why the hell would you want him back?
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Random TX Reporter: "Coach Briles any comment on the rumors of your return to Baylor?"

Briles: "Soon..."

Edit: Remember that scene at the end of the Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King where Gollum bites Frodo's finger off and gets the ring back right as he is engulfed by the lava? Remember the gleeful look on his face as he recaptures his precious right at the moment of his demise as he literally goes down in flames (well lava anyway)? Yeah... This is kinda just EXACTLY like that.
 
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volfanhill said:
He's not coming back. This is more absurd then people thinking we were getting Gruden. Maybe 100 times more absurd. And why the hell would you want him back?
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I tend to agree with you. However, it is interesting to me that none of Briles assistant coaches were let go. I never understood that and the thought of bringing Briles back offers some explanation.
 
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Dragon18 said:
I tend to agree with you. However, it is interesting to me that none of Briles assistant coaches were let go. I never understood that and the thought of bringing Briles back offers some explanation.
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I would't read much into that. When the problem is systemic, you start with the guys in charge. Unless the assistants were dealing with rape accusations behind his back, it was Briles' responsibility. In the end, practically all of them will be fired when a permanent coach is hired.
 
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Coug said:
It's a troll job by some random twitter account. Art Briles is done.
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Reading just now on Larry Brown sports that Briles was never fired from Baylor yet and the school is discussing a one year ban for him.

Those big donors wanting to keep him are nuts.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
Reading just now on Larry Brown sports that Briles was never fired from Baylor yet and the school is discussing a one year ban for him.

Those big donors wanting to keep him are nuts.
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Technically it was a suspension with intent to terminate or something like that.
 
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I asked this when the story first broke:

bamawriter said:
Does anyone have any insight as to why Briles is "suspended pending termination"? Why would that be necessary?
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Something smelled foul when it came to that terminology. Even then, I think I knew that pack of twisted f***s would try to bring him back.
 
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Orange_Vol1321 said:
Reading just now on Larry Brown sports that Briles was never fired from Baylor yet and the school is discussing a one year ban for him.

Those big donors wanting to keep him are nuts.
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Actually, it's the BoR that is nuts for not letting the process play out. If CABs sins do not rise to the level of job termination (as the PH Report seems to suggest) then the University is on the hook for the remainder of Art's $40m contract. Let's not forget the potential millions that are on the line to alleged victims of abuse. And now team members that have been dismissed by Grobe are screaming (lack of) due process.

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It was the BoR's responsibility to.oversee all of this. They apparently failed to oversee the proper execution Title IX regulations. They have acted emotionally, not rationally, to the allegations and allowed social media to write the narrative. The BoR failed to do their job.

The BMDs are stepping in and trying to right the ship. Baylor is a private institution, the State of Texas won't come riding in to write a big check to make this all go away. Guess who the BoR will ask to write that check?
 
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jhamilton1208 said:
Sports illustrated is reporting it now.

https://www.si.com/college-football/2016/06/13/baylor-sexual-assault-art-briles-suspension

But I think they got their info from Scout/Horns Digest.


Sources: BU regents to vote on 1-year suspension for Briles - Texas - Scout


Unbelievable.
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From the Scout link:

There are those among the Baylor leadership who feel the major failings of the BU rape scandal fall on former president Ken Starr for the school not having a Title IX coordinator from 2011-2014, sources said. If BU had a Title IX coordinator, the football coaching staff would have had training on how to handle any complaints of rape made against football players, sources said.
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For effin real?
 
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BUBear said:
Actually, it's the BoR that is nuts for not letting the process play out. If CABs sins do not rise to the level of job termination (as the PH Report seems to suggest) then the University is on the hook for the remainder of Art's $40m contract.
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Like I said before, if that is the case the Board is going to make, then they have to have every 't' crossed and 'i' dotted. If they vote next week to make Briles' suspension just a one year thing, then they had better be ready to release to entire report at the time they make the announcement, and that report had better be explicit as to each and every mitigating circumstance. From what I understand, they don't even have the report in writing yet, and won't for a few months.

There is no way the Board at Baylor could possibly be as stupid as these reports suggest they might be.
 
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Yankee_Vol said:
They'll spin whatever tales they have to rationalize in their heads. Kinda like a lot of things going on in the country right now.
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Not to take the edge off, but I think you just described imperfect human nature.

When we rationalize, our emotions come into play. When we start making decisions based on what our emotions tell us, from that point, we are going to make a lot of bad decisions.
 
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