Don’t be surprised that Art Briles of Baylor is…………

It would not surprise me one bit that Baylor head football coach Art Briles is fired this summer, possibility before the end of June.  Reports of cover-ups from the Baylor football program in cahoots with the police department of the city of Waco, Texas, have come to light this week in a report by ESPN’s “Outsides the Lines”.

Dateline Waco, Wednesday, May 18:  New Waco PD documents report domestic incidents involving Baylor football players, who were not disciplined by the program. There also appears to have been tampering on behalf of the Waco police who attempted to keep the reported incidences of violence under wraps from local media.

According to ESPN’s report:

“In one case from 2011, an assault at an off-campus event in Waco ended with three football players being charged as well as Baylor and Waco police discussing the incident. Waco police, according to documents, took extraordinary steps to keep it from the public view “given the potential high-profile nature of the incident.”

In a damning fact finding by ESPN, Waco’s PD investigating officer asked a commander that “the case be pulled from the computer system so that only persons who had a reason to inquire about the report would be able to access it.” The report was placed in a locked office.”ESPN’s findings also include testimony from an alleged victim who told Waco police in 2014 that her boyfriend — a Baylor football player — assaulted her more than once. The woman says Baylor coach Art Briles and university president Ken Starr were notified shortly thereafter, but the player was not disciplined.

The alleged female victim told Outside the Lines,  “I’d seen other girls go through it, and nothing ever happened to the football players.  It’s mind-boggling to see it continue to happen. I can’t understand why. I think as long as they’re catching footballs and scoring touchdowns, the school won’t do anything.

The situation regarding the Baylor football program, the head coach Art Briles, the Waco Police Department, and the whole of the problems in this Big Twelve program says the worse of the troubles on the Brazos River are not over.  In fact, they seem to grow.

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