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Good Lord!!! Please stop acting like this has been going on for decades at Baylor as far as their football team is concerned. When the Board of Regeants founf out about this they acted. Briles has been there 8 years. Now he is out.
Good job Baylor!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I dont see other schools doing it.
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Being proud of Baylor is like being proud of a criminal for turning himself in. You broke the law, pay the price. No one should be proud of someone for doing what they're supposed to do, particularly when it should have happened a helluva lot sooner.
You're assuming that everyone knew. It's just not realistic to expect immediate action in our litigious society. They ultimately made a pretty bold decision. It's easy to bask in the schadenfreude, but hopefully we're better than that. Hopefully. We don't know all the details and you're kidding yourself if you pretend you do; we only know they had a tough decision to make about the identity of their university.
quote:They aren't doing what is right, they have known about this for years. Baylor is in damage control and trying to save whatever they can.
First school in awhile to put what is right infront of the importance of football. Firing Briles is the right move to clean up a dirty program and should have been done a long time ago but still the right thing none-the-less. I wish more schools (looking at you Penn State, FSU) would do the same.
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So Baylor is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Sounds like the way the Ags are viewed when we do something. Baylor is right in firing Briles. They did the right thing!
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Being proud of Baylor is like being proud of a criminal for turning himself in. You broke the law, pay the price. No one should be proud of someone for doing what they're supposed to do, particularly when it should have happened a helluva lot sooner.
You're assuming that everyone knew. It's just not realistic to expect immediate action in our litigious society. They ultimately made a pretty bold decision. It's easy to bask in the schadenfreude, but hopefully we're better than that. Hopefully. We don't know all the details and you're kidding yourself if you pretend you do; we only know they had a tough decision to make about the identity of their university.
Dude are you kidding? This has been a thing for MONTHS! You really think no one knew when women were getting run off campus and lawsuits were being filed?! It happened now because it had too. The hold outs had no choice. The dust wasn't gonna settle this time.
There just wasn't more than one way to skin a cat this time.
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"Months," in your own words. In the real world outside of internet message board fantasy land, months do transpire.
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Baylor only took these actions when their hand was forced. And Bennett is now the head coach. There's no way he was not part of it. The Bennett move was good for both Baylor and Bennett. They have a job no one wants and a coach no one wants. He still has a job.
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Being proud of Baylor is like being proud of a criminal for turning himself in. You broke the law, pay the price. No one should be proud of someone for doing what they're supposed to do, particularly when it should have happened a helluva lot sooner.
You're assuming that everyone knew. It's just not realistic to expect immediate action in our litigious society. They ultimately made a pretty bold decision. It's easy to bask in the schadenfreude, but hopefully we're better than that. Hopefully. We don't know all the details and you're kidding yourself if you pretend you do; we only know they had a tough decision to make about the identity of their university.
Dude are you kidding? This has been a thing for MONTHS! You really think no one knew when women were getting run off campus and lawsuits were being filed?! It happened now because it had too. The hold outs had no choice. The dust wasn't gonna settle this time.
There just wasn't more than one way to skin a cat this time.
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"Months," in your own words. In the real world outside of internet message board fantasy land, months do transpire.
I've seen entire lawsuits get resolved in the time it took anyone at Baylor's administration to even recognize this for what it is.
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So Baylor is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Sounds like the way the Ags are viewed when we do something. Baylor is right in firing Briles. They did the right thing!
quote:CYA and nothing else
First school in awhile to put what is right infront of the importance of football. Firing Briles is the right move to clean up a dirty program and should have been done a long time ago but still the right thing none-the-less. I wish more schools (looking at you Penn State, FSU) would do the same.
quote:The University hired the law firm in Fall of 2015. So the regents would have had to have known about it prior to that. The university doesn't do that without Board approval.quote:
So Baylor is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Sounds like the way the Ags are viewed when we do something. Baylor is right in firing Briles. They did the right thing!
I think the Board of Regents did the right thing, as it doesn't look like they had any knowledge (the whole issue was the football staff keeping it hush hush, possibly with help from lower level administration).
But Baylor as a whole? Their fans declared this a witch hunt on day 1 and have repeatedly declared that Briles is blameless. Hell they're still doing that. So good for the Board of Regents, but **** Baylor.
quote:Correct me if I'm wrong, but Penn State fired Paterno based on public pressure just like Baylor. The FSU deal was nowhere near the same level of long-term conspiracy to cover multiple occurrences.
First school in awhile to put what is right infront of the importance of football. Firing Briles is the right move to clean up a dirty program and should have been done a long time ago but still the right thing none-the-less. I wish more schools (looking at you Penn State, FSU) would do the same.
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So Baylor is damned if they do and damned if they don't. Sounds like the way the Ags are viewed when we do something. Baylor is right in firing Briles. They did the right thing!
quote:So the Christian institution does the right thing and everyone should be standup and applaud? I'm sorry but they would not have done the right thing if it was not for internet and media mud slinging. They were in collusion with the locl cops and would have continued as long as people believed everything was on the up and up.
So looooong means what? Just asking so we can quantify this instead of doing internet mud slinging.
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So it is proven the Board of Regents knew about this and did nothing except cover it up?
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"Months," in your own words. In the real world outside of internet message board fantasy land, months do transpire.
I've seen entire lawsuits get resolved in the time it took anyone at Baylor's administration to even recognize this for what it is.
Look, I'm not a Baylor cheerleader by any means, this is all pretty disgusting. As others have said, the people we should be proud of are the women who had the courage to speak out. And I'm glad that someone listened to them.
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So briles is available. ....let's not go to hard on him, we may be looking for a coach by nov.
