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Apparently you're supposed to kick a guy off the team and ruin his career as soon as someone makes an allegation against him, due process be damned?
I don't think anyone is asserting Baylor or any other school take that absurd action. However, you DO handle it something similar to this:
-- review allegation; if there IS something there (i.e. it doesn't appear to be phony or a prank), you SUSPEND the player; not indefinitely, just for the time being
-- any allegation of a crime, particularly a felony, requires you to get the police involved;
-- any arrest = suspension; PERIOD -- until the matter is resolved
-- any University is more than able to assist their students on things like counseling and personal crisis management; you don't tell students, particularly those who have made credible allegations of violence by another student, that you can't do anything for them
-- the athletic department needs to monitor the situation and advise the coaching staff of the sport involved of what is going on; they further need to develop and utilize a policy similar (but more detailed) to what I'm outlining here
-- when the AD has a meeting with the alleged rape victim, he doesn't play dumb; if something got missed, he picks up the ball and runs with it
-- finally, the President deals with issues the AD or head coach won't deal with, and actually LEADS his staff in the proper direction; he doesn't wait until the **** hits the fan, multiple news outlets pick up on it and start running stories to assert totally incredible defenses
Ken Starr should have written a memo to both McCaw and Briles demanding that they take care of these rape allegation issues or that he (Starr) would. When he got back a picture of Briles shooting him the bird, he can take that to the board of regents and finally the press if he did get ousted.
Arguing over the due process rights of the accused students is a red herring. Your comment doesn't seem to show concern for the due process rights of the victims.