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Liberty University Athletics Director Ian McCaw in a deposition said Baylor University undertook "an elaborate plan that essentially scapegoated black football players and the football program for being responsible for what was a decades-long, universitywide sexual assault scandal," according to a motion filed Wednesday in Waco's U.S. District Court.

McCaw said he was "disgusted" by Baylor regents' racism and by a "phony" 13-page document held up by the board as a summary of a nine-month investigation into how Baylor responded to reports of sexual assault. He was questioned June 19 by lawyers representing 10 women who allege Baylor denied them educational opportunities protected by Title IX after they were assaulted. The motion includes excerpts from McCaw's sworn testimony.

McCaw said he resigned because he "did not want to be part of some Enron cover-up scheme," according to Wednesday's motion.

"It's bad for business. It's bad for Baylor's brand, bad for admission, bad for tuition revenue," McCaw allegedly said of the board's motivations about the scandal. "And obviously you know Baylor is heavily reliant, it does not have a large endowment, so it's heavily reliant on tuition revenue. So if there's a dip in admissions, a dip in tuition revenue, that severely affects the university."

McCaw also revealed damning testimony surrounding the sexual assault investigation at Baylor from September 2015 to May 2016, which ended when Ken Starr was removed as president and head football coach Art Briles was fired.

McCaw said Pepper Hamilton attorneys told him there would be three potential outcomes to the investigation Baylor hired them to conduct: a "detailed document," a "summary report," or "to whitewash the whole thing." He said it was ultimately decided that Baylor regent J. Cary Gray would write a "false" and "misleading finding of fact skewed to make the football program look bad and cover up the campus-wide failings."

McCaw said former Baylor Police Chief Jim Doak had discouraged reporting of sexual assaults and ignored rape reports, according to the motion. He said former high-level administrator Reagan Ramsower, who also took heavy criticism during the scandal, once said that "if Chief Doak was still here, we wouldn't fire him. We'd have to execute him."

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June 27, 2018 03:31 PM
Updated June 27, 2018 05:34 PM
WACO
Former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw swore under oath that BU had an "elaborate plan that essentially scapegoated the black football players and the football program for being responsible for what was a decades-long, university-wide sexual assault scandal."
He also said administrators used "racially charged labels like, '300 pound black football player.'"
Might want to keep that one out of the recruiting brochure.
This is the reason why Baylor wants this testimony sealed, and other evidence suppressed.

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HeyMoe said:

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I've been struggling for a proper analogy for this whole Baylor thing.

The best I can come up with is police inspecting a crime scene in a house and as they go from room to room, opening up doors and looking into closets, they keep finding things disgusting and horrible, each worse than the one before until finally they can't take anymore and have to go outside and throw up.

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LOYAL AG said:

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Madman said:

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This guy may just be trying to get the Baylor stink off of himself. How is holding a football player accountable for rape throwing blacks or the football team under the bus?

If anything they were trying to cover up rapes by members of the football team to protect the program, not use it as a scapegoat.

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He's saying that the rape problems are significantly bigger than the football team and that they used the fact that some portion of them were committed by black football players to try and cover up what is a much, much bigger problem. IMO they were trying to confine the damage to the realm of NCAA violations rather than opening a can of worms with the Feds over Title IX violations.

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Flashdiaz said:

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"it does not have a large endowment, so it's heavily reliant on tuition revenue"

so even former students who overpayed for the education they got don't like baylor enough to give back.

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Flashdiaz said:

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"it does not have a large endowment, so it's heavily reliant on tuition revenue"

so even former students who overpayed for the education they got don't like baylor enough to give back.

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Madman said:

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This guy may just be trying to get the Baylor stink off of himself. How is holding a football player accountable for rape throwing blacks or the football team under the bus?

If anything they were trying to cover up rapes by members of the football team to protect the program, not use it as a scapegoat.

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Madman said:

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This guy may just be trying to get the Baylor stink off of himself. How is holding a football player accountable for rape throwing blacks or the football team under the bus?

If anything they were trying to cover up rapes by members of the football team to protect the program, not use it as a scapegoat.

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twk said:

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Madman said:

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This guy may just be trying to get the Baylor stink off of himself. How is holding a football player accountable for rape throwing blacks or the football team under the bus?

If anything they were trying to cover up rapes by members of the football team to protect the program, not use it as a scapegoat.

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This. McCaw is playing the race card. Never trust anyone playing the race card. He's right that the PD was covering up rapes, but it was a jock problem, not a student-body-wide problem. One could probably narrow it down more that that--e.g., I don't think the baseball program had a rape problem, or the golf program, or the tennis program.

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Macarthur said:

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twk said:

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Madman said:

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This guy may just be trying to get the Baylor stink off of himself. How is holding a football player accountable for rape throwing blacks or the football team under the bus?

If anything they were trying to cover up rapes by members of the football team to protect the program, not use it as a scapegoat.

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This. McCaw is playing the race card. Never trust anyone playing the race card. He's right that the PD was covering up rapes, but it was a jock problem, not a student-body-wide problem. One could probably narrow it down more that that--e.g., I don't think the baseball program had a rape problem, or the golf program, or the tennis program.

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Wait. Isn't he saying precisely that it was a much bigger problem on the campus than just football?

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Madman said:

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LOYAL AG said:

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Madman said:

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This guy may just be trying to get the Baylor stink off of himself. How is holding a football player accountable for rape throwing blacks or the football team under the bus?

If anything they were trying to cover up rapes by members of the football team to protect the program, not use it as a scapegoat.

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He's saying that the rape problems are significantly bigger than the football team and that they used the fact that some portion of them were committed by black football players to try and cover up what is a much, much bigger problem. IMO they were trying to confine the damage to the realm of NCAA violations rather than opening a can of worms with the Feds over Title IX violations.

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You may be correct but it would seem most probable to me if anything was going to be protected it was going to be the football program and by association the players and coaches.

The girls and everything else not so much.

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