Interesting article in espn.com about the cronyism of the people responsible for the hiring of Art Briles, specifically the Ramsay family, who has been playing goalie for Baylor since the day the first rape was reported at Baylor. The Ramsays also pretty much run everything in Mt. Vernon, including the high school.
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/26943300/how-small-texas-town-reacted-hiring-art-briles
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The overwhelming feeling among the town's power brokers is that this was an unbelievable opportunity -- a chance to help a coach who was clearly wronged, in their opinion; a lucky break for a small town to get a legendary coach who had been made a scapegoat by the Baylor board of regents.
"A school district has an opportunity to hire someone like this to coach your kids? I don't know how you could turn that down," said Tom Ramsay, 79, a former five-term state legislator whose name adorns the section of Highway 37 that runs in front of Mount Vernon High School and who had four children who went to Baylor. "I'm impressed with his character."
How they can say this with a straight face is beyond my comprehension, unless all of these people are just truly evil, and care more about winning high school football games than anything else.Quote:
But folks in town knew to ask a Ramsay about the hire: On the streets of Mount Vernon, you don't have to look far to find the Ramsay name.
Directly across from the high school, across the highway named for Tom Ramsay, is the Law Office of Landon W. Ramsay. Landon's dad, Lanny, was a judge here in Franklin County from 1971-75, then became a justice for decades in the Eighth Judicial District overseeing Franklin, Delta and Hopkins counties. Will Ramsay, Lanny's other son, has been the district attorney for the Eighth District since 2013.
Landon and Will are Baylor men. Both graduated from Baylor as undergrads and then from Baylor Law School. And Leigh Anne Ramsay, Landon Ramsay's wife, is listed in Baylor's football media guide from 2014-16 as assistant director of campus recruiting under Briles, a position generally responsible for things like coordinating recruits' visits, organizing visiting players' schedules for game days and other special events.
At that same time, Landon worked as a prosecutor at the McLennan County Criminal District Attorney's Office in Waco. Michael Landon Ramsay -- of the Facebook post -- is a cousin of Landon's. Leigh Anne, Landon and Will Ramsay did not answer queries from ESPN about Briles' hiring.
"If he did what he was accused of, it would be a big problem in our family," Tom Ramsay said. "But we don't think he's guilty of anything."
https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/26943300/how-small-texas-town-reacted-hiring-art-briles
