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Message: [QUOTE="leftytg, post: 1456116, member: 2651"] Honest question - did you read the Texas Tribune article? I'm having a hard time understanding how one can look at the facts of the case and come away thinking this is simply a PR issue revolving around whether Briles lied about what he knew about Ukwuachu's history. Your post, correctly, says there are a lot of tangents in this thread I agree wholeheartedly with that. However, in my opinion anyway, the tangents consist mostly of the focus on Baylor's admitting a football player with a history of violence. While one's appetite for such transfers may vary, I think most college football fans would concede that it isn't particularly unusual for a program to give a second chance to a talented player with a checkered history. The real story isn't that Ukwuachu was allowed to transfer. The real story is that the sexual assault took place in October of 2013 and Ukwuachu was never suspended by the school. He graduated this past May and, while he did not play for the team, remained on scholarship and a student in good standing this entire time. Baylor conducted its own sham investigation that was so incompetent, threadbare, and bad that the mere mention of it was excluded from the criminal trial, lest the jury be unduly swayed by hearing he was exonerated by the school. The player who was cleared by the school investigation at a lower evidentiary threshhold was just convicted beyond a reasonable doubt in criminal court. That is incredibly damning to the school. The real story here is how football, once again, is inappropriately supreme in some places. We saw it at Penn State where P e d o p h I l I awas covered up. We've seen it at Notre Dame and Florida State, where sexual assault cases against players are swept under the rug. As any college football fan well knows, Baylor had a downright pathetic football history prior to Briles' arrival in Waco. Under his leadership, the program has become borderline dominant and brought much in the way of money, fame, and prestige to the school. Briles has had numerous opportunities to leave Baylor for a bigger school and has stayed put. He is a god in Waco. As we saw in State College, when a college coach ascends to a certain level, and the supporting community comes to revere and support the football coach above all else, scary things can happen. [/QUOTE]

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