PartyBear said:
bear2be2 said:
boykin_spaniel said:
But you can also have some passion. I think many posters are bringing up the fact that some of the old blue hairs don't like celebrating at all in any way shape or form, be it players or fans. Briles' coached an edge that bled off the field but there's plenty of quality humans off the field who play with an edge on it. Hines Ward?
People keep talking about "an edge that bled off the field," when the truth is Briles' Baylor program was undisciplined and largely unaccountable at every level, in every space.
Briles was a great offensive mind, who not only couldn't be bothered to lead a program like a competent administrator, he went to great lengths to avoid having to. His program was a powder keg waiting for a spark.
This last paragraph is just full opinion with accusation. You don't know he couldn't be bothered to lead a program and went to great lengths not to. That is a hell of an accusation. Baylor problems then were administration issues. When a title 9 system is not created all the HC can do is not play people and kick them off the team which he did and advise complainants to call law enforcement. He did not have authority to kick people off campus.
This is the problem with Briles truthers. They act like sexual assault was the only issue in our program and that a lack of functional Title IX department absolves him of all wrongdoing. The reality is our program had a discipline problem, period.
We had Colin Shillinglaw acting like Mike Ehrmantraut to shield our players from the law and school administration, and Briles admitted on the record that he created a system where he was the last to know about discipline problems. That is a lack of leadership, plain and simple. Well-run organizations and competent administrators don't operate that way.
Briles was an offensive savant. Unfortunately, his role as a head coach called for a much broader skill set and far more attention to detail than he was ever willing to pay.
