Not inviting coaches was a convenient, and cowardly, method of avoiding the issue. It's similar to not having true all black uniforms or the chrome helmets that were so very popular during the time Briles was coaching. We'll have graphite and gold...but no chrome and black.
It's easy and cowardly for the administration to say "we only invited players, no coaches" instead of telling the truth.
A few years ago I took the time to Google the history of campus, and athletics only, sexual assault on American college campuses. The offenses took place at schools as disparate as Stanford, Yale, Alabama, Texas and USC. Interestingly, the known/proven/reported cases were much more numerous at various campuses than at Baylor. Of course, Baylor simply elected to not report.
There is no question for anyone with a functioning brain that Baylor's problems were:
1. A 1950's mindset....i.e.....Baylor students are different, they just don't do those terrible things.
2. A cowardly board and administration that knew better (that Baylor students were, in fact, human and not robots) and refused to acknowledge and deal with the problem, which was campus wide with no Title IX office and no effective training and procedures.
3. A convenient scapegoat in Briles. Pay him the money and let the world focus on him.....not us.
Cowards. The responsible parties got to act all high and mighty (we handled the problem!!) when in fact, they WERE the problem.
