FWBear91 said:
LiBeartarian said:
FWBear91 said:
I reject any implication that championship football and a team and coaching staff who don't rape women and get in other legal problems are mutually exclusive.
Excellence on the football field and high moral and Christian character can, believe it or not, exist in the same individual. My hope is that Rhule is recruiting cultivating both in his players and staff.
Other than just wanting to join the BOI and spread false stories to justify their raping of the football program, clue us in on just one of the coaching staff that raped a woman. What a stupidly false and totally reckless post.
Are you one of the lying morally superior Pharisee's that cried out in anguish?
Sorry for the misunderstanding. But please read the sentence more carefully. Two groups: team and staff. Two actions: rape and other legal problems. I don't want to see players or coaches who rape, and don't want to see players or coaches who get into other legal troubles. This post alone makes no claim that any of the above has happened. I was responding to the tone of the OP (and others across the board), who seems to imply that if we want to play championship football at Baylor, we will have to tolerate some criminals in the program and turn a blind eye. That is what I'm rejecting.
I disagree. I believe the OP is addressing the way the BOR went about dealing with the problem. The evidence can be found in that, while the Board was quick to get rid of the Head Football Coach, the AD, and the President of the University, no meaningful action was taken to ensure student safety from sexual assault, no mechanism is yet in place to audit administration responses to claims of assault, and not one member of the Board has publicly admitted they shared in responsibility for the matter. Media relations for more than a year have been handled execrably, with implied guilt heaped on athletes (
including many who are guilty of nothing), athletic department staff, and the students for somehow encouraging a
'culture' that - to hear the media - encourages rape. Never mind what the statistics actually say, never mind the actual outcome of real-world criminal cases, never mind that even Pepper Hamilton's report laid a lot of blame on the board.
I have a wife and daughters. I would never tolerate a threat to their safety. To my mind, this issue is certainly worth a serious effort to protect student safety. But what the Board has done so far is morally equivalent to my HOA telling me that kicking out the black families from my neighborhood will keep my home from being robbed. It's not only false and insulting to good people, it does nothing to really protect anyone.
I want to be clear that I trust Coach Rhule in ethical and professional terms. I am severely disappointed in the quality of his results on the field, but I trust that he will build the team to win, and, like Grant Teaff, cares as much about the players' success as students and mature adults as he does in playing a game. But the chicanery by the Board is unconscionable, and while there are good men and women there too, they have been far too silent and far too willing to let good people be falsely blamed for the board's responsibility. When the Board finally accepts its own accountability, then I believe we will finally move forward from this scandal. But that responsibility does not lie on the alumni, the coaches, or the players, but on the people with the power to make real change happen.
That which does not kill me, will try again and get nastier