CMR quotes from the ESPiN article....he plays the "this happens everywhere" card...that play usually doesn't work at BU:
Rhule said he was confident the investigation was being handled properly and he didn't know much about it.
"The people that do this for a living, they handle the investigation," he said. "... I don't know much about the case, and I think that's really a good thing because I probably really shouldn't know much about it as the football coach."
At Wednesday's news conference, Rhule said he welcomed questions about the issue of sexual assault, although he could not say much about the current suspended student-athletes.
"These are the issues everywhere. This isn't a Baylor thing. This is an 'our world' thing. And so I willingly answer those questions," he said. "...These are major issues, and so I don't think any of us should run away from them ...This is what we all need, should be talking about."
A reporter referenced two of Rhule's staff who were fired near the start of his tenure, one was a coach arrested in connection with a prostitution sting and another was a staff member who reportedly sent inappropriate text messages to a teenager, and asked, "Are you worried at all about the culture of the program?"
"No, not at all," Rhule said without hesitation. "Things happen all the time, everywhere. You can either hide from it and try to hide it from all you guys so it looks like everything is great, and you end up not doing the right thing. Or you can be very transparent about things, knowing that you open yourself up for criticism."
"As you look at the scandals and things that have happened other places, it's always been when people are afraid to handle what's happened," he said, adding that the incidents with his former staff and players do not indicate a cultural problem and were quickly and properly addressed.
He reiterated the work he and the school have done to provide sexual assault awareness and education for his staff and team, and he is known for sending regular text messages to his players reminding them to be respectful to women and act appropriately off the field.
"People are going to say things, and I get all that, but that doesn't mean there's a bad culture," Rhule said. "There's a bad culture when kids do things and grown-ups hide them. And nobody's hiding anything here. And so that's why I know that we're doing things right."