Keyser Soze said:
D. C. Bear said:
Keyser Soze said:
Most complaints of Briles for not vetting was in regards to transfers who had been kicked off their previous team.
Transfer, as in Sam Ukuwachu, who was cleared by Baylor's Title IX process, convicted in a shady trial and currently is not convicted of anything.
High bar you set there .....
SU had a file as thick as a phone book from BSU that no one from Baylor ever bothered to look at. It was from that file that the DA tracked down the allegation of domestic abuse from the BSU girlfriend.
He also was not "Cleared" by a T9 investigation. They (as in Bethany McCraw doing her first such investigation) said they did not reach a preponderance of the evidence, not "cleared". Same investigation failed to speak with other students, medical staff, or school counselors.
So yes, like Sam U ... most programs would have never touched him
FWIW - Oakman was worse.
You are going with the argument that Sam Ukuwachu was not cleared by Baylor's original Title IX investigation? I seem to recall a lot of posters complaining about that investigation
because it cleared him. If you don't like the term "cleared," you can say "did not find responsible for." It is essentially the same thing.
There isn't any real evidence to suggest that Briles or Baylor had any reason to believe Sam Ukuwachu was anything other than a troubled kid who needed to be closer to home. The narrative that was pushed by ESPN was that Petersen told Briles Sam Ukuwachu was an abuser of women and Briles said "bring him on!" Actual evidence tends to contradict that.
You talk about Sam Ukuwachu's "file" like it was some kind of public record that Baylor just declined to read. I seem to recall emails where Baylor requested more information during their Title IX investigation. If I recall correctly, Boise never gave them anything of note. Of course, a prosecutor, even on who can't read a cell phone bill, might be able to subpoena those records.
Most of the media noise around the "scandal" was around Sam Ukuwachu and Tevin (not a transfer) Elliot, nor any other transfers.
Fighting to set the record straight in August of 2015 might have made a positive difference for Baylor, but all of this is water under the bridge and only useful for message board discussions and PR postmortems.