Chuckroast said:Honestly, I think you've hit on the crux of the issue in your last sentence. I think that is exactly what the BOR was counting on. I think the BOR was hoping that if we punished ourselves, any future punishments would be lessened. What better way to punish yourselves and show contrition to the world than to give a wildly successful football program (certainly by Baylor standards) a self imposed death penalty?Bear8084 said:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.rockmnation.com/platform/amp/2019/1/31/18205444/missouri-athletics-ncaa-infractions-postseason-ban-football-baseball-softball
So for just a tutor completing course work...Mizzou was hammered with postseason bans, recruiting restrictions, vacation of records, and a show cause slapped on the tutor.
And that's with no Lack of Institutional Control and failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance labels that our program and Briles have been handed. So some of y'all can keep whistling past the graveyard about Briles and keep pretending he will be exonerated, those labels are not a good thing for a program or a former HC to have. I am hoping the NCAA sees the changes we have made and takes that into consideration.
I don't know that Baylor was initially out to get Briles as much as he was a necessary casualty. That tells me that things university wide must have been pretty bad for Baylor to resort to killing the golden goose. When Briles didn't go quietly after the large settlement, then they got downright hostile.
Lack of Institutional Control and failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance falls on Briles' head too, as stated by the NCAA. The NCAA was not looking at the University wide problem, it looked at the football program and Briles and how things were handled.