ScottS said:
I missed the part where the coach is a babysitter to 100 players and gets fired if 1 or 2 of them screw up.
Of course you did. I never said this. As a matter of FACT, I'm not sure anybody has ever contended 100 players because those that were the problem children were a small percentage of the entire TEAM.
1 or 2 screwed up? Here is some bedtime reading for your sweet little noggin.
When a female student-athlete reported that a football player had brandished a gun at her, the court paperwork said, Briles texted an assistant coach: "what a fool -- she reporting to authorities."
In another case, a masseuse asked the team to discipline a player who reportedly exposed himself and asked for favors during a massage, the document said Briles' first response was, "What kind of discipline... She a stripper?"
The filing also laid out the athletic department's response to allegations of gang rape by football players, including when a student-athlete told her coach that five football players had raped her at an off-campus party. The coach then took a list of names to Briles, who said, "Those are some bad dudes. Why was she around those guys?"
"The football program was a black hole into which reports of misconduct such as drug use, physical assault, domestic violence, brandishing of guns, indecent exposure and academic fraud disappeared," the court filing said.
Briles' dropped lawsuit and the new information from regents came just days after a Baylor sexual assault survivor sued the school, alleging that 31 football players committed at least 52 acts of rape between 2011 and 2014, an estimate that far exceeded what regents told The Wall Street Journal in October.
Regents said then that 19 football players had been accused of sexual or physical assault, including four alleged gang rapes, since 2011.
Hardin said regents came up with that number based on Pepper Hamilton's findings, newspaper stories and lawsuits. But Pepper Hamilton's probe was not meant to be exhaustive and did not tally every sexual assault reported.
Briles did not notify the university's disciplinary department or take any action for 10 days, until a reporter inquired about Elliott's status, the filing said.
It said that Briles also initially agreed to testify on Elliott's behalf at his trial. "We need to get your name cleared ... Always all in with my players," he reportedly texted Elliott. The coach did not appear in court, and Elliott was sentenced to 20 years in prison.
The filing also alleged that Briles used Shillinglaw to line up legal representation for the players who had run-ins with the law.
In one text exchange, after a player was arrested for assault and threatening to kill someone, the paperwork said Briles texted athletic director McCaw that he had just talked to the player, who said Waco police had agreed to "keep it quiet." Briles promised to ask Shillinglaw to check in with a local attorney.
"That would be great if they kept it quiet!" McCaw allegedly replied. He is now the athletic director at Liberty University in Virginia.
"When a college football coach goes 6-7, 5-7, and 5-7 for three consecutive years, no one blinks an eye when the coach is fired," the court filing said. "But when at least 17 women report sexual and physical assaults involving at least 19 football players, including allegations of four gang rapes, why is anyone shocked by his dismissal?"
It continued: "Briles was not a 'scapegoat' for the University's larger problems -- he was part of the larger problem. So was Shillinglaw."
"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains And we never even know we have the key"