Statement from Art Briles’ attorney, Scott Tompsett. He says The NCAA decision “clears the way for Mr. Briles to return to coaching college football.” pic.twitter.com/1aNtuCxRhe

— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 11, 2021

God speed Art! Wish you nothing but the best.

A good man. Unfortunate situation for everyone involved. Hopefully this goes a long way towards Art getting his reputation back.

How can he & his lawyer be SOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid.

Sit quietly, let it go away, apply for jobs. Poking the buzzing hornet's nest is beyond idiotic.

Adriacus Peratuun said:

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How can he & his lawyer be SOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid.

Sit quietly, let it go away, apply for jobs. Poking the buzzing hornet's nest is beyond idiotic.

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Art and his lawyers were not that stupid. They left with $17.9 million of Baylor's money. It should have been more. Hornets is not the word I would use to describe Baylor's leadership.

RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

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Adriacus Peratuun said:

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How can he & his lawyer be SOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid.

Sit quietly, let it go away, apply for jobs. Poking the buzzing hornet's nest is beyond idiotic.

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Art and his lawyers were not that stupid. They left with $17.9 million of Baylor's money. It should have been more. Hornets is not the word I would use to describe Baylor's leadership.

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Except I wasn't referencing his settlement. I was referencing his stated desire to get back into coaching CFB.

The former is done. Current statements don't impact it.
The latter remains a goal. Today's actions clearly impact it.

Hornets.......social media outrage machine, not Baylor. SMH.

Dude at Tech better win a LOT of games this fall if he wants to be employed next year.

Adriacus Peratuun said:

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How can he & his lawyer be SOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid.

Sit quietly, let it go away, apply for jobs. Poking the buzzing hornet's nest is beyond idiotic.

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The stupid one was the one that cut a huge check for Briles to leave

But it pretty much is all lawyer talk from here on out. Would not be surprised to see him on a P5 team in 2 years or less

He could have left out "condoned", but otherwise accurate. In one of many screw-ups our BOR made in crunch time, they used art as a scapegoat for their own negligence. Welcome back to big time coaching AB. Your days of wandering in the wilderness are over.

Who grabs him first?

My guess is that his lawyer was hoping to shape the narrative by characterizing this as an exoneration. Which it was as to NCAA violations but not ethical and moral violations. So that's always a bad strategy and likely to backfire.

I'm sure this thread will be full of well reasoned and thoughtful insight from people who know the situation well enough to opine in the first place.

boognish_bear said:

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COI on Art Briles:

- "Incurious attitude" toward potential criminal conduct by his players was "deeply troubling"

- "Failed to meet even the most basic expectations of how a person should react to the kind of conduct at issue in this case."

- Not technically an NCAA violation pic.twitter.com/bdxCPIKehC

— Max Olson (@max_olson) August 11, 2021

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Describes any P5 head football coach.

No college will hire him, ever.

For whatever reason Mac Engel over the last few years has taken an interest in seeing CAB in a different light than most in the media

Art Briles via text:
"Small window of hope, feels Large."

And more ..#Baylor #SicEm #NCAA

https://t.co/PnNZb1Frdt

— Mac Engel (@MacEngelProf) August 11, 2021

Ex-Baylor coach Art Briles: "NCAA found no wrongdoing or violations for a reason."

By Mac EngelAugust 11, 2021 01:35 PM
Former Baylor head coach Art Briles was cleared by the NCAA in its ruling on Wednesday regarding its investigation into the school for sexual assault claims during his tenure. The school received a light punishment from the NCAA.
Baylor's great year continues with a title in men's basketball, and a satin pillow slap from the NCAA in an investigation that should have ended years ago.

On Wednesday, the NCAA finally announced its ruling from its investigation into the Baylor athletic department and former football coach Art Briles that began back in 2018 regarding sexual assault claims, and a failure to comply with Title IX laws.

In case you are wondering, it's now August of 2021.

Baylor always figured the best way around all of this was to fire Art Briles. In the end, they were right, but their callus methods cost them millions, and the best football coach they ever had.

Baylor needed to update its attitude towards sexual assault claims, which it has done, but how the school arrived to this point would provide a semester's worth of material for a college PR class.

The "penalties" for Baylor include four years of probation, recruiting restrictions, a vacation of records and a five-year show-cause order limiting all athletically related duties for the former assistant director of football operations.

The best part, a $5,000 fine. For Baylor.

If you are doing the math at home, both Baylor University and now the NCAA have admitted that Briles did nothing wrong in this case.

He has not had a major coaching job since he was fired in May of 2016.

"I'm no doubt, the most scrutinized and investigated college head Coach in last 25 years," Briles said via text message. "NCAA found no wrongdoing or violations for a reason.

"Small window of hope, feels large. Mom (and) Dad smiling today in Heaven."

Baylor always had hoped it could rely on the North Carolina model to escape major penalty, which is exactly how this played out.

North Carolina escaped any NCAA penalties in its academic fraud case back in 2017 because there was nothing the athletic department did that technically violated the rule book.

There are no exact rules in the large NCAA rule book that Baylor technically violated.

The closest rule Baylor violated would have been the vague "lack of institutional control." In this case, the behavior of certain members of the Baylor board was in question.

To penalize a school for the behavior of its board members would have potentially set a precedent, and start a legal fight the NCAA does not want.

The NCAA wrote about its findings, "Baylor admitted to moral and ethical failings in its handling of sexual and interpersonal violence on campus but argued those failings, however egregious, did not constitute violations of NCAA rules.

"Ultimately, and with tremendous reluctance, this panel agrees. To arrive at a different outcome would require the (committee) to ignore the rules the Association's membership has adopted -- rules under which the (committee) is required to adjudicate. Such an outcome would be antithetical to the integrity of the infractions process."

Baylor's case may have been aided, immeasurably, by the fact that current BU president Linda Livingstone was recently named to the NCAA's 23-member Constitution Committee.

Former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw, who is now the AD at Liberty, resigned from his position at BU amid the fallout from this.

He said via text message, "It is tragic that Baylor's decades-long, campus-wide sexual assault scandal arose due to systemic failings in campus safety and institutional adjudicatory processes as outlined in the 2014 Margolis Healy report."

The Margolis Healy report detailed many of the problems Baylor either denied, and have since tried to deal with, regarding sexual assault claims from its students.

Briles' lawyer, Scott Tompsett, said in a statement, "Art Briles has been completely exonerated and cleared of all NCAA violations alleged against him. As the NCAA Committee on Infractions explained, the conduct at issue was pervasive and widespread throughout the Baylor campus, and it was condoned or ignored by the highest levels of Baylor's leadership.

"The NCAA's decision today clears the way for Mr. Briles to return to coaching college football."

The NCAA's decision is also the biggest win for Baylor in a year where it won a national title.

I wonder why Butch Jones never needed any such exoneration to work in major college football after he threatened a player against reporting rapes by his teammates.

boognish_bear said:

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For whatever reason Mac Engel over the last few years has taken an interest in seeing CAB in a different light than most in the media

Art Briles via text:
"Small window of hope, feels Large."

And more ..#Baylor #SicEm #NCAA

https://t.co/PnNZb1Frdt

— Mac Engel (@MacEngelProf) August 11, 2021

Ex-Baylor coach Art Briles: "NCAA found no wrongdoing or violations for a reason."

By Mac EngelAugust 11, 2021 01:35 PM
Former Baylor head coach Art Briles was cleared by the NCAA in its ruling on Wednesday regarding its investigation into the school for sexual assault claims during his tenure. The school received a light punishment from the NCAA.
Baylor's great year continues with a title in men's basketball, and a satin pillow slap from the NCAA in an investigation that should have ended years ago.

On Wednesday, the NCAA finally announced its ruling from its investigation into the Baylor athletic department and former football coach Art Briles that began back in 2018 regarding sexual assault claims, and a failure to comply with Title IX laws.

In case you are wondering, it's now August of 2021.

Baylor always figured the best way around all of this was to fire Art Briles. In the end, they were right, but their callus methods cost them millions, and the best football coach they ever had.

Baylor needed to update its attitude towards sexual assault claims, which it has done, but how the school arrived to this point would provide a semester's worth of material for a college PR class.

The "penalties" for Baylor include four years of probation, recruiting restrictions, a vacation of records and a five-year show-cause order limiting all athletically related duties for the former assistant director of football operations.

The best part, a $5,000 fine. For Baylor.

If you are doing the math at home, both Baylor University and now the NCAA have admitted that Briles did nothing wrong in this case.

He has not had a major coaching job since he was fired in May of 2016.

"I'm no doubt, the most scrutinized and investigated college head Coach in last 25 years," Briles said via text message. "NCAA found no wrongdoing or violations for a reason.

"Small window of hope, feels large. Mom (and) Dad smiling today in Heaven."

Baylor always had hoped it could rely on the North Carolina model to escape major penalty, which is exactly how this played out.

North Carolina escaped any NCAA penalties in its academic fraud case back in 2017 because there was nothing the athletic department did that technically violated the rule book.

There are no exact rules in the large NCAA rule book that Baylor technically violated.

The closest rule Baylor violated would have been the vague "lack of institutional control." In this case, the behavior of certain members of the Baylor board was in question.

To penalize a school for the behavior of its board members would have potentially set a precedent, and start a legal fight the NCAA does not want.

The NCAA wrote about its findings, "Baylor admitted to moral and ethical failings in its handling of sexual and interpersonal violence on campus but argued those failings, however egregious, did not constitute violations of NCAA rules.

"Ultimately, and with tremendous reluctance, this panel agrees. To arrive at a different outcome would require the (committee) to ignore the rules the Association's membership has adopted -- rules under which the (committee) is required to adjudicate. Such an outcome would be antithetical to the integrity of the infractions process."

Baylor's case may have been aided, immeasurably, by the fact that current BU president Linda Livingstone was recently named to the NCAA's 23-member Constitution Committee.

Former Baylor athletic director Ian McCaw, who is now the AD at Liberty, resigned from his position at BU amid the fallout from this.

He said via text message, "It is tragic that Baylor's decades-long, campus-wide sexual assault scandal arose due to systemic failings in campus safety and institutional adjudicatory processes as outlined in the 2014 Margolis Healy report."

The Margolis Healy report detailed many of the problems Baylor either denied, and have since tried to deal with, regarding sexual assault claims from its students.

Briles' lawyer, Scott Tompsett, said in a statement, "Art Briles has been completely exonerated and cleared of all NCAA violations alleged against him. As the NCAA Committee on Infractions explained, the conduct at issue was pervasive and widespread throughout the Baylor campus, and it was condoned or ignored by the highest levels of Baylor's leadership.

"The NCAA's decision today clears the way for Mr. Briles to return to coaching college football."

The NCAA's decision is also the biggest win for Baylor in a year where it won a national title.

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In case y'all don't recall, this ****** was the loudest voice in DFW screaming "crucify him" about Art Briles in 2016

Our BOI overreacted.

BTW, there were posters on this board that were painting CAB to look worse than Hilter. Where are they today?

Adriacus Peratuun said:

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RD2WINAGNBEAR86 said:

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Adriacus Peratuun said:

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How can he & his lawyer be SOOOOOOOOOOOO stupid.

Sit quietly, let it go away, apply for jobs. Poking the buzzing hornet's nest is beyond idiotic.

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Art and his lawyers were not that stupid. They left with $17.9 million of Baylor's money. It should have been more. Hornets is not the word I would use to describe Baylor's leadership.

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Except I wasn't referencing his settlement. I was referencing his stated desire to get back into coaching CFB.

The former is done. Current statements don't impact it.
The latter remains a goal. Today's actions clearly impact it.

Hornets.......social media outrage machine, not Baylor. SMH.

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The big tree has fallen in the forest and nobody heard it except for Baylor fans. This ruling clearly displays that Baylor Football is no longer a threat to the Bluebloods after Baylor leadership dismantled the program. It is what it is. Go Bears!!!!! Beat those mighty Texas State Bobcats!!!!

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Our BOI overreacted.

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And they face no consequences.

Before jumping on the Art is cleared by the NCAA bandwagon, I would suggest you read the report, particularly the bottom of page 34 and page 35. Art might have been cleared of some of the minor infractions listed in the findings today, but they certainly didn't clear him of his behavior as a HC particularly as it related to his role during the scandal years. One panel member was quoted as saying about CAB, "a lot of these things that we're talking about, they're not NCAA rules violations . . . [or] university policy violations. They're felonies. [W]e're talking about rapes and physical assaults." The report went on to say, "The head coach failed to meet even the most basic expectations of how a person should react to the kind of conduct at issue in this case. Furthermore, as a campus leader, the head coach is held to an even higher standard. He completely failed to meet this standard."

I'm not sure this would be considered "cleared" by the NCAA. I seriously doubt these findings today put Art on the fast track to D1 coaching. The NCAA made its opinion known of what they think of him as a HC.

Remind me again the number of arrests and convictions of football players during Art's stint at Baylor?

2 prosecutions, 1 conviction

"He completely failed to meet this standard." Well the numbers tell a different story.

ScottS said:

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BTW, there were posters on this board that were painting CAB to look worse than Hilter. Where are they today?

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If they are the same ones who said Scott Drew can't coach, they are probably trolling the Aggie or Frog boards.

Idiot.