Tap the breaks there.ScrappyPaws said:
My issue with all this garbage is that Thee, Keyser, and so many others think that this culture was something new (it wasn't), that it was a departure from what is found on college campuses across the country (it's not), and that Briles' attitude/actions/inaction was the catalyst for this culture (he wasn't fixing what was a decades-long issue but to say he caused it is to ignore the heart of the issue).
Sexual assault and the reporting of sexual assault has been trending up for years. Baylor had propagated a don't ask, don't tell mentality for a long time (regarding ALL things of questionable morality). The inherent conflict between those two is what led to the debacle we've all gone through. I was very familiar with this disconnect during both Morris' and Briles' tenures and I promise you Briles' ran a much cleaner operation than GuyMo ever did.
When you grasp that reality and revisit the entire scenario our reaction makes little sense. I firmly believe that had the BoR been truly interested in positive change, CAB was the person best positioned to bring it to fruition. But, that would have required acknowledging that the system itself was broken.
Kids screwing up is new. The issue was that the coaching staff was shielding players from the consequences of their actions (ie not reporting to Judicial Affairs). I am sure other staffs did not report every drunk player, but Briles had a whole system in place to keep guys out of trouble. Most of it was not sexual assault, but there was a great deal of bad stuff and a lot of lies told to Baylor by Briles, coaches, and the AD office.